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How does this cost 9m£? I mean, sure, it was exploratory, but come on, how do you spend that kind of money on sealing some components, adding an alternator and some sensors? What a…

Sorry, but sticking your head out the window is one of the greatest perks of going on a heritage train. That really IS about the ambiance.

@dang why is this flagged? Can we unflag it?

An oligopol often has some kind of moat due to anti competitive behaviour. E.g. the potatoe argument from the article, where McCain makes it hard to buy potatoes from anybody but t…

> Then, there is a switch to the most traditional of businesses with the most traditional business models. Who, the author argues, are engaging in price gauging. In the second para…

That sounds interesting. Are you thinking about a comment system build into RSS? I am interested in potential future RSS capabilities. Would you mind a chat about that? If so, plea…

I am collecting my favorite internet rabbit holes on my website (https://ph-uhl.com/links/internet-rabbit-holes/) and went through my old lists but I think I lost a few of the good…

Not regularly blogging but from time to time: https://ph-uhl.com

> Me: Hm, I just found the switch to turn the servers off, that power you... > BratGPT: A server error has occurred > INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR Strange, I was bluffing...

I wonder what the thieve does with the car after stealing. Will you always need that Nokia to start it or is there some kind if aftermarket for counterfeit keys?

Last activity in the repository shows today for me. Why do you think it is dead?

Or not, that way GP learned something for life, so saves them time in the long run

Well, here comes the obligatory org-mode comment: Org mode does most of that, too. And a lot more. And while you cannot use it in Github issues, you can in README files on Github.

I think stuff like this really comes down to getting used to and accepting. I had the same views on code prettiers. I thought, aligning your code by hand makes you think about the …

Hoenstly, for production code, TS makes me sleep better. No matter how many tests you write, that one undefined object will get you at some point. TS helps to eliminate a complete …

The ARR for BuiltWith is probably off[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10322265

Aren't there examples against this nowadays? E-Scooters are payed by the minute, even though not provided by monopolists. Mobile games with in-app purchases are very similar to mic…

Also a paper on the topic: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00240

Sorry, but comparing Mozilla to the company that offers the about most visited website ever isn't exactly fair. Google had a lot of opportunities to push Chrome and they did. Doesn…

When searching for any kind of software or SaaS on your favorite search engine, you are bombarded with top 10 lists and unhelpful algorithm based comparisons. I never know which ar…

I don't know about that. Precision is something desirable in science and engineering. My experience is quite the opposite anyways, I often felt, English sentences lacked clarity th…