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Why would a Labour government be interested in enriching wealthy Conservatives?

If you have a Kaitai spec for the format, then its IDE[0] will do structural highlighting for you. This is web-based, but it doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch to implement a …

Did his own publication from 9 years into the future ever materialise?

Surely type checking on the keys of effectively arbitrary maps is just a folly. Maps shouldn’t be used for these purposes. If you know the members at compile time, then put them in…

We have "part time" as well, but it's different from zero hours. Part timers are usually (AFAIK) salaried employees that work a fixed Zero hours, to my understanding, is different:…

I’m the author — shameless self-promotion, on my behalf, I’m afraid — AMA :)

A chilling vision of the future, where phone books and checkbooks still exist ;) I have the impression that nanotechnology was very in vogue for science fiction around the late-80s…

It’s not. It’s been through several editing rounds. (I was one of the editors.) In theory, we don’t have a problem with AI generated content if it meets our high editorial requirem…

Didn’t D get an ownership model, a la Rust’s affine types, relatively recently?

Nice; thanks :) I usually squash-merge. Does that break this workflow?

Yeah, I do this too: The `--onto` solution feels a bit too magical at times and an interactive rebase is pretty clear about what's happening.

Neat :) When I was a teenager, some 25+ years ago, I wrote a chaotic attractor visualiser like this — but only in 2D — and it occurred to me, “What if instead of visualising it, I …

I've done this in my Claude settings, but it still doesn't seem that keen on following it: > Please be measured and critical in your response. I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I hi…

I seem to remember a similar Star Trek episode; DS9, IIRC.

I have a similar problem: For purely vanity reasons, I have a .co e-mail. Whenever giving it over the phone, I say something like "blah blah blah, dot co; no UK, just dot co". So f…

Palatino with Microtype is my go to for all my LaTeX documents. It looks so good.

April fools day has messed with my ability to identify satire at this time of year. Let's look at the evidence: Posting date: 2025-04-02T01:57:13 1743559033 LoC: 35,000 Front page:…

He's Finnish, not Swedish.

Part of the beauty of the (current) WWW is that last W: the web. By design, everything is (or at least "can/should be") interlinked and scripting/computation is a layer on top of t…

Bumblebee headband?

Prince Harry’s real name is Henry.

I wouldn’t want to end up in Chorleywood, near the north western end of the Metropolitan line, late at night. It’s a nice little village, but I suspect it would be pretty dead.