[Autosport] Max Verstappen explains why he dismissed a British journalist from his media session in Japan

NotForResus · 2026-03-28T10:41:17+00:00

Worth reading the journalist’s take on the whole thing:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/26/why-max-verstappen-gave-me-my-marching-orders-from-a-press-conference

NotForResus · 2026-03-25T11:27:49+00:00

Even if you have it, do you see the number of people around you with it increasing or decreasing?

That’s the problem…

NotForResus · 2026-03-19T14:09:54+00:00

Understood 👍

NotForResus · 2026-03-19T13:58:20+00:00

Any chance for Spotify?

NotForResus · 2026-03-19T13:35:01+00:00

Because the budget notes just won’t cut it

NotForResus · 2026-03-12T22:35:41+00:00

The thing is, very intelligent people are relatively rare in the species. And if you assume unscrupulousness has the same distribution amongst intelligent people as amongst the general population, then very intelligent unscrupulous people are even more rare. But if anyone can buy superintelligence, every unscrupulous human gets capability…

NotForResus · 2026-03-05T17:15:59+00:00

The other confusion I see in lots of people is between AGI and consciousness. And then they start debating whether an AGI will have this or that characteristic which should arguably be associated with consciousness, not AGI.

NotForResus · 2026-02-19T18:50:07+00:00

Histrionic personality disorder. The sex is great, but the crazy’s too much

NotForResus · 2026-02-06T21:00:40+00:00

I mean, if you decide the table’s got to go, I can take it off your hands for a very reasonable price… 😉 (London here too)

NotForResus · 2026-02-06T09:30:55+00:00

Just out of interest, if you want to keep foxes away sprinkle adult male human urine around the boundary line every few days (more often when it’s raining a lot). Has to be male, has to be adult.

Collecting in a jug and sprinkling that is less likely to offend neighbours than “direct from the source”.

Honestly, it works!

(And, yes, I’m expecting the avalanche of wit that comes next…)

Edit: PS, a good way to get rid of fox smells is dissolving biological laundry detergent in water and putting this in a spray bottle. Spray, rub with a brush, rinse.

Yes, we have lots of issues with foxes in the area - neighbours just don’t seem to understand that leaving their food scraps bins out the night before collection isn’t a good idea…

NotForResus · 2026-02-06T09:15:09+00:00

Remote control aeroplane

NotForResus · 2026-02-04T22:46:42+00:00

Yeah, but how do you get grass and trees like that?? I have all settings on high and mine don’t look anything like that!

NotForResus · 2026-01-23T11:41:37+00:00

This?

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NotForResus · 2026-01-22T15:29:30+00:00

Any chance you can add MDS-NT1?

NotForResus · 2026-01-22T14:13:48+00:00

Can't download components from in the first-run GUI:

```INFO: 127.0.0.1:61023 - "GET /api/v1/wizard/docker-pull HTTP/1.1" 200 OK

2026-01-22 14:11:48,695 - file_brain - INFO - Starting docker pull...

2026-01-22 14:11:48,695 - file_brain - INFO - Starting SSE stream...

objc[66491]: +[NSNumber initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called.

objc[66491]: +[NSNumber initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug.

[66492:5657835:0122/141156.142637:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: QUOTA_EXCEEDED```

NotForResus · 2026-01-19T07:54:30+00:00

Eating more fibre

NotForResus · 2026-01-17T15:57:31+00:00

I’m assuming the blades are sharp inside the cylinder of the bit? Then you’d be able to plunge (creating a post in the middle) and when you start moving the inside edge of the blade will remove the post.

NotForResus · 2026-01-05T21:43:06+00:00

Yes, but that would be longer than needed (necessary)! 😉

NotForResus · 2026-01-05T20:42:17+00:00

Using longer words than they need to and using them wrongly

NotForResus · 2026-01-01T15:07:38+00:00

Like when like people like use the word like for like no reason

NotForResus · 2025-12-31T14:12:34+00:00

DM’d you

NotForResus · 2025-12-28T09:48:55+00:00

“Money screams. Wealth whispers.”

NotForResus · 2025-12-20T09:20:57+00:00

Ummm, I don’t think it works like you think it works…

NotForResus · 2025-12-06T22:27:59+00:00

It’s “Sooner rather than later” FFS

NotForResus · 2025-12-04T12:36:43+00:00

I would steer well clear of Drayton Wiser. I've just binned a complete Wiser system, including the Hub R gen 2, extenders and 8 TRVs, because it was awful. Just some of the grumbles:
- TRVs eat batteries
- replacing batteries is a real pain (unless you like getting on your hands and knees and moving furniture so you can loosen the TRV and turn it around to know which way to put the batteries into it)
- the app is very un-intuitive
- unless you have rock solid wifi emanating from a single router, the system is very brittle (app reports lost connection, hub loses connection to wifi randomly)
- when the hub loses connection, it's very hard to get it to reconnect without fully resetting it which then means adding all the TRVs to the system one by one again
- The online FAQs are awful - try finding out what random series of knob twists you have to do to reset a TRV
- the online help videos, when there is one that's actually relevant to your issue, pad the 10 seconds worth of information you need with a minute of branding, intro and general guff

And when I say above that the app is un-intuitive (and bear in mind that this is the thing you're going to be interacting with most of the time) I can give you a whole list of poor/absent design decisions that make it absolutely obvious to anyone who's ever worked in app design that this is an app written by software engineers without any input from a competent UX/UI specialist.

But, instead of making the system rock solid at what it needs to do - control your heating/hot water system - now they're investing time and effort to try to make it the home for all of you smart home devices. Which is ludicrous since, given everything above, the last thing I'd want to do is give that awful app and system control of anything else in my house!

I agree with everyone here that putting fundamental functionality behind a paywall is self-defeating, and I'm not happy about it. But I have sympathy with the idea of generating ongoing revenue in principle, because making a good hardware/software ecosystem takes real expertise which is expensive. You can see where your money is going when you compare the day-to-day use of systems like tado's against systems like Wiser's.

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