Are you familiar with the Korean war? There was a massive conflict which got drawn out into a stalemate and everybody agreed a temporary ceasefire was preferable to even more destruction.
Trying to topple a regime that has nothing to lose and a highly indoctrinated population is not an easy ask. We can only hope that like most authoritarian regimes they eventually succumb to the weight of their own opression. It's better than torching the whole continent in the name of freedom.
Instead, she pointed to a £25m package that will be allocated to councils to fit "cross-pavement gullies", to make it easier for people without driveways to charge an electric vehicle (EV), alongside £63m for charging infrastructure.
Public transport doesn't work everywhere. It's great in big urban areas but once you get out into lower density countryside it's hard to run something comprehensive.
If the choice is between a diesel or an EV then we should insentivise the EV. However direct subsidies for buying cars probably won't work as well as widening access to charging. I see they are trying to make the process of adapting pavements for curbside charging easier which I think will help more.
Charging from the socket is about a tenth the cost of public charging infrastructure and with solar it becomes functionality free.
Sorry to hear that. Good luck finding a new gig without needing to interact with Teams again.
I used to update my tickets from Emacs org-mode where I kept my working set off knowledge. The org export functions dealt with whatever format Jira expects. Nowadays I'm mostly tracking stuff so my comments are generally never more than a "thanks", 👍 or occasionally a link to the patch series or pull requests.
Jira is alright, not great, not terrible. You need something to track projects and break down work and say least being ubiquitous a lot of people are familiar with it.
Teams is a dumpster fire of excrement though.
While they were younger the kids only had access to YouTube on the main TV. You can't underestimate the need to review and prune the watch history to keep it on track.
Interestingly I've noticed the recommendations tend to change depending on the time of day with more stuff appearing that grabs the whole families interest in the evenings when we are likely watching together or with one of the adults in charge of the remote.
They can be helpful when using a new library or development environment which you are not familiar with. I've noticed a tendency to make up functions that arguably should exist but often don't.
Sometimes I get an LLM to review a patch series before I send it as a quick once over. I would estimate about 50% of the suggestions are useful and about 10% are based on "misunderstanding". Last week it was suggesting a spelling fix I'd already made because it didn't understand the - in the diff meant I'd changed the line already.
Isn't that like a short holiday?
This seems to be mostly about the T in LGBT which has become such a toxic political football the politicians are running away and deferring to anyone else to avoid enacting policy themselves.
The supreme court judgement is only an interpretation of existing law, anything can be overturned with new legislation. Instead they sat back and let the EHCR commission issue unworkable guidance on who can use what loos.
I know the Cass review was controversial but it called for puberty blockers too be issued as part of medical trials with appropriate long term follow up. Somehow we got from that to indefinite bans of their use.
Meanwhile the widening gulf between the louder parts of the two sides of the debate have left a large chunk of the population fearful of even engaging in the discourse lest they be accused of wrong-think.
The whole thing is a mess.
Well Trump had a go in his first term but unsurprisingly didn't get far.