I had a huge reply, but after some googling to try and understand, I’m gonna go with this wiki image:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/P_np_np-complete_np-hard.svg/1024px-P_np_np-complete_np-hard.svg.png

(Black graph on transparent background, this might be better: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP_(complexity)#/media/File:P_np_np-complete_np-hard.svg )

I see it as:
P: is a problem that gets solved and proved easily.
Np: is is a problem that is difficult to solve but easy to prove.
P=np ie np-complete: as difficult to solve as it is to prove.
Np-hard: no single solution, might require multiple “np” solutions (eg a different algorithm for each input element)

That’s a great write up! I’d love to read part 2

Default config is defined in the firmware. It can’t be deleted or changed (well, easily. I think there is a reseller option to have a custom default config).
The “no default config” means the default config will not be applied after the reset.
If you reset it again without checking “no default config”, then the default config will be applied.

“No default config” is very useful for applying your own config script. It gives you a blank canvas, making scripting a lot easier!

I have my “config.rsc” file that has the required configuration. And I have a “reset.auto.rsc” file that only has the command to reset the mikrotik with no defaults and to run the “config.rsc” script after reset.
“filename.auto.rsc” will be executed as soon as it gets FTPd (it’s a feature of mikrotik).
I use a bash script that FTPs the config.rsc file to the mikrotik, then the reset.auto.rsc file.
Makes it trivial to tweak the config then apply it, and I get all the config for the devices in easy to edit/diff script files.

Not just in Glasgow. Water is a flat rate covered by council tax across all of Scotland.
It’s likely because we don’t pay for units used, and awareness of water conservation hasn’t happened/stuck.

Scottish tap water is a public/government company.
They do a good job.
Unfortunately, climate change is impacting the level of reservoirs & water ways (ie, going down), and Scottish people use more water than English people (like 30% more, a substantial amount).
Hopefully Scottish water continues to be great, and continue to get the funding they need to do a good job

Static type checking ftw

Which they did learn from!
I guarantee every mistake like this at any good company leads to a leap forward in tooling for simulation, testing, code building, review, merging, local dev environments etc.
The good companies share their work (via open sourcing their solution, blogging their learnings) or by contribute to existing solutions.
NASA’s ROI cannot be measured. The amount of industries their R&D has touched is massive

They existed on their own Lemmy instance for years before federating at some point last year.
So, they likely had their own way of interacting, commenting, moderating etc that worked for them, that they had used/built/developed themselves (I mean systems & rules, not software) for years.
And they federated shortly after the Reddit API exodus.
So an echo chamber of extreme left wing users suddenly getting to interact with a whole bunch of new people, and an inrush of more mainstream users. It made for an interesting 6 or so months.

I haven’t had any bad interactions with them directly, however I have seen and disagreed with a lot of their behaviour.
Not sure if I have their instance blocked, or if my instance has defederated them.

Timpsons apparently has really interesting business models.
A friend of mine has worked on a few of their conferences, and apparently it’s both fascinating and they come across as a genuinely wholesome business.

It’s a franchise, but the franchisee (ie the shop) has complete control over what they sell and what services they provide (I dunno if there are any guard rails). So if they want to offer dry cleaning, they can. If they want to offer phone repairs, they can. If they want to only partially offer something, then they can rely on the Timpsons service network to provide the actual service (so dry cleaning without owning dry cleaning equipment).

https://www.timpson.co.uk/about-timpson

The management teams delegate authority but retain responsibility and we have only 2 rules:

• Look the part
• Put the money in the till

And apparently they look after their staff really well. Actually good/useful perks & benefits. In addition to the compassionate leave you’ve mentioned, I’m sure my friend said something about timpsons owning some property that they allow their staff to book for free (like free accomodation for holidays). Or maybe they do block bookings of stuff, or something. I wasn’t hugely paying attention tbh.

The financial insensitive to ensure only paying users can access the content offsets the cost of the different infrastructure.

YouTube needs to make money as cheaply as possible. They can’t afford the processing to guarantee ad delivery and secure content like that.

If the infrastructure/delivery cost of securing content goes up, streaming services can raise their prices.
YT can’t really serve more ads. The platform is already pretty packed with ads