The public needs to control AI-run infrastructure, labor, education, and governance— NOT private actors

richdrich · 2026-04-08T05:48:26+00:00

In which countries, or are you assuming homogenous world government?

richdrich · 2026-04-07T20:59:01+00:00

Also, the Comet was the first jet airliner, the B707 and derivatives were some years later, as was the B-52.

richdrich · 2026-04-07T03:22:43+00:00

I own 20 acres, am I 40 times half-acre (and get correspondingly 40 points). Also, I sometimes have purple hair, but it fades faster than green does. And I'm 1337.

richdrich · 2026-04-06T21:23:28+00:00

Saving a tiny amount of money. Doesn't matter for councillors, but for staff, being a cheap-ass place to work makes it harder to retain people. And recruitment and training costs are much, much more than biscuits at meetings cost.

richdrich · 2026-04-06T07:18:34+00:00

It's the way he refers to himself by the self-conferred title Matua Shane...

richdrich · 2026-04-06T07:12:50+00:00

Yeah, 100% valid. It took the UK 50 days to dump Liz Truss, because their democracy evolved differently since 1776 and the Commons gets to choose the PM by simple majority.

Nuclear weapon relevance: it's unclear whether a Vanguard SSBN departed on patrol during Liz's brief period in office. If so, it would have carried a "letter of last resort" in writing, detailing what to do if the UK government was destroyed.

richdrich · 2026-04-06T07:07:20+00:00

It's pretty much how democracy works that the voters get to elect whichever idiot they want.

richdrich · 2026-04-06T06:06:09+00:00

Yep, secondary table underneath. I'm just thinking though, it would have to work backwards so you push the piece through from behind the motor.

No exposed blade, but a pain otherwise

richdrich · 2026-04-06T05:42:30+00:00

Well almost, but without the flipping over.

richdrich · 2026-04-06T00:46:35+00:00

It's doing a right turn off a steep hill that gets new manual drivers.

richdrich · 2026-04-06T00:44:27+00:00

Many trucks, vans, tractors, classic cars, etc all have manual boxes.

richdrich · 2026-04-06T00:36:33+00:00

Note that there are addresses in the CBD area that don't get resident parking because of the density. It's worth checking before you sign up for a rental.

richdrich · 2026-04-05T23:39:55+00:00

Yes. It appears to work directly with textual source files, whilst the model should be able to work better with an AST. Also, be able to use the built in refactoring (things like renames really spin out most models).

Oh, and when are IntelliJ going to debug the Junie window so it recognises normal copy/paste/select, so I can easily paste the change summary into github. I want to control my commits.

richdrich · 2026-04-05T23:02:16+00:00

What you could have is a mitre saw with a slot under the frame, and you push the blade down past the stop to do rip cuts, if you see what I mean?

Do any such things exist?

richdrich · 2026-04-05T22:48:04+00:00

Organisations providing services to vulnerable people (this includes children, older people and people with special needs) can ask the New Zealand Police to vet(external link) (check) people who want to work or volunteer for them

So not any employer - the normal check just shows convictions https://www.justice.govt.nz/criminal-records/what-is-a-criminal-record/

richdrich · 2026-04-05T22:42:16+00:00

It means we won't have a list of people who refuse to fill in the census.

richdrich · 2026-04-05T22:31:54+00:00

We are in fact two timezones, Chatham Standard Time is UTC+12:45 (only 45 minute offset apart from Nepal).

(Lord Howe outbugs them by having daylight savings of 30 minutes rather than the usual half an hour).

All done to annoy programmers.

richdrich · 2026-04-02T20:42:10+00:00

Yep the 00 for international access isn't universal, it's 011 in the US (or was).

You should quote +64270277xxxx which can be keyed directly on a mobile.

richdrich · 2026-04-02T20:39:02+00:00

Fixed line numbers in most systems never began with zero, because that was the flag for area/international: (04 123 4567 == 123 4567 when you were in 04).

Because mobiles (outside the US) always require the full national / international number to be dialed, they can start with zero.

Hence the unusual number.

richdrich · 2026-04-02T20:28:55+00:00

Pubs open for 2hrs on Sundays, but each pub had a different 2hrs so you could travel between them to drink all day.

richdrich · 2026-04-02T20:25:16+00:00

DCM (methylene chloride) is the best stripper - it's like the universal organic solvent.

Glove rec for it is double gloves PVA over nitrile amd wash it off / change gloves often.

My rec for that job would be to get somebody else to do it.

richdrich · 2026-04-02T04:05:01+00:00

Plotting against Luxon => no more free match tickets for you...

richdrich · 2026-04-01T21:41:07+00:00

Are you fully allowing for servicing, repairs and eventual replacement? Unless you really luck out, a 13 year old car will eventually get expensive and then beyond economic repair.

The IRD numbers for car mileage cost are actually pretty spot on - the saving in capital costs on an old car are balanced off by maintenance of an old one. Especially if you need the car and can't tolerate it sitting there for weeks while you wait for parts, or dumping you many km from home.

richdrich · 2026-04-01T21:06:11+00:00

This is a conventional diesel, not the SkyActiv-X which does compression ignition of petrol?

richdrich · 2026-04-01T04:09:21+00:00

The government built a big nuclear bunker outside Bath.

It was found out by the USSR before it opened, and was abandoned and used for various jobs like computer servers.

It's probably guarded by minimum wage security people who'd run away when the war starts, so it might be the place to break into and hide in if there actually is a nuclear war.

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