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That sounds like a dream. My (also UK-based) university has been working on a new student records management project for years that's been incredibly ill-fated. It's destined to re…

My feed reader works by running once a day, at roughly the same time every day, and sending me an email of all of the things it's not seen before. Because of this I've not actually…

I do find it a little bit funny that there's a quote in the article that says "A Kindle is a text device! There is no need for updates." and yet it runs an entire Linux installatio…

I got my ADHD diagnosis privately (mostly because of the length of the NHS waiting lists, and I'm currently waiting on a NHS RTC provider to transfer my care there) and I pay the t…

There is the fundamental thing of skeletal structure and build though - people naturally are entirely different shapes, regardless of fat or excess weight, wich is what the comment…

Later sections of the article detail how there are multiple different safety features integrated to guard against various different failures triggering the magnetron with the door …

Duplicate thread of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972610

I've been getting some of these these to my wildcard domain - I've had sign-up messages sent to diddy@ and epstein@ , which is... odd. And no, I can't say I've ever used those addr…

If one can fit :P

Medicated, diagnosed ADHD-haver speaking. Unmanaged ADHD is dangerous, and incredibly detrimental to people's lives, but the level of such may not be entirely apparent to somebody …

I really don't like this sentiment: > "Because I can get an answer from an LLM (which does need to be verified) in less than a minute versus the hours or days I would have to wait …

Yeah, mine is also a little bit ridiculous. I think Spotify encourages a certain overconsumption of music; for me, the things on my liked list are not necessarily things that I val…

I do enjoy the Spotify Wrapped stuff, but after moving partially to selfhosting Navidrome for a growing collection of rips and DRM-free purchases, I've been scrobbling everything (…

For that to work, we would first need to make those blue collar jobs into ones that actually pay well enough for people to thrive instead of merely survive

I love that it's possible to boot a raw Linux kernel this way; I only learned about it very recently when working on a university project. It makes me want to fiddle around with it…

Both can be a laughable failure at once!

Older versions historically haven’t worked very well, but I’ve not tried with newer copies.

190,813,414 and a bit times round the equator if you place them long edge to long edge

These saw use in my secondary school for SEND kids as late as 2019. I did not realise just how old they were.

I see the contradiction there! The bit about the "aims of the module" comes from its aims to get people thinking in a certain way about security, something I definitely already had…

The professor did take this very well, as it happened - he asked me to come along to one of his office hours to discuss how I did it and what I might do to prevent it, among other …

Ha, thanks for the heads up

Author here - yep! It is, that was a typo in the article.

There's a pretty clear line between "this inheritance is enough to make you comfortable and sort you out for life" and "this inheritance will make you rich beyond your own comprehe…