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It seems to me like they need to massively improve Homekit adoption first into far more different types of devices. That's when Siri becomes useful to me personally.

I want to at least be able to say "Hey Siri, I'm heading home now", and my heating turns on so it's warm when I get back, my lights turn on 2 minutes before I arrive, any robot cleaning to have finished, oven turns on 5 minutes before I arrive so it's ready to have something thrown in it, my indoor plants are automatically watered so they don't die etc. etc.

Or how about "By the way, it's your best friend's daughter's 18th birthday in 10 days time, would you like me to find some options?"

Start with removing chores and friction from my life. If I had a human personal assistant that's what they'd be doing.

Can you say that Jaguar outsources its tech? Jaguar is owned by Tata, as in TCS.

I'd wager it's likely that TCS staff who worked at Jaguar were ordered to do their best work.

So yes the geniuses early retiring problem is a thing, but there could be a way of managing this IF the government wasn't useless - secure phantom options.

The idea would be that you wouldn't own the actual shares but a fully legal option that you can cash out at a fixed age and would be legally protected from bankruptcy etc.

So the idea would be you could cash out say up to £1m (enough to buy a property) before the age of 30, another £1m before the age of 40, another £5m at 50, and then all of it at 60.

You'd have skilled people remain in the workforce for longer but wouldn't overstay into their pensioner years.

I'm certain there's other ways of doing it too.

The dollar, energy and bandwidth savings possible globally from getting this right means it should be a UN/ISO level commitment to get it right, standardised and committed to.

I have a friend who works in the civil service. He's a devout socialist.

His bosses boss, who runs a huge department gathered all his staff into a room and said "You can't be fired" to the staff.

My friend has said it's almost impossible to motivate people because there's zero repercussions. They're supposed to come into the office a few times a month, some of them never do and nothing can be done about it.

My friend has targets to meet and he won't be able to because of his reports not caring. He's getting anxious and even me saying "they did say you can't be fired" doesn't help.

Oh and they're spending nearly £1m with a supplier who the boss knows to build a component you can buy off the shelf for around £7500, and the supplier hasn't even built anything for nearly £1m in 18 months. It will probably be mothballed.

My friend is massively disappointed that the bureaucracy is failing at-risk members of society.

Cummings is right. He may not be a nice person, but he's right.

Someone smart should backtest economist predictions and have a website to rank their accuracy.

With AI and robotics killing off huge amounts of entry level jobs in the next 5 years, the number of young men who are angry is going to absolutely explode.

Western countries are going to reap what they are sowing.

Feel free to copy and paste this question into your LLM of choice:

"What has happened throughout history to countries with lots of young men who don't have work or money?"

He's too nice to call out the real problem, which is hubris.

Intel got arrogant, remained arrogant and despite getting absolutely pummelled by competitors on share price value, believes it is special.

Intel needs to realise it's not going to catch up TSMC and so should focus on cannibalising all other competitors and moving into spaces where TSMC doesn't operate. It's going to be a lower margin game from now on but Intel can survive. Oh and be the nicest folks in town, not the shit on the people we need like Gelsinger did.

Intel is in effect a Will Ferrell movie character. Character is arrogant, becomes arrogant and stupid in defiance, and potentially finally sees the error of its ways and grows a bit.

How much money does this organisation waste on constant rebrands.

The first non-shite thing I’ve seen from the Graun in years.

The tweet reads as customers of company a who leeches off company b are upset with company b.

Or is this not what has happened?

So if you don’t get any benefits then your account won’t be monitored right? Right?

We’ve already learned in a few months that this lot are as corrupt and authoritarian as any previous lot we have had.

Atheist here so true morality.

Enshittification is a perfectly cromulent word.

So I worked at LMAX during 2009-2011 when Martin Thompson, Dave Farley, Mike Barker, Chris Smith and Danny Yates worked on the Disruptor. It was in use in 2010 inside LMAX.

The heritage of Martin and Dave was video games rather than finance and they had the most input into it.

From a friend who worked in games, the general idea behind the disruptor had been in use in games for a while.

I've just installed and configured KDE Neon Plasma 6 and I'm really liking it a lot. Feels closer to Windows than my other Ubuntu and Xubuntu installs.

