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Yes. Billboards that condition you to stop looking at them sound awesome.

The National Garden Scheme is still a thing. https://ngs.org.uk/who-we-are/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/

It's very much related because the technology provides an excuse to ignore the infrastructure problems even when it isn't good enough.

Yeah, I like WPF and I still use it for my own apps. In fact, my own software is the only thing keeping me on Windows now. I really should take a look at Avalonia and port my stuff…

But Norway is part of the EEA and is therefore bound by many EU regulations.

This design also serves a business purpose. You can see at a glance if someone has this week's pass without carefully checking the date. Our local bus company does something simila…

There is precedent. The HTML title element cannot contain markup. Titles may be cited in many places and formatting may not be available. If a title requires formatting to convey i…

I've been forced to use github projects recently. If I change the label or status, say, of a task, the change takes its sweet time to propagate through the UI. Creating multiple ne…

Being pedantic, the COM vtable layout is defined independently of C++. The Windows headers used to (and maybe still do) have macros that could declare COM vtables as explicit struc…

I like this map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_cup_winners.svg

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Money is power. That is the problem with extreme wealth. It provides unaccountable power outside the democratic process. It is not surprising that an already powerful man wants eve…

It's quite frustrating. The story ends with: > four defendants refused to accept a plea deal and were set to be tried in April 2025 I can find loads of stories reporting those fact…

> We have always been in the business of discovering and understanding math, have we not? And the way we understand the maths is to do the maths. You can't outsource the maths to A…

There was a quicker tell: opening with "Ah".

Yes, but if a company publishes its trade secrets on the web you are entitled to read them and use them.

Yes. I'd gone round to see her and I checked her history to ensure it wasn't dodgy.

My mother tried to buy something on Amazon yesterday. It wouldn't let her check-out until she'd entered a code sent via WhatsApp. Which she doesn't have and doesn't want. She'll be…

This is a thing in show homes on new-build estates in the UK. British houses are often tiny.

Even NUMA is a "flat space of contiguous addresses". There's no bank switching or whatever. Yes, the access times are non-uniform, but that's orthogonal. The point of my comment to…

But physical memory is a giant flat space of contiguous addresses. Do you mean virtual memory?