Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻💻
@andy-pearce.com
I code for fun & profit, more the latter now I’m a father. Interested in anything but intolerance (but I’m not big on sports). Kind or not, at least be civil. All views my own. I occasionally blog about coding: http://www.andy-pearce.com/
Sure. My thinking was that it would be a lot of effort to wade through those appeals and sift out the genuine ones, though. If you get caught three times in a year, say, you could possibly just not allow an appeal.
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Sure. My thinking was that it would be a lot of effort to wade through those appeals and sift out the genuine ones, though. If you get caught three times in a year, say, you could possibly just not allow an appeal.
To avoid frequent appeals wasting time, you could make it “three strikes and out”. Persistent offenders will still be quickly caught, as there are a lot of cameras now, and it removes any possible excuse of “oh, I was driving it to get my MOT done…”
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
To avoid frequent appeals wasting time, you could make it “three strikes and out”. Persistent offenders will still be quickly caught, as there are a lot of cameras now, and it removes any possible excuse of “oh, I was driving it to get my MOT done…”
Perhaps because more traditional churches were really designed to express nothing more than their wealth?
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Perhaps because more traditional churches were really designed to express nothing more than their wealth?
I didn’t ask what directory I was in, I said run 𝚛𝚖 -𝚛𝚏 *
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I didn’t ask what directory I was in, I said run 𝚛𝚖 -𝚛𝚏 *
These days we mainly get Hotel Chocolat. Rather expensive, but that means we eat less of it, so it’s better for our waistlines too.
November 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
These days we mainly get Hotel Chocolat. Rather expensive, but that means we eat less of it, so it’s better for our waistlines too.
Quick aside: clearly when I say advocate for yourself, I’m not suggesting you should HAVE to, and I realise not everyone is in a position to do so. This is not the way things SHOULD be! But I’m just saying in cases where you can, never feel bad for pushing back hard to get what you need.
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Quick aside: clearly when I say advocate for yourself, I’m not suggesting you should HAVE to, and I realise not everyone is in a position to do so. This is not the way things SHOULD be! But I’m just saying in cases where you can, never feel bad for pushing back hard to get what you need.
Even when (understandably!) upset and angry, she did go to great pains to keep repeating that she didn’t really blame the doctors, but the chronic underfunding of the UK health services. But it does highlight how important it is to advocate for yourself (or others) very firmly where possible. (3/3)
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Even when (understandably!) upset and angry, she did go to great pains to keep repeating that she didn’t really blame the doctors, but the chronic underfunding of the UK health services. But it does highlight how important it is to advocate for yourself (or others) very firmly where possible. (3/3)
… see a doctor, thankfully they immediately realised the risk and rushed her back into the hospital for immediate treatment. She was extremely close to permanent loss of vision in one eye (and her other was already nearly blind) due to one hurried mistake by an overworked triage doctor. (2/3)
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
… see a doctor, thankfully they immediately realised the risk and rushed her back into the hospital for immediate treatment. She was extremely close to permanent loss of vision in one eye (and her other was already nearly blind) due to one hurried mistake by an overworked triage doctor. (2/3)
He clearly feels a special kinship with vegetables.
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
He clearly feels a special kinship with vegetables.
If the tech bros have their way, in a few years it’ll end with ED-209 smashing down your door and saying, “𝙱𝚞𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚘𝚍, 𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚣𝚎𝚗. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚢!”
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If the tech bros have their way, in a few years it’ll end with ED-209 smashing down your door and saying, “𝙱𝚞𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚘𝚍, 𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚣𝚎𝚗. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚢!”
TECH BRO: You had me until “give them money”.
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
TECH BRO: You had me until “give them money”.
Doing better than most of our politicians these days, then.
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Doing better than most of our politicians these days, then.
People are such a drag, though, aren’t they? Some have the audacity NOT to fawningly follow your every command without question! Plus people have these things called “rights”, which can really cut into your bottom line. So you can see why armies of autonomous robots are truly essential.
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
People are such a drag, though, aren’t they? Some have the audacity NOT to fawningly follow your every command without question! Plus people have these things called “rights”, which can really cut into your bottom line. So you can see why armies of autonomous robots are truly essential.
If this happens, it won’t be for some time yet – the tech firms have deep pockets, and fear missing out by being the first to stop investment. They’ve also tightly integrated AI with existing products, which may take time to untangle. So if there is a crash coming, I believe it’ll take some time.
