Fred27

What a deliberately misleading headline. She can sell books in the UK. She just can't give the money from those sales to terrorists - and she has said she intends to.

Are they? An equivalent model don't seem to be significantly more new, and you can now get some great deals on secondhand EVs.

I'm in the UK and have now gone completely electric - motorbike (Zero SRF), car (wife's Model 3) and van (ID Buzz). To be honest though, that was mostly because I like EVs - yes, even the motorbike. The fuel costs are just a bonus.

It's bizarre, isn't it? I remember seeing what happened on 7th October and thought there's just absolutely no way anyone can convince themselves that that didn't happen, was justified, or that these were in fact the good guys. And yet somehow people manage it.

If it's anything like the UK then it's likely the games are played in a public space like a park, so it might not be possible to eject the parent.

I agree. The word "pond" is what immediately got my attention.

I did read it. A compiler converts your code into assembly. They usually have varying levels of optimisation depending on what you're doing.

The article boils down to "could AI be a good compiler" and I'd say that consistency and repeatability are far more important than a one-off optimisation of a particular section of code. If you've got to the point where a section of code is worth writing some hand-crafted assembly then it's probably worth your time to really understand what's happening with it. Having it "vibe compiled" for you would be a bad idea.

Doesn't the compiler rewrite your code in assembly?

My boys (then 10 and 8) loved MakeCode Arcade. I promised that if they wrote an original game - rather than following the great tutorials - then I'd make them a physical setup with a Pi Zero and some classic arcade buttons. They were very motivated and learned a lot.

I agree. I came to Unreal with only a basic level of C++. Having Unreal handle memory management for you was useful, but I can imagine the chaos an Unreal-only C++ developer might cause when unleashed on another C++ codebase.

As a primarily C# developer who has done some game engine work, I recently gave Godot a go for licensing reasons. Apart from some quirkiness I'm fairly impressed. Much nicer C# support compared to Unity. I've done a fair bit of Unreal C++ but to be honest unless you really need the performance that's just too much hard work.

Having said that getting the code working properly with a nice 3D UI is my priority, not having a slick game with some code doing some mundane stuff in the background.

I was born in London, lived in London until about 15 years ago and still go there a few times a year. It really has become as bad as people make out.

One thing that brought it home to me was recently re-watching 28 Days Later. As the main character comes out of hospital and walks over a Zombie-apocalyse London Bridge, I thought "Wow. That looks nice." London in 2026 is worse that Zombie-apocalyse London from 2002.

I found some of these Visionect displays cheap on eBay and was planning to do the same. I found the backend Docker conatiner was unstable and kept crashing so I parked the project. Maybe I'll have to look at it again.

I once fixed a bug with a similar timeframe. Many attempts by many people over the years. One day I finally fixed it and thought I'd let the user who'd raised it know that it was finally resolved. Unfortunately he'd died of natural causes in the meantime. That really hit home how long it'd taken.