You donâ(TM)t need to pay Apple anything after youâ(TM)ve acquired the hardware. You donâ(TM)t need to use the Mac Store if you donâ(TM)t want to; apps can be distributed as a download, like before the Mac Store existed.

Does the job. Been doing the job on Macs for decades (since 1992). Sometimes called Text Wrangler (it was the free cut-down version), until BBedit got a free version too. Please support Bare Bones by using BBedit.

And there's always VIM.

BBedit and Beyond Compare are my two must-have utilities on my Macs. Both companies have served Mac users for a long time, great products, great support and none of this bullshit and enshitification like so many recent software companies.

How can you have a speed limit for bicycles? They donâ(TM)t have speedometers!

Cycling 20mph (32 kph) on a normal road bike is easy. Here in the UK, e-bikes require peddling and the assist has to stop at 15.5 mph (25 kph). Anything else is illegal and requires a helmet, insurance, license and the bike has to be registered and have plates fitted.

There is also a problem with illegal e-bikes here, as well as them being used in crimes or causing a nuisance. But the far bigger problem are cars exceeding the speed limit. This is more dangerous.

And then thereâ(TM)s the culture war propagated by the right wing hate-bait media who claim the left are waging a war against cars and cyclists are the root of all evil and need to be banished. Theyâ(TM)re dehumanising cyclists in the eyes of some drivers who respond with aggressive, intimidating and dangerous driving.

I don't think you understand the distinction that "a constrained set" brings to the discussion.

Of course the halting or not halting of some programs is decidable. Exactly the same way that the travelling salesman problem is boring for some cases.

But the halting problem is intractable for single instances of programs. A single short program that halts on the first counterexample to the Goldbach conjecture is currently beyond mathematics to decide if it halts. It is possible (although unlikely) that it is beyond the capabilities of ZFC to decide if it halts. It's also beyond the current capabilities of mathematics to tell if it's intractable or not.

NP, on the other hand, is trivial for *any* constrained set of problems. Given an oracle, you can write a program that solves any instance and prove it correct. Given sufficient time and computing resources, an oracle for any constrained set of NP problems is trivial by exhaustive search. The haltingness of the oracle to solve any instance of an NP problem is known. The search space is finite so the maximum run time is computable, and so the program halts.

There is a known 600 state Turing machine starting with a blank tape (you could reasonably type it out by hand) whose halting behaviour is provably undecidable in ZFC (assuming ZFC is consistent)

Probably contains bugs for things theyâ(TM)re still including in recent versions of Windows.

Recent population growth is due solely to immigration.

I've not seen the figures for Switzerland so it could be an exception to the rule but for almost every western european country, a significant proportion (in the UK it's about 50%) of population growth over the last 3 decades or so is down to increased life expectancy.

Again, for the UK that effect appears to be flattening out, excluding the pandemic, the recent years in the 2020s are the first years since the 1970s that deaths have exceeded births. When you consider that the population has been aging over that entire period, that's an astonishing result.

I very recently saw a report that 2026 is expected to be the year when deaths are expected to exceeding births every year for the foreseeable future. The population has finally stopped growing because of increases in life expectancy.

Sounds like you're referring to the EU, not to Europe.

Since when has the UK not been European? Or was that a joke?

Europe is cheaper hey? Let me introduce you to HS2: budget in 2020 was £98 billion (USD $132B) for 230 km. That's over $570 million per km.

It might be a reality, but that doesnâ(TM)t make it a legitimate excuse as you first stated. Itâ(TM)s bad, lazy parenting.

Bullshit. There are plenty of ways to sit with children in restaurants without resorting to screen time or the children annoying everybody else. I say this as a parent myself. No doubt it starts in the home and every other minute spent with the children: how do you engage with them and how much effort do you put in to helping them stay or entertained. It's called parenting.

If you enable sideloading, Android will also disable a bunch of "protections", some real some alleged. And bank apps and even stuff like my phone company's payment control app refuse to start if those protections are off.

At least that's what I glean from what Google said; we can't even test what they actually block until the restrictions go live.

It's true, N. American vehicles seem to have misaligned lights a lot more often than European ones. N. America headlights also have a different cut-off pattern (non-existent?), which maybe is partly to light up overhead road signs, whereas European headlights have a very distinctive horizontal cut-off with an up-sweep to light the edge of the road better. This is why, for example, UK drivers put stickers on their headlights when taking their cars to the continent: it covers the up-sweep so it doesn't dazzle on-coming vehicles.

Thatâ(TM)s not true. The UK is a G20 country and doesnâ(TM)t have a federal system, let alone a federal government. The UK governmentâ(TM)s Department for Education is only responsible for England; the governments of the other UK nations are responsible for their own education.

I've also noticed that Teslas don't have blind spot protection lights in their wing mirrors. I guess Tesla has invested so much in their other tech that they want the driver's eyes on the in-dash display rather than up at road level physically watching surroundings. When I'm cycling in London, I'm often faster than cars and one of my defensive tricks coming up the inside of a vehicle is to look in the wing mirror to see what they driver's doing in case they're going to make a sudden unsignalled turn, and so I notice these lights.