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Location: Holmfirth, UK Remote: Yes (remote-first; UK/EU hours, happy to overlap US), or hybrid if nearby (Leeds/Manchester) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Embedded C/C++, Z…

I work across 10+ repos for different clients and want to give clients year-end summaries of the work I've done. So I built a tool that scans my git history and generates polished …

You can get retaining clips to hold it on. While these can be a bit fiddly, I’ve found them good enough for bench testing with no legs tag connect https://www.tag-connect.com/produ…

I bought a model Y in ‘22. I had some initial problems like a creaky back seat and the floor popping like a jam lid, but after a few service visits those were resolved and since it…

I use o1, mainly to - write well-defined and self-contained bash, python, powershell scripts to automate tasks - give it an error (often from a build tool) and ask it to help fix i…

That’s what we’ve been doing for a while now - why hasn’t it worked? I guess we could deregulate and approve more building, but then we end up with a load of empty boxes of substan…

Housing stock is growing faster than population. There are other more complex issues behind our inflating housing market than just ‘not enough homes’, but nobody seems to want to t…

We actually have excess housing in the UK: https://positivemoney.org/2023/01/more-than-building-new-hou...

Like in the US, democracy in the United Kingdom is faltering. Our first past the post electoral system means the Tories can retain power with a third of the (active) electorate vot…

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/apps-on-arm-x8... Yes, but not for drivers (so device manufacturers have to write drivers specifically for ARM)

I’m a firm believer in distributed generation and storage, i.e. solar on the roof and battery on premises. This has the added benefits of reducing load on the grid and increasing r…

There are several problems with fission (probably fusion too) as I understand it: 1. Cost per MW compared to renewables (~$150 vs ~$40 and falling). Here in the UK the government i…

> Well yeah, that's a sudden sound. My point precisely. But you are saying that isn’t like an aircraft - why? > So why don't you hear from your observation point the airplane (or a…

Unfortunately, this is very wrong! Why does it have to be a sudden sound? The effect the article describes is the same as eg thunder, except an aircraft is continuously moving and …

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.ft.com/content/dbf166ce-...

“Swift 5.5 is a massive release” Then shouldn’t it be Swift 6?

Same. I struggle to find time to get through each edition, but I don't mind paying the subscription to support quality journalism.

As the post office is such an old organisation (350 years), it used to have its own armed guard, has its own investigations branch and conducts its own prosecutions. The police wou…

In this fictitious world I'm sure there would be other problems, perhaps some we can't foresee and might look like privilege to us today. We don't complain about "issues of the poo…

> If 90% of the population had a (sustainable) lifestyle of current dollar millionaires, and the remaining 10% had a (sustainable) lifestyle of dollar billionaires, there would be …

I think it’s important to note that due to soil deficiencies (because of intensive farming) and factory farming, 90% [1] of B12 supplements are given to livestock. Regardless of yo…

Same here. Another good quality of the HP instant ink printer I have is that the print head is built into the cartridge - so no more clogged up print heads, which always seemed to …

>A big part of the contact tracing protocol (which was originally the DP3T protocol) is implemented by Apple-Google in a part of the system called GAEN. This part has no available …

> The UK "hack" for the bluetooth was quite clever from what I saw - in essence they implemented the "background discovery of an iPhone" feature. I don't think the government deser…

Perhaps IQs would have increased more without pollution?