syrgian

I am a dog owner, and I agree that a loose and aggressive dog is a liability to humanity and you are making everyone a favor if you kill it even if you could have escaped (e.g. you manage to get into your car in time). If it was attacking you, it could be a child (or another dog, too) next time. I would say that even a loose, non aggressive dog of a breed that is very statistically likely to mangle people (e.g. Bully XL) should be taken away from their owners that same day.

My wife runs https://www.saviament.com/, an open-access educational website in Catalan. She also sells printable content following the same style as the website, which has exploded in popularity this year and has become a decent source of income.

Wouldn't all the houses in the village lose way more than £400 in value?

Last I was comparing houses in a neighborhood, the houses near a powerline were consistently worth 15k-30k less (3-6% less).

The post I was replying to was edited and originally claimed that London had higher murder rate than New York.

You are right. Should not have relied on the most likely LLM-generated description attached to the data. I trusted it because I already had the wrong impression that it was less safe, but that was just because the raw number of crimes is high because it is very populated.

London murder rate per million in 2024: 11.6 NYC murder rate per million in 2024: 43

And from what I read, NYC is exceptionally safe for a US city, and London is exceptionally unsafe for a UK city.

Same boat. I have a 6D Mark II since 7 years ago now, and I misguidedly was counting on ML to be released within 3 years of my purchase. But luckily, it's still a fantastic camera.

Can't the Western government strongarm the receiving bank by threatening to kick them out of SEPA/ACH/Fediwire?

If you are going scam people with locked iPhones over the internet, why send an iPhone at all? You should just send a literal paperweight. It will serve the same purpose. It's not like the marketplace will be like "It's an iPhone. Even if it is locked, the seller is right. We will remove the negative rating and let the seller keep their reputation".

By the way, I recently sold an iPhone 8 (through App, but the transfer was in person) and out of 5 potential buyers, all of them asked the same three questions: "Is it on and unlocked?, is it carrier sim-locked?, which is the battery %?".

It seems to me that it would increase safety, but I guess only a simulation could truly tell. I understand your take, but I have a different one: most accidents happens when someone makes a mistake at stop light changes. Less cars stopping/starting at red lights seems less chances for accidents to me.

Let's go with an absurd example: If you multiplied by 5 both the length of red and green stages, I would expect much less accidents per day, but it would obviously also be much more frustrating to move around (and possibly more accidents if the amount of infractions increase because of the frustration). If you divided them by 2, I would expect much more accidents of all kinds.

I was trying to write a decent definition but Wiki does it better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#Agency

In this context it could be able to do multiple actions in order to address an ask from the user: read cells, documentation, edit cells, and perhaps even read the result from the edited cell before answering. i.e. "Can you create a new sheet that focuses on the Countries where the sales happened, including YoY differences, and tell me which countries are outliers and for which reason(s)?" (probably very far fetched given the level of progress Excel has achieved in 20 years).

This is the source to the 3.9TW number: https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/BNEF_2023-11-2...

I understand your frustration. I had to dig quite a bit to find numbers I could use, because there are multiple energy categories that are used inconsistently: solar&wind, all renewables, non-fossil. Then they are combined with two main ways of measuring them: capacity and average production. Then there are targets, predictions and in-production. It is a nightmare to get fair 1:1 comparisons.

Australia's target is more ambitious, but China has a larger share right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable...

I am also not clear that it is that much more ambitious. You are not comparing the correct numbers. 1200 GW in 2030 is just solar and wind, they are targeting 3.9TW renewables by 2030 and 80% non-fossil by 2060.

If you don't need the granularity, you can store all the credentials that will be used by a specific caller(s) in a single JSON object and it will cost you only those $0.50. You can easily fit a thousand, maximum size is 64kb.

The article mentions it is not a limiter, but rather a speed limit warning. So none of your hypothetical scenarios apply, other than drivers might learn not to overtake if breaking the speed limit is necessary because the warning is annoying.

2013 was a quite bad moment to move into Ireland. It was very hard hit by the crisis. Right now salaries are way better: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater...

