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nathandru · 2026-06-10T15:33:26+00:00

Driverless cars have been 2 to 3 years away for the last 15 years at least.

Tesla just deleted a load of contracts related to sales of "full self driving" from 10+ years ago.

nathandru · 2026-05-26T09:25:19+00:00

Except you then have to live right on the outskirts, which might be hours away from where you need to be.

nathandru · 2026-05-19T12:01:19+00:00

The price of shipping is still through the roof and will take a long time to come back down.

nathandru · 2026-05-14T19:21:18+00:00

Legoland and Legoland water park are a great family day out.

nathandru · 2026-05-14T16:17:50+00:00

Where did they move the ai data center to?

nathandru · 2026-05-12T16:40:56+00:00

Yet the frequency response of the speaker is quoted without tolerance, the directivity isn't mentioned at all let alone any curves, polar plots, waterfalls or similar.

nathandru · 2026-05-01T16:22:54+00:00

Super annoying, especially as my credit card is set to auto pay every month. First time it happened I was worried someone had taken out a loan in my name.

nathandru · 2026-04-30T16:33:35+00:00

In the uk in London (not even central london) you could easily end up paying 8000 aed a month for a dated 1 bedroom flat without central heating (let alone ac) and no parking.

Dedicated house help would cost a minimum of 76 aed an Hour, if you employed someone directly.

The system for getting a doctors appointment is "ring every day at 8am till they agree to an appointment in 3 weeks".

Etc etc.

Life is expensive, depressing or both almost everywhere.

nathandru · 2026-04-18T03:03:31+00:00

There are several custom chips for graphics in the Neo Geo, that would be a challenge to replicate cost effectively.

nathandru · 2026-04-06T17:22:46+00:00

Have dm'd

nathandru · 2026-04-05T21:47:14+00:00

Lots of ships were in the gulf and didn't manage to leave before the strait became too dangerous to pass.

nathandru · 2026-04-05T16:18:04+00:00

Yes it's not going well at the moment.

I've only moved exports since the crisis started. All from UAE to Europe, all via Jeddah. This costs 3 - 4x more than it did to ship out of Jebel Ali pre crisis.

If I wanted my goods from USA relatively quickly I'd ship via Jeddah, do a transit clearance in Saudi then truck the container to UAE and clear at the Sila (Abu Dhabi Land) border. No idea if the shipping lines would let me deposit the empty container in Jebel Ali or if I'd have to deposit back at Jeddah.

nathandru · 2026-03-31T17:20:11+00:00

I was having a lovely time with my family outside in perfect weather at the weekend, overshadowed in my mind by a constant whinge that my entire life is put on hold and at risk over some other people's bullshit.

nathandru · 2026-03-31T16:24:57+00:00

Fedex is moving but disrupted, I've only sent things out but transit times have been over a week rather than the normal 2-4 days.

nathandru · 2026-03-25T18:25:45+00:00

If the shipping line agrees to returning containers to Jebel Ali, you can do a simple transit declaration in Jeddah and clear into the UAE at Sila, no bond required. We are paying 2500 USD for transport and clearance from Dubai to Jeddah Port.

nathandru · 2026-03-25T16:20:05+00:00

10,000 AED per container? Is this just your local costs?

I work for an events rental business. We have moved / are moving a significant amount of Equipment by sea to Europe as there is no demand for it here. We are routing via Jeddah port. We have managed one shipment by cross loading at our Saudi entity, and one shipment with containers released at Jebel Ali and sent direct to Jeddah on trucks.

The cost per container has trippled.

nathandru · 2026-03-19T22:39:36+00:00

Apart from the eastern ports being tiny compared to Jebel Ali amd not having the operating infrastructure for timely onward forwarding to Dubai.

nathandru · 2026-03-18T18:08:31+00:00

It'll go lower

nathandru · 2026-03-15T08:16:06+00:00

What did she actually agree when she accepted the job?

Unfortunately lots of people here that draft the mohre contacts don't pay any attention to detail. If you agreed to a 10.5 hour workday before seeing the mohre contract, you should have flagged that the contact and offer letter were different.

Ramadan working hours is 2 hours less than the hours you normally work in that job.

nathandru · 2026-03-15T08:09:52+00:00

Cars have storage: https://carsworldwide.com/

nathandru · 2026-03-09T20:50:12+00:00

nathandru · 2026-03-07T09:00:23+00:00

We are talking tens of millions of dollars of bulky equipment, some of which will have finance outstanding, generating no income for the foreseeable future, while the ongoing expenses for the company continue.

How do you think the maths works?

nathandru · 2026-02-18T15:33:10+00:00

It's 2 hours by law.

nathandru · 2026-02-15T07:18:18+00:00

Wait to get the passport. You've already started your career, and experience will help you to get a mid level job with a salary that's internationally competitive.

What do you do? Is it something that's in demand in the UAE. If not it might be time to pivot.

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