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There are loads of systems where every button and encoder has many functions, with modal or paged interfaces. But I'm trying to stick to a model of no hidden or ephemeral state wit…

I remember in the very early days as a hobbyist working with cgi perl scripts for forums or guest books where the script just edited the "static" content in place. The script would…

It is a life goal, for sure! Not necessarily one I'll be able to reach, but we have to have stretch goals :D

Catches me every time too. And it's so quick. You can go in to a shop to pick up a packet of crisps thinking it's daytime, but actually is quarter past 6, so you come back out and …

If you were a fashionable person, that's exactly what you'd be doing! ;) The cycle is roughly 30 years, and teenagers are revisiting the 90s trends right now.

-thorpe, from either old nose or Anglo saxon also shows another nice geographical line. Complements the defaults selected on the page nicely: https://placenames.rtwilson.com/#W3sid…

Unfortunately there are lots of materials run through a table saw which can trigger a sawstop. A false positive destroys the blade. Decent blades cost several hundred dollars, and …

Have you read Infinite Jest? Barely any of the book is really about it (the actual theme being a study of addiction is many forms), but the ostensive premise is that a video clip h…

I've been to enough boutique hotels in the Netherlands with clear glass doors from bedroom to bathroom to say that probably wasn't a "future" thing, just a Dutch thing...

Because then it would need more registers for the other purpose? But actually the decision about which general purpose registers to use for what is made at compile time (hence we'r…

It's an ML story. The article specifies that the current (now previous?) state of the art models are numerical, crunching vast equations representing atmospheric physics.

You can safely return that oyster card and get your deposit back now :D I live in London and recently passed a convenience store whose signage advertised the usual stuff: "Fresh ve…

Huh, last time I thought about it was the kickstarter in 2015,and I remember it being closer to £120. £40 is very reasonable :D

Here you go (2015): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ridebeeline/beeline-sma... I thought it looked fun, but no way to justify the price.

You still don't appear to get it though. The fact that there even exists an option (never mind a default) which does not scrub storage between use by different tenants is completel…

I was also given to understand that while boxes give optional privacy, a big part of their function in older theatres was to be seen , rather than specifically to see the play. Pre…

I'm not aware of an anime adaptation, but it does sound a bit like J G Ballard's High-rise.

Ireland is an independent country, not part of the UK. Pubs in the UK are much less like this than in Ireland, which I also believe are quite special. There are pubs like this in t…

My work laptop has a touchscreen. I've never used it, but other people use it by accident fairly often. Usually only once each though, the look of shock is sometimes even worth the…

I haven't checked if this works in mysql, but in postgres I would certainly reach for an index on the computed values, which it supports. Index the thing you're querying on...

Kind of the opposite of what you're asking for, but you might enjoy an earnest exploration of why it didn't happen: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...

It absolutely does not add clarity. Enough people do not even know what a cervix is, or whether they have one, that it's an obfuscation. One which harms women disproportionately, l…

> when baking Yeah, that's pretty important. Cooking is an art, bakery is a science. Like, for real, it's significantly more chemistry than most cooking, so the proportions do matt…

People wanted to believe they were incapable of considering or even conceiving of such a thing, so anti-thetical to the narrative they built sparring with some US law enforcement a…

Right, I misunderstood which vote were were talking about, sorry. I thought we were talking about voting on union action (e.g. to strike, or to accept a specific deal in a negotiat…