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I (in the UK) used to have a small local restaurant which had a .eu domain. When Brexit was happening, I mentioned this issue to them, and they explained the relevant individual wa…

BT in the UK has 17070 which tells you the number and lets you do tests like the "quiet line test". Handy when working out what was going on when I moved into a property with no li…

And when the book is ruined, she credits her books account (an asset account) $20 and debits her "depreciation/impairment" account (an expense account) $20.

And then your text editor might leave a backup copy with filename "xyz.php~" which PHP won't interpret and Apache will happily serve to a curious user as plain text. So I've heard …

There is another perspective to be aware of on this... I have been caught out by a service provider when it became clear the service I was using wasn't their main business - and th…

I believe that is (or at least was) true at Google - although from what I knew of the role, it sounded like it also covered what I would consider project management. (I think I wou…

Indeed, "Do you use source control?" was one of Joel Spolsky's 12 questions - in fact, the first of those questions - to judge the quality of a software team in this 2000 article: …

I think I read about a tool for the Acorn BBC micros which you could apply to your program to remove unnecessary spaces etc. in the tokenised form and shave off a few bytes. This h…

Note the article is from 2018.

I used to play a lot of Catan and loved the game but then stopped for a few years over COVID (while I played other games online). When I tried it again, that's when I noticed this …

I use Amazon SES to send system-generated messages from a couple of tiny websites I ran on EC2. When applying I needed to specify the volume, and put in a generous number in case t…

I wondered if, being a Sunday evening on the British train system, she'd find herself on a rail replacement bus service for some of the return journey. But luckily not - just some …

And in London, the Underground closes down altogether overnight, except for some lines running on Friday and Saturday nights. (And that Night Tube service is a relatively recent in…

The amended regulations ( https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/984/schedule/made ) refer to a requirement for connection to a "gigabit-capable public electronic communications …

I'm guessing a reference to Patreon in September this year: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/09/patreon-security-layoffs/

Interesting to learn of the US rule. In the UK, up to £8000 of relocation expenses can be provided tax-free, for "qualifying expenses" (mainly costs of buying/selling home and movi…

An alternative approach which I was taught at an enrichment course at school but which became more relevant as life and career progressed - be the minute-taker. A lesson also learn…

In the UK at least it looks like you can still get inflation index-linked annuities - for example, there are entries in the Hargreaves Lansdown "best buy" tables for for RPI-linked…

Thanks, I'd found the first edition a really good book when I was early in my security career many years ago, I shall have to check the 2020 edition!

I did recently discover that the Estonian standards agency makes ISO standards available, not for free, but significantly more cheaply than other sources I found when trying to loc…

Thank you for the comment. The site already has RSS, and I'd agree there are good technical grounds for preferring it, but I get the impression that its use among users is declinin…

I agree with comments saying that a key point is producing content. I'd spent a couple of years of considering starting a blog (with no commercial/monetisation, but somewhere to po…