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Yeah, it does seem crazy. My newest laptop is 5 years old, and almost every other computing device I have is older. This does seem to be caused by a badly set up Linux system thoug…

My experience with long running sessions is that they lose track of what's going on. The signal to noise ratio is often very poor - some models are particularly verbose and spew a …

The quality of my bash scripts is 100x what they used to be. Proper help messages, flag parsing, functions, internal variables, using sed all the time (I could never wrap my head a…

> My route-finding here is more than a little naïve, instant acceleration to each road's speed limit, full-speed turns, no traffic, lights always with you, etc. but there is a plac…

I think there's 2 separate things at play. Most products don't require testing by a notified body. That means anyone can do the testing - or even you could do it at home. The CE ma…

The population of London isn't much more today than it was in 1930. And the population density is more or less the same too. I think it's unlikely that people's bodies are the caus…

I often wonder if they just made us do more washing, use more cups, travel further in the same time and get more expectations from our boss though. I've got 2 kids. I'm always doin…

In the EU (and UK with UKCA), CE certification is down to whoever makes the product available on the market. There's no get out for pre-certified modules. If you put a pre-certifie…

It's kind of hilarious isn't it? "I don't even write code, yet here is my technical assessment of how a tricky software problem should work".

> Ok so 99.99995% of all Mikrotik RouterOS devices do not end up in peoples labs. Mikrotik make all sorts of equipment, including home routers. The hAP ax3 is shown on their homepa…

My issue with Mikrotik is that the UI puts all the complexity up front. A good UI should guide the user and reveal relevant information only as it's needed. Mikrotik doesn't do tha…

It's not a complaint. It's a comment. That would never happen in the UK - so it's interesting to see a different approach in different countries. It's obviously higher risk - there…

There's also something wrong with the map alignment. I think the tiles are being rendered with the wrong placement - the underlying map doesn't match reality.

Mazda managed to avoid the touch screen plague until relatively recently. Their latest models seem to have adopted Android based infotainment with touchscreens though. I've got a C…

Excluding whatever's going on in China right now, there's just not that many small brands left. You only have to have a passing interest in cars to be aware of pretty much every gl…

I recently upgraded to a car with CarPlay, and it's actually a worse user experience than just having my phone on a really solid Brodit phone holder. For example - when using Googl…

I've spoken to a lot of people outside of software development who feel this way. It's mainly a sense of "what is this for?". It's obvious that the presence of AI means everyone ha…

Is it a Dubai thing that everyone's parking expires unexpectedly in 2 minutes? I didn't really understand that - perhaps a lack of local knowledge.

The whole TLD is blocked by my work firewall. I imagine you don't get complaints because the few people who are blocked just don't know what you do. How would they even complain if…

The problem I've found is that enough people don't feel strongly about it. I've had plenty of conversations recently where people say "yeah, but social media is harming kids. Banni…

If you're being detained for the rest of your life while your money languishes in a hole in Timbuktu, it has been taken from you. Money is only valuable because it has utility. If …

> From perspective of your tenants, that money still goes into a void, no matter how nice you are. Surely that's the case for all sorts of services we pay for. Renting a house is p…

There must be 10s of millions of x86 PCs with unlocked bioses in the UK. The issue won't be running an open device. The problem is software - what does someone running Linux do if …

This page is kind of mad. https://mxcl.dev/homebrew/ So much repetition. I'm guessing it's targeting AI training sets? The guy really wants you to know he created Homebrew!