abridgett

The hazard perception test was a great addition in my opinion. (Basically a video plays and you have to press a button when something dangerous has happened).

I passed my driving test 30+ years ago and then took the HPT as part of a motorcycle test 15 years later.

Paying attention (to the kid bouncing a ball at the side of the road, to the cyclist when it's windy weather etc) is a key part of road craft and I hope this made it much clearer with some (contrived) examples. TBH I just wish they let you click earlier (for _potential_ threats - i.e. before they step into the road, not just afterwards).

If a president flaps his arms on one side of the planet does this cause a hurricane of chaos on the other side of the world? And everywhere else.

This sounds reasonable. However there was a study showing major economic benefits if was free. These benefits came from more people implementing it, time saved by all those additional users, removal of licensing hassle.

Their "paint" advert wasn't bad either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ut_2GWIm4 though it can't compete with the music.

It's a sad indictment that it took all this effort, in 2019, to convince a world "leader" that climate change was real.

I wish companies were more environmentally conscious and stopped churning out swag. It's such a waste. Much of it you would never have bought, most is low quality. We don't need it.

I've asked them: a) _what_ details may have been involved. Currently the criminals know more than we do. b) why EBT had any data if Wise stopped working with then in 2023.

I'd except there to be a fairly strong obligation (probably on both parties) under GDPR to ensure that EBT destroyed that data.

I'll be following up

I still remember playing Quake on Linux - with the X display being displayed on a different computer over the network. The different computer was running HP-UX (HP's Unix) on a PA-RISC chip.

I'm not sure it can replace non-trivial setups - sudo/doas looks set to stay.

e.g when you need to restrict a set of users to run only certain applications with certain other users. sudo can do this (even if the config format can be painful).

No major spoilers that I noticed. Really recommend reading the books, each was pretty mind blowing to me in a different way. The best kind of sci-fi - that which makes you think and wonder.

I've only seen this behaviour once. Someone very publicly shouted at and then privately apologised to. Needless to say the shouter lost any respect I had for them - firstly for blaming without facts, secondly for being so pathetic they didn't make a public apology. The victim in this case went up in my estimation and us now a very successful team leader.

Google weather desperately needs this whenever it reports weather from "The Sun" (awful awful "newspaper").

Today: "Brits to bask in 20C sun" (that's 68F) Yesterday: "Yellow thunderstorm warning..set to spark travel chaos"

Just a tad over the top! Genuine weather extremes in the UK are pretty rare :)

It's even worse - under RIP act not only can you be "forced" to reveal any passwords:

- the onus is on _you_ to "prove" that you don't know it or have forgotten it - you can be told not to reveal that you've told them the password

Anyone administering systems might want to think about this, governments aren't known for good security.