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I had a client and they weren't to bothered if they sold the last item twice, they would call the customer, apologise, and offer a discount on an alternative and keep the sale.

I've built a site https://www clublaunchpad.com/ It's a Kickstarter for groups that want to feel like they are a club. This helps with the chicken and egg problem. UK only at the m…

This is good. I picked up a copy of the encyclopedia britannica from 1973 and quite enjoy browsing that rather than the internet. The articles seem well written, and as mentioned h…

We were discussing this last night. The solution seems to be we need to do very boring things each day, like stare at paint, watch grapes grow, etc, but then do that with different…

I've been self hosting it for 20 years. Best technical decision I ever made. Rock solid

Is this some kind of pre-AI crash long game? Does that make any sense?

I remember using a TUI for a Bank in the UK, and them switching to a web-based javascript system. Because the TUI forced keyboard interaction everyone was quick, and we could all f…

Xkcd Colour names based on a survey: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

I don't think the average horse is heavier than the average cow.

I'm on the octopus agile tariff that has 30 minute pricing and an API to query it. Prices for tomorrow published at 4pm today. So the pricing bit is sorted. Just need to make the d…

But if you're the only one doing it because the competition haven't figured it out, then you win in until they do. You can outbid on each ad.

Airsoft is probably played in a private woodland.

But "investment" as the water companies define it is every penny not taken as profit. Staffing costs? Investment! Fixing leaks? Investment! So that figure sounds like money above a…

The claim was a pub doesn't track your identity. I think I proved mine did.

My local knows exactly who I am, that I'm over 18, where I live, who my kids are, how old they are, what I like to drink etc.

Americans have complex post tax rules. I think their normal is a pre-tax figure. Also, it helps if you are comparing across territories I guess.

Hang on. If they are deterred, then by definition they are not valuable contributors. They have not contributed. If they have contributed, they were not deterred.

How surprising to find this here. I've just started making sourdough bread. It turns out that I can't make it like the local bakery, but actually, that's fine. I had to really thin…

I ran a ssh server for a while to store git repositories. We had some with secrets in and I didn't want them on github. I needed to provide read only access and read write access f…

Ultra processed people by Dr Chris van tulliken and for for life by Dr Tim Spector are good reading on this. The first is more focused on this issue.

I'm using the AMD version of the framework 13" laptop with a usb dock which cost £30. The dock has power display port usb A and c ports ethernet headphone jack and card readers. It…

I had a similar thing until I stopped eating a certain brand of muesli. A different brand with seemingly the same ingredients was fine. I think it's something to do with processing…

I'm trying to solve loneliness and improve civilisation.

If notes are stored as json maybe it would be easy to write a program to transfer notes from the old hash to the new one

This is how I feel actually. I live in the UK and the new government has started doing very sensible things. They are actually dealing with a lot of points made in the comments her…