Nighed
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- Comment on UK Stop Killing Games Petition's Map of Signatures ✍️ 3 days ago:
Is that the percentage of the signatures, or a % of the people in the area that have signed?
- Comment on The UK continues to lag behind Europe for cycling-friendly towns and cities, new data from PeopleForBikes finds. 1 week ago:
Or the opposite! They put bike lanes in that just exist to avoid roundabouts… That lose you the right of way!
Useless things. Some are just long enough to give you hope before they spit you back onto the road with no warning.
- Comment on Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows 1 week ago:
Also to be clear, this is more like a graduate tax than a loan.
You pay back 9% of whatever your earn over £26k and whatever you owe is written off when you are 50 something. It doesn’t count on credit reports etc.
It’s not great though as high earners end up paying way less over their life as they pay it off early.
- Comment on Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows 1 week ago:
They did it to get a referendum on a new voting method. They chose a shit one no one wanted though
- Comment on Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows 1 week ago:
Repayments are 9% of your salary above £26k. If that’s less than interest (inflation +3%!) then it goes up.
It gets written off at 50 something (… probably)
- Comment on VPN server on router or within home network? 1 week ago:
Depends on the ISP, my old one just handed out Fritz box routers with nothing locked down. Still using it now with the new ISP!
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 2 weeks ago:
I thought ifixit was carrying everything?
- Comment on What are the benefits of a server having multiple public IP addresses? 3 weeks ago:
Having two could be useful - allows you to separate anything that virtual you wants to host from anything real life you wants to host.
(Without having two domains pointing at the same IP)
- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 4 weeks ago:
They pack them in as tight as they can, so doing that fucks up two stations instead…
- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 4 weeks ago:
These work well. I have to power mine through the cigarette lighter, but newer cars should have USB power as standard.
- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 4 weeks ago:
That’s really annoying for everyone else though.
- Comment on My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 4 weeks ago:
You can configure that I think? (The every keystroke, not the stupidity)
- Comment on IDEA to make this site standout why don't you make a live chatbox for people who have logged in? 5 weeks ago:
No.
People (mostly) use sites like this because of the threaded discussions.
It would also be hell to moderate.
- Comment on Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors 1 month ago:
I have to admit I didn’t read it through properly
- Comment on Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors 1 month ago:
Just RMA it (or the motherboard?)
- Comment on Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews 1 month ago:
Because then you have an expensive robot not being used, while still keeping the wage bill.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Places with the wireless battery powered payment terminals will still work without power for a while. Lots of them don’t even need network, they just sync up later.
But for the most part, if there is a significant power outage, things are screwed anyway.
- Comment on Pope Betting Odds: Bettors Lose Millions Predicting the New Pope as Polymarket Edge Fizzles Out 1 month ago:
I think the idea is that there are other events with similar risk profiles, the papal election is just an example of one.
- Comment on Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say 1 month ago:
That’s a cool photo, from 2022 apparently though, not this year.
Give it a couple of months and they can take photos for next year’s drought lead up…
- Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working 2 months ago:
… Then the original meter must have been faulty?
All the smart meters do is make it easier to collect the readings (end enable fancy tarrifs)
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
I can read way faster than I can type though. You still check it, but it’s pretty good as that kind of stuff once you have an example for it to follow.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Those are the easy time savings though, the safe easy stuff the developer doesn’t have to worry about anymore. (Giving them time do the gnarly stuff)
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Would be interesting to see how they measured that metric. Are they tagging individual lines as AI generated?
What those lines are too would be interesting,AI as auto complete is less dangerous than complete generation, but probably also less dangerous.
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 2 months ago:
Is it the first ‘political’ one? (Not that this should be!)
I can’t remember many that reminded me it was a US based (I assume) comic.
- Comment on Nintendo issues Switch 2 supply warning in Japan: 2.2 million people have applied to buy the new console in Japan so far, which ‘far exceeds’ Nintendo’s expectations. 2 months ago:
I think he meant to just not ship to stores until all the online, pre-release orders had been delivered.
- Comment on Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut More Than 20% of Staff 2 months ago:
No one wants to use their fabs because they’re bad!
(Not awful, but not cutting edge really any more)
- Comment on 11-year-old boy died cycling home after bus driver "beeped and startled him" before collision — but coroner concludes driving in line with Highway Code 2 months ago:
Horns are a hell of a lot louder when you’re not in a vehicle. There is really no such thing as a ‘friendly’ beep.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 2 months ago:
The company I worked for tried that as an experiment on how much money it saves.
Absolutely awful, even removing connectives causes problems.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 2 months ago:
You would be surprised
- Comment on Ditch the DIY Drama: Why Use Fedify Instead of Building ActivityPub from Scratch? 2 months ago:
It looks like an open source project. Makes a hell of a lot more sense to implement using that than rolling your own? If it’s missing something you need, write it for them.
Writing your own implementation is extremely unlikely to differentiate your app/product. There is a spec, either you implement it and it works, or you don’t and it doesn’t. Using a maintained library is by far the better option.
Focus your time on the product you are building not the tech.