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Nature is such a good source of inspiration, the "perturb" approach reminded me of [fixational eye movement][1] but maybe that's only a clear link in retrospect. [1]: https://en.wi…

I just finished reading A Deepness in The Sky by Vernor Vinge which I totally enjoyed and as I read it reminded me of the scale and depth of Banks' Culture novels.

Love the sight of the Oz Harvest[1] bright yellow trucks combating food waste here in Australia. 1. https://www.ozharvest.org/fight-food-waste/

A much shorter article covering the same map: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/reading-pa...

[ServiceStack OrmLite][1] does just that, all our development is done locally using SQLite but then deployments use MySQL. We do fall into the 'program is simple enough' category t…

The second guess was "Is it Grandma?" but that was definately a bit of a joke. Just not many other candidates they could come up with for lady of prominence that would make it on a…

My seven year old was looking at some (commonwealth) coins and asked who the lady (queen elizabeth II) was on the back. I asked who they thought it was, first guess was "Is it Siri…