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WindyMiller

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WindyMiller
·6일 전·discuss
Comaps can display your current speed and (if it's in the data) the speed limit for the road you're on - everything you need to avoid speeding tickets!
WindyMiller
·2개월 전·discuss
[It was also in direct reference to this comic.](https://www.overyourhead.co.uk/2011/01/rarely-connect.html)
WindyMiller
·4개월 전·discuss
[How confident are you that this writer uses AI?](https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-con...)
WindyMiller
·4개월 전·discuss
But you can't be on the cutting-edge of everything, and there are opportunity costs.
WindyMiller
·6개월 전·discuss
To be fair it wouldn't really be doing its job if it didn't come with any asterisks
WindyMiller
·7개월 전·discuss
The interface equivalent of ten sad fireworks and a pack of sparklers in a rainy back garden probably wouldn't have the same addictive effects, though.
WindyMiller
·8개월 전·discuss
> 1 car in 3 on the roads in the UK is funded via PIP

In 2024 there were about 34 million cars registered in the UK and Motability had a fleet of 815,000. Are you telling me that the 3.5 million PIP recipients are using their payments to fund 2-3 cars each outside the Motability scheme?

(Motability buys about 1 in 5 of the new cars registered in the UK.)
WindyMiller
·9개월 전·discuss
> all locations any given individual has been seen

This is perhaps another reason people in the UK might be more chill about ANPR: we're smaller and incrementally less carbrained, so to describe ANPR as tracking "all locations any given individual has been seen" sounds like wild hyperbole.

(Of course all our police forces are frothing at the mouth to roll out facial recognition everywhere they can, so kicking off a bit more about surveillance might not be a bad idea...)