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I find a conversation more distracting if it's relevant to me. If we have to cram developers into open plan offices then each feature team should be dispersed throughout the buildi…

2500ppm? Good grief. I notice a slight blunting of my mental edge at about 1000ppm. I always maintain enough ventilation to keep below about 800ppm. I don't guess; I monitor. At wo…

I'm a software engineer. I choose music or silence tactically. If I need to power myself through a task, I use music to do it. If I'm trying to solve a difficult problem or master …

Remember all the ghastliness with code pages that sprang up around Ascii, such that systems configured for different languages didn't agree about what characters most code points w…

How many people bemoaning Facebook's evils on HN still have Facebook accounts? Do what you know you ought to do. Stop feeding the beast. Set a better example. Close your account an…

The Hart Group is one of a number of overlapping organisations that target children and parents with vaccine-related misinformation: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58783711

As far as I know, they are. And, since I don't have a Facebook account, I can't find a way to submit a GDPR subject access request.

I'm sorry -- slip of the keyboard. Where I wrote "load-balancing" here yesterday (not once but twice), I should have written "traffic-shaping." I have only one Internet connection …

Take a look at https://www.gl-inet.com/ >. These boxes come with a nice, simplified GUI, but will run stock OpenWRT, which you can build yourself if you wish. I placed one of these…

I've found myself in a similar situation. What I've learnt is that good load-balancing makes a surprising difference. It won't help you back up your files to the cloud any faster, …

Regrettably, it can't.

Politicians, having long ago squandered their own credibility, are now working their way through someone else's. But it's not an easy partnership. Politicians, especially during an…

I voted yes. I get a flu jab every year, including this year.

This is an important and under-considered factor when people are deciding about getting vaccinated. Other groups of people who can't currently get vaccinated, at least in my countr…

I suggest that Western culture's understanding of risk is immature. Is it the case that driving at the speed limit is safe and driving 5% faster is dangerous? Of course not. Drivin…

For young people, the risk of death is low, but even young people can suffer from long Covid: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4470 >.

I'm really glad it did you do much good. For me, it was the other way round. When I used intermittent fasting (in the form of the 5:2 diet) to get my weight under control, I stoppe…

I the early Nineties, I had a good idea of what an ideal programming language would be. Then I encountered Perl, which was diametrically opposite to everything I thought I wanted. …