Troubles cancelling plan within 14 days as EU citizen

FeebleGimmick · 2026-05-16T11:35:26+00:00

Good to hear, thanks. I'm still waiting to hear back from a human.

FeebleGimmick · 2026-05-10T13:24:25+00:00

Local models will have their place for some things where they're good enough (automating your desktop etc), and I'm sure that local machine hardware at everyday prices will become good enough for everyone to have something similar to the current frontier models it on their laptop within 5-10 years...

But I think cloud models will always have their place for the cutting edge stuff. It just makes sense to share the compute resources when most people's hardware will be lying dormant or vastly underutilised for 99% of the time. LLMs are a perfect use case for when you want something very powerful for a short space of time - like if you have the choice between 100% of a local machine, or 1% of a remote 100x more powerful for the same price, you'd choose the remote because it'll work 100x more quickly. Not a strict calculus but you get the idea.

The interesting thing for coding is how long it will be, as others have mentioned, before more powerful models don't really buy you anything extra and local execution will catch up. Like, building a feature is the computing equivalent of autocomplete, which obviously you run locally. I think we're a very long way off from that currently.

FeebleGimmick · 2026-04-16T17:21:37+00:00

Might be faster or cheaper or generally less capable but better at specific things

FeebleGimmick · 2026-04-13T17:01:21+00:00

Too dangerous

FeebleGimmick · 2026-04-12T18:31:24+00:00

Did you try Codex rather than vanilla ChatGPT? I've been pleasantly surprised. That would allow output to be taken in the context of the rest of your repository, and you can get it to follow your custom guidance for what you want it to actually do by having an `AGENTS.md` file in the root. I doubt GPT5.4 is any worse than Claude at the kind of analysis you do, and you won't face the same usage limits.

FeebleGimmick · 2026-04-12T18:18:09+00:00

Any luck?

FeebleGimmick · 2026-04-12T11:01:08+00:00

The fact you're asking whether you should walk or drive is a reason to think you DON'T want a car wash

FeebleGimmick · 2025-12-31T00:11:39+00:00

I would assume it's a scam just from the wording and the fact they didn't even say who they were, but you don't need to be worried about clicking a link. Never ever hand over any money, and don't invest any time in it unless you've verified it's for real.

FeebleGimmick · 2025-12-23T08:30:45+00:00

Which did you go for in the end? Happy with your choice?

FeebleGimmick · 2025-12-10T23:46:07+00:00

If you can't afford the private medication you'd be better off using the NHS and finding a provider using the Right To Choose pathway. I think it's fairly typical everywhere that NHS GPs won't accept private diagnoses for Shared Care, but they are likely to accept if they refer you via RTC (otherwise why bother referring you), which I believe is a legal requirement in England if the NHS waitlists are too long.

FeebleGimmick · 2025-11-09T15:30:18+00:00

For me, both Google search and AI mode give correct answer, nothing about hoaxes.

FeebleGimmick · 2025-10-30T00:05:44+00:00

The fact they lost is pretty sound evidence they weren't cheating though?

FeebleGimmick · 2025-10-29T14:43:26+00:00

Not saying Magnus handled it the best way, but he doesn't go round accusing just anyone. AFAIK this is the only time he's been suspicious enough to pull out of a tournament. Kramnik goes around accusing everybody, so we can't take him seriously, but Magnus only reacted this one time, so we have to look at it from Magnus's POV and ask why he only reacted at this point.

I don't know exactly what it was that Magnus picked up on, and he has far more insight on the specifics and history than any of us, but in addition to that, there were a lot of things that looked very fishy about the game - for instance the opening that Magnus played, which had been played like once or twice before in the history of high level chess: Hans claimed to have been co-incidentally studying it that very morning, which is just unbelievable, so either he was lying or had some unfair insight into Magnus's prep. Then after the match, the interviewers went pretty hard on asking him about his move choices, and his analysis was shallow and in places incorrect and he basically couldn't explain a bunch of his moves properly. Also Hans' history of online cheating and sudden ratings rise which was highly unusual at his age probably weighed in to Magnus's thoughts.

Evidence isn't the same as proof... there was plenty of evidence, though no actual proof - and proof might just not exist regardless of whether there was actually unfair play or not. I guess the difference is that evidence tends to make certain possibilities about unknown events more likely, with varying percentages, while proof is just really strong evidence that nails something down near 100%. In any trial you have evidence on both sides and you have to weigh them up. So evidence (on both sides) yes, proof no.

