Are these actually smart glasses, or just glasses with a camera in them? Because that is not the same thing. We've had glasses with cameras in them for like 20 years. They can be great for recording a ride or run, for example.

with a rolled r

If you're being super strict, that's technically what /r/ means. But in practice, it tends to just get used to mean "your rhotic consonant". That's why you'll note the same symbol is used for that part of the word in both English pronunciations and the Nauruan* pronunciation.

* do we need to update the spelling of the demonym?

I had HFC from 2020 until about a year ago, when I moved somewhere with FTTP. To be honest, in normal operation I don't really notice the difference. It was plenty fast enough. I'm on the plan that used to be 100 down (20 up I think? Not actually sure.) but got upgraded to 500 for free.

The real difference is that the ageing coaxial part of HFC used to cause it to cut out completely every few weeks and require me to restart my router, the NTD, or both. The brand new fibre is so reliable.

did you get verbally abused because of this

It didn't quite rise to the level I would describe as verbal abuse, but it was only one step below that. At first I'm pretty sure the pedestrian was waiting for me to go. But after a while of back and forth, the blue car then started to try to turn. At that point I moved forward so I was physically blocking the intersection. It could not have been clearer that the pedestrian was completely safe at that point but he just wanted to argue.

This was right at the very end of my ride, which put a dampener on what was otherwise an incredibly lovely morning commute. Trip home was excellent without any real issues.

but I’m sick of it dropping out

Wow that sucks. I thought the whole point of it and the reason people went with it was supposed to be that it doesn't do that…

Geez, you try to do the right thing…

This morning on my ride to work, I approached a left turn into a side street. There's a pedestrian waiting at a refuge island to cross in front of me. The car in front of me ignores him and goes.

I stop, because I insist on following right of way laws. Following the law in this situation is the most predictable and therefore safe thing you can do. Plus, though I was on a bike, the biggest problem is with the sense of entitlement drivers have that leads to them presuming right of way when they don't have it.

Anyway, the pedestrian refuses to go. I wave him on, I tell him he has right of way. He says "no I don't". Then a car coming from the other direction who was stopped (for the other car and, presumably, me) starts turning right. No way am I having that. I move forward to block the intersection fully to let the pedestrian go.

Another pedestrian arrives. With the two of them, they eventually go, and then I continue.

But fuck me. I try to follow the law Alby doing something that's both safer and more convenient for this arsehole and all I get in return is spray? Fuck.

We can blame the religious organisation as much as we want, but the fundamental problem here is payment processors. They should be common carriers. Content-neutral middlemen who facilitate payment to anything that isn't literally unlawful. This is no different to an ISP throttling access to Netflix because they operate their own streaming platform. If the storefront, the developer, and the buyer are all ok with a transaction, there's no good reason for a fourth party to stand in the way of that.

Fake and gay.

No way the engineer corrects the mathematician for using j instead of i.

The CIA wrote a manual on how to do this. It's a bit old and parts of it are outdate for some times of work, but a lot of it is still useful.

• Misunderstand orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders
• Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products
• Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done (some might say normal businesses do this as a matter of course...)
• Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible

And I hope youhave learned to ~~sanitize your inputs~~ not fucking use generative AI for grading

Ftfy

apparently he didn’t even get paid and covered his own travel costs

Holy shit that's bad. Can't even try to claim the excuse of "a job is a job" and claiming there's no politics to it.

Safe, sure. Efficient? Not even close.

It's far, far more expensive than renewable energy. It also takes far, far longer to build a plant. Too long to meet 2030 targets even if you started building today. And in most western democracies you wouldn't even be able to get anything done by 2040 if you also add in political processes, consultation, and design of the plant.

There's a reason the current biggest proponents of nuclear energy are people and parties who previously were open climate change deniers. Deciding to go to nuclear will give fossil fuel companies maximum time to keep doing their thing. Companies which made their existence on the back of fossil fuels, like mining companies and plant operators also love it, because it doesn't require much of a change from their current business model.