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For sure, but it doesn’t pervade public consciousness in the same way. Not sure why, perhaps because the memory of mass-scale war has faded with the previous generations.

I love that I see this on hacker news of all places. As an east-anglian I would definitely second this opinion. Times are a bit harder now but there are still so many great breweri…

I didn’t say God only wants people to have sex for reproduction. There are two purposes in this philosophy: reproduction, and the deepening of marital unity

I’m not supporting it, but how is it inconsistent? I can speak more to the Catholic view than the evangelical, but if you accept the initial premise that there is a creator God the…

Because in their philosophy sex serves a purpose (procreation and the deepening of the marital union). Anything that doesn’t support those two aims (contraception, abortion, gay ma…

I don’t have hard evidence, but when I was a kid I enjoyed the children’s book ‘Five children and it’, written ~1900 The children cart their two year old sibling around with them e…

I knew of Fabrice, and have admired him for many years…but who is DHH?

That’s great! It’s very much not the norm here in general tho, in my experience two weeks would be the max people would take off contiguously.

I think the idea is that while individuals will absolutely find ways round it, it should help to reduce the network effect of everyone a kid knows being already on it. How true tha…

I agree, another example is the line ‘lots of things had to be done by hand’. I think a more human narrative would be describing the discovery that thing X that we take for granted…

Maybe there are different sized pints, but in the uk a pint of beer is about 200 calories. Depends on your social circle of course, but it’s pretty standard to have two or three pi…

Thank you for sharing!

I’m interested in how this works in practise - I guess you’ve written a skill to do code review, then your Claude.md file tells it to use it after every change as a bg task? So doe…

There are! https://business.bt.com/public-sector/street-hubs/

It’s also a very western view - block printing was a thing in China well before this. I don’t know, but I suspect there are older surviving presses there or in Asia more generally.…

Yeah I’ve had the same thought. You can get cheap kits but the instructions tend to be vague/machine translated from Chinese. I think there’s a gap in the market for quality kits w…

Plants are nice…but, from your link: “These results are not applicable to typical buildings, where outdoor-to-indoor air exchange already removes volatile organic compounds (VOCs) …

I also agree co2 levels are super important, but I’m wondering: in your situation isn’t air pollution from the motorway a concern? Not sure how to balance that one

I am probably one of the few people here that used this ‘in anger’. Around 15 years ago I would typeset orders of service in tex for our college chapel, and enjoyed typesetting the…

You can…but, won’t the frequency will be stable across the UK grid and these are all in London. Secondly, pretty sure they all use DC motors, so no hum

Out of interest, why does that seem a strange methodology?

Out of interest, why does it sound kind of crazy? Here, pets have always had to be identifiable: historically with a collar, but microchips have been required for some years now as…

I used to work for a large enterprise, and tried to get vim ‘approved’ for internal use. I remember this charityware clause caused our legal department to get tied up in all sorts …

I think this is probably quite dependent on what’s normal for ISPs in the region. In the UK for example, every ISP router I’ve had runs a DNS server and it’s that which is given ou…

HTTPS does encrypt query parameters, all of the HTTP request goes inside the encrypted session. The only thing outside is the hostname, if the connection is not using the latest ve…