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Perhaps "uncapped" rather than "unlimited" would be a better term for us to start using

I'm sure someone can get it smaller than this (save as .html) Do This Do Nothing

Been giving me the error tvq-pb-101 on my TV when trying to play. Seemed to be working on the Android app, though.

I'm thinking of building a lego punch card reader for my 8 bit breadboard computer, and I like going down rabbit holes like this... And I ended up here: https://www.masswerk.at/key…

Saw a Tekever AR5 [1] fixed wing UAV on flightradar [2], and that led me to a Serious Incident report where both engines switched off as it was preparing to land. Fortunately an ex…

Ha - did the same phishing thing with our RM Nimbuses in the school computer lab. Wrote a turbo pascal program that showed the same login UI as the Nimbus. Logged into my own accou…

This is what I tell our junior devs. I remind them that the "next developer" may well be themselves in a year's time.

He only finished last week - all goes into the research project. More here: https://monicawilde.com/the-wildbiome-project/

A forager friend of mine has just completed participating in a gut biome study (in conjunction with the UK Zoe project), where he and other foragers have been only eating wild fora…

I semi-regularly refer colleagues to this article I read some years back "The Interruptible Programmer" - it argues that it's hard to stay in the zone, so instead accept that you'r…

https://xkcd.com/627/ (Tech Support Cheat Sheet)

I've always thought of baking as a science and cooking as an art (although both are on a spectrum from art to science).

https://www.androidcentral.com/what-else-can-i-do-my-stadia-... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33054216 )

I remember using dogpile [1] (which was a search engine aggregator) - the results from google were consistently better than altavista, so over time I gravitated directly to google …

> If anyone did have a credit card attached to their account, they're looking at it from the fraud angle. Everyone else is wondering if they're going to try to force some kind of d…

Prior to this the contract let the employer claim rights over all IP I created unless specifically exempted. From this: https://www.russell-cooke.co.uk/insight/briefings/2020/intel…

Urgh - I got one of these - completely forgot that I'd set up a fogbugz account years ago. Don't know if these invoices are as a result of a hack, or whether it's because it's now …

I've managed to get specific exclusions for IP I've worked on as a side project, and more recently got my employer to include the majority of the github "balanced employee ip agree…

I once went for an interview, setup by a recruitment agency, in a town nearby. The job looked great, and it was a step up for my career. It was for a mature company that made softw…

lol, haven't seen that for years, although I was expecting a rickroll :)

Yes, even getting copy /paste functionality to allow a user to click a button to copy a piece of text needed a bit of flash. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6355300/copy-to-cli…

Fun to play. Any reason consolas isn't there? (My winner was Anonymous Pro)

Seems like it... Searching for "google" brings back a load links to images (that might be hosted on some google static url perhaps), with some random summary text that seems to hav…