The deal is written without any such provisions for restricting trade on either side.

That doesn’t preclude Trump inevitably throwing a shit fit when UK starts courting EU and China, but that remains to be seen

Ah I misread this

It started refunding deposits for the $16,000 extra battery pack.

You are correct. People make mistakes, not everything is “a narrative”.

“Thanks for all the $16k loans at 0% shmucks. We’ve kept the interest we made while rates have been up and now you can have it back while they’re dropping. Of course, your money is now worth less than it was when you gave it to us during high inflation. Suck it losers. Love, T E S L A”

EDIT: deposit was $150. Still shitty but not the same impact

EDIT 2: Or $2000? … tl;dr: shitty

Once upon a time they were the “good ads”. They had an unobtrusive but instantly recognisable ad-format that was reasonably tolerable and text-only. It was once they started showing sponsored search results that it became apparent they were willing to be subversive to get clicks.

Their whole image was built around user trust and the moment they had everyone hooked they 180ed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet

The direction of travel is towards “internet” (lowercase), but pedants gonna pedant.

Can I have a go on your time machine?

without pulling out your phone, [doing phone stuff x10]

Ding ding ding.

Everyone is so focused on AR glasses having some killer use case that must justify it’s existence. The use case is simply not pulling a phone out of your pocket; not waiting for face ID, tapping your way to the necessary app, and so on.

Removing these micro inconveniences has always been Apple’s forte (even if a little stagnant in recent years), so it’s no surprise that they will continue to pursue the same.

You don’t have to strap the internet to someone’s face to distort their reality with it, as demonstrated by… Well, gestures broadly

I built a thermostat with a Wemos D1 mini and a relay module about 10 years ago.

Still use it today integrated with home assistant and can turn the heat on and off while away from home. It’s been reused across three boilers, no parts replaced.

It was a really fun project and I had virtually no experience with Arduino when starting out. Would recommend it to anyone.

I’m not interested in self indulgent showmanship, I’m interested in supposed left wingers espousing left wing views and acting up on them.

Maintaining the ratchet effect for the right and insider trading your way to a comfortable retirement isn’t admirable, it’s pathetic.

We’ll all continue to vote to slow the progression to the far right but why shouldn’t we expect more than that?

This is exactly what they did to me and it’s very apparent that they’re not capable of meaningful discourse beyond childish heel digging.

Honestly, you leave Reddit to get away from this paper thin sports-team politics nonsense and yet here we are feeding the parrots.

It’s depressing.

Sure you are buddy.

You have nice day.

First, no it hasn’t. No-one would say “have the day you voted for” to someone who didn’t vote as it’s a ridiculous non sequitur.

Second, I didn’t do any of those things. You still not walking it back? Sticking to your guns when you’re dead wrong?

Then what is the point of you quipping a line that has been almost universally targeted at Trump voters to me?

As walkbacks go, this is particularly cringe.

I didn’t vote for fascism as you’re snidely implying. You know what they say about faulty conclusions.

Waits until the guillotine is half way through the neck

Bro pls bro we have to stop this bro

Oh I wasn’t implying you were! My ire is directed entirely at RM for their mismanagement.

Someone defined the process at some point though, and often it’s documented. I’ve worked at several banks and large financial institutions and have had plenty of people tell me “I don’t know how X works” but never “Nobody knows how X works”.

I currently work at a bank and I’m yet to encounter anything that someone couldn’t at least send me documentation for, however apocryphal.

The problem here is that it’s fairly clear that the post office allowed Fujitsu to both define and implement the processes such that they are not compelled to provide the blueprint for them as part of the contract and they are now held to ransom over it.

This is the kind of colossal fuck up that heads should roll for, no less so as it is happening in the shadow of one of the biggest corruption scandals in British history.

Crucial code doesn’t exist, all code is disposable mess that tries to mimic a real world process; and it sounds like the post office fucked up by not even knowing how their own processes work in practice.

Their best option here would be to revert to pen and paper until they figure out how the hell they actually make money.

In the meantime, fire the board and exec team for not meeting their most basic fiduciary duties.

An opinion from the guy who thinks the metaverse is a viable product? Yeah I’ll pass