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Why does a robotic vacuum cleaner need to connect to the internet at all? Mine doesn't (Neato Botvac D85) and it works fine.


Not if all the slots are booked up online. Look at what happened with driving tests. They moved it online and all the tests are booked by bots and sold to the highest bidder.


How exactly do I sell my GP appointment? This is such a dumb take. No wonder it took 20 years.


Yeah, this has to be the way. Suppliers get paid.


The major vendors are adopting it. Most people don't read the ISO SQL spec to learn SQL. They read their vendors documentation.


Is that you Chris? I think I did a CS poster project with you.


It likely won’t meet European safety standards so there’s a whole market it will just miss. But maybe it’s too big to be practical in European cities anyway.


(Sadly?) there are more and more too-big-for-europe trucks in europe every day.


I see people driving Dodge RAM 1500s inside Prague and Paris, it's absolutely impractical but some do it.


Why would it not meant European safety standards? The S,3,Y are very safe. Do you think they've forgotten safety for the cybertruck?


>Do you think they've forgotten safety for the cybertruck?

Didn't Musk literally say "and if you're ever in an argument with another car, you will win" at an event, emphasising how the Cybertruck is terribly unsafe for everyone else on the road?


Because European do not only test the vehicle crashing by itself, but vehicle crashing into other vehicles (frontal crash and side crash), and vehicle crashing into pedestrians/bikes.

S,3,Y are sedan and would do well on those tests.


But do you think the cybertruck would do worse that other similar sized vehicles?


No. Well, depends on the vehicle, but you cannot import US trucks from the US in Europe, they all have a EU-spec build. One of the change imposed is about edge sharpness (bull bar are removed for EU builds), and I think cybertruck is kinda fucked on that point.


I’ve had ads for drugs, cloned credit cards and devices for stealing cars with keyless entry all in the last month on a major social network. Reported, but they don’t seem to care.


I don’t know if your experience was on a Meta property, but it is interesting to think about the amount of blowback Twitter/X has received from advertisers who supposedly don’t want their ads shown next to unpalatable user generated content. But unpalatable ads next to a users posts? Sorry, no discussion about it and no recourse. Just another effect of being the product when using a free service I guess.


Sure, but its NYE. In most neighbourhoods there are going to be parties anyway, AirBnB or no.


Many, but I wouldn't say most. There are a few generally quiet areas here where I wouldn't expect loud NYE parties, but there are houses taken over for AirBnB use (one of which is near me, and he needs to get his lock-box fixed, I've been asked about it a few times which begs another question: why do AirBnB renters think a random local walking by will be able to help them get in?!).


Probably because there’s no dedicated front desk and any random person could be the host is my guess?

I don’t know. I prefer my accommodations with a front desk, if only because I tend to check in at odd hours and it’s nice having a human available to help if there are issues.

By comparison AirBnB seems like those annoying customer service “AIs” who are always eager to let you know how much you can get accomplished on the company’s website.


It could be that they are hoping that I know the owner, assuming the owner is local (often the houses specifically setup as short-term lets are not owned by someone local though, local to the city maybe but not the street), which I can understand.

But on more than one occasion I've got a strong “you can't just leave us out here with no clue!” vibe which really makes me wonder just what else they expect me to do!


Parties are not the problem. Damages, illegality and annoying the neighbours are what they should be trying to detect. It's a shame that people planning a small get together with friends should have to suffer because some idiots like to trash places.


I've definitely seem benefits from working in open plan. Sometimes it's helpful to overhear what others are doing because maybe they're lacking some information or maybe that thing has already been done elsewhere. Does a fresh graduate with no experience really want to be in an environment where everyone is shut in an office?

Equally, sometimes it's better to be quiet. Sometimes, quiet can be at home but sometimes homes are not quiet or uninterrupted.

Flexibility would be great, but I think a private office will always be seen as more prestigious, so those with that facility are unlikely go give it up so sit in a cube / open plan with the team, even where that would actually be beneficial.


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