tony @ tony @lemmy.hoyle.me.uk

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It doesn't even look good when they do that.. it looks like they couldn't be bothered.

I had a phone like that for under a week, sent it back. It was so uncomfortable to hold.

It's expensive to add and the cost is per room.. plus portable isn't that bad for the couple of weeks of actual warm weather.

I can't even have portable as I have no opening windows in the main room.. would have to fix that first. Luckily insulation works both ways and it doesn't really get that hot in here yet.

BBC R&D is a special case.. they're specifically there to try out new stuff. It isn't always reflected in the rest of the company. They implemented ipv6 years ago for example, but the main bbc website remains ipv4 only.

Even when I had a 10 year old Peugeot it was about £200.

You routinely hear of people paying 2k+ these days.. I'd seriously think about selling the car at that point.

The average cost of insurance is £478 (or maybe was, not sure how old that statistic is). £69 is an ebike, not a car..

They're all at it.. although Admiral were by far the cheapest for me, giving me a renewal price of £500 compared to >£1k from just about everyone else.

I've seen videos where he's just basically repeating the script marketing have given him.. zero difficult questions. No doubt they're quite lucrative.

LLMs will eventually start feeding of search results from other LLMs and they'll just start regurgitating each others nonsense. If that isn't happening already.

Nobody is going to point an LLM at a good data source because that would mean spending money on actually useful stuff not fast cars and booze.

In the EU at least that would be illegal - you can't void an entire warranty, only relevant bits.. and since windows doesn't have a warranty anyway..

The canonical example is you can't void the warranty on a car engine because you changed the stereo. 'Doing x will void the warranty' is almost never the full story.

A compliant yaml parser will read json, as they're essentially siblings.. so just write your configs in json and they'll work, if you dislike yaml.

Tesla has AEB but by the time something like that triggers you're reducing the severity of the crash not eliminating it.

It's likely the car braked at 100km/h but was still doing 50 when it hit.. at those speeds it's fatal whatever happens.

TBH if you're not used to it the steering wheel check can warn frequently. It's checking for a small amount of torque on the wheel rather than actually holding it (as there are no pressure sensors) and that catches people out but the prompt says to put your hands on the wheel.. I could believe 150 times on a long journey.

These days it'll detect that and shut down anyway.

I've had my hand misdetected as a 'defeat device' once.

It does and did... He kept driving anyway. Drink drivers FTW.

I presume AEB kicked in but all that can do is reduce the speed of inpact.. if you're determined to kill yourself there's not much the car can do.

Tips aren't taxed.

Absolutely.. service charge or tip, pick one. No double dipping.

Here in the UK service charges are always labelled 'voluntary' to get around the law I think. They're incredibly bad for business though.. people don't like having extra charges slapped on and the servers don't like being asked (not always politely, from what I've seen) to have them removed. People don't go back to such places.. It's been a while since I've seen a restaurant try to do it, but I reckon they're still out there.

I've definitely tipped developers (through the 'buy me a coffee' site, or occasionally patreon). But I'm unusual I think..

They seem to be massively overcharging, which makes the whole thing a lot wilder. At those prices they could afford to pay their staff well and abolish both tips and service charge..

Suspect the owner is just a knob.

In Europe everyone charges what's needed to pay the staff, with varying tip/no tip cultures. There's no added risk. In the US unless everyone suddenly switched at once (eg. making tipping illegal overnight) then the restaurants that increased prices would be taking a financial risk because it might drive customers away.

In truth, food price probably works out about the same anyway.. in the US the menu price has service charges tax and another 20% added on top of that for a tip. In Europe the price on the menu is what you pay. . it already includes everything except the tip, and tipping is voluntary for good service (depending on country, Europe isn't one culture).

Knowing some of the absurd stories I've heard from americans (tipping car salesmen, pharmacies..) then tipping walmart wouldn't surprise me at all.

People look at the menu, decide the prices are reasonable and eat. They then get hit with an 18% service charge and (in the US) a 20% tip on top.

The restaurant could increase their prices by 18%, but then people would decide to eat elsewhere. Of course they'll do that anyway after being hit with all the charges, but the owner thinks it's worth it to get the custom once.