The real competitor for green aviation isn’t hydrogen, it’s bio-fuel. Bio-kerosene, bio-gas and bio-ethanol all have useful roles in aviation, and are essentially carbon neutral over their lifecycle. Zero carbon at the proverbial tailpipe is a lot less important when that tailpipe is at 30,000 feet.
A lot of quality small local newspapers doing an amazing job are financially struggling. It’s very sad.
Sadly not as many as you’d think. The overwhelming majority of local newspapers were owned by a handful of national companies. The three biggest are Reach (owner of the Mirror and the Express, amongst others), Newsquest and National World, who between them own 70% of all local papers. Another 10% are owned by the next biggest company (Tindle News). Only at most 20% of local papers are owned by smaller companies, and most of those aren’t independent, they’re just smaller companies than the big 4.
Anyone lucky enough to still have a genuine independent local paper with at least passable quality should cherish the fuck out of it.
ReactOS is a very fun project, but anyone expecting it to be a real useable OS is absolutely mad. It’s been going for almost 30 years, and they’re almost at the point of binary compatibility with Windows Server 2003…
Technically St Pancras is still state owned, but it’s on a long-term lease to a private consortium. Once the lease expires it’ll revert to direct state ownership too, it’s just that that’s got quite a long time horizon on it compared to the TOC franchises (still another 15 years away yet).
The company that owns the lines (Network Rail) is already nationalised. Its privatised predecessor (Railtrack) collapsed spectacularly all the way back in 2002.
All stations are owned and managed by either Network Rail or a train operating company, so this will bring all stations into nationalised ownership.
The only thing that isn’t being nationalised as part of this plan is the existing rolling stock, which is owned by yet another set of companies. But there’s no reason why new rolling stock won’t be under direct ownership, so that should sort itself out eventually.
Quite a lot of the world (including the EU and UK) is committed to banning ICE cars entirely within the next 10 years. Honda simply can’t survive selling exclusively ICE cars to the US and a few fringe markets; either they’re a global player or they’ll disappear.
Obviously if a global apocalypse wipes us all out then none of this matters, but that’s true of everything. It makes commenting on the news in general a bit redundant.
The two big minicab firms in my town both use apps with very similar functionality to Uber. Fixed fare, vehicle tracking etc.
Uber doesn’t have a monopoly on nice apps. It’s [current year], that stuff is standard now.
Only the Scottish could think “caffeinated wine” is a highly desirable beverage.
I love chinotto so much. They used to sell the San Pellegrino one here in the UK, but it got discontinued.
It’s great. Like a Campari and soda without the booze.
Or places which are already heavily inhabited/productively used. Inland river valleys are some of the most desirable real estate, in human habitation terms.
Major river dams are often only feasible in countries which either have lots of sparsely populated wilderness (like North America), or which don’t have a problem with displacing hundreds of thousands of people and destroying whole communities (like China). Takes it off the menu for a lot of the world.
Would it particularly affect the performance if the sphere ends up covered in barnacles or coral? It’s what’s inside that matters (it’s just a big hollow tank).
You’ve pretty much just described ActivityPub and the Fediverse.
Anyone can spin up their own instance. You can self host on a machine in your house, or with any cloud provider. You can broadcast messages in Twitter-style or Reddit-style format. Anyone can navigate to your web address and see your messages. Anyone who federates with you can see it on their website. FOSS Android apps are available.
You can’t force anyone to actually read your messages of course, but that’s a different matter.
What OS are you going to use on your Smartphone if you remove software from Google and Apple?
People in the FOSS community constantly talk about the best ways to minimise use of Google, Apple and Microsoft products. That is an absolutely valid motivation for choosing to use one project over another.
If someone is willing to use the behaviour of a company or its owners as a factor when choosing a software stack, presumably it’s valid to apply the same sentiment to development teams of smaller projects too.
I don’t know how they do it in the US, but in the UK most big companies outsource application checks to several big clearing houses. They handle the logistics of checking qualifications and obtaining references from previous employers, plus the optional enhanced checking that some companies need (such as DBS/criminal record checks).
In the UK there is a single official centralised system for checking degree qualifications which covers most major universities. It’s also only a 5 minute job to email a university registrar directly. I think most big companies would consider this a bare minimum task when recruiting for any role where a qualification is in any way important.
What’s the consequences of being caught lying on your resume? you lose your good job.
I used to work as a trade union officer representing people at disciplinaries. I’ve represented several people over the years who were sacked for lying on their CVs.
Not only did they lose their job, but they’ll get a “sacked for gross misconduct” reference from that employer making it much more difficult to get another job. Those in regulated roles also ended up with gross misconduct records with the regulator, making it essentially impossible to work in that field again.
So no, it’s not a risk free game.
Turing made a strategic blunder when formulating the Turing Test by assuming that everyone was as smart as he was.
I’ve never heard of them. What does it stand for?
I wonder how sophisticated this fraud is? They could have it rush to 50k, and then “catch up” by running more slowly for the next few 10s of thousands to cover the tracks.
Agreed; I don’t hate my FP4, but it’s definitely the least polished phone I’ve ever owned, and it wasn’t cheap for it. The ghosting was a nightmare, but they fixed it (eventually) with a software update…which begs the question why it shipped with a bug like that in the first place.
The company has been around far too long to get away with putting out buggy devices.
And that’s before we get to the failure to update FP4 (let alone FP3+) to Android 14, despite being well within their support period. In theory FP4 will be going straight to Android 15, but FP3+ is effectively grounded at Android 13; which considering their stated goal of reducing e-waste, is really not a good look.