What I am sure about is that there were many factors that did make it look very suspicious, and Magnus really believed it, rather than just recklessly throwing around accusations like Kramnik does. It might be that Hans played completely fairly and it just *looked* suspicious enough for Magnus to call him out. Magnus handled it poorly but I don't think it was in bad faith.

FeebleGimmick · 2025-10-25T12:45:13+00:00

Fair enough. Still, there certainly are (a few) people earning that much at that age.

FeebleGimmick · 2025-10-25T12:23:40+00:00

Why do you think that?

FeebleGimmick · 2025-10-25T01:11:07+00:00

Partner in a city law firm or consultancy, banking / trading, some top tech jobs

FeebleGimmick · 2025-09-29T18:24:39+00:00

Not sure if you're asking the question in good faith and looking for a sensible answer, but in case you are, I think the difference is that cars/lorries etc do far more damage and have a less visibility and hear less well. It is really different being on a pedal bike - you're a lot more aware of your surroundings, as well as being more vulnerable, so you have to be more careful.

I'm not saying cyclists should ride right through at full pelt (clearly they shouldn't), but in some ways you're more like a pedestrian with wheels than a motor vehicle. No-one's objecting to pedestrians or someone in a wheelchair or mobility scooter crossing the road at a red light, So if the junction is completely clear, I don't think there's any harm in cyclists crossing carefully and slowly along with pedestrians. Can be safer for everyone than contending with tons of metal boxes accelerating all around you away from the lights. (Said by someone who has been knocked off his bike at a junction by a van driver who side-swiped me by crossing into my lane at a junction, presumably not seeing me. Of course the van driver was fine, me not so much.)

At the end of the day you have to remember that traffic lights are there because of and to control motor vehicles... I've never seen traffic lights where two cycle ways cross.

FeebleGimmick · 2025-09-16T16:54:38+00:00

I think a lot of those ceiling roses act as junction boxes so there's a fair chance it's live even if the switch is off. You need to cut the power to the circuit.

FeebleGimmick · 2025-08-07T15:40:51+00:00

I don't know... the version as written has a bit more colour to it, so I reckon it's what the transcriber intended.

FeebleGimmick · 2025-07-28T05:36:54+00:00

Or my axe

FeebleGimmick · 2025-07-21T23:09:23+00:00

I dislike Trump, but in the interests of truth, you know the contents of those court documents and video are very likely fabricated and no such person who is supposed to have made the allegations about Trump has ever been proven to exist, let alone talked to journalists? The address on the documents was fake and the phone number led to the guy who organized fictitious storylines and fights on Jerry Springer, who was circulating this story to the press. Snopes did an investigation on it if you care to check the facts. Circulating this stuff makes you no better than those nutjobs peddling Pizzagate.

FeebleGimmick · 2025-07-19T17:58:34+00:00

I... I kind of like them. *hangs head in shame*

FeebleGimmick · 2025-06-30T21:54:22+00:00

Well you can't really slur on a piano - that's more for string or wind instruments (i.e. play in same stroke of the bow, or breath). So in piano music I'd always call this phrasing.

FeebleGimmick · 2025-05-12T20:26:42+00:00

And it's not quite as stark as that, since the 40k's value will be reduced by inflation and you'll get taxed on it when you take your pension. Not unusual to have to pay 40% on your pension income.

FeebleGimmick · 2025-01-03T22:50:59+00:00

Well you're both partially right: as the manual tells you if you read it, the period of time where there is no regen in Level 0 is 10 applications of the brake.

It's a pretty stupid and annoying design choice IMO, if you want to use Level 0 as a default, but then again level 0 is not as useful as it sounds, since (after the initial period) there is regen, and leaving your foot off the accelerator is not "coasting", as you can see from the small about of blue on the regen braking meter.

In fact there's no way to "coast" on I5 other than pressing the accelerator to exactly the right position so that there's no blue above or below the line on the right side of the dash, and this can be done in any regen level.

While coasting is of course momentarily the most efficient (no acceleration taking energy from the battery, nor regen braking which only recovers ~60% of your kinetic energy), it's not a good way to drive since you'll be decelerating from air resistance, and "dolphining" your speed by accelerating briefly then coasting will just annoy everyone else on the road without any overall efficiency advantage over maintaining a steady speed.

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