That was fantastic! 😊

That’s often the case, or for a smaller garage they will do (if you ask for it) a pre-inspection/service & then take it somewhere else to be tested. AFAIK It’s allowed to be driven on the road without a valid MOT if it’s on the way to or from an appointment at a testing centre, and a retest is free.

As others have said, if your VMs are Linux, set up unattended_updates and forget about it.

If your VMs are windows, then Action1 is free up to 200 clients, it does need an agent installed, but that auto updates too.

I always loved reading Joel’s stuff, clear & well thought out. It was especially exciting when they were building Stack Overflow, but that’s kinda got buried now. Things come & things go…

Very nice! Well done 👍🏼

Been doing email since it began. Same frustrations.

Solutions (workarounds):

1. Email is structured with “executive summary” & “detail”. That way I can write all the words I want but people can only read the first paragraph.
2. Never ask questions. Tell them what I’m going to choose, & give them opportunity to disagree. That way if they don’t respond usefully I can take their “non-response” as a response & proceed anyway.
3. If I need to ask a question, use a phone call or go to their desk, or (shudder) make a meeting.

Interesting article, I agree with his analysis, not sure (yet) that I agree with his conclusions. My brain needs to think about it in the background for a bit (just the way mine works).

TLDR: we should expect conversational interfaces to be an addition to the workflows we currently use.

I’ve noticed that whenever there’s a group of people together, someone will be the leader, it doesn’t matter who the group are, there will be a leader & everyone will know it.

Now that leader has a choice to be a bully, or someone who tries not to be a leader.

So yes we absolutely need to train our kids what good (inclusive) leadership looks like, so they can either follow those people, or be those people.

The only paid app I’ve got is Sound Profile. Puts the phone on quiet (except for family) at night, or silent (with auto resume to normal) in meetings. It’s on my & spouse’s phones.