geoffmunn

As someone who is not American, $10,000!!!!!! That's hard to conceive where I live. We even have a specifically free ambulance service here.

The topic and content was genuinely interesting, but it read like an annoying LinkedIn promotional article with all the short punchy sentences.

We're using OpenClaw to do a massive number of fixes and improvements to our ERP.

It takes Jira tickets, resolves them, and creates a GitHub PR, which is then reviewed by another AI agent. It can even analyse screenshots with MS Paint-style arrows.

So far it's been an amazing tool - I am very impressed.

"make their own fork which nobody else is interested in because it is personalized to them"

Isn't that literally how open-source works, and why there's so many Linux distros?

Code quality is a subjective term as well, I feel like everyone dunking on AI coding is a defensive reaction - over time this will become an entirely acceptable concept.

Well luckily it turned out that they were all ne'er-do-wells so it's all good.

Just like when the US used drones on Iraqi convoys and amazingly they were all Al-Qaeda sympathisers.

This is what most people miss when they criticise UBI - for most people, it will be immediately spent, taxed, and put back into the economy. As long as the velocity is there, it's not an entirely bad idea as long as inflation can be kept under control.

also Guestbooks and the email icon of the word 'email' rotating around a globe.

I am 100% convinced that the baby weight thing is because grandparents love to compare newborns with their own experiences, and they were on the cusp of the metric conversion in the 60s. In a decade or two, this will vanish.

Imperial height is because 6 feet is the generic height of a "tall person" - we get so much of our sporting news from overseas and no one bothers to convert it.

That's only a post-9/11 requirement, so it's not really part of the 'traditional' banking system.

The thing I liked the most about XHTML was how it enforced strict notation.

Elements had to be used in their pure form, and CSS was for all visual presentation.

It really helped me understand and be better at web development - getting the tick from the XHTML validator was always an achievement for complicated webpages.

I worked with a guy called 'Com' which is a reserved word in Active Directory. It causes chaos so apparently his AD name is always modified to be less offensive to the Microsoft gods.

At one point, you could leave an open <script> tag at the end of the HTML with the language attribute set to "javascript9.9" or something non-existent, and the JavaScript banner ads wouldn't load.

Good times, those were.

To be more accurate - by removing subsidies, NZ farmers became more efficient and sell their products at the world price, which is quite often overseas.

Subsidies and/or tarrifs always distort the market and have unintended consequences.

In NZ, it was had maybe 2 low-quality moments, but never froze and was in high-definition for the rest of the time.

Based on their endless meat wave attacks, I'm pretty sure we know what their "acceptable mitigations" are.

I have ordered lots of stuff off AliExpress and it's been a roughly 50% success rate. Some things were clearly low quality, one item was completely wrong, but the rest were surprisingly good. For me, half the fun is the anticipation of it showing up and maybe getting a good item. I do struggle with the throw-away mentality though - some reasonably sophisticated technology goes straight in the bin when it fails.

Also it's another point of failure. If (or when) the motor fails, then you could be facing in an extremely suboptimal direction and it might take more than a few days to fix.

If you are generating more power than your batteries can store, or you can use, then this is excess gain.

If you're selling it back to the power company then this might not be a problem unless you also have resell limits.

People (usually installers) also get hung up on having the correct angle for stationary panels. In winter the solar gain difference on 'correctly' angled panels vs just having them flat on the roof is basically zero, and in summer you should have excess solar gain anyway so again it doesn't matter.

And even if you're losing a small amount due to an inefficient angle, just get more panels!

The newer models are much better than what I have. It's surprisingly quick off the lights, which is fun because it looks like a very ordinary SUV.

It's quiet, the glass roof is nice - I'll never go back to a petrol car.

I view it as an issue of best-practice password hygiene. Just because the stakes are low, and it's a hassle, doesn't mean you should skip it.

The more you get used to implementing it, the easier it gets.

We have an MG ZS ev, and we've done 110,000km in 3 years. Battery capacity is at 93% which I think is pretty good, but I don't intend to be driving this for 30 years.

Apple Maps in New Zealand is really, really good. Travel estimates are nearly perfect.

In smaller countries though, it's total rubbish. Samoa, travel guidance is nearly non-existent. Tahiti, very patchy. In those countries, Google Maps was perfect.

I always assumed that the NSA 'hardened' versions of products or operating systems were a careful mix of fixes for things they wanted to be protected against, while still letting secret backdoors to be preserved.

I've often wondered about option 2, but wouldn't that be very risky if you were near something/someone and you created a large gravitational field? Also, if this was common and you had lots of ships warping the gravity field then would that not be some kind of space pollution?

I know space is big and all that, but this seems like an irresponsible option.

Do you think there's a connection to this behaviour and the type of vehicle they drive? With SUVs becoming super huge, maybe people feel that they don't have to stop because they won't be coming off worse in an accident?

Also "Maccas" in New Zealand, and I was wondering if they'd be ok with our other names - "Micky D's" and "Smack Donalds".

I always thought this was a weird purchase. All his other businesses have been industry disrupters where he can make all sorts of bombastic claims and promises of new products, but Twitter was an established company in a stable(ish) industry.

It was really hard to see how he would apply his usual tricks, and I always figured he was going to wiggle out.

In New Zealand, green means salt & vinegar, light green means green onion, yellow absolutely means chicken, blue means plain salt, light blue usually means sour cream and chives, and purple means random stuff like bacon.

It does depend on the brand but these are usually the colours.

Yellow has to mean chicken though - it would be weird if it didn't!!

We built a new house, and I had a blanket ban on Samsung products. Unfortunately, the only fridge that looked nice was a Samsung so we reluctantly went with it.

Strangely, it's actually a really good fridge and it's one of the only items in our house that DOESN'T connect to the internet.

The LG we already had would occasionally freeze vegetables, the Fisher & Paykel had an internal light which stopped working... and the Samsung seems to be a simple fridge that works well (so far).