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They did back around 2008. I used Wiki on a stick - see https://stickwiki.sourceforge.net/which was kind of neat) but after a few years, Chrome etc stopped letting it save itself.

A bit more nuanced attack on Stockwell. He and his team started with 3,248 relevant studies of which 3,125 were immediately discarded. This left 123 cohort studies to which they ad…

There's diet versions of it available. Tesco in the UK sell a really nice one that is 1Kcal (one Cal) per 330 ML can.

This NS piece is complete misinformation. This below is by a writer who has been writing about this sort of thing for years. "Tim Stockwell has been up to his old tricks. In a stud…

Here in the UK, almost 17% (about nine million people) live outside towns and villages. A trip to the local shop can be several miles on roads that don't have pavements and public …

Wouldn't there be a better outcome for those misidentified and publicly slandered and inconvenienced if they sued for stress? Some unlucky sod could have a heart attack from this.

No mention of the fraud involved in pushing Germany to phase out Nuclear? https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/27/new-document-release-rev...

I recommend Jutoh. It's a commercial (but not expensive) cross-platform system written by the WxWidgets creator Dr. Julian Smart. It's on Jutoh.com. It's very good with images, tab…

Why do people keep repeating this lie; there is no Brexit disaster. Life goes on as normal in post Brexit Britain; lockdowns did way more harm than Brexit and we've mostly recovere…

Watch some old British comedy series. BlackAdder series 2-4. Also with Rowan Atkinson, Not the Nine O'Clock news.

I wrote the postal game Quest back in 1989-1990, a 1,000 player postal game. 40,000 lines of Turbo Pascal. Others came after and fixed some of the bugs and it's now run over the in…

Did anyone say "Mysterons"?

There are no hard and fast definitions of programming or coding. To me they are the same but coding is more like slang. The formal name for both is software development.

From the BMJ *British Medical Journal). "Analyses of the dose of alcohol consumed showed that 2.5–14.9 g alcohol (about ≤1 drink) per day was protective for all five outcomes compa…

The IMF forecasting accuracy for the UK has been out quite a lot. https://order-order.com/2023/01/31/all-hail-the-latest-imf-f... "Since 2016 the IMF has consistently underestimate…

I learnt original Pascal at University in 1979 (Queen's University Belfast). It was very spartan compared to what Turbo Pascal would later add. Strings were a type alfa and were te…

You think Labour wouldn't try and pull the same type of shit? The freedom loving "Lets have ID Cards" Labour party?

Other rankings of programming languages are: 1. RedMonk. Puts C++ at 7th. 2. StackOverflow Developer Survey (2022) puts it at 9th. 3. GitHub Octoverse puts C++ at 6th. 4. Reddit's …

There's no limit to the contempt I have for people who block roads and thus ambulances and result in needless deaths.

It's old but still working. Revealing the anatomy of cyoa books. https://samizdat.co/cyoa/ The flash animations don't work though.

I prefer text files, specifically the likes of WikidPad or Obsidian which let you use links to other documents.

This is a vile bit of legislation. See https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-...

I took a screenshot of the address and pasted it into OneNote. The 'Copy Text from Picture' extracted the text with no issues.

Or spend non-cash money - i.e. debit or credit cards. You can buy prepay credit cards that you top up with cash but I wonder how long those will exist?

Nope. Most people voted for Brexit because we wanted our sovereignty back. We welcome legal immigrants and 6 million or EU immigrants so have chosen to stay here after Brexit. We d…