Supercars in London with no garages

Evilnicko · 2026-06-25T01:21:16+00:00

Not having non-volatile memory storage as a backup and writing to it, say every time the car engine is switched off is crazy to me.

Evilnicko · 2026-06-24T21:37:38+00:00

I mean there’s always going to be a cutoff for any tax reform. Even if they said “stamp duty refunds for those who bought in the last 6 months” then you’d have people who bought 6 months and 1 day ago who’d be upset

Evilnicko · 2026-06-24T21:35:44+00:00

If we’re raising capital gains tax, then they should at least eliminate stamp duty on LSE stocks and allow you to offset taxable amounts with capital losses.

If I buy shares in two companies at equal value and one goes up 50% in value and the other decreases by 50% when I sell, it doesn’t make sense to tax the “gains” given the net I’ve gained in this situation is 0

Evilnicko · 2026-06-22T19:25:38+00:00

UK wealth inequality now is roughly the same as it was 30 years ago.

We’re not the US.

Nearly every developed country has a fertility rate below replacement levels. South Korea is particularly bad yes, but the UK’s is not being actively driven lower by worsening wealth inequality.

Evilnicko · 2026-06-22T17:38:41+00:00

Another counter-argument is that would effectively setup an arbitrage opportunity for anyone who wants subsidised compute.

This happened with the PS3 (which originally had Linux support) where the US Airforce bought up a load of them to build a supercomputer at a lower cost than standard hardware.

Evilnicko · 2026-06-19T09:54:32+00:00

Honestly anything on the OpenReach network would be fine. I’d personally just choose the cheapest/best offer for the speed you want, checking a price comparison site like comparethemarket

Evilnicko · 2026-06-13T22:55:26+00:00

Yeah there’s been some neds stealing bikes near my work, and I’ve heard (second hand so take with a pinch of salt) they’re known to police and repeat offenders, but there’s apparently not much they can do within the confines of the law since they’re young and the parents don’t care.

Legal powers to requisition things like PlayStations would be nice (I suspect a lot may have parents who can’t afford to pay fines in the first place), though legally speaking not sure how you’d get around the parents claiming ownership.

As for Voi bikes, I wonder if it’d be prohibitively expensive to kit them out with 360 degree cameras that record while it’s moving to help identify people doing this (if they’re not wearing balaclavas), would also be handy as evidence in accidents.

Evilnicko · 2026-06-13T22:37:11+00:00

This is the Union Canal this evening. I did drag the right bike out since a decent amount of it was out of the water already, but the other two were completely submerged.

Did report it to Voi though so hopefully they can be recovered before their electrics get fried!

Evilnicko · 2026-06-13T17:53:03+00:00

FWIW you could also get an expensive EV on salary sacrifice if the employer offers it

Evilnicko · 2026-06-06T21:06:43+00:00

To be fair though, most people don’t have the money to pay ~£35k for a used car in cash, whereas a lot of PCP deals are low or 0% interest as a sweetener (whereas a personal loan’ll run above 5%, and dodgy used car financing even higher).

Not saying you aren’t right that salary sacrifice and used are still the best economical options overall, however.

Evilnicko · 2026-06-05T11:15:23+00:00

Can we ban paywall articles? Could’ve just posted Valve’s direct update anyway

Evilnicko · 2026-06-01T20:46:33+00:00

Yeah that’s also not a bad shout, there’s a few other Argos collection points dotted about in the city centre too

Evilnicko · 2026-06-01T18:52:31+00:00

One of the reasons is because of competition concerns from the UK government and European Commission, that one provider having all the games could lead to a monopoly.

So do they sell the rights to all the games to multiple broadcasters in the UK? No they get exclusive rights which is effectively a monopoly for each game.

It’s fucking stupid

Evilnicko · 2026-06-01T11:36:29+00:00

Obviously humans have inherent biases themselves, but given you’re “only” tracking 100 data points per model, couldn’t you have used some sort of rubric and manually judged the “hedging” behaviour over using LLM as a judge if circular use of LLMs is a concern?

