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mnd999··on UK Government Extends Petrol and Diesel Car Sales Until 2035
The 30% that don’t have off street parking are mainly in cities though where electric will have the most impact on air quality and that’s a problem.
mnd999··on UK Government Extends Petrol and Diesel Car Sales Until 2035
You don’t really need a car in central London. With the transit, on street rental bikes, Uber / Bolt and Zipcar you’ll get around just fine.
mnd999··on So let’s talk about this Wayland thing
Also https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/159
mnd999··on So let’s talk about this Wayland thing
My latest Wayland issue is devices that generate a lot of input events causing apps to crash.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144

mnd999··on How to use the term technical debt to mean anything you want
It’s probably better to say it’s a broadly applied term; so broadly that’s its meaning has regressed to ‘something in the codebase I don’t like’.

It’s a shame, because the original meaning of cutting corners for genuine business reasons (time to market etc.) actually makes a lot of sense.

mnd999··on ‘Blue lights’ flash in sky moments before Morocco earthquake
I was thinking of this list:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/P...

mnd999··on ‘Blue lights’ flash in sky moments before Morocco earthquake
Wikipedia has such a list of sources it considers reliable and unreliable, and The Sun is very much in the unreliable category.
mnd999··on The Decline of Usability (2020)
> Articles like these also have lots of opinions, no research and stats,

Oh you’re in the data driven club. I bet you even A/B test. Good luck with that.

mnd999··on Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot
They also have money so they’re worth suing.
mnd999··on Chicago’s parking meter disaster
Nationalising (Statelizing?) the parking meter provision sounds like a great way to get of this contract.
mnd999··on Steam-on-Ampere
The only OpenGL 3.1 compliant driver iirc.
mnd999··on Microsoft blames outage on small staff, automation failures
I guess it’s double shifts for those that are left.

Overwork and tiredness never caused any problems whatsoever, right?

mnd999··on Can we talk to whales?
Congrats you got the reference. I figured most folks here would.
mnd999··on Can we talk to whales?
Start with laboratory mice, and then move on to dolphins I reckon.
mnd999··on ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is
The same way they’ve always worked - mostly alright. If you’re looking for a perfect solution you’re not going to find it.
mnd999··on Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
Yeah, users suffer because the kernel devs are having a dick swinging contest with nVidia. Pretty pathetic all round.
mnd999··on Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
If you break everyone’s computers you’re going to get then blame, whether it’s your fault or not.
mnd999··on Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
If you’re building a ZFS based storage server, FreeBSD is a great choice for this reason.
mnd999··on ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is
More nativity from the EFF, I dont think they live in the real world. It’s never worked that at and never will. Why? Because the systems become unusable for everyone.

A simple and very very old example is email. Even back in the 1990s days of the Internet, we had spam on email and if your reputable isp caught you spamming you’d be in trouble. Same with shitposting on usenet.

Sure there are nuances to consider as to what providers should do and what they should not, but like a lot of things this is a hard problem. The ‘simple’ solutions presented here and in other places will not solve it.

mnd999··on AI Crap
I’ve been on laughable garbage from day 1. Drew is spot on here.
mnd999··on Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)
Should be the same for type G, the pins are shielded such that it shouldn't be possible for them to have exposed metal and be live at the same time.
mnd999··on How many years to senior engineer?
> And in the right environment, an engineer can suffer through 10 years of experience in 1 year.

No you can’t. Some environments allow you to progress faster than others, but not this fast.

mnd999··on Labor unions are pushing hard for better pay and hours – and winning
The current model of superconcentrating wealth among fewer and fewer individuals whilst everyone else gets screwed is not sustainable. This had to happen.
mnd999··on Who is driving Germany's far-right poll surge?
Simple solutions don’t work though. If they did we’d have done them already.
mnd999··on Britain’s failed experiment in boosting low-wage sectors
That’s pretty moot. Business would never have confidence because it was pretty obviously a dumb plan.
mnd999··on Britain’s failed experiment in boosting low-wage sectors
It’s up because it didn’t work. The investment never happened so the harvest rotted in the fields and Christmas dinner was going to be cancelled so the government quietly reversed course.

It was utterly clueless to expect such big changes to happen overnight.

mnd999··on The History of Windows 2.0
The Amiga did have superior custom graphics chips (I guess a GPU in today's language, although entirely 2D focused) which helped a lot.
mnd999··on The History of Windows 2.0
AmigaOS was similar (with a 68k) and that launched in 1985.
mnd999··on macOS 13.5 no longer allows setting system wide ulimits
NTFS does support case internally.
mnd999··on Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group
Nothing is 100% safe so it seems unlikely the WHO would have said that.
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