Instead, she pointed to a £25m package that will be allocated to councils to fit “cross-pavement gullies”, to make it easier for people without driveways to charge an electric vehicle (EV), alongside £63m for charging infrastructure.

Public transport doesn’t work everywhere. It’s great in big urban areas but once you get out into lower density countryside it’s hard to run something comprehensive.

If the choice is between a diesel or an EV then we should insentivise the EV. However direct subsidies for buying cars probably won’t work as well as widening access to charging. I see they are trying to make the process of adapting pavements for curbside charging easier which I think will help more.

Charging from the socket is about a tenth the cost of public charging infrastructure and with solar it becomes functionality free.

Sorry to hear that. Good luck finding a new gig without needing to interact with Teams again.

I used to update my tickets from Emacs org-mode where I kept my working set off knowledge. The org export functions dealt with whatever format Jira expects. Nowadays I’m mostly tracking stuff so my comments are generally never more than a “thanks”, 👍 or occasionally a link to the patch series or pull requests.

Jira is alright, not great, not terrible. You need something to track projects and break down work and say least being ubiquitous a lot of people are familiar with it.

Teams is a dumpster fire of excrement though.

They can be helpful when using a new library or development environment which you are not familiar with. I’ve noticed a tendency to make up functions that arguably should exist but often don’t.

Sometimes I get an LLM to review a patch series before I send it as a quick once over. I would estimate about 50% of the suggestions are useful and about 10% are based on “misunderstanding”. Last week it was suggesting a spelling fix I’d already made because it didn’t understand the - in the diff meant I’d changed the line already.

This seems to be mostly about the T in LGBT which has become such a toxic political football the politicians are running away and deferring to anyone else to avoid enacting policy themselves.

The supreme court judgement is only an interpretation of existing law, anything can be overturned with new legislation. Instead they sat back and let the EHCR commission issue unworkable guidance on who can use what loos.

I know the Cass review was controversial but it called for puberty blockers too be issued as part of medical trials with appropriate long term follow up. Somehow we got from that to indefinite bans of their use.

Meanwhile the widening gulf between the louder parts of the two sides of the debate have left a large chunk of the population fearful of even engaging in the discourse lest they be accused of wrong-think.

The whole thing is a mess.

So back in the days of the Atari ST we had compact disks (sic).

Most games shipped on a single floppy disk (so 720k or 1.4Mb) and rarely used compression given the base system only has 512k of RAM. The crackers would strip the protection, repack the data and patch the loading routines to handle that. Depending on the games they could fit 3 or 4 games on a single disk.

Nowadays the dynamics are different - games on consoles do use compression but they have to favour speed because they are streaming assets just in time. The PS5 even had dedicated decompression hardware to keep up with the data rate on it’s fast SSD.

Why would you? Effectively you are storing the address of the address at the address. It would get more complicated if there where post/pre increments or index offsets involved.

I thought CoPilot was just a rebagged ChatGPT anyway?

It’s a silly experiment anyway, there are very good AI chess grandmasters but they were actually trained to play chess, not predict the next word in a text.

Seems fair enough, these things cost money and the #BBC is in a race to diversify it’s income in preparation for the license fee going away. The dynamic description sounds like they want to preserve the casual visitors experience of an open site.

I get ads on my BBC podcasts when I’m abroad. I assume that’s all part of it.

My eldest understands the need for good diet and exercise. They exercise at home doing various aerobic exercises and crunches to keep in shape. They hate sports at school and there doesn’t seem to be any effort to find the a sport they might enjoy or even just focus on improving their personal exercise regime.

I get teaching time is limited but the impression I get is the kids that want to be in the school teams get the most out of sport and the rest just go through the motions because it’s a compulsory subject.

You don’t think having a full genome and medical history of everyone who’d been in contact with the NHS would be useful to researchers?

One of the things we did during the pandemic was significantly scale up or ability to sequence genomes. We were literally watching the virus evolve near real-time because a large chunk of samples could be sequenced and processed.

While they’re are obviously data privacy concerns, for which the UK has a fairly long history of legislating for, having a full sequence for every newborn could allow for all sorts of cheaper early interventions. I’m sure the dataset would also be very useful for researchers as well.

Sure if they needed to bypass ads I can introduce them to Free tube or whatever but for all it’s sins they need moderated exposure to the YouTube experience so they’re equipped enough not to go totally wild when they finally have unfettered access.

I thought my youngest was all about watching hour long Minecraft playthroughs but really they are quite interested in game mechanics and speed running. They are just a lot more tolerant of watching hours of videos around a particular game.

I don’t overly police their content consumption (although we do talk about limiting shorts). The main thing is at the weekend to kick them off the TV after the morning to go and do something more interactive.

When we first let the kids watch YouTube it was on the main TV with it’s own account. We have consistently monitored it and actively prune recommendations while slowly introducing them to the concept of “the algorithm”. From secondary school they pretty much need YouTube on their own PC’s for homework reasons and it’s harder to totally lock down - we use the family link controls to limit it a little but if they tried to get around them they could. The hope is we’ve at least prepared them a little before they have totally unfettered access to the internet.

We did try YouTube kids a little but it was such a garbage experience we just blocked the app everywhere.

The article says it only applied to apps requesting certain permissions. I agree I’m an ideal world it would be nice to get f-droid directly from the Play store but at least according to the article the ability to install it isn’t being blocked here.

From the article it sounds like the limitations come for some app types downloaded directly from a browser. I think this doesn’t affect alternate app stores like f-droid where you are effectively delegating approval to their process.

I have come across the other limitations mentioned with the Home Assistant companion app which I could only get matter registration to work with the version downloaded from the Play store.