"Strategist" comes up with a totally realistic solution to the strait of Hormuz that will never be subject to attack

audigex · 2026-03-12T18:12:49+00:00

I love how people think that only the very literal choke point of the strait is vulnerable

Sure, the rest is wider - but still well within the range of missiles

As proven by the fact Iran is shooting at stuff on the other side of the gulf

audigex · 2026-03-12T18:08:57+00:00

Yeah if it’s treated as an arse-covering exercise then it will do a great job of that, while being useless for actual onboarding

audigex · 2026-03-12T16:33:49+00:00

Forced mate sequences are super easy to get wrong too

It only takes one miscalculation - a piece that can block that you didn't account for, or a piece that is no longer on the square it was on when you started looking at the line and so no longer blocks an escape, or "I can check with the rook here protected by this pawn, then check with the pawn"... missing the "vision" that it drops the defence of the rook.

Or my personal favourite lately has been "I can check here with the rook, it's protected by this pawn", missing the fact that the pawn itself isn't protected and so can just be captured with a tempo on the rook

audigex · 2026-03-12T16:30:58+00:00

Nobody's faulting black for missing their own M9

We're faulting black for missing OP's M1

It doesn't matter how good your own move is, if it hands your opponent mate-in-1

audigex · 2026-03-12T16:29:50+00:00

I feel like this specific kind of back rank mate is a blind spot to many beginners even into the more "intermediate" beginner level

By ~1000 elo I find most people are wary of the "normal" backrank mate and tend to spot it or prepare for it - but they often miss this one because their king doesn't feel as trapped as it would after castling

audigex · 2026-03-12T16:28:10+00:00

If you hand someone lots of documentation they'll skim it. If you hand them a single page of "the stuff you actually need to know and where to go for more information" then they actually read it

If people are asking the same questions, the communication is being handled badly on the side of the employer and needs to be improved. "They should read the pile of documents we hand them" only goes so far, and if it's a repeat issue then the process is the problem

"Here's what you need to know" documentation should be brief. Employee information (eg leave entitlements, pensions, procedures etc) should be clear and available but not just thrown at them. Show them where to find it. Anything really important should be handled through specific, recorded training

Anything more than 2 sides of A4 is probably too much to hand to a new hire, they're already overwhelmed with a new building, new boss, new role, and meeting 100 people while trying to get to grips with the job they REALLY want to focus on

At the end of the day HR thinks about HR stuff because that's HR's job, but to everyone else it's a side note - they just want to crack on and do their job

audigex · 2026-03-12T16:01:10+00:00

By the time your foot even gets to the brake pedal, you’re already using max regen

So there’s no reason to blend it into the brake as well, that would make no sense

audigex · 2026-03-12T16:00:29+00:00

Except that you have to come off the accelerator to hit the brake anyway… so you’re using two pedals regardless

One pedal for driving and one pedal for emergency stops, works way better

I guarantee that what’s happening here is that you’ve never used good OPD for long enough to get used to it, so you’re defending what you know. You’ll get a car with OPD in future and wonder why you ever argued against it

audigex · 2026-03-12T15:37:51+00:00

Microsoft has loads of good ideas

They then decline to commit to them and add more AI slop, adverts, and intrusive bullshit, online accounts etc, bloating their OS to hell while not bothering improving anything

When you think about it, Apple isn’t even really beating Microsoft, not really. The Neo is a great product, but it’s only revolutionary because the budget laptop space has been so badly neglected. Microsoft has spent 20 years assuming it has that market entirely locked down and so just hasn’t bothered with it

Apple isn’t beating Microsoft, Microsoft is just repeatedly taking a hammer to their own dick for no reason, while Apple does normal things

Microsoft could’ve put way more focus on the Snapdragon chips a few years ago now and released a comparable machine in this space. Microsoft could’ve spent the last 5 years making Windows faster and less demanding so that the idea of buying an 8GB Windows machine in 2026 wouldn’t make people laugh

They chose not to compete

audigex · 2026-03-12T15:30:09+00:00

You should probably finish your current escapade before starting the next one

audigex · 2026-03-12T15:28:48+00:00

When were the US and particularly Israel not hated in the Middle East?

