Tim

Is the answer "to generate electricity", by any chance?

The mandatory signage on the EU passport lane says "EU/EEA/CH Citizens", in English, plus local language(s).

Honestly, I am unsighted as to what additional verbiage is required to make that clearer. A residence card does not grant citizenship.

...and this isn't even a Brexity wish fulfilment thing. Plenty of non-UK permanent residents who would like to be able to get off the plane and go to their homes without the ritual othering on arrival we are currently subjected to.)

(And yes, FAOD (selfishly) I really wish @consilium.europa.eu would change this - now the non-EU line will be even slower, it just seems spiteful not to let EU residents use the EU lane - particularly as the biometric residence card is technically perfectly capable of operating the eGates as well...

But permanent residence holders have never been entitled to use the EU/EEA/CH lanes. So it is true to say nothing has changed for us - we still queue in the same queue, and we won't have to give fingerprints/face scans (not least, because we already did when we got our biometric residence cards.)

It's not at all unclear - you are not entitled to use the EU/EEA/CH passport line. The rules are entirely clear - you queue in the non-EU line.

You might *get away* with using the EU line, but that's just luck.

I wish it wasn't so (I also have EU perm residence,) but it's not ambiguous.

Oh fuck. LinkedIn have found BlueSky.

This is what happens when you say "Dubai" three times in front of the mirror...

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

I learned Romanian in my 40s - which has grammar that is an absolute bitch - so everything is possible. Of course living here helps somewhat...

Started on Chinese now. Will probably never make it past 謝謝, but I'm telling myself it will help keep my brain active/delay cognitive decline.

This is a very good reason to avoid Dreamliners. The other being that it's a Boeing.

(And it's not the pilot doing that, it's the cabin crew knowing they can kick back in the galley for a chat (and hand out fewer freebies) if it's dark. Enshittification of air travel continues apace.)

Ah, then fair enough. I wasn't listening to the lunatic on the radio so hard to be sure :-)

(Although I suppose it would work if the crime was one with visible consequences - i.e. window not broken/now window is broken, you could use a binary search to find when it was broken quite easily.

I'm over thinking this, ignore...)

Without wishing to argue your basic point, surely a binary search is only relevant when searching in an ordered set (i.e. when you bisect the set, you know if your answer is before or after the cut.) That doesn't seem to apply to searching for a random event in a video feed..?

GitHub - casey/just: 🤖 Just a command runner 🤖 Just a command runner. Contribute to casey/just development by creating an account on GitHub.

I am here to shill for `just` instead. OK, it's not a replacement for what `make` was designed to be good for (but who is using plain make for that these days...,) but it's a much better replacement for what everyone *actually* uses it for.

I really, really like it:
github.com/casey/just

GitHub - casey/just: 🤖 Just a command runner 🤖 Just a command runner. Contribute to casey/just development by creating an account on GitHub.

I am here to shill for `just` instead. OK, it's not a replacement for what `make` was designed to be good for (but who is using plain make for that these days...,) but it's a much better replacement for what everyone *actually* uses it for.

I really, really like it:
github.com/casey/just

Hell, it's the same in Romania, one of the poorest countries in Europe.

(And yeah, it's imperfect, God knows our system needs investment. But you *will* get care, even if the hospital looks like it might fall down around your ears...)

WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE MOON?
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a thread, because everyone is confused about Mid-Autumn Festival...

Behold the replies to this; I have been witness to an actual murder...

Romania's CSM București on the offensive vs. Croatian side Podravka

Got to say, I'm loving my seat for this season's CSM București Handball...

#csm #București #Bucharest #Romania #ehfcl #ehf

...is it just gaming isn't your bag (in which case fair enough, although damn I'd love to introduce you to some great stuff ;-),) or gaming just isn't ready to be treated as 'art', or...?

As I say, no criticism, I was just reading & thinking it and figured why not ask. Congrats again on great book.

...of the texts referenced, and I feel like the post-apocalyptic section is missing a whole genre of art (ironic that The Last Of Us gets a callout as a TV series but not the video game that it's a remake of.)

Not intended as a criticism, more a curiosity - why is that, do you think?...

Really enjoying "Everything Must Go" @dorianlynskey.bsky.social, it's made my last couple of long fights fly by (ouch...) One thought crossed my mind though, especially in the Androids bit - it feels to me like you're missing gaming! "Detroit: Become Human" has as much original to say as any...

But what did it teach you about B2B sales, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social?

Linda Yaccarino, Sheryl Sandberg and Carly Fiorina would seriously like a word.

Better AI Depends on Better Data: We Need Your Help | The JetBrains Blog TL;DR Over the past few years, AI has made remarkable progress, but it doesn’t always deliver what professional developers need. One key reason is that most models are trained on public datasets th

This shit is going to be enough to make me cancel my Jetbrains subscription.

Goddammit. I like RustRover, but I am sick to back teeth of having to turn off shitty autocomplete features that magically turn back on, I have zero faith the new "steal your code" button won't do the same. @jetbrains.com

The iPhone only exists to sell subscriptions. Apple isn't a hardware company, it's a services company that sells hardware in order to get you tied into those services.

we can just do things - underreacted

beautiful

(Can, and probably have or already had - here in Romania for non-EU citizens there is a language requirement for permanent residence, as well as stuff like criminal record check, 5 yrs continuous legal residence etc. It is less demanding than the citizenship requirements though.)

That was definitely some local oddity, because trying to do that before Brexit would be completely illegal - you didn't need to ask/apply/be granted a right to remain, you already had it. All you needed at most was to register your presence.

Post-Brexit though, absolutely they can.

No-one clutches their pearls harder than a racist being called a racist.