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Beware trying to make linguistic jokes in another language. It's "popty-ping" which is slang for a microwave oven.

Seriously? I have to provide my personal details before I can find out what it costs to subscribe? WTF.

Looks good. However the sign up process takes far too many clicks to eventually get to "Select your subscription level" then I get: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error…

Oddly enough I was just thinking the same thing. From what I can remember every ( Android) app that I've ever installed has come from a recommendation from somewhere else. I can't …

There are apparently a couple of rail gauges changes necessary at the moment - https://www.railfreight.com/beltandroad/2020/01/30/four-ways...

I suggest that you don't read up on how penicillin was discovered then!

The BBC is reporting that both UK and Italian governments say that the doses were destined for Belgium. I haven't got a direct link, it's in the BBC's rolling updates.

That's an excellent channel for train ride videos. Mind you I would love it even more if they did one with a 360 degree camera at the front of the train!

> You cannot sell GPL licensed software Wrong

A desktop tool to assist with planning a piece of writing using the book architecture method ( https://thefriendlyeditor.com/tag/the-book-architecture-meth... ) Uses GTK and is rel…

This absolutely.The good stuff is still out there but it's been diluted to homeopathic levels by the infestation of the "look at me" marketing crud.

... and that Mr Assange is how you skip bail with style.

Agreed although there are probably easier ways to achieve stable temperatures, e.g. a cellar. The rest is definitely marketing hype. For remuage the sparkling wine bottles are slow…

Depending on your use cases OpenStreetMap may be suitable. For commercial use you probably need to set up your own servers but that can work to your advantage in that you're better…

He's not detained and he's perfectly free to leave the embassy. When he does he'll be charged with jumping bail, something the UK court system takes a dim view of. After that who k…

You make a good point about the ego thing. We had several enquiries from customers who would prefer custom development rather than make small changes to their business processes so…

+1 for the Lilypond documentation. It's very informative. I use Frescobaldi ( http://frescobaldi.org ) for my Lilypond editing and find it pretty good.

Also FTA ... "We should note that BMW still leads if you include SUV sales"

Agree 100% and that was my philosophy as well. They key phrase in your comment is "when it doesn't appear to be necessary" In my experience long hours are rarely necessary and cert…

Life imitating art once again - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clochemerle ( The BBC adaptation, available on DVD, is also excellent IMHO )

FTA: "I work on Chrome, on Windows, focused on performance. Investigating this hang was actually my job."

+1 for text only information. I investigated this a few years ago with the intention of auto-generating a news podcast for my train commute. The audio part never happened but I aut…

It was, as well as the Automatic Train Protection (ATP) and Automatic Train Operation (ATO) systems. I worked on part of the track to train comms system of the subsequent Victoria …