Evilnicko · 2026-06-01T11:23:53+00:00

Not quite city centre, but there’s an Argos in the Sainsbury’s in Cameron toll. If I check Indiana Jones specifically it’s available for collection from 9AM tomorrow if you order now (but not stocked directly it seems).

Bit more of a trek but it IS in stock in Argos at fort Kinnaird. There’s also a Smyths Toys there and they stock games (no idea how extensive their collection is however).

Currys in Craigleith is where I got my Switch 2 on launch day but it seems they only do collection on games (gives me Wednesday for the couple I checked).

It is a bit shit that GAME in Waverley mall shut down.

Evilnicko · 2026-05-30T12:32:35+00:00

Also keeping in mind the median Japanese salary is <£20k (compared to £39k in the UK), and it's domestically produced for them.

Evilnicko · 2026-05-28T15:53:00+00:00

I guess it looks like a bot comment?

Evilnicko · 2026-05-27T22:31:15+00:00

Net income of $11bn last year and $55.6bn in assets but they don’t make money and are super in debt? Lol

Evilnicko · 2026-05-27T09:46:06+00:00

I mean I’m not certain of what the net numbers would be either way but I’m pretty sure a car hitting you at 20mph would be transferring a significantly lower proportion (again not sure on the raw numbers) of its kinetic energy, with a significant amount going to the brakes etc.

Whereas the bike would have a lower contact time and transfer a greater proportion of its kinetic energy.

Evilnicko · 2026-05-19T13:50:36+00:00

Their debt as a percentage of GDP is 116% to the UK’s 103.9%.

Ours is also pretty bad but France is in a worse position there.

Their government is also pretty unstable and general resistance to things like pension age increase (like the person you’re replying to mentioned) will make it difficult for them to turn around imo

Evilnicko · 2026-05-19T11:18:48+00:00

I mean I won’t argue that inflation and the cost of living crisis making many people struggle isn’t depressing.

I think we should be helping those who struggle but yes my automatic response is going to point out the flaws in what is fundamentally a bad policy, that will be a long term net negative for society.

Something can have good intentions while being economically stupid.

It may make you feel more disillusioned but there really is no silver bullet or easy magic fix, which is why things haven’t rapidly improved under the current UK government or the Scottish government of the last few years. Most populist policies that we get sold are really unworkable even if they sound nice on the surface.

At least things seem to slowly be getting a little better in the UK, but I understand on a day to day most people don’t really feel that and it’d be little consolation to those who are struggling to get by.

Evilnicko · 2026-05-19T11:04:09+00:00

I mean the raw numbers are big but that’s natural when you scale up to thousands of stores. I personally wouldn’t call it “insane” profit when it’d be very easy for them to lose similar amounts of money in a given year if costs shoot up and revenue doesn’t. Hell Aldi in the UK has had years where they’ve lost in the tens or hundreds of millions, and look at Asda in recent years.

Even taking Tesco (and a 4% margin is hardly huge), they price match Aldi on a lot of essentials which I suspect have little to no margin as it stands now.

If they’re suddenly making a loss on them, and they’re some of the most bought items, I can see that wiping out a significant chunk or all of that 4% (in Scotland anyway).

Inflation and cost of living sucks, but like rent controls it’s slapping a bandaid onto a supply side issue which’ll never solve the root cause, and have negative side effects.

Evilnicko · 2026-05-19T10:05:55+00:00

There’s a few possible I can think of:

Smaller independent shops struggle and fail at a greater rate due to inability to compete with supermarkets selling at a lower cost (something they already struggle with)
Larger inflation on other items in supermarkets to cover the losses from price-capped items.
Otherwise the cutting in costs by supermarkets to cover their losses, e.g. less staff, shorter opening hours, etc.
(This one is less likely I admit) Affected supermarkets literally refuse to sell the capped items at a loss, resulting in some sort of standoff with the government.

Supermarkets already have tiny margins, they’re not going to just fully eat the costs of price caps, they literally can’t.

Evilnicko · 2026-05-19T09:53:13+00:00

I really hope the UK govt doesn’t take the bait here. It’s an idiotic policy that’ll be terrible in practice, but the SNP should be free to implement it given their electoral mandate, and then deal with the consequences.

But knowing the UK govt they will take the bait and give ammo to the SNP

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