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  1. The car in this example is electric but the problem is not confined to electric cars.
  2. And that when the adverts refresh all the content on the page shifts and you lose track of what you have read.
  3. The kind of field where AI builds more in a day than a team or even contract dev does.
  4. I had the same conversation with a colleague who managed an engineering department, his answer was that he can take on new freelancers quickly and fire them just as quickly.

    There are also patterns where freelancers are more desirable early on in an economic recovery, e.g. the company thinks it might be safe to start hiring again but is not feeling quite confident enough to take on full time staff (cost of firing etc.)

  5. On the last day that tax payments were due
  6. I’ve mixed them up too and that was the worst Mac and Cheese I ever made!
  7. Writing a whole load of tests up front and then coding until all the tests pass is not TDD.
  8. Spending time with kids > giving stuff to kids.
  9. How much potential is there for the opposite effect from a chat-bot with less noble intentions? Or does the ability to cite evidence and presumably references cover that off?
  10. This is the biggest issue for me as well. Seems that the OCR has to be triggered manually, for each page of each notebook. Which of course I don't remember to do and now there are too many.

    The search doesn't appear to search across notebooks either.

    The experience that I would want (expect) is that OCR happens in the background, all the time, no need to trigger and that I can then search for a word/string and find all the notes on that topic.

    I've fallen back to tags and dates in filenames to have any chance of tracking down old meeting notes.

  11. My kids liked Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, it has loads of one page stories about famous and not so famous women from throughout history. Nicely illustrated too.

    https://www.rebelgirls.com

  12. Just read this last night! as part of the 'Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories' collection.
  13. Our daughter too, she’s been on a maintenance dose equivalent to two peanuts, once a week. It’s been life changing. She’s had several trips to A&E before the treatment but after a few years she was able to tolerate a dose equivalent to ten peanuts (although that still made her quite nauseous).
  14. Wasn't the first webcam setup to show whether a coffee pot was full?
  15. They could outsource this to someone only too grateful to keep it running for less than the cost of an internal engineer
  16. 5 LED Downlights in the kitchen, 3 in the upstairs bathroom, 2 in the downstairs bathroom all installed by an electrician 11 years ago and still going fine.

    LED bayonet fitting bulbs in the regular light fittings in the rest of the house seem to only get a few years though.

  17. Having smart plugs that are controlled by voice is satisfying. "Hey Siri, turn the Christmas tree lights on"
  18. I really like Things 3 on Mac and iPhone for recording and managing my Todos
  19. In a similar vein, I had a Pleo payment card at a previous job, and the speed with which it notified me on my phone when I had paid on the card, prompting me to take a picture of the receipt, always made me smile.

    More often than not the notification came through before the receipt had even printed.

  20. Perhaps not in a Lamborghini
  21. Currently looking at Jaguar I Pace. There are quite a lot in the £20-25k range with <60k miles that would have been about £65k new.

    I'd happily look at a Model Y, but out of my budget

  22. Whether or not you think they matter, they vote, and in larger numbers than the younger electorate.
  23. Thanks, I'll look into that
  24. Right now, looking at buying a used EV, I am more scared that the battery or electrics fail for some reason than I am of their gradual degradation over time.

    I don't know how likely that is, but it's putting me off anything other than manufacturer approved used with a solid warranty.

  25. If you have had the misfortune to open the default homepage in MS Edge recently, it is routinely a smorgasbord of anti EV rhetoric from the likes of the Telegraph, Express and Mail.

    Someone somewhere is spending a lot of money on promoting those views to the sort of people who don't change their browser or their homepage.

  26. In Europe, Renault sold the Zoe and others on a battery lease basis, reducing the vehicle cost but with a recurring lease on the battery.

    For me, as a used car buyer who wants to buy a car outright (not on finance) that rules it out. I don't want to commit to paying Renault monthly to lease a battery at a price that is more than I currently spend on petrol.

    To be fair, that is not very logical on my part, it does not make financial sense for me to go electric as I do so few miles.

  27. I can only read the first sentence of that article without signing up, but can attest that in my current car search I am looking at used electric vehicles that have lost two thirds of their value in 3-4 years.
  28. Depending on how complex his vision is, you might be able to do a chunk of this in side someone else's game, Roblox, MineCraft etc. I recall my daughter spending loads of time in Roblox games that other kids had made, so long as the game logic is not to crazy you might just need to arrange objects and let the existing 3d controls take care of the hard part.

    Also, top commenter is right, the game won't get finished so aim for an achievable goal that is interesting in it's own right.

  29. Surely there are plenty of us who would happily (or at least less reluctantly) pay incrementally more as our storage needs increase, but who baulk at trebling what we pay in one jump.
  30. The thing that is taking up loads of my iCloud storage is the 'live' video version of photos where the tiny snippet of movement has a larger filesize than the photo that it accompanies. The only way I have found so far to deal with this is to download the files locally, delete from iCloud, delete the local videos and upload the remaining still images. This is time consuming, clunky and makes me nervous that I'll delete something or lose something important in the process. Is there anything out the that help to automate that process but where there is some level of editorial control so that I can identify and keep the handful of 'live' images that I might actually want to keep?

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