Jonathan Dalrymple

Technologist, Sinophile, Armchair Economist & Global Traveller.

[Siqi Chen @blader]

help i put screentime limits for youtube on my 11 year old’s laptop and i just found out she asked claude code to vibe code her own browser using electron and chromium to get around it what do i do now

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@RBilgil I ask the AI to deploy, and it remembers the order of steps that it needs to take. Learning to trust has been a process

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@RBilgil Revert is a manual process, but you could easily enhance the skill to provide that gate.

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@RBilgil We have a set of skills that runs on the local machine that has creds to access logs and a browser automation suite. We ask it to perform the deployment and then it runs the checks to confirm. Could be move to the cloud, but works fine locally.

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@brokensuit44 The visa thing is big, but its probably cheaper/easier to buy in the UK, drive eu and then ship back to the UK sell. You only need an address to buy a car in the UK, however non- resident insurance will be extreme

A massive investment in planning and money however you shake it.

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@RBilgil I had to look at the code, lol. Exactly like that, define a smaller skill, and then reference it directly in the md.

Probably not as much as I should, but I already find that I can’t remember which skills I already have.

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@RBilgil Agreed. I’ve started breaking down skills, and then creating a “parent skill”, but still end up effectively re-promoting but just with less detail

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@TheStalwart No, but I suggest looking at the last 2 years of USDKES pair

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@MrTund Yep, they are both part of Spain. You can see Morocco (through the fence!)

[Paul Johnson @paul__johnson]

From The Times

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@MrTund You only live once!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@RKosiom I haven’t, but have researched it. Biggest issue I saw is the temporarily import permit. You either need to get a Carne with a large bond (~50% of value) or leave 100% of value at border entry/exit.

As others have said, security situation is fluid.

Report back if you do it!

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

Kenyan drivers are a special bunch

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@brokensuit44 Awesome spot. I assume you'll get problems if you go on the otherside of the bridge?

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@mzeekelong My car met this guy yesterday, with the same tricks. Gonna super glue the new ones. This Nairobi!

[Jonathan Dalrymple @veritech]

@RKosiom Did this April. I’d highly recommend coming back via Suam. Lovely roads and beautiful scenery on the UG side.

[Cocoanetics  @Cocoanetics]

@monika_mateska Yeah lol, the WWDCs I attended in Person decades ago where the first conferences where ladies never had a toilet queue. Ah, fond reminiscing…