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Not sure what the point of this is. Why would you need to personalise your payment reminders? If you're sending enough of them out that it's worth automating, you could just write …

SRM 2387 pairs well with a cup of ISO 3103. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

I expect that this is mainly due to AI and hardware. The US is about to lose its status as the world’s biggest agricultural exporter to Brazil.

Adding to this, US foreign and military policy is increasingly chaotic, so other countries are quietly disengaging, and tariffs are slowly unravelling the US’ trade relationships. …

I live in rural England where the road network is medieval, lane markings represent the opinion of someone who’s never driven a car and getting personal with a hedge is just part o…

> The picture above is a clue. In the 18th and then 19th century there was a sequence of taxes on glass. Most famous of all is the window tax of the 18th century which, in fairness…

It was designed by the Road Research Laboratory and has been measured to have better traffic throughput than the conventional roundabout it replaced.

These were used in Australia on the Newnes railway line. Newnes was a shale oil mining town; its history is particularly colourful because its remoteness made it difficult to impor…

I started self-hosting my email server earlier this year. I use maddy[0] as my email server and route outgoing mail through MailPace[1] to avoid being memory-holed (despite having …

I think Dualit targets about half of these market positions.

> When Deckers, the company behind fleece-lined UGG boots, recently took Quince to court over its lookalike boots, it tried to bar Quince from referencing “dupe culture” at trial. …

As someone with many heretical opinions, I’ve found it very easy to avoid accusations of heresy by just shutting up. The right to free speech is not an obligation to speak freely. …

Everyone agrees C has problems, but there’s no consensus on what those problems are. People build ‘better Cs’ to solve the problems they see in the language, and offer them to the …

There's a pretty good depiction of them in David L. Robbins' Last Citadel .

Dave Plummer is the software engineering equivalent of the Navy Seal copypasta.

TBF, some Australian accents put a rising intonation at the end of sentences, as though the speaker is always asking their interlocutor for approval. Just another thing that's remi…

Come on mate, you can't go around implying that you've actually read the legislation. This is HN, you have to blindly trust what the free speech absolutists say about it.

A more serious case of unsportsmanlike conduct that was (and still is) within the Laws of Cricket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyline

IIRC, their operation relies on enormous vacuum tubes that the BBC can’t get replacements for any more.

One of the things I've noticed here in Britain is that journalists don't even try to make sense of events, and instead the 'analysis' is just the opinions of uninformed bystanders.…

You chose to buy the car with the big blind spots. You’re responsible for checking your blind spots, by moving your head as necessary. This is part of the driving test. Your poor c…

It will matter to you when you’re sentenced, though. Speaking as a fellow immigrant, your attitude is what gives immigrants a bad name worldwide.

> Those A pillars are MASSIVE liabilities in the UK where people just hop right out onto "zebra crossings" expecting the right-of-way to be yielded to them. Those pedestrians do ha…

> Sorry. You can refuse the covid vaccine, but that won't stop everyone else from blithly accepting it. I agree with this part, but then, I personally don't have a problem with eve…