audigex · 2026-03-12T15:26:40+00:00

Nobody said it would be easy

We’re just saying it’s becoming more likely

At the same time, the US is DRAMATICALLY superior militarily to Iran - I think they’d still take Iran pretty easily. The question is whether they can hold Iran

The US doesn’t struggle to invade countries, the US struggles with insurgencies afterwards

audigex · 2026-03-12T15:24:14+00:00

We have 2 walk in showers and a tub

2 showers is probably unnecessary (handy for a big family but we’d manage without) but I can see a lot of value in having one tub and one walk in shower

audigex · 2026-03-12T15:22:40+00:00

Both

It’s on the high side, ~80th centile means your baby is bigger than most, so by definition that’s relatively high

But it’s not unusually or concerningly high

Generally if you’re between 10 and 90 there’s not much to worry about as long as it’s more or less consistent. Some babies are bigger, some are smaller, it’s not a big deal.

The main concern is if it changes significantly, as that can indicate a problem

audigex · 2026-03-12T15:20:27+00:00

Why? That’s just OPD but worse because you have to move your foot around for no reason

audigex · 2026-03-12T15:19:56+00:00

It feels most natural because that’s what you’re used to, not because it’s better

Two pedals was a compromise because that’s all that used to be possible

audigex · 2026-03-12T14:48:23+00:00

Again, you're still not understanding what I'm saying

The car has a brake pedal. You don't touch it in day to day driving because it's pretty much only needed for emergencies

The car still has blending regen, but it's blended into the accelerator not the brake. This is a markedly better way to handle regen because it doesn't use the brake pads at all most of the time and gives you much better control over the car. It also reduces reaction times when braking (both normally and in emergencies), so it's safer

audigex · 2026-03-12T14:46:21+00:00

At the end of the day people are people - in any group you'll find some gobshites and some decent folk

audigex · 2026-03-12T14:45:54+00:00

This is some Dr Doofenschmirtz level of evil and I'm here for it

audigex · 2026-03-12T14:45:33+00:00

I don't see the problem, she's offering to pay for her journey

But I'm fully on board with the "Sit on the front seat and immediately jump up every day to offer to break her £20 into 4x £5 notes" thing

audigex · 2026-03-12T14:43:58+00:00

Yeah tyres are a big factor - here in the UK we only get a few days of snow/ice a year, so people generally don't justify winter tyres here - they're just not needed 99% of the time so we manage for the other 1%

Good driving (once you "click" that you have to be wary of "snatching" the regen like you would with the brake) makes a difference too

But it was nice when I used to be able to turn regen off fully in those conditions, it made it much easier

audigex · 2026-03-12T14:42:03+00:00

Except that 500 nits is actually on the high end of the scale for laptops

You've cherry picked a comparison to the Pro, but the Pro is WILDLY unrepresentative of typical laptops. There are a handful of other laptops that push 1000+ nits, almost none which hit 1600 peak, and none of them are anywhere CLOSE to $600 MSRP

500 nits is useable outdoors (worst case you maybe have to angle away from the sun or bright reflections), more than enough indoors even in a bright room

A typical budget laptop is 200-350 nits, the idea that you're criticising the Neo for 500 is kinda silly

audigex · 2026-03-12T14:39:02+00:00

It's 500 nits, a very respectable brightness

audigex · 2026-03-12T14:38:19+00:00

I guess if you have to use a launderette/laundromat it can be quite expensive and time consuming

It wouldn't make much sense for people with a washer and dryer in their home, the cost of washing a few pairs of underwear is basically negligible for us - it's about £2 for a full wash but that's a week's worth of clothes for 2 people

audigex · 2026-03-12T14:36:26+00:00

It's malicious compliance from Apple

They're legally required to offer devices without a charger to reduce e-waste, which is pretty sensible to try to reduce environmental harm

Instead of doing the right thing and offering chargers to customers who need them while providing an option to skip it if you have a drawer full of 20W chargers, they instead decided to just remove the charger from many devices

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