Just my 2p

Dutch directness, and as a consequence rudeness, is legendary. They'd be world champions at it. Add in a fair amount of arrogance and you've got a reasonable chance of being on the end of what most would describe as them being rude.

Here's an example, Two middle aged British couples go to a bar in Amsterdam, and quietly sit at a table in the corner having a few drinks. The bar then becomes a Karaoke bar filled with student aged locals who are very raucous, spilling drinks etc. At the end of the night, one of the men from one of the couples goes to the bar and gives the barman a tip equal to about 20% of that tables spend. The barman then proceeds to tell the man "I dislike British women". The Dutch barman thought that was acceptable and that there would be no recourse. If that were said in many parts of the UK there's a chance the barman would have a pint glass thrown at his head for saying such a rude and out of nowhere thing.

As a Brit who has been to many, many European countries, I can say there's only really two countries that are really different and that's France and The Netherlands. Neither of their general population really feels any obligation to be courteous or polite to foreigners. The locals from every other European country I've been to have been polite/not rude as a bare minimum.

I currently pay for Pocket but will be moving away from it because I can't stand that the Mozilla CEO is running the place like her own private fiefdom/piggy bank. A 23% pay rise is absolutely nuts considering the performance.

I genuinely think that Mozilla will have to go out of business before she will step down.

The New York Times were never going to write an unbiased article about him.

I have no genuine idea how he's doing as a leader but I'd look in other places to find out.

There's a hint of red trouser brigade in many of these pubs. Some are beautiful pubs and worth seeing for that but plenty on this list are meh.

The Jolly Gardeners for example is now a pretty who cares gastropub when it used to be called Zeitgeist about 5 years ago and was, by miles, the best German pub in London - obscure regional German beers on draft, genuine German food made and served by Germans, all Bundesliga matches and filled with actual Germans. It's not even the best pub (which also appeared in a movie) on that street.

A good looking straight friend of mine owned a Ferrari 355 back in the day. It took about 6 weeks before I went out in it with him around Central London.

My overriding memories included:

1. Women holding up their little fingers as he drove past.

2. Men randomly coming up to him in car parks and it feeling threatening.

3. Men driving dangerously to get him to speed etc.

4. Him saying "If I was gay this car would be amazing" as he got male attention.

5. The only date he got out of it was an Italian lady who dumped him when she found out he'd sold it to fund his startup.

As a cost/benefit they're a bad investment compared to getting in shape and dressing well.

I'm not American but at least two of those seem politically affiliated board members and both to the Democrat Party. Feels like they're aligning with the establishment by doing this.

Anyone else troubled by this?

I’d never have been able to buy my Amiga A500 which really got me into coding with a paper round in my early teens.

It also spurred me on to study harder in school because I realised delivery jobs were not a great career.

I think if we had more kids with menial jobs they might end up less entitled.

One of the benefits of agile done correctly, I.e. XP is that through pair rotation, companies don’t get in this situation.

Is it possible to damage The Guardian's reputation any further?

What's really interesting is the zero mention of the fact that cockney isn't just an accent but a people with a distinct culture from a specific area. Those people and/or that culture have been seemingly displaced - there's no mention of the persistence of the cultural aspects in those cockney areas despite accent changes.

I'll have to go and watch some Dave Angel sketches to get my fill of the accent.

Having worked with McKinsey people, they will forever be Lyle Lanley for me... https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZM

IANAL but from what I remember from my module on law at Uni, they are likely suggesting there's a risk of "passing off" by you as them. Ultimately I think this is absolute nonsense but the law doesn't always follow logic and common sense.

Speak to a lawyer for sure before doing anything beyond the below:

You may wish to add a thin banner at the top of your page that says "Looking for SCMP S.A. Sandro fashion brand? That's not me click here to be redirected to their page". By doing that you're at least showing you're acting in good faith and before its even been suggested by them that you should be compelled to.

You may also wish to put some visible text that says "This website has nothing to do with fashion and is focused on software development".

It was the DX2/66 and Doom that got me to jump!

One of the main problems with the elderly is that although they often have considerable money, they are tight with it.

I've tried to persuade my mom who has fallen to have an iPhone and Apple watch that she can easily afford but she will stick with just her second hand Samsung Galaxy from 5 years ago.

Also they're often in denial of aging and spending in support of it is acceptance.

Most good design costs money unless it's mass produced.