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We actually ran something similar in the UK a couple of years ago but had to shut it down due high costs. However we recently figured out how to do it in a way that won't bankrupt …

Courtsdesk are rather misrepresenting this situation. Quoting from an urgent question in the House of Lords a few days ago: > HMCTS was working to expand and improve the service by…

Iain Sharp has built two physical Lunar Lander games, one of which is on permanent exhibition at the Under The Pier Show in Southwold, UK: https://www.underthepier.com * 2009: http…

I've always been a fan of the https://everytimezone.com interface, which seems like it may have been acquired at some point. Still works brilliantly though!

This is the second time one of my posts has caused issues for the chaos.social admins. I am so, so sorry. The hacker news DDOS is real. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…

This is my toot, but the credit (and possibly the link) should be to @gigabecquerel: https://chaos.social/@gigabecquerel/109818433760462038 There are other stations on the U-Bahn w…

> Liz Upton, Raspberry Pi’s cofounder and chief marketing officer, told BuzzFeed she believes that much of the issue stems not from the hiring of the former police officer who admi…

Acquisition was 2007, radio shut down in 2014. CBS was hands-off for a long time but you know how this story goes.

I wrote this! Of all the easter eggs I've hidden its still my favourite. Wired even wrote an awful article about it at the time: https://www.wired.com/2010/08/robot-laws/ Absolutel…

Regret to inform you that it almost certainly isn't a bug - the flash died. It's unrecoverable. Large numbers of pixel 3/3xl's have started dying in the last year and it looks like…

Actually I use FAST keypoint detection, which is used to repeatably find "good" points for tracking using computer vision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_from_accelerated_s…

I made something similar that runs in the browser using your webcam, mostly to visualise tracking keypoints. It works best if you're in a well-lit place. * https://github.com/Jonty…

If you're interested in this, you may enjoy "Building Git" by James Coglan - a comprehensive book that takes you through reimplementing git in Ruby. https://shop.jcoglan.com/buildi…

That is exactly what IRCCloud does.

You're looking for https://www.irccloud.com

I believe MusixMatch has timing data (it's what the Shazam karaoke mode uses), however I'm unsure if the free API allows access to it. Worth a look though. https://developer.musixm…

I actually had a version using force-directed layout very similar to yours, took me a while to decide on this version! Each colour is a verse, fading through the spectrum. An unfil…

Hah, I did something similar around ~2007 when I was at Last.fm and never got around to publishing it. Nice work! This is the only example I can find lying around in my backups: ht…

You should try Spotify's "Discover Weekly" personalised autogenerated playlist, it's been built by the Echo Nest team and learns directly from what you listen to. https://press.spo…

IRCCloud staffer here! Glad you like it, this year is going to be a big one for us - we're actively looking at how we can better serve large open communities, and I would suspect t…