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midasuni··on CorsixTH: Open-source clone of Theme Hospital
That’s a shame, I almost always go for GoG whenever possible. Looks like steam then.
midasuni··on The Layoff
Might have being going for “passed away”

Managers are people too and will have their own emotions they are dealing with.

midasuni··on The Layoff
About a decade ago I was doing a lot of travel for work - 140 plus flights a year over 6 continents level.

I remember watching a film, “Up in the Air”, about a guy who was contest flying from airport to airport to lay people off because the boss was too much of a wimp to do it himself.

I guess even his job isn’t safe from AI.

Sure some will manage to hack with prompt injection attacks, and potentially get compensation, but those attacks will be fixed.

midasuni··on The Layoff
A choice of two dystopia - one where your brain is controlled by a computer, the other where you are locked in a room.
midasuni··on The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen
I see no evidence that the alleged screaming down wasn’t 30 years ago so “these days” is doing some interesting work

I suspect that “screamed down” is also hyperbole

midasuni··on The end of Britain's weeks-long general elections
Mail in on the U.K. is for a wel or two, but the envelope has to arrive by a certain date/time before the election.

The ballot closes at 10pm, counting starts as soon as the boxes arrive. The first places have counted about 50,000 votes and declared the Reilly by 11pm, most finish about 4am, 6 hours in. The final places (which rely on boxes to travel from various islands on ferries or helicopters) can take nearly 24 hours.

midasuni··on It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
> Apple just made their true target crystal clear: they have always been aiming at web capabilities:

Not what Jobs said

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vq993Td6ys

Originally there wasn’t an SDK at all.

midasuni··on The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl
To be fair his comment was a waste of time
midasuni··on US safety regulations make it difficult to automakers to add adaptive headlights
Good. Adaptive headlights are won’t he U.K. and there are many cases when they don’t work and end up blinding people.
midasuni··on Not all TLDs are Created Equal
Or because you were born after 1998
midasuni··on Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones (2020)
Only when posting their home phone number
midasuni··on Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat
Alarm goes off as the car isn’t empty
midasuni··on How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
My understanding is that to configure your WireGuard tunnels the tailscale saas layer distributes the keys. If so there’s nothing stopping it distribute a key you don’t control.
midasuni··on Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat
That’s been the way in the U.K. for 30 years - power runs into the key, chip in the key of some level of cryptography is used to decode.
midasuni··on Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat
I’ve had wireless hire cars. Horrible things, never sure where they key is and tend to come with “features” like automatically locking and setting the alarm if you walk away from the car
midasuni··on Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat
I lost the key for my 1997 micra once. no way it was starting without overriding the chip in the key, had to be towed to a dealer to reprogram it.
midasuni··on Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat
The U.K. has a system where experts in various fields like medicine and engineering are put in the lawmaking process, in addition to experts in becoming elected (ie raising money and selling non tangible ideas to people)

It’s not perfect of course, but in my opinion it’s better than a fully democratic system.

midasuni··on Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck
I’ve been confused occasionally by road situations. Somehow I’ve never managed to drive into a multi-ton object.
midasuni··on How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
Don’t you need to have tailscale on the machine (and thus give full access to all your machines to the company) for taildrop to work?
midasuni··on Show HN: Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024
I suspect the argument would be you can’t deep fake in-person interactions
midasuni··on Not all TLDs are Created Equal
Sadly the majority of people who didn’t want this are also affected.

I had no problem with a bunch of daily mail readers giving up their freedoms it’s when they took the freedoms of me and my children away that I got annoyed.

Imagine if Texas seceded from the USA and suddenly anyone born in Texas had their American citizenship revoked

midasuni··on Not all TLDs are Created Equal
OP is a classic imperial citizen with no concept of the world outside his empire
midasuni··on Not all TLDs are Created Equal
How’s the connectivity in Anguilla?
midasuni··on Not all TLDs are Created Equal
The RU did not have to remove the citizenship from millions of people who were born EU citizens and had no say in the minority decision to leave the EU
midasuni··on Not all TLDs are Created Equal
OPs citizenship was removed from him without his approval, based on the minority votes of U.K. and foreigners living in the U.K., it is a travesty.
midasuni··on The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering
In the real world nuclear costs in the $80 per MWh range, nearly twice that of offshore wind
midasuni··on The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering
Nuclear power is not affordable, wind and solar are far more cost effective. Carbon capture is a great application for a variable supply grid as it can easily be load shed.
midasuni··on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?
It’s a cultural change, one that has benefits (I for one don’t want to be a full time homemaker), but also drawbacks

It’s not something an individual can change though. It’s a societal level problem.

midasuni··on Nokia made too many phones
BBM was big and blamed for the london riots in 2011

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-f...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/blackberry/8688651/Lo...

midasuni··on The surreal life of a professional bridesmaid
1 bed apartment for a couple with a baby and dog?

I’m guessing the 100k/yr is revenue not profit.

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