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Already coming in in the UK next year. There are all sorts of issues with the approach:

- how does the tax authority know how many miles a car has driven each year? New cars in the UK are exempt from having standard safety testing at garages where mileage is recorded

- how are miles driven outside the UK accounted for? The tax is supposed to replace lost fuel duty, but if someone takes their electric car abroad, they still owe the British government money under the current arrangement

— do drivers pay in advance or arrears? If in advance, how do the government handle people grossly underestimating expected mileage to avoid paying ahead of time?

In short, it’s a mess.

What if you’re otherwise occupied, e.g. driving?

Spitfire vs Concorde in my final, and Concorde won.

Isn’t the problem though that AI companies charge money for their models trained on open source and copyleft projects?

Tell me about it. It stopped me ditching ever more privacy invading Android for iOS. How has it taken this long?

> 1296 PRINT "THIS PROGRAM REQUIRES ADVANCED BASIC -- USE COMMAND 'BASICA'":COLOR 15,0,0:FOR I=1 TO 9000:NEXT: RESUME 1298

TIL there is an “Advanced Basic”. I hope the naming was tongue in cheek.

I’m the same. I once suggested on the Transport Tycoon forums that there be a mechanism for curated sets of NewGRFs that work well together to be selected from the main page and was resolutely told that it’s up to the user to put together their own sets as they like.

EDIT: it looks like something like this is now in v16 as “collections”! I wonder if these can be shared.

Next in Ofcom’s authoritarian sights: YouTube.

I play the national lottery in the UK mainly because of the good causes it supports. Athletes competing in the Olympics for Team GB for example receive significant funding from the lottery. I see my ticket as a charity donation with the added fun of an astronomically small chance of winning money.

php.net was great for this back in the 2000s.

The iPhone did everything the Nokia 3310 did, better. Electric cars do not (yet) do better some things hybrids do, such as being able to be fuelled with 400+ miles of range in 5 minutes.

I’m nowhere near the point of wanting an electric car to replace my hybrid. The convenience of petrol and the cost of electricity is too high. High electricity costs aren’t going to be fixed in my country any time soon so Toyota will continue to have a huge market here.

Some supermarkets in the UK (e.g. Waitrose) literally just pick items already out and on display in the local store to give to delivery customers. So you’re getting whatever is at the front of the shelf in your local store, which is the least fresh.

The greatest downside to online grocery delivery is that you can’t then do this.

This is because space is _stiff_. Recall Hooke’s law from high school physics. The k constant represents the stiffness of the object. A rubber band is about 50. A sky scraper, about a million. Space? About 10^46 if I recall correctly. So it takes a truly enormous amount of energy in the form of gravitational waves to be able to move space enough for it to be detectable on Earth. And the only objects that can do that are the most massive ones moving at close to the speed of light: black holes, neutron stars, supernovae (the latter would have to be very close for us to see gravitational waves from - close enough that we’d likely see it with the naked eye as well).

> EDIT: Why is there no Cockpit Video Recorder? The days of limited storage are over.

Pilots unions are dead against it.

Thank you. I found this years ago and look it up every time I’m working on a Raspberry Pi project. Keep up the good work!

I guess landing fees add to the $100?

Agreed, FreeCAD 1.0 is finally almost usable and supports assemblies. My main issue with it is that the bill of materials tool was DOA but it’s fixed in the main branch. There are still lots of quirks but these can be learned in a few hours of using it.

Wasn’t there a rumour that the next iPhone will be foldable?

Agreed. Generations of students had their degree classifications determined by a small number of final exams under exam conditions. Why did we move away from that, opening up all of these routes to score degree grading in non exam conditions?

Ah yes it was Sofort, not Klarna.

In Germany, paying for goods online using Sofort (direct bank payment, not buy now pay later) literally involves typing in the same credentials used to log into online banking, that’s your account number, branch and PIN, followed by scanning a “TAN” similar to a QR code using the bank app. The only thing stopping them taking my data and logging into my banking it seems is the TAN app part, that could easily be phished.

Edit: changed Klarna to Sofort

Related to this, does anyone know why <h5> and <h6> are smaller than <p> by default? I asked this on Stackexchange years ago and didn’t really get to the bottom of it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55696808/why-do-h5-and-h....

Anyone know how to copy and paste without formatting into Outlook for Mac, without having to click the tiny dropdown box it creates when pasting formatted text? Outlook appears to have no setting for this and also ignores the key combination that works for most other apps…

> to the point America made a sport from moonshine running cars

Huh, is that NASCAR?

I’d normally be inclined to agree except they went to the effort of getting my video evidence, which gives me hope this did actually end up getting fed back.

I had the same issue when a driver let themselves round the back of my property, opening a latched gate by squeezing their fingers through a gap in the gate, then trying to open a door at the back. The door happened to be a bedroom with en-suite so the possibility of seeing someone naked was nonzero. The gate also can’t be closed again from the outside even reaching fingers through, leaving it open to anyone and everyone once they’ve left (I’ve since patched the holes as several delivery drivers have now done this). They dumped the package in our greenhouse, breaking a plant and leaving the door open. I only caught all this as we have a camera pointing at the back to track our cats, feeding into Frigate.

I also had trouble contacting Amazon by email so I spoke to a rep on the live chat. They put me through to someone on the delivery team who asked for video evidence. I had to send the video by email to some random Amazon address, then they credited my account with £10, apologised profusely, and said they would feed this back to the delivery driver.

> Maps cover the spatial side of war, but in addition it's difficult to follow the timeline.

I'd love for there to be an OpenStreetMap style history project with a slider to change the date, allowing users to fill in battle lines and unit positions throughout history. There must be enormous troves of information on units and battles in archives around the world that can be put online in the right form. One obvious problem would be overcoming conflicting accounts of unit positions, strengths and extents, but even basic information on positions of units over time would allow users to get an idea of what was happening in a theater by dragging the slider.

The article doesn't quite mention it, but today marks exactly 50 years since the Health and Safety at Work Act came into force.