Ortwin: We have noticed the speculations created by a posting on the website of UK’s Company House with respect to Coutt’s security for our UK Tax Rebate advance, and we would like to provide you with the following insight to help prevent some of the misinformation we have seen.
Our UK companies are entitled to a Government Game tax credit rebate which we earn every month on the Squadron 42 development. These rebates are payable by the UK Government in the fall of the next following year when we file our tax returns. Foundry 42 and its parent company Cloud Imperium Games UK Ltd. have elected to partner with Coutts, a highly regarded, very selective, and specialized UK banking institution, to obtain a regular advance against this rebate, which will allow us to avoid converting unnecessarily other currencies into GBP. We obviously incur a significant part of our expenditures in GBP while our collections are mostly in USD and EUR. Given today's low interest rates versus the ongoing and uncertain currency fluctuations, this is simply a smart money management move, which we implemented upon recommendation of our financial advisors.
The collateral granted in connection with this discounting loan is absolutely standard and pertains to our UK operation only, which develops Squadron 42. As a careful review of the security will show and contrary to some irresponsible and misleading reports, the collateral specifically excludes “Star Citizen.” The UK Government rebate entitlement, which is audited and certified by our outside auditors on a quarterly basis, is the prime collateral. Per standard procedure in banking, our UK companies of course stand behind the loan and guarantee repayment which, however, given the reliability of the discounted asset (a UK Government payment) is a formality and nothing else. This security does not affect our UK companies’ ownership and control of their assets. Obviously, the UK Government will not default on its rebate obligations which will be used for repayment, and even then the UK companies have ample assets to repay the loan, even in such an eventuality which is of course unthinkable.
This should clarify the matter. Thank you.
Please don't use two spaces to quote text. That quoted text is barely readable on desktop, and unreadable on mobile, because of the horizontal scrolling.
I've been using New Tab Draft for a while. It's pretty minimalist, just a blank page (colours configurable) that I can make some notes on it I want to.
I work in Vim and tmux in WSL all the time and it works great for me. In fact, the only tool I've found that doesn't work (on the latest slow ring) is vim-plug.
> having serve operations spit out the server into the actual Windows browser?
I'm unsure exactly what you mean. But you can absolutely run web servers in WSL and connect to them from any browser running on Windows.
In my experience, you can connect to any network services running on Windows from Linux (for example, I connect to the Docker for Windows daemon) and vice versa.
I use a Surface Pro 4 daily and it's great. I'm a student so the writing with the pen made it pretty appealing and it's more than powerful enough to do any development work.
I do almost 100% of my work in Bash for Windows. Like one of the other commenters, I am on the slow ring insider builds, I needed this to get inotify support.
Using tmux and Vim, it's a really great environment. Before I started using Bash on Windows, I was still happy with the device, but developing on Windows was a bit of a pain.
Some of my work involves using Docker, which works surprisingly well - Docker for Windows runs Linux containers in Hyper-V without any configuration and I've never ran into a problem with that. Only thing I had to change was to make the daemon allow connections over tcp alongside the default named pipes. That way I can set the DOCKER_HOST variable and use it from within Bash on Windows. There are some minor niggles regarding volumes but it's otherwise perfect.
Outside development, using Windows on the device is pretty nice. I'd rather it didn't have ridiculous amounts of telemetry but it works great and the flexibility of the device is ideal for use around the house.
Are you running vim within tmux? Which terminal emulator are you using? Were you able to get full color support? I tried doing this a few months ago but was never able to get Vim set up to my satisfaction.
A cheap surface would be a pretty killer device for anyone doing their undergrad/grad studies now. In my experience, jotting down on a surface is pretty close to having a stack of A4s and a nice pen to have, you can doodle on it, organize notes, draw diagrams of varying complexity, and take notes in your own handwriting (or if it is bad, type it out).
In my experience, those in universes with math(-heavy) lectures.
And in general, scribbling notes or highlighting in provided materials isn't that unusual either, especially among those that own devices with pen input.
I agree with this. One of the places I don't mind advertising at all is podcasts. Typically it's a short 10-20 seconds, integrated into the content, products relevant to the audience and none of the tracking or security risks that come with traditional online advertising.
Some great examples of this are the TWiT network and the Co-Optional podcast.
It's hard because very few people know these things are going on. I'm in the UK, and I don't think I've seen this story (or similar stories like Snooper's Charter) being discussed on any TV news outlet.
That's a major source of anxiety I've had this past week. I have on three separate occasions had to let tech-savvy folks know it has passed. They have also shared my absolute disgust and want to protest.
Based on the HN thread about the snoopers charter last week, I was spurred on to try do something about it. I searched and read so much about activism but I honestly feel, without a semi-large scale protest in the streets, all this is a) going to proceed unheard of and b) be trivialised by the media.
Any pointers on effective social change at scale? Particularly the scale part.
