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I guess the name is intending to evoke the "batteries included" metaphor, but it seems pretty terrible to me. If we're sticking with the crates/cargo metaphor, surely this should b…

NIMBYism and BANANAs are certainly a problem, but this is the planning departments themselves acting capriciously , failing to even apply the law correctly, or having extremely one…

Great site. This data should really be more accessible. Planning in the UK is a total crapshoot, subject to the whims of the planning authorities. In our case, a simple rear extens…

I wrote streampager a few years ago to scratch a similar itch. It works well enough for my own uses (and is/was used in library form as the built-in pager for sapling and jj). I th…

I don't believe demand for labour has increased. We used to force children as young as 6 to enter the labour force, and people used to work 6.5 days per week. Demand for labour has…

I don't know about mainland Europe, but in the UK it really was exclusively about CO2 emissions per distance travelled, to the extent that Vehicle Excise Duty (the annual tax you p…

The visual IDEs of the 90s (MSVC, Borland Delphi, heck even MS Visual Basic) were way more tightly integrated, performant and usable than anything we have today, despite running on…

Or DNS. I think the article is just nonsense.

The love for diesel came from a catastrophic misunderstanding and the resulting belief that CO2 must be reduced at all costs . Diesel engines of the past produced slightly less CO2…

I think this was just more of a function of technology. Good quality capacitive touchscreens only really started to become available in the mid 2000s, and even the early ones weren…

The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that the "middle class" was a fiction invented by the capital class to divide the working class in two and pit them aga…

We only know that they're good enough to be used for free, so all we can assert that their current value is $0.

It always reminds me of the shade Apple threw at Windows Vista. Chickens came home to roost. https://youtu.be/8CwoluNRSSc

When the smell-cartridge runs out, the audio and video mute too.

> Unless those are actually padded to 32 bits in the VM or something. They are.

> They conspired with a rogue hashtag ChatGPT thinks # is called "hashtag"? :(

If they could get away with paying 10-20% less, don't you think they'd do it now in a heartbeat?

Why would any insurance company insure against an inevitability?

The legal limit for the security deposit is five weeks (or six weeks when the annual rent exceeds £50k). source: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/security-deposit-cap-redu...

No. And that's basically the point of the concerns everyone has.

There was also the Icelandic bank collapse, which was multiple banks totalling tens of billions of euros. I personally lost a large chunk of savings in that, and was eventually bai…

For me it was the flashing terminal cursor.

If we're talking TCO we need to calculate the TCO of coal and gas as including the cost of the destruction of the entire planet's climate.

The real word here is "monopolisation".

You also don't need to pay it to own a vehicle. You are allowed to own a vehicle without paying this tax as long as you promise not to drive it on the road (SORN). So by that logic…