They notice, but do they care? The most popular apps don't mimc the platform's look. Maybe they even like and find different designs more interesting as long as UX is good.
> end result is the same: a denial of service to people in the UK solely because of the country they live in.
This would also probably help sway the public opinion in the UL to stop electing representatives that come up with laws like this - so a win either way.
- you review and if to the best of your knowledge you think something can be done better you comment about it and leave a suggestion on how to do it better
- then you approve the PR. Because your job is not to gatekeep the code
That makes complete sense. We live in HK and here most kindergarten will have an interview before starting school either at 3 or 4 years old. We applied to a play-based school and to a Montessori school and our son was admitted to both but that's because those two schools target more play focused parents.
So the interviews for those schools are less strict and competitive than some of the better ranked schools where children are competing against children who have tutored and been coached to ace the kindergarten interviews (!?).
An extra clever system would include every temperature controlled appliance in the house. Heat could be exchanged between the hvac, water heater, refrigerator, and oven.
When the oven is done cooking it can dump heat into the water heater (and or furnace in the winter). The fridge and HVAC could dump heat into the water heater before pumping it outside in the summer.
- Good automated tests which the coding agent can run. I love pytest for this - one of my projects has 1500 tests and Claude Code is really good at selectively executing just tests relevant to the change it is making, and then running the whole suite at the end
- Give them the ability to interactively test the code they are writing too. Notes on how to start a development server (for web projects) are useful, then you can have them use Playwright or curl to try things out
- I'm having great results from maintaining a GitHub issues collection for projects and pasting URLs to issues directly into Claude Code
- I actually don't think documentation is too important: LLMs can read the code a lot faster than you to figure out how to use it. I have comprehensive documentation across all of my projects but I don't think it's the helpful for the coding agents, though they are good at helping me spot if it needs updating.
- Linters, type checkers, auto-formatters - give coding agents helpful tools to run and they'll use them.
For the most part anything that makes a codebase easier for humans to maintain turns out to help agents as well.
I agree with quite a few points here especially on short form content and the mainstream news these days. However on computer games I am still a little undecided. I tend to (try to?) play "creative" games... think Minecraft, Factorio, etc... where you have the chance to execute some project or vision without any real world costs.
Thinking about it, my overall position is to maintain a balance between dopamine from long-term sources and short-term ones. I think long-running creative projects that make you think are generally good whether they are digital (see: 3D animators/artists) or physical - it's just personal preference which one you tend towards. The types of games I try to limit are those with temporary rounds/matches/etc... unlike a Minecraft world, there is no cumulative aspect, no long-term planning apart from your own increase in skill. Despite that, the short satisfaction from momentary successes in each game keep you playing.
> But it is not Ofcom that ultimately decides on the meaning of the term, that is for a court to decide and that court would likely rely on the same authorities and principles that Libera's lawyers did in their advice.
assuming of course libera don't fold the moment they receive a nastygram ("enforcement notice")
like they did when andrew lee commandeered freenode
Try running local LLMs like Qwen3 yourself. They can calculate accurately in their reasoning traces even if you don't give them access to coding tools. In fact, even mid-range models (32b params) under 4-bit quantization perform pretty well. No need to make guesses, you can try it yourself!
Thanks for this tip. I'm planning on buying a friend a tumbler for xmas, and if this works as advertised, I feel this would be a must have as part of the gift.
Hold them accountable for the computers mistakes? The computer is a tool, and if a carpenter makes a mess we're not likely to blame the hammer. This isn't different in any way.
Lots of comments are talking about how loud rock tumbling is. I have an interest and space in my basement but I'm reticent to pull the trigger without knowing if it's going to be intolerably loud upstairs. Does anybody know how many dB the process actually generated?
I think you are correct. Tech was binning people and older Gen X slid forward identifying with late Gen X much more than those on the other side of the divide.
> SCOTUS actually took some of that "constantly being legally challenged and blocked" away when they took away nation-wide injunctions.
Arguably, they added to it, since now nation-wide policies are instead being blocked locally by multiple district courts instead of just facing nationwide injunctions in the first place they are litigated.
Not _most_ in the sense of a plurality of all users. _most_ in the sense of some subset of contributors. Free software is still a dictatorship of the able. A person who cannot contribute (whether that be code or money to pay someone else to code) something important is still without recourse.
If Linus decided to add a bunch of malware to the kernel, my mom would still be unable to fix that.
FOSS is still better than proprietary, but it's not perfect either.
How? Unless I'm misunderstanding the word, "tampering" implies "making alterations to", and no aircraft systems are altered in any way - they are exactly as they were, doing exactly as they're programmed. (Ab)using the difference between implied programming and de-facto programming could be unauthorized access, but I don't see how that could possibly constitute tampering.
Not that I disagree with your overall point, just the tampering bit strikes me as particularly odd.
You're right in the sense that they can pursue whomever they want based on whatever interpretation of "significant" they may hold. But it is not Ofcom that ultimately decides on the meaning of the term, that is for a court to decide and that court would likely rely on the same authorities and principles that Libera's lawyers did in their advice.
Most UK housing stock is poor quality, old and draughty. Pre-req of switching is fixing that. Then, when you've got a nice hermetically sealed house, you need to solve fresh air, which is another cost. Labour is extremely expensive in the UK and tradespeople are all poor quality and swindlers (sorry, it's true 95% of the time).
And most people don't have £10k+ to drop on upgrades
We're not used to needing aircon, so the whole concept is a bit foreign
Plus, we've been burned by governments pushing "green" things:
- They scammed us with cavity wall insulation, which has caused some serious structural and expensive issues. It was inappropriate for many houses and a ton of conmen popped-up to take government money with no fucks given
- Diesel was sold as 'green'
- They had a scheme pushing loft insulation but the installers often just threw rolls of insulation into the loft and ran way (not even kidding)
