> London (my home city) is the only one where I'm cowering and shielding my phone for fear it will be snatched
I've been in London for the better part of 30 years now and have had a mobile phone for most of that time. Until the last couple of years, I was out and about all the time, usually with my phone, and I've had someone attempt to snatch it precisely twice.
> Petty crime chips away at society by eroding trust
That I do agree with.
> it needs to be punished Singapore style
That I do not. What we do need is a proper accounting of all crimes at all levels of society - "the fish rots from the head down" after all. When people see people in power getting away with crimes, blatant lies, and other bad behaviours, they'll often follow because why not?
This is the third (or fourth) update with this age check and the only one that doesn't enforce credit card (I don't have one), driving licence (I don't have one) or national ID card (I don't have one) as the only methods of verification.
Absolute shambles of a rollout (and I'm hoping it was UKGOV requirements, not just Apple being braindead.)
> Ultimately code is code and I don't care about how it got to how it is.
That's fine until you come up against something like a subscription system that's been built over 15 years by at least 20 different developers, none of whom are currently at the company, half of whom appear to have been clinically insane, each of whom had their own unique approach to code, with almost zero code commentary, zero external documentation, and abstractions layered like geological strata where you need 15 files open to understand one API endpoint.
> Most codebases I encounter just have "changed stuff" or "hope this works now".
I have been told off several times at different jobs for writing commit messages that are "too big". Also for writing too much commentary in my code changes. Also also for complaining that other people aren't doing these things.
(Not that it stops me, mind, but it does make working relationships fractious.)
> If you try to buy a bamboo rod in a store, they run $2K-$5K.
I got a bunch of cane[0] rods off eBay for relatively cheap[2] (but that was ~2010.) Sadly my fishing activities were strongly curtailed around 2012[1] (due to a family divorce) but I'm hoping to get back to it one day.
When I did get a chance to use them, they were much nicer (to me) than my companion's fancy new rods (even if the bend when fighting a fish was absolutely terrifying.)
[0] I'm not sure if there's any bamboo ones - it's been a while since I've seen them due to [1]
I’m working on a friendlier version of BirdNET-Pi with support of the latest BirdNET 3.0 model, also planning to add the BattyBirdNET later. https://github.com/Suncuss/BirdNET-PiPy
Watching Kyle McDougall[0] take his medium format photos is a soothing experience (but I know full well I would not have the patience for medium format.)
> I don't think trump actually wants terrorist attacks in America.
He might not but he's surrounded by christian evangelist lunatics who think bringing about the end times is their moral responsibility and, more importantly, they are in charge because Trump is an addled idiot who has fewer thoughts in his head than an orange cat.
I've been in London for the better part of 30 years now and have had a mobile phone for most of that time. Until the last couple of years, I was out and about all the time, usually with my phone, and I've had someone attempt to snatch it precisely twice.
> Petty crime chips away at society by eroding trust
That I do agree with.
> it needs to be punished Singapore style
That I do not. What we do need is a proper accounting of all crimes at all levels of society - "the fish rots from the head down" after all. When people see people in power getting away with crimes, blatant lies, and other bad behaviours, they'll often follow because why not?
(cf Trump, Johnson, Putin, et al.)
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