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
If this happens, it won’t be for some time yet – the tech firms have deep pockets, and fear missing out by being the first to stop investment. They’ve also tightly integrated AI with existing products, which may take time to untangle. So if there is a crash coming, I believe it’ll take some time.
Nvidia’s quarterly earnings will be a trailing indicator of any bubble. The trigger will be when tech firms decide they need to boost revenues to justify all these CapEx, and push service prices up – and end users balk at that and cancel subscriptions, leading to firms slashing further investment.
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Nvidia’s quarterly earnings will be a trailing indicator of any bubble. The trigger will be when tech firms decide they need to boost revenues to justify all these CapEx, and push service prices up – and end users balk at that and cancel subscriptions, leading to firms slashing further investment.
It’s like these people haven’t seen any of The Terminator franchise at all…
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 AM
It’s like these people haven’t seen any of The Terminator franchise at all…
“Systems that understand the physical world, have persistent memory, can reason, and can plan complex action sequences.”
I guess he’s bored of LLMs and wants a model that can be the brain of robots that can deal with any environment without having to learn it first.
gizmodo.com/yann-lecun-l...
I guess he’s bored of LLMs and wants a model that can be the brain of robots that can deal with any environment without having to learn it first.
gizmodo.com/yann-lecun-l...
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta to Create 'Independent Entity'
LeCun is starting something new, but Meta “will have access to its innovations.”
gizmodo.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
“Systems that understand the physical world, have persistent memory, can reason, and can plan complex action sequences.”
I guess he’s bored of LLMs and wants a model that can be the brain of robots that can deal with any environment without having to learn it first.
gizmodo.com/yann-lecun-l...
I guess he’s bored of LLMs and wants a model that can be the brain of robots that can deal with any environment without having to learn it first.
gizmodo.com/yann-lecun-l...
Linux was my primary OS at work from 1999-2012ish, and terminal use was fine. But its desktop experiences were always sub-par. The fragmentation was painful, and even within an ecosystem there was no good balance between zero flexibility and twelve billion options. Maybe they finally made progress?
November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Linux was my primary OS at work from 1999-2012ish, and terminal use was fine. But its desktop experiences were always sub-par. The fragmentation was painful, and even within an ecosystem there was no good balance between zero flexibility and twelve billion options. Maybe they finally made progress?
Someone was recently telling me they had good experiences with the NTFS3 driver, but it probably depends on your performance demands.
docs.kernel.org/filesystems/...
docs.kernel.org/filesystems/...
NTFS3 — The Linux Kernel documentation
docs.kernel.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Someone was recently telling me they had good experiences with the NTFS3 driver, but it probably depends on your performance demands.
docs.kernel.org/filesystems/...
docs.kernel.org/filesystems/...
“We’re all as bad as each other, you know. Seriously.”
“Oh come on Labour – I mean, I know you’re pretty bad, but as bad as the Tories? Or Reform?? Come on, who are you kidding?!”
“Right, hold my beer…”
“Oh come on Labour – I mean, I know you’re pretty bad, but as bad as the Tories? Or Reform?? Come on, who are you kidding?!”
“Right, hold my beer…”
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“We’re all as bad as each other, you know. Seriously.”
“Oh come on Labour – I mean, I know you’re pretty bad, but as bad as the Tories? Or Reform?? Come on, who are you kidding?!”
“Right, hold my beer…”
“Oh come on Labour – I mean, I know you’re pretty bad, but as bad as the Tories? Or Reform?? Come on, who are you kidding?!”
“Right, hold my beer…”
My advice is never to correspond with electricity. I sent it a postcard once, and when it replied it made my fusebox cut out.
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
My advice is never to correspond with electricity. I sent it a postcard once, and when it replied it made my fusebox cut out.
TBF many people in the UKwill use “woolly jumper” to describe one made from acrylic. Until my 30s I’d only heard “yarn” used as a slightly quaint word for a long story. I only learned different because my wife is a keen crocheter, and from the US, where I think the word is more commonly used.
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
TBF many people in the UKwill use “woolly jumper” to describe one made from acrylic. Until my 30s I’d only heard “yarn” used as a slightly quaint word for a long story. I only learned different because my wife is a keen crocheter, and from the US, where I think the word is more commonly used.