Liam Deane

OK, it might be an awful, borderline fraudlent company. But is the beer good?

It sure isn't.

Kind of depends where you're going. In some places you can just wander in anywhere and you'll be fine, in others you really do need to do some research. But anything is going to be better than what this guy was doing which was rushing around like crazy between Instagram hotspots.

Choosing to actually *live* in a geopolitical hotspot is another matter entirely however

The big gulf airports handle 150m+ passengers a year and this is the first major disruption in decades so the risk associated with connecting through there is low by any reasonable standard

Alternatively you could try planning well instead of badly

The notion of a "registered Democrat" is so insane in took me years before I could believe it was a real thing.

AI Mistakes Are Infuriating Gamers as Developers Seek Savings Games and AI, seemingly a perfect match, are off to a rocky start

Bloomberg out here finally catching up to what we’ve been saying for ages: that genAI isn’t helping the game industry (with quotes from my colleague @liamdeane.bsky.social)

When was the last time the IRFU decided to end a coach's contract without their hand being forced by either results or the coach walking away? Gatland?

Keep extending forever until forced to do otherwise is just what they do.

Unfortunately 6,980 of those are deluxe editions discounted to a slightly higher price than the base game

Depends on your gate. The surprisingly good Irish pub is right on the D gate pier and the little holding pen where they have the EastJet flights has a reasonable bar. Lots of the gates are a long way from a decent drink though.

Changi is a wildly overrated airport for anything other than a long layover. If you're flying direct to Singapore or have a short connection you don't see any of the fancy amenities and it's totally unexceptional.

I honestly think this might be a case of unimaginative humans starting to copy the AI writing style.

Sure, some of the goals are better than others but the common idea is that you can solve problems by just declaring the problem illegal

This whole kind of thinking is very Dutch - the idea that you can create a numerical limit on something you don't like and then get a court ruling that reality must comply with the number you made up. See also: Schiphol flight cap, nitrogen, etc.

Equipment needed to cook rice:

1. a pot
2. there is no 2

This cargo cult American """Marxism""" stuff has always been the most Protestant-ass movement imaginable

If only there was some way of generalising this system to all medical bills

You can just not do the second part. Individual tax returns are like gerrymandering, something some counties have decided to accept but you can just choose not to have.

It's funny that this is the model that Americans think is good when by European standards it's actually pretty annoying. In the UK hardly anyone ever even sees a tax return unless they're self-employed. Everything is just deducted at source.

I don't think there's any need to put it in such moralistic terms. As you say, that's sport: getting picked and getting dropped is part of the game.

That said, there's a strong case that Farrell has been handling this poorly for a while in a way that hasn't done any good for either player.

Great, going to have to stop adding powdered headphone to my meals now

I mean they're not wrong. Him playing badly does make them look stupid. Better to just keep insisting that he's play well, Actually.

It would be nice if this whole thing could be blamed on one Bad Guy but the fact that entire history of the semiconductor industry is a neverending cycle of supply crunches and gluts is a small hint that it might be a bit more complicated.

Every single American seems to be convinced that Fahrenheit is self-evidently more intuitive. It isn't! It's just what you're used to!

Teams leading by two scores in the second half at home usually win

Next time a team you aren't emotionally invested is 8 points down in the final quarter away from home, have a look at the odds available. Statistically it's an extremely bad position.

What is the % chance that England win the game if that drop goal goes over? Scotland are obviously still heavily favoured with an 8 point lead. OK, going from a 10% to a a 30% chance of winning is a big moment in the game in some sense, but England are still in a losing position no matter what.

"If we had scored that drop goal and Scotland had not scored that try and then we had scored another try somehow, then the game might have been competive, though we would still have been behind" - not a very compelling counterfactual!

Completely the wrong mindset when you're two scores down. Any theory of a comeback from that position has to assume that you're going to be capable of stringing a few phases together.

If you can't string a couple of phases together without dropping the ball you're going to lose no matter what.