Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected]

Foolish #analyst/#editor: @TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @ReversingLabs @OstermanRsch

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@HMRCcustomers Great, thanks

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@HMRCcustomers Yes, but the form is for CGT as well as income tax.

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@freedolinski @APStylebook Both are correct, as opposed to the incorrect use of [‘] often caused by dumb smart-quote algorithms. Bane of my editing life.

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

When using an apostrophe to indicate a decade, it goes in front to replace the missing digits: the class of ’26, which means the same as the class of 2026.
There's no apostrophe before the s in a construction like the '20s.

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@SimonHappily @g__j @OctopusEnergy Another vote for Agile. Think of it this way: With a fixed-rate tariff—even if it has cheaper rates at night—you're paying a premium for price certainty. Think of it like an insurance policy (and surprisingly expensive one). Agile skips that, tied directly to wholesale prices.

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@PaulGra01523194 @g__j … but storage heaters are 1960s technology. These days when people talk about electrifying heating, we're talking about heat pumps. They use a little bit of electricity to suck latent heat from the outside air and concentrate it. Efficiency of 400% is a typical design centre.

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@PaulGra01523194 @g__j No. Someone might have conned you into buying these ridiculous "clay core" resistive things, which are *not* storage heaters. Storage heaters run off cheap off-peak electricity. If system properly designed, the cost is comparable to gas.

But …

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@PaulGra01523194 @g__j The 2025/26 heating season cost me *less* electricity than previous seasons did for heating oil. Gas would have been similar.
Your experience sounds like a "you" problem, not an electrification problem.

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@elenn_n @orzson no.

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@elenn_n @orzson yes I do.

[Sean Kerner @TechJournalist]

The retrieval rebuild: Why hybrid retrieval intent tripled as enterprise RAG programs hit the scale wall
-no RAG is not dead, but it is...changing.
https://t.co/kxRdJfAPLJ via @VentureBeat

[FOSS Force @FOSSForce]

Just published on FOSS Force: ‘Mentoring Mondays’ Is Otto Kekäläinen’s Way to Support New Debian Devs https://t.co/bZXfNlYV4D

[Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols @sjvn]

Meta abandons open-source Llama for proprietary Muse Spark: https://t.co/6yDvG3TpQt via @thenewstack & @sjvn

If you're still using the #opensource #AI Llama, Meta's left you without a migration path.

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@APStylebook That's ridiculously ridiculous. The A in AP stands for "Associated," not American.

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@mattatwiggin @choppertoo @colinwalker79 @theipaper

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@anon_opin Next Tuesday? Okay, see you then.

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

Pathetic "It was the intern" excuse incoming in 3… 2… 1…

Bonus points for a sorry-not-sorry "Sorry you feel that way" nonapology.

[The Weebl @mrweebl.bsky.social @TheWeebl]

Hi @@JWorldTheGame I see you've ripped off badgers.
1: Can you not
2: Who do I send the invoice too?

https://t.co/jEWskGcNoh

This is so blatant. You'd think a company your size would understand copyright.

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@TheWeebl @JWorldTheGame Pathetic "It was the intern" excuse incoming in 3… 2… 1…

Bonus points for a sorry-not-sorry "Sorry you feel that way" apology.

[Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social / @[email protected] @RiCHi]

@anon_opin I love food, but I almost never see anyone using a knife and fork properly. If your kids can't use a knife and fork properly by their 12th birthday you've failed them.
#ftfy