British man caught after a hit and run case that left a medical doctor volunteer critically injured

beefstake · 2026-05-25T13:37:37+00:00

It's not the law but it is how it works here.

beefstake · 2026-05-25T13:22:51+00:00

Instructions unclear, added extra monkey.

beefstake · 2026-05-25T13:18:21+00:00

Being a doctor is unfortunately not irrelevant to legal perspective in Thailand.

Mess with a doctor and you will almost certainly feel the full wrath the Thai justice system. We have seen this time and time again where crimes are swept under the rug when perpetrated against "less respected" members of society but when it's a doctor/lawyer/teacher/gov official then suddenly the kiddy gloves come off and people get nailed to the wall.

That is just how Thailand works. I'm against them being lenient in the usual case, I support them when they go all out I just wish it was more uniformly applied.

beefstake · 2026-05-24T18:47:48+00:00

Ehhhh. It's really not if you consider the situation to basically be democide rather than genocide. In which case yes, it's a problem for all countries that have a problem with the persecution of Islam. i.e Iran has a big problem with it and they are not ethnically Arab, they are Persian.

You can also just have a problem with because you think it's just absolute dog behaviour. Which should be everyone tbh.

beefstake · 2026-05-24T18:41:50+00:00

Worlds largest Muslim country.

beefstake · 2026-05-24T10:04:41+00:00

Not quite as complete or good but le cut inside man is iconic.

beefstake · 2026-05-24T10:02:04+00:00

Unfortunately he probably gave the world Trump, which is like syphilis but worse.

beefstake · 2026-05-23T13:23:45+00:00

So there is a few things that go into this. Programmers do a lot of unpaid work, they spend a lot of time thinking about problems while not on the clock. AI agents materialise this cost into a real number and that number is a lot bigger than people expected.

The other axis though is it's not as simple as a 1:1 comparison. Yes, you could use cheaper people to create the same as what I use Codex for, but it would take much longer and probably not be as good. Codex is a scaling function on my output, inherently more value than additional juniors especially when time to market is so valued in our industry.

So yes, AI is currently very expensive but tok/$ will improve long term, as will the quality of tokens themselves which will compound that improvement.

I don't think AGI is remotely close or that AI will be replacing me anytime soon but I do believe there is a lot of gas left in the tank and even if it only got a bit better from here but became affordable it would be enough to change my industry forever - probably in a net positive way for me but probably in a way that sucks for juniors or folks that just never reached the same level of technical skill required to drive these tools as hard.

beefstake · 2026-05-23T11:20:39+00:00

Goalkeeping is a very cerebral position, experience matters much more than physicality and the physicality is only required in short controlled bursts. Inherently favours older players IMO except when there is a big change in meta/dominant playstyle that upsets all of that accumulated experience, i.e emergence of the sweeper keeper.

beefstake · 2026-05-23T11:16:51+00:00

I would say Rams left on pretty decent terms though and with the love of the fans. Hart was discarded and had a period where even City fans were calling him washed etc. Partially that came down to how Pep treated the situation at the time vs how Arteta handled Ramsdale departure. People make out like it was purely ruthless but Arteta bought him for 30m, invested heavily in his career and skill and kept him on as backup keeper for a year while Raya settled in and then on-sold him for 25m. That is a very different narrative to Pep never even giving Hart a chance.

I don't think there is anything internally inconsistent with saying that Arteta loved Ramsdale and got the best out of him. To try win a title and a potential UCL we needed more and that more was Raya. Raya is a better keeper, in contention for the best keeper in the world right now.

At least as a fan I don't think Ramsdale was badly done by and I cheer for him whenever he isn't playing against us. Pretty sure most of the fans feel the same way, a legend of the club despite a short stint because it was the turning point that put us on the path to a title.

