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Including developer tooling in a Docker image is missing one of the really useful things about Docker: not needing all that stuff. By using a multi-stage build, you can do all the …

I recently bought a WD Red HDD drive for my NAS direct from WD, and it arrived in a crushed box. Now, things do get damaged in transit, but I don't want to install a drive, start u…

Some of these don't look like checkboxes at all, and wouldn't trigger any indication that they could be changed. For example, if I saw number 44 next to a line of text, I'd think "…

Ever read "The Machine Stops" by EM Forster? Over 100 years old, and it's got Facebook style interactions!

Well, according to "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O" (Neal Stephenson and Nicole Garland), it was all about magic!

Was going to mention Interface! It's very much Cambridge Analytica vibes - you feel that there are teams as described doing pretty much the same things, just without the direct bra…

Kind of. I picture it as being a function of input to output, so if the input changes, the output does too, but the output change is based on what changes have been made by the pla…

Yes, I imagined that a component could provide some inputs (e.g. Grain) and outputs (e.g. Bread) with some default link between the two, and that would apply to all instances of th…

Everything sim. You start with, say, Sim City. You find that your rail network isn't working properly, so you switch contexts to a kind of Transport Tycoon style game, where you ca…

Nice - although the coverage locally is a bit spotty (I'm not talking missing shows, I'm talking missing theatres!).

I have a 5yo and play a wide range of games with her. She has various "learning games" from Orchard Toys. She has some junior versions of various mainstream games (e.g. Scrabble, D…

This is such a good point. I've been pushing back for quite a while, and have generally had a positive response where the company revises the contract wording to a more acceptable …

If you link to a page, whatever text you put in as the body of the link will remain. The link itself won't go anywhere, but the content you have added to it will remain. In this ca…

I was looking at this a couple of weeks ago, and compared to some alternatives (e.g. opencti) it seemed a lot less polished. It was still easier to get running than Cortex though, …

The keyboard only shows the top four boards though!

I've recently switched from using a 15 or 17 inch laptop along with a 27 inch curved screen to a 13 inch laptop with a pair of 28 inch 4k flat screens, and am really liking it. I r…

No, they like @gmail.com, but don't want people getting gmail for their own domains without paying.

Historically, they've not been able to migrate purchases from g suite to Gmail - I've been asking on roughly an annual basis for the last 5 years. I really hope they are going to c…

Another alternative look at the Frozen story is in Disney's Twisted Tales version ( https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Conceal,_Don%27t_Feel_(A_Twis... ) which shows an alternative way…

From looking at the news, the US seems far poorer in day-to-day terms. For example, searching "living in cars" then "uk" or "usa" gives some results for each. The UK ones mostly ta…

I would like to see simulation games which work together. For example, combining a transport simulator, a city simulator, a production simulator and a theme park simulator. You bui…

You mean https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366540/Dyson_Sphere_Prog... ?

Matt Haig's "The Humans" talks about humanity finding the answer to the Riemann Hypothesis being feared universally - it's simultaneously very important to the plot, and a convenie…

It's definitely on the label of my daily medication (in the UK), but it was interesting to see how the interaction seems to be fairly specific to grapefruit. Do either of the ances…