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Anyone got any thoughts on which Worms I should be buying on Steam? Worms Armageddon is on there, which is the one I remember from my childhood. Or am I better off with Worms WMD?

There are actually periodic tests for people over 40 in the UK. The GP comment is wrong.

Cynically - this sounds like an opportunity to sell you more medical care. The NHS isn't perfect, but one of the things it does well because of it's structure is minimise costs hol…

Does the 7 day turnaround hold up for more complex boards (8-12 layers, laser drilled, blind micro-vias etc.)? Not looking for a detailed quote - just a hand waving answer. I'm in …

Yeah, maximum concurrent clients being 50 is nothing and you're already seeing a large gap. That is the whole point of the BEAM - it scales well with concurrent stuff which is impo…

But that's the right lever! That gives the local voting population the ability to decide how much they're willing to put up with data centres. And a state that has excess water and…

It is genuinely useful on its own. I have enjoyed discovering the things I want and adding them bit by bit. I'm doing quite well with just a "todos" extension, and a "plan" prompt …

I use OpenRouter, currently Kimi K3 which has been extremely effective.

I and my team did a full set of documentation for handing over a codebase to the client. A large complex codebase with accumulated history and subtle reasons why things were done. …

Had some fun! One suggestion: Track generation needs a slightly longer bit at the start that is straight, wide and has no obstacles. The reason for this is the way the touchscreen …

Lots of issues with that: Communicating from buoy to an underwater sub is hard (ULF antennas are 100s of metres long) and more importantly would give away there was a vessel there …

Again, this is what we know about the state of the art 20 years ago: For receiving (very very slowly) there is VLF, as the other comments have said. Can be done underwater. Think 1…

Can you provide a citation to this fairly major claim?

Very classified so we only know bits and pieces. "Inertial navigation" is part of it - basically very precise dead reckoning. Using specialist equipment like laser ring gyros to ge…

> First, because it promotes an "us vs them" mindset I was always intrigued by the maturity about how the Rust team approached this sort of thing. IIRC years ago you and I had a ba…

I think that in addition to the cost you would also have a corrosion problem. That's usually the reason that silver isn't used as an engineering material.

> My intuition is that npm, cargo, zig build etc are all “wrong”. And that Bazel/Buck are architecturally correct. Arguably yes. The fundamental issue is that Bazel etc. are "herme…

I'm not saying that people should talk about this all the time, but are you saying you don't want people to feel able to mention key details of their personal life?

I think they have gone for turboprop for a few reasons: There's an economy of scale with turbofans to some degree. Large high bypass turbofans are extremely efficient, particularly…

I believe that they're safe, but I don't understand how . My circuit breaker is specced to be a bit lower than the capability of the downstream wiring. For the sake of argument let…

I think two reasons: Character and history - they tend to be more individual and different, and have more character than the cookie cutter modern mass builds. Solidity - they tend …

In my area of the UK at least, the house layouts of houses built last year aren't appreciably different from those built 200 years ago. That's specifically comparing detached and s…

There are some downsides, but most people on the UK would prefer houses that were 100+ years old. In the village I live in the houses immediately around me are "only" 50 years old.…

A broader view of this point would be "the economic structures in some countries do not allow for investments with a long payback".

In general, in the UK, labour costs dominate. How do people not understand that?! This is what's interesting with AI pricing at the moment - it has gone from "a fraction of the equ…