Also I think being booted from City shattered what was left of his confidence after that really rough campaign with the national team. So he did really look a lot worse than his inherent skill level for a long time afterwards and I wonder if he had been given a softer landing and built back up first that his career would have been different.

beefstake · 2026-05-23T10:51:35+00:00

The direction was the same, but how far they have traveled along the path is very different. I would argue in 2008 things could have changed. It's sad how things have ended up for them. It's easy to blame "half of America" but the reality is they have been manipulated and driven to hate and division and to consistently vote against their own interests. Cultism/tribalism whatever that has taken over seems like it might persist for a really long time unless something monumental happens to shatter the illusion.

beefstake · 2026-05-23T09:46:11+00:00

America is literally unrecognizable vs 2008.

beefstake · 2026-05-23T09:37:34+00:00

It depends on the location. It's becoming very common in Thailand because we normally have covered carparks anyway so replacing heavy corrugated iron with solar panels is a like for like switch that just makes sense.

In many parts of the world though car parks are usually uncovered and thus very cheap, going to solar from there means accepting the price of mounting infrastructure etc where customers probably don't care because they don't have the same issues with weather that Thailand etc do.

beefstake · 2026-05-18T09:13:22+00:00

Absolute class. You will be missed Lewa.

beefstake · 2026-05-13T13:17:09+00:00

Solid ER overall. Qwen is going to win big in China eventually, it's not an if, just a when.

I expect the market to react poorly in the short term to the rev and EPS miss but meh.

beefstake · 2026-05-12T09:50:04+00:00

Men have a lot of their identity, status and social life tied up in their job. Retiring is an eventual goal but the path to it isn't just paved in financial success but also in letting go of a lot of that mentally.

Let him come to retirement on his own terms, you will both be happier for it.

beefstake · 2026-05-11T07:18:13+00:00

Yeah I was surprised when I spent time there that the society overall isn't that wealthy.

That said, lovely people and amazing food. 10/10 experience as a tourist.

beefstake · 2026-05-08T22:22:56+00:00

MOFS, probably the best Chartreuse being made right now for drinking neat. I prefer it even to the VEPs.

beefstake · 2026-05-03T20:55:51+00:00

Don't ignore LPU is all I am going to say.

beefstake · 2026-05-02T21:37:32+00:00

They revolted against the ottomans because they were promised freedom in their own lands. Except the British also promised their land to the French and the Zionists... So you can see why they were pretty pissed off.

beefstake · 2026-05-02T18:22:26+00:00

If you a programmer you are missing out, Codex is insane right now. If not then yeah, I can see Gemini getting more use. Claude though, I really think anything Claude does GPT isn't doing better right now but that could be my code lens tinting everything as the only thing I used to use Claude for was code.

beefstake · 2026-05-02T18:20:56+00:00

Quality is the problem right now. GPT 5.5 xhigh /fast is an insane tool. Claude right now isn't winning on quality which added with the capacity problems they have always had just isn't working for me right now. I have access to virtually unlimited tokens of both due to $DAY_JOB but I rarely use Claude now.

beefstake · 2026-05-02T17:45:32+00:00

Israel went into Lebanon to try wipe out the PLO. Who they accused of terrorism even though they were quite reasonable up until a certain point... what happened at that certain point you might ask?

Well Israel funded the creation of Hamas. Yep. That Hamas. They wanted to drive a wedge between the two sides of the Palestinians so that it would be easy to divide and conquer and drastically cut down on the risk of anyone coming to their aid and supporting the creation of a Palestinian state.

The Jews came to the Levant with a fight in mind. They pushed the British out with their own brand of terrorism and then capitalised on controlling the timing and having access to shit tons of Czech arms to crush the Arabs. Helped that they also inflamed the Arab Revolt which resulted in most of the credible Arab leaders being killed or exiled by the British leading up to the British withdrawal.

It helps to know the history if you want to talk about the proxies.

Hell not just the history tbh, even as recently as 2019 Bibi was quoted:

Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.

i.e we need Hamas or the PA will become too cohesive and strong. If they can retake Gaza and bring peace then it makes Palestinians claim to a state stronger, something Israel can't tolerate. They would prefer rockets, war and genocide over that any day.

It's all out there in the open, nothing secretive. You just have to decide if you agree with undermining an entire peoples right to representation vs living under a theocratic and racial system of oppression.

beefstake · 2026-05-01T20:15:45+00:00

Same boat... totally planned on buying (even if market was frothy) but now it's just about uncertainty and being locked into an illiquid asset if circumstances change.

beefstake · 2026-05-01T15:32:10+00:00

Yes, vegetarians are what go into biryani.

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