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I tried this with some cheap "low-fire" clay that bought online and wanted to make into pots. I tried firing them in my metal "stove" style fireplace (these are the iron looking on…

Thanks for sharing your story, God bless you and your family.

Anyone else getting a bit of a dodgy PR vibe about this post and all the glowing comments, or is it just me?

My 2cents on how I picked up emacs: Keep using your 'main' editor for coding for now. Get a shell/terminal that you can open/close with a hotkey (iTerm2 on Mac or something like ya…

This reminds me of something I read a couple of years ago about an earth-orbit satellite collecting O-zone data.. when it encountered the 'hole' it ended up throwing away most of t…

Was anyone else half expecting this to be a dwarf fortress story?

hundred percent agree with this. A standard lib bundled with all browsers would solve so much of the framework madness.

favourite line from the article - "the plural of anecdote is data" nice.

Thanks for the links man, the crash bandicoot stuff is a great read

I always think this is the closest thing to a 'Bible for atheists' that I've ever found. Seriously awesome stuff

My line is always "salary is something I'd discuss in a face-to-face interview". If they push just apologise and say you're not comfortable discussing your salary over the phone.

"Results from models with alternative cutpoints at 1980 and 1985 are shown in the online supplement." Does anyone have a link to the online supliment? Also would it be normal pract…

The issue is that the data was gathered without a warrant, making it inadmissible. In cases like this where it sounds like a number was found in a known drug dealer's phone, I can'…

On Point (A) "weird that they [hmrc] didn't [go after google for more fines]" Google had managed to negotiate some kind of 'tax-deal' with HMRC which came to light in 2016 and was …

People have seen the market responding to uncertainty by dumping GBP and FTSE and are equating that with the UK economy actually being much worse off already. Hence the sudden 'rea…

Yep, the last few movie trailers I've seen on there have been subtitled. I assumed this was the reason. If this sees us getting more and better quality subs for video content then …

I realised this is why I've been enjoying shows with subtitles recently (some anime titles on netflix) because it forces you to watch the show without the constant phone checking.