I moved in 2020 and it has been the best decision I could have made. Taking into account everything (savings rate, safety, working hours, job security, politics, closeness to my home country in Europe) it is the best place I could be by far.

All other places trade off too much in exchange of something else. For example, I would have better savings rate in California (maybe 60-100k instead of 30-50k a year), but it would be worse in every other metric, except perhaps weather, although I dislike hot weather.

You are comparing market cap to GDP. You should compare revenue to GDP. Still not a perfect comparison, but much much better. Apple's revenue: 380B. Iran sits at position 40 with 380B GDP in 2022.

I love this genre, and Deep Rock Galactic and Alien Swarm are the only ones that are on the same level. Alien Swarm is even more tactic and punishing (no reviving at all). Full Metal Furies is also very good, but not as similar to the other three.

Buy houses and lots, keep them empty, and speculate on their value.

Or just build their 6th mansion that uses a plot of land that could fit 400 apartments, keeping the people underneath them commuting 1 hour from their 80 square meter apartment.

This already happens in Spain. It is very common that the private eviction services negotiate rather than force them out. And the negotiation is basically a piece of the payment, say, they might split 2.5k/2.5k and both squatter and evictor go home happy, and the owner is 5k worse off.

They obviously often know each other, but as far as I known, they have never found them being explicit accomplices.

Basically only truly DRM-free, offline games in GOG/itch.io will be able to show "Buy", giving them an advertising edge.

I am not hopeful at all that it will go that way.

Instead, I expect those buildings to invest in having the fastest, most stable internet connection with added redundancy and everything will be fully centralized in datacenters.

I had the intuition that Netlify are extremely incompetent compared to Cloudflare, and this thread adds another data point. So no, if you value uptime you are not going to rely on them.

Companies (not banks) that can now settle payments almost in real-time rather than wait a day to confirm that the payment has been received makes them more competitive global-economy wise.

If a non-notable person tweeted this, they might have lost their livelihood.

It would definitely work if a parent could report the accounts of all the kids involved and their tiktok/whatever accounts got deleted + their phone numbers and emails got block-listed for the service.

Even more if the system worked in a centralized way: this email/phone is used exclusively by a kid, so now all on-boarded companies must delete their accounts and not allow them to register again.

I agree 100% with you but I will mention three that, for now, are still decent (although not 100% perfect): ID Software, Valve, FromSoftware.

I had to look at over 20 studios that built my favorite games in 1990-2010 to find those 3. And ID Software had the drama with Mick Gordon, for which I am quite angry at them, I hate Valve's focus on boxes in multiplayer games, and FromSoftware cares too little about hacks and in general don't provide a PC experience up to what I would expect considering the general quality of their games.

So yeah, I only know of indie or very new studios that are building pure, clean, fun games nowadays.

Not Spotify, but I pay for Amazon Music. I listen music all the time, and it also works for 5 of my family members (out of which 1 listens a lot and the rest listen a little). It's cheaper than Youtube Premium and has better quality as far as I can tell.

I don't listen to podcasts, but I know people listen to them in during their commute.

In fact, I am surprised someone with kids and little free time considers Youtube an integral part of life. I watch an average of 2 videos a week, usually skipping most of them. Mostly DIY guides.

Maybe I will subscribe once my kids are in age to watch educational videos, but even then, I am pretty sure I will prefer Curiosity Stream, which I trust waaay more than Youtube for kid-friendly content.

Same experience. I know one example of "oh yeah, he had been here since the creation of the company but he became a drag and his departure was welcome" for each 10 examples of "development speed, reliability and talent retention dropped after this person left".

And it doesn't happen just with software development, both as individual customer and employee I have cut ties with companies of all kinds after they lost their most valuable employee and the replacements would need years(if ever) to provide equivalent service. Probably most people have done this after service greatly degraded without being able to pinpoint it to an specific employee (e.g. the cook in a restaurant).

I also found a lot of infuriating posts. So many people that don't belong here. I am however happy to see that there's almost nothing that didn't end up dead/demoted.