I am an IT bod with a mountain rescue team in the UK. Personally I would bin starlink in a heartbeat. I dislike Elon, I dislike the privatisation of satellite garbage. The impact it had on the night sky, on astronomy. I dislike the pettish for abuse from a fascist American oligarchy and government.
However… For now it is by far the single best option when cell communications are out of range.
“we” don’t need it. Despite every large civilisation inventing it, small civilisation (150 person village) just doesn’t. And can thrive quite happily without it.
It’s when civilisation gets larger that we “need” money. You can’t build the LHC or Artemis 2 without some form of intermediary currency. The problem is, to do that you end up with the issues of power imbalances.
Even then, not having to move your hands means not spending time… Moving your hands.
This is useful for people who want to spend time learning to be enforcement at what they do. In the same way that holding a Nintendo controller “weird” is useful for Tetris speed runners.
If you are as efficient as you need to be using a shower interface, then great. Other people need (or more likely want) to be more efficient than that.
Maybe I’m a luddite, but I still don’t understand why people want to spend their time arguing with Claude code and fixing it’s bugs. Rather than just learning to write productive coffee themselves. But, people do. That’s their choice, and I let them to it.
If prefer to spend my time learning him and code, than Claude and idiosyncrasies, and then whatever to comes next, and next again.
Did the most damage… But I’m not sure he’s villainous. Just competently dangerous. Happy to be corrected but I thought tmjr was trying to improve the world. He just got massively unlucky… Multiple times.
20+ years in industry as a UNIX and Linux admin. Informed but potentially biased.
Linux admins have tended in my career to be more expensive. They tend to be more week rounded as engineers. Linux by it’s nature, especially in the past, required you to be a DBA, network admin, server admin, developer all in one. They can often fix problems quicker than the support engineer elsewhere can read the ticket.
That means you pay more per engineer, MBAs don’t like this. This is a critical problem. You pay less overall in staff costs because you need less staff, MBAs don’t understand this. MBAs like support contracts so they can offset blame.
A small, concise, tight nit, well payed admin team who have ownership and care about a product will be cheaper, and have more uptime than the alternatives. But they’ll also be obstinate, high payed, entitled and ready to jump ship if you mistreat them. That means you need actual diplomacy and social skills to manage them well.
A small tight nit team with product ownership will need a kick up the arse at times to change “what ain’t broke”. So when product requirements need a radically different solution that can take time to change.
There is a reason that industry breaking startups in the early 2000s had their corporate backbones on Linux.
This. So much of this.
I see the same with any federated platform. People are excited to explain how complicated and clever and different services and integrations and… Shut the fuck up.
App, sign-up, post, like, subscribe. Done.
People will learn the rest if it is important enough to them to master
Constrained supply
But there are empty properties now. There is supply. House prices are too high for all of the property to be affordable. That is because property as an appreciating investment is valuable. You can only live in one house, to buy multiple properties and have that appreciated investment, you are a landlord.
Low interest rates
allow you to buy a property. They allow people investing in housing to buy many. It results in the above.
Banks pushing bigger mortgages
Sure
Help to buy
Allows affordable housing to become an investment. See my first point.
Rich people were losing to much money
Yep, some of those people were landlords who were finding city prices dropping.
Clearly landlord culture isn’t the “only” problem. But fuck me it’s a big part of the issue.
Ban landlord culture and property prices drop.
Kinda sucks for those already with a mortgage. Defending rental culture because someone might lose out now only guarantees that an ever increasing majority lose out in the future.
Which flag do we use for English?
I won’t allow the stars and stripes
cough Vietnam cough
America should really be the country that knows it’s massive superpower isn’t enough against an unwilling guerilla
Manure or rock, sure. I get that.
Plywood or sheet rock, standard sizes of sheet rock here in the UK for in a panel van and I have no worries about them getting wet out damaged en route.
Given the length limit of a truck bed, I can get much bigger things in a van then I could a truck.
Given your opinions are on the reasonable side of truck owners
What advantage does a truck have over a panel van for work use?
Yes I’m European. Yes I actually want a truck for some unknown social reason. But every time I look at trucks I think the beds are either too small or I think my shit is going to get wet back there. An enclosed panel van has a bigger converted storage area.
Excuse me sir, we appear to have a different definition of “winning”.
He’s making a lot of noise about Zelensky not going to the polls. So …
War, he’s talking about taking America to war so strongly they can’t have an election.
I know trump doesn’t know world history.
But helping Russia and asking Lithuania for help are mutually exclusive options.
Needs v wants
Needs: healthcare, utilities, public transport, even a minimal but quality food source. Even to the point of utilitarian but working phones/devices. State ownership where profits are minimal but go back into the state. The services aren’t necessarily free, but are run without massive shareholder payouts.
Wants: upgrades and luxuries. iPhones, treat foods, nice cars, silk bedding and those ridiculous marshmallow shoes everyone loves. Regulated but free market.
Now all your basic needs are covered by the community together. You could probably live a simple life with very little income. If you want luxury or fancy, feel free to work too get it.
I’m not saying we should…
But negative tariffs on eggs coming out of the USA and ridiculous tariffs on eggs going into the USA would tickle my funny bone
Well done sir. Well done.
If we ever meet in a pub I owe you a pint
You’ve started on a completely false assumption.
TBH some of the best art, music and creativity in games comes from small indie studios and developers. Who put creativity and skill into their project. They make it good by actually making it all. Games with a unique style and fun ideas come from small indie studios who need supporting.
AI is a shortcut to stealing others work by proxy. It creates content that is non-novel by its very design and by the very limitations of the tool.
artists, programmers and musicians that can lovingly hand craft the loot boxes
What are you on about? It’s the companies churning out loot box after loot box that are programmatically producing them. You’re actively invalidating your own point in your rant.
At this point, reading your comment again. I’m really hoping I just missed some dry sarcasm.
You’ve hit the nail on the head (from my perspective) and it was basically what I was going to say.
Umami is the big hit on flavour. So replacing with another Umami source. Mushroom ketchup, Marmite/Vegemite, (Vegan) Oyster sauce alternatives would all fit the bill. All of these are shelf stable for a long time, so can be bought in bulk and used repeatedly.