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Nuclear scepticism… did you know that nuclear power plants need cooling? Germany is learning that lesson the hard way right now, just check the news, it really speaks for reducing …

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They acknowledge that in the article, and make it clear that it really refers to 1 BC.

"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision."

Not having literal strings in the source code, I do need to get a capital “R” somewhere and the name of the system being “IRIS” in system variable $ZV makes that easy and terse. Ap…

No you don’t - you can abbreviate it to just ‘K’ or ‘k’.

First job out of university and stuck around with it for the next dozen years, probably longer than sensible... in the context of maintaining a bag of software that got put togethe…

I did most of Advent of Code last year code golfing in MUMPS (running on Caché), with the additional challenge on up to and including day 7 doing without literals - that's to say n…

I count 23 instances of invective language or politicisation in that HUD statement, and that’s to say nothing of the supposed data behind this. How about blame wealth extraction by…

Likening non-Kelvin Kirk to Hornblower is so far off the mark…

The 888 in the top right corner back in the day: https://youtu.be/rAk94cq23HQ?si=JLJMSqbUjKUsFcdQ just amazing that teletext was understood and ubiquitous to such an extent that ju…

They literally mention Vrij Nederland as a source as near enough the first thing in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrij_Nederland and https://www.vn.nl/microsoft-ambten…

That Duffy sent this letter to the governors: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/memorandum/Freedom_to_Drive_Initiat... Asking them to maximise roadway capacity (that’s to say just one more …

It is of course, one step between this view and them being punished for having that view. One small step between being declared a luddite and the powers that be deciding that luddi…

It feels also this speech was not really in any way related to AI per se. It was the Ayn Rand-esque hero, an Übermensch, who of course formed Google out of nothing proclaiming that…

And even if there weren’t any jarring errors, and rest assured there’s about a billion of them, there’s no appeal to this. It’s all context free short unassociated clips of pretty …

And here I’m thinking that my text editor should have zero interaction with anything git other than as a diff viewer. lazygit is text editor agnostic and works brilliantly to give …

It was a telegram, not a letter. As also immortalised at the end of the 1968 episode of ‘From The Earth To The Moon’, attributed there to an apparently fictitious person.

Because at this point all the people in all the other countries do not care who you voted for, especially not after he caused an insurrection and a Democratic Party administration …

lol, others are saying elections to solve economic concerns. If that solves it why do you keep re-electing Republicans given this context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._econom…

Getting rid of the delusion of American exceptionalism in how politics is conducted. In other words, do something about the two party system, or the pardon power or any number of t…

Crazy suggestion, just connect two normal keyboards. Particularly if the left one is numpad-less you’ll get much of the idea for sure. They might be a smidgeon further apart than m…

Get any satellite imagery of the UK, like on Google Earth. Even at a very zoomed out level, with London and Birmingham but an inch apart, you'll instantly spot the bit of HS2 they'…

SponsorBlock. Granted, doesn’t do much for my iPhone but on computers it’s a solved problem.

How? Near enough no one was using the Kunrei system for any of that. If anything this will make it more consistent or at least no worse. Macrons are the biggest inconsistency but t…