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I took my three-year old, intact bearded collie for a walk where we met a couple with a spaniel bitch. They carried on walking, and about 10 minutes later (when they were a good di…

And immediately anyone mentions restricting traffic, they're all about the disabled, older people, ambulances and essential deliveries, when really all they seem to want is to driv…

> Why can't we, as a society, react with the same effectiveness to air pollution? In the UK at least, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) is a powerful lobby grou…

You can remove the alias later, email to that address will bounce. I do the same with my own domain on postfix/dovecot.

There's also a certain prejudice against people who do practical things, which I have certainly been aware of while working in IT.

There's nothing empirical about it, it's just that journalists are not bound to mention the Polish contribution when discussing Enigma, just as they don't mention many other nuance…

> even then they can't give credit where it's due You might as well say not enough credit goes to Tommy Flowers, a man I have always admired for his ground-breaking work building C…

> Kellogg's says these lids will still produce the distinctive "pop" associated with the product. No it isn't. Is this "pop" really such a big deal that they've been holding back o…

Shepard's Prayer.

> the bad connotation due to piracy made this protocol not standard Back when Resilio Sync was known as Bittorrent Sync, I proposed it as a file-sharing solution between multiple l…

I had this happen when I put up some shutters in my room. There were about six ventilation holes at the top of each one, and the scene outside was projected onto my wall on a brigh…

But also "NDB is ideally positioned to contribute and lead change in this industry by addressing the primary bottleneck in EV vehicles, the battery, one that can last as long as th…

Most of the discussion so far seems to be that there's no way to get sufficient energy density to power electric vehicles. But what they say is it provides "28,000 years of battery…

Dramatic title for a post which basically says "use tmux".

I read the article with interest. Thanks for taking the time. My father-in-law forever refused to buy an upright freezer because "as soon as you open the door, all the cold air fal…

I like the additional monitor on its side. Terminal window plus Telegram open in that, or a code editor with web browser on the horizontal screen. Even two 24" monitors side-by-sid…

I wondered about that 'soccer' thing as well. It was always perfectly good English when I was growing up, and at school we used it to distinguish the game from rugby. The origin my…

> On the whole the ‘z’ alternative has nothing whatever to do with America I was told that using a 'z' is old-fashioned, and using it or an 's' is optional - just be consistent. On…

See also Tim Hunkin: https://www.timhunkin.com/94_illegal_engineering.htm

Sorry I missed your reply. My experience of cycling in the UK is many cyclists already go to great lengths to make themselves visible, and it makes no difference at all to close pa…

Well, the thing about Google dropping products keeps coming up because ... they keep dropping products. I'm not sure every google-related thread goes that way.

So you're telling potentially distracted drivers that hey, it's OK to be distracted, the AI will take care of that for you? Like with Tesla's auto-pilot, it doesn't matter what the…