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As with all things like this, a lot of the data is hidden behind teams working inside organisations that won't publish their data.

I tend to find good examples of data-driven blog posts on Gov.UK; GDS has done a lot to drive better decision-making with strong data. An example of that is the Input component they use [1] and the data behind the choice and issues with type=number [2].

On the making more money perspective, I can share an anecdote for you, when I was working with a large property portal in the UK, we had a few unstyled dropdowns hanging around the app for sort criteria etc. Simply replacing them with a styled dropdown (and dropdown list) resulted in a 60% uplift of using that sort. We made no functional changes, just styled it. And it wasn't good styling, we broke dropdowns (as many do) in the first iteration (we were testing the hypothesis that people didn't use it because it didn't look like it was our component / wasn't styled like the rest of the site) -- So yes, anecdotally, pretty can be more impactful and result in more clicks.

EDIT: Missed the appendice links

[1] - https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/text-input/

[2] - https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-des...

My key problem is not knowing what the real good alternatives are? I've trusted Mozilla for so long that I've fallen out of touch with a market that never really changed as much as it has in the last few years.

Guilty as charged. To steal a phrase from Reddit, "the true LPT is in the comments"

The true insightful discussion comes in the comments.

I was at the keynote, Llama was featured in the Copilot models section and called out specifically, as was Mistral.

I assume they just aren't at the point where they have the ability or want to host the compute to offer up Llama as an option as opposed to OpenAI, Anthropic and Google who are all offering the model as a service.

Any chance of multiple bonus numbers like the Euromillions offers?

To be fair, this problem is semi-solved by European airlines by having callsigns like BAW44W.

Which uses the last 2 numbers of the flight number, and an alphabetical character. BA use this on a lot of transatlantic type flights where delays etc can be an issue.

> Carmel did not invest in poverty. Carmel pushed it out of town. Now it is extremely wealthy per-capita.

What exactly does that mean, I'm reading it quite negatively, but the rest of this is positive, so I might be missing your true meaning.

All good! We all have those moments!

FYI: The link to "You're the OS" points to localhost OP :)

They actually open sourced the iOS and Android applications, not the server code of course.

But that's even more of a fun thing from them!

Relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/927

Been a VATSIM member for many a year, both on the scopes and in the sim.

It's a fantastic hobby organisation, one filled with village politics and annoyances more than it needs to be.

But if you focus in on the sim and the scope, my opinion is there's no better hobby org focused on excellence in a collective.

My interpretation of hubris in this context is actually "pride" and it's what I've chosen to substitute the word for.

Having pride means that I want to write code that others view as good code and won't look at in the future as a mad hatter's ramblings.

Does that 59.99 include VAT at 20%?

So basically they want to go into marketing?

You wouldn't need to hand-fly in most instances, Autopilot will remain on and is more than capable of dealing with single engine operations on dual engine aircaft.

Of course it's always an issue if an engine does fail, but ETOPS as a certification is there to ensure that airplanes and pilots are not put under unreasonable amounts of stress or issue if and when an engine fails over-water.

Agreed! A key thing that I don't think they realised is that the free to air rights across Europe always created an intrigue among the population that fed into the youth. No matter the background of a child in the UK, for instance, they would typically have completely free access to damn near every Olympic event.

That's gone now, and that's really sad.

Sure, but the reason they're nice to have for that one time that an accident occurs, whether a drink is spilled or you drop it in the sink or whatever.

It's a pleasant nice to have if it is waterproof.

Not a payroll human but someone who lives in the UK.

It does not, we have various brackets that you fall into as your income rises.

- No income tax is paid on the first £12,500 of your earnings - 20% on everything between £12,500 and £50,000 - 40% on anything between £50,000 and £150,000 - 45% on anything over £150,000

The way that HMRC likes to figure it out is that you take the salary of the person in question, and then you take into account all of the above bracketing plus more little gotchas. And spread their tax over the course of the whole year as evenly as possible.

This gets more complex when you change jobs or get a new salary midway through the tax year and then payroll software has to account for that and try and even out all the payments for the rest of the year.

Hopefully that makes some sense!

That certainly doesn't seem quite right, have you got any sources for this?

You genuinely just gave me chills. I've not had to use Remedy in a long time. I'm fortunate that I have not