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Nice timing! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c9q91dnljpeo

You are Brian Bilston, and I claim my £5

Now it’s our turn to embrace, extend …

The Glaswegian would be incorrect in his insistence: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/what-is-legal-ten...

There’s also the amazing Crossness, which does have occasional steaming days. And if you’re in Manchester the Museum of Science and Industry has a great collection of small and lar…

Not sure that I’d want to lie down with a book on a slab of concrete.

Snails? These are MARINE snails, soldier! Oorah!

You’re all set!

Sounds a bit like the First System from Gancarz’s The Unix Philosophy.

No, but the only two people that I personally know who voted for Brexit, my partner’s parents, were both retired. They did it as a protest because they never thought that it would …

Nigerian Prince scam 101. Just send another payment to cover disbursement costs and the money will be with you real soon now.

Some brass neck coming from the Daily Mail who championed Andrew Wakefield.

It’s bizarre that one needs to do all this via a keyboard/monitor interface. Nearly thirty years ago when I used to work on Silicon Graphics kit everything from powering on and off…

The college graduation version of the company owner speaking to an employee: “You see that Ferrari out there on the parking lot? If you work really, really hard this year and meet …

I guess that “well” wouldn’t have sold many books.

Reminds me of the quote in the original Westworld movie: “ These are highly complicated pieces of equipment… almost as complicated as living organisms. In some cases, they’ve been …

And now for EU visitors to the US.

I don’t think that the good guy/bad guy reputation referred to is solely about firing a couple thousand people.

I must have missed the bit where Steve Jobs was trying to create “legion” of his offspring, supported far-right parties in Europe and tried to foment civil war in the UK. Guess I’l…

Research. Not implementation.

Hey! The president eats BigMacs dontcha know! Admittedly that’s because he’s an overgrown child, but what the hey.

(u)WSGI must surely get a mention here?!

Kids vape now anyway, so it’s a vanishingly small proportion of people, who would be able to get their fix anyway via a far less harmful source. It’s a foul product that belongs in…

Zip is a piece of cake. I had need to embed noVNC into an app recently in Golang. Serving files via net/http from the zip file is practically a one-liner (then just a Gorilla webso…

“an excursion” is even more mad. He heard the word “incursion” and thought that it sounded cool if he posted it