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Bookmarked. Definitely will use this for the Mongol Rally next year

There was a scare that BSE time bomb would explode in the UK in the 2010s As prions in children of 1990s brains would develop as they matured into adults. Never happened...

I would argue that growing up in a comfortable Western lifestyle is contributing to this infantilism and will be one of the contributors of the decline of the western world. If you…

No stress testing the servers, naughty naughty. Elon please hire me, I can use Jmeter to scale a 1000 users per second on my IBM Thinkpad to put load on the servers. /s

No, https://git-scm.com/downloads Github != Git

I think Github have already won the cultural dev war. I hear many a developer saying Github instead of "Git". A recent example from a mid level dev: "I'm gonna branch from the gith…

I currently need to take the car to the gym as I am recovering from a broken leg. I tried walking but by the time I got there I was in too much pain. Once my rehab is complete then…

Really appreciated Villeneuve adding small scenes to the movie like the gardener watering the date palms and the ecology outpost. It rewards people who read the book and also helps…

"It is I that must remain and bare the heavy burden of their failure..." https://youtu.be/u48vYSLvKNQ

1. Swag 2. Fancy swag (that is definitely not a bribe) 3. Being wined and dined by sales people (that is definitely not a bribe) 4. Networking 5. Learn niche aspects of a programmi…

CAN bus is a brilliant thing for car diagnostics and modification but with every good system normally has a sword of damocles. I would imagine my Passat which has a CAN interface o…

Slightly related - https://youtu.be/IQ_6-4MF79U?t=36

Beko is a Turkish company, not Eastern European.

Really cool, I have often wondered about the "maps" in the Russian helicopter cockpits. I think they also move depending on the heading and direction of the helicopter to show the …

Another piece of evidence that Mesopotamia was the cradle of civilisation.

Yea and that's the funny side, in UK you will find people trying to walk up mountains in trainers or crocs. However in the UK you are less likely to find someone hiking with a cros…

A gun for breakfast, lunch and a more formal gun for dinner.

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Probably someone just testing a spam bot on your site before deploying it for real.

Always wanted to visit it whenever I was next in Seattle, I guess I will need to wait a while though. In the UK we have a few smallish computer museums; one in Manchester Universit…

This is just the ol' media favourite of "violent video games alters human behaviour" but flipped 180 and refreshed with a trendy climate wrapper. Games for years have had dystopian…

As a Java dev who learned C++ at university the hate towards C++ is misplaced. C++ is a no thrills language which lets you have freedom but freedom to also shoot yourself in the fo…

I'm in the same boat, that I have contemplated starting a business making houmous as a street food vendor. The author's article does resonate with me but to add, I think the softwa…

Fundus are SAFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DelF6zEHXpE

It originated from Terry Davis the creator of TempleOS, but okay I get your point.