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  • I think people answering these comments are from other countries that don't understand that on a train from Reading to London in rush hour, there might be 60 seats and 80 passengers per carriage. 20 of these pax standing despite their ticket that said "Feel free to sit on any free seat you happen to find!"

  • Except you haven't, that's the point.

    If you don't get to the train early, you have to stand. That's how British trains work. People who get to the train will see many seats unreserved saying "Seat Available" on the overhead sign, regardless of whether they've reserved a seat.

    So someone who hasn't clicked "reserve a seat" on the booking process might sit on that, while you stand in the hallway.

    The ticket literally means "sorry, you don't have a seat assigned".

  • Ah I see. I understood you meant that bigger RAM modules aren't available in the industry so apple couldn't add this even if they paid more, not that we as customers couldn't spec a phone however we'd like. That makes sense now.

  • What do you mean couldn't pay for more? There are plenty of sub-$200 android phones with 8GB of RAM, and 12-16GB are fairly standard on flagships these days. Asus ROG Phone 6 is rather old and already came with 16GB what, three years ago?

    It is definitely doable, there only needs to be willingness. Apple is definitely skimping here.

  • I am firmly in the 3.5mm jack camp because having more options is always better, but I don't think this is a valid argument. All the devices I find on a daily basis have Bluetooth. For rarer things that you don't deal with daily such as planes, a £10 Bluetooth dongle provides way better quality than the garbage entertainment system in an airplane can provide anyway, while taking just as little space as a 3.5mm jack's cable does in your pocket.

  • Yeah it does. I mark notes with #review (again, this is an obsidian-specific workflow purely because it's the app I use), and then go through the notes with that tag, tidying them up and also looking for interesting things. Obsidian has a graph view which shows your notes as interconnected notes, which I look into and try to find disconnected notes to link them to something else. I find it quite rewarding and relaxing.

  • What has helped me is taking notes. I use Obsidian for note taking (I don't mean the app itself is the solution, just the one that works for me).

    When I'm out and about I take notes whenever I think of something "oh, I should probably look into this book!" Or "make an app to do X and Y".

    When I'm at home and I have nothing better to do I tidy up my notes. Sometimes doing this is an entertainment in itself, and sometimes this reminds me that I wanted to watch a certain movie and it's a great day for that.

    I rarely get bored anymore because I capture the fleeting ideas I get through the day, and I'd need years to carry them all to fruition. On a given day reviewing my notes I might be interested only in 1 out of 10... But that's still one idea that keeps me busy and entertained, and then it's also something fulfilling because I've chosen it mindfully, unlike scrolling tiktok endlessly or watching whatever slop Netflix's algorithm force feeds me that day.

  • Two notes on this as someone who works in the sector.

    It's "completely normal", but only if you're not having a full time driver for each vehicle, which is what the article sounds like... Then the vehicles wouldn't be autonomous, they'd just be teleoperated.

    And the second part, why is this an industry standard and why are investors ok with it? Imagine you have a product (robotaxi) that is autonomous but can't deal with absolutely everything on its own (not even Waymo is that advanced). The key component that you need to build into the system is the ability to come to a stop safely, and be recovered remotely. Then these "teleoperators" can recover the vehicles if/when they fail, and given a sufficiently low failure rate, you can have one operator for each X vehicles. Even if this is more than "0 drivers", having 1 driver per 10 vehicles is a massive cost saving. Plus zooming out and thinking of other things than robotaxis, there are sectors like mining where they don't care (that much) about the number of drivers - their primary goal is to have the drivers away from a dangerous mine. They can save money from simplifying operations that way.

  • Not disagreeing with you necessarily, but ADHD also fits the bill. I'm very much a happy person at the moment, I wouldn't change anything in my life, yet I subscribe to what OP says. Games are too long, too boring to grab my attention long enough.

    I managed recently to complete GTA V because I found the story hilarious, and I only managed that by skipping all side missions. That's the only long / AAA game I've managed to finish in recent years.

    What helps me is understanding that if I get 5h of enjoyment out of a game rather than getting to the intended 50h playtime, that's also valid. 5h of fun also counts as fun and this is a game, not work, so there's no pressure to finish it.

  • I've seen this claim recently and it's rubbish.

    Yes, if by "nothing" we mean writing next to no code, because they're busy either:

    • architecting software solutions, as they're knowledgeable enough that they should be doing this instead of writing code
    • understanding a lot of what is going on in components and/or the system so that when there's an issue they say "oh, this is likely because of X" and the resolution takes days instead of weeks.

    I.e. yes, there is a percentage of developers who we pile other tasks on and they don't get to write code.

    My experience is that the more knowledgeable developers get, the less code they write.

    Then neurodivergent peeps are different - an Autistic dev might be super knowledgeable and happy writing unit tests because they don't enjoy the uncertainty of large problems, or an ADHD developer might have a large system-wide view but write what seem like small contributions.

  • Can we do something like reporting Denuvo or the kernel anticheats as malware in Windows defender?

    A game with a built in system lever logger that could theoretically monitor even your bank transactions should be reported as spyware/malware and users installing it should have to expressly acknowledge / authorise this.

  • I've gone through problemshared recently because

    • it's what my employer's health insurance offers, so I didn't have to pay
    • it's only so the friction was minimal

    The process was super smooth and from first GP appointment to diagnosis it was about 2 months. I am pretty sure they are in the right to choose list because my partner has mentioned this before.

  • IMO the only problem with it is calling it "Art". Stock photos are also slop, except man-made. That, or the soulless corporate-style illustrations in PowerPoints are the sort of thing it replaces well.

    Not the "I poured my feelings onto a canvas/film" actual art. AI images are in my opinion a tool just as valid as the next - just a tool, not art.