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> You can disable the laptop PIN requirement in keepassXC Thanks for the pointer! I can see an option "Enable database quick unlock (Touch ID / Windows Hello)". It's a bit of a clu…

It's less precise than it pretends, in my opinion. At least, it gleefully drops precision in favour of artful insinuation. For example, in reference to Orwell and Strunk & White it…

Recently Claude Code said my authentication credentials had become invalid and I needed to log in again. I recorded the ridiculous number of steps this took: - Copy-paste link to b…

My reading is: "The agency would surely be panicking more than this if they didn't have an offline backup".

The DEI regulations were narrowly targeted. These are sweepingly based on "alignment with administration policies and priorities".

You can buy land in Northern England or Wales at £10k per acre. Even a large bowling centre wouldn't need more than a few acres. But you're right in general. Looks like this former…

That doesn't address anything unless you stake out and back up your position. Pro-Palestine and pro-Israel advocates both accuse the BBC of bias towards the other side.

For what it's worth, I stopped paying the license fee because of how the BBC sucked up to the Tories in the lead up to the 2019 GE. From Newsnight displaying images of Corbyn that …

In the UK you can send someone a Monzo link allowing them to pay directly and instantly into your account.

They might have meant to put that point in the Go section?

Interesting. Was it persistent, or just once? Their post about this functionality says: > This ability is intended for use in rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive…

What's more, you have little difficulty falling asleep any time, any place!

Isn't that "conventional wisdom"?

Yes and no. I think it's perfectly legitimate for someone to enjoy coding in assembly but not Python. And if someone comes over and talks about how much faster they can build thing…

> that doesn't make you or "democracy" better than a non-reader that may be a movie watcher addict I dunno. There's something to be said for having the focus to sit down and read t…

I don't think the joy of coding comes simply from writing lots of code. It's the act of precisely expressing one's internal thoughts into an physical medium, and watching it take e…

It's a nice self-referential loop. The definition of factoid is, itself, a factoid.

Sounds a little like the Thieves' Guild in Discworld. > The Thieves' Guild was established early in Lord Havelock Vetinari's rule of Ankh-Morpork. Lord Vetinari realised that what …

I'd be interested to know how almond butter gets to $22 per jar in a country that produces over 80% of the world's almonds. Years back I stayed in Davis California for a few months…

Speeches only show projected intent.

I had to put this one through Claude, but it boils down to: > A culture's felt sense of proportion, ratio, and spatial order manifest directly through the hands of masons and sculp…

UK and France are possibly more likely to retaliate, given the proximity.

As with many modern wars, it's hard to say whether the Iraq war was won or lost, because the goals are difficult to discern.

Wow, I just looked up how self-sufficient the island is and the answer is barely at all . Which initially seems surprising given the continual threat. But I guess they're counting …

Addictive behaviour is rarely cured by telling the addict to "just stop doing it".