Isn't the issue the depth of the Irish Sea at the point where Scotland and Ireland are closest? It gets to around 1,000 ft deep there (roughly 5x where the Channel Tunnel goes) and has a bunch of unexploded WW2 bombs dumped there, too.
Then Dublin to Holyhead is, what, 70 miles? That's twice as long as the Seikan tunnel, which I think is the world's longest under sea tunnel.
I gave this a go and it's a really nice way of generating context-aware SQL without having to upload your entire dataset or even just your data model to an LLM.
Gives you a conversational interface for your SQL data, alongside a more traditional SQL GUI.
A note on liquid versus powder detergents. In the UK, at least, my understanding is that liquid detergents do not contain bleaching agents, whereas powders do. That is, unless you buy a colour-safe powder.
If you're pouring bleach into your machine, it can erode the rubber seals. I use Dettol instead (I think it's called Lysol in the States), which seems to do the job.
I switched my personal email from Google Workspace to Proton. My use case wasn't privacy (especially when 99% of my email is sent to and received from people using Gmail, Office 365, etc.) I was interested in trying Proton more to support a plurality of service providers.
As such, I'm probably not Proton's target customer. That means the compromises Proton makes to enable E2E are not worth it to me.
Some examples:
* Search is like going back 20 years.
* The lack of automatic filtering (e.g. Gmail's automatically applied Promotions, Updates, etc labels) has made the signal to noise ratio in my personal inbox so low that I'm considering just taking the app off my phone or suppressing notifications, at least. I don't have the time to set up manual filters for everything that comes in.
* The lack of automatic filtering and decent search means that my personal email is now pretty much useless.
Similarly, it's pretty hard to migrate away from because you can't just use IMAP to shift your email history to another provider.
This isn't a negative review of Proton. This is just to say that choosing Proton Mail means living with the compromises necessary to enable their main feature (privacy) and I don't care enough about that one feature to make those compromises worthwhile (because my email is going through so many non-private services anyway).
I heard someone say that they wished it had been called High Capacity 2, rather than High Speed 2.
What we need is more rail capacity, while people opposed to this project latched onto the idea that no one really wanted to get from London to Birmingham (a somewhat unlovely city that is the first major stop on the line) faster.
These types of interjections haven’t meaningfully changed anything for the better in the past 20 years of people making them.
Instead, people get interested in something new and interesting. Then, for a proportion of them, some stranger will come along and language-police them.
If you believe in free software or some variant, don’t put pointless barriers in the way of people adopting it.
It might be more due to the weird way that the government divided responsibility for the metering connectivity. Arqiva have the northern segment and O2 the southern, so they use the method that best suits their existing infrastructure.