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Looks great; love the concept and the design. Reminds me in a way (conceptually) of a DOS program I used to use when I was at my desk more. It’s called Carousel, it’s one-file-per-…

I hadn’t thought about it before, but you’re right: the grocery delivery folks in the UK were always quite cheerful! We used Ocado mostly, and their drivers were always happy for a…

I’ve been using a DOS editor called Carousel. The “carousel” bit is that you can cycle through a number of files in named directories. Every day you start with a new file named by …

It’s been excellent for me. I recently had an issue with my Yolink notifications being marked spam and phishing. I raised it with support, they immediately escalated, and it got so…

Something is up with your web page. It stutters when scrolling, and crashes my tab. I’m using Safari on an iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 18.6.2 (22G100). No content blockers or extensi…

I turn 49 tomorrow, and my kid’s next birthday will be her 11th. I have a lot more spending on her ahead!

I don’t know that they’d need to be, though. British-style baked beans come in tomato sauce. I just checked my tins, and they’re 36% tomato according to the ingredients list. Unfor…

Wholeheartedly agree. I much prefer the pre-David unknown origin Alien. And the Dark Horse era space jockeys over the engineers.

> "Xenomorph" is not any sort of official in-universe term for these things In his briefing (about 23 minutes in in the Disney+ version of Aliens), Gorman says “all we know is ther…

Give Whisky a shot. Yeah, it’s a 20 year old game, but I was able to get Half-Life 2 running at 1080p with all settings maxed on my Mac Mini. The only slow down I experienced was w…

My grandad worked on a computerized press in this era. He primarily printed short-run text books for southern Ontario universities. Whatever markup they used had a syntax that allo…

Much of coffee's flavour comes from a balance of acids and oils. These, particularly the oils, are sensitive to temperature. But unless you're drinking your coffee all day, you're …

You misunderstand. The previous comment was about public defenders, not defence contractors.

I lost out on a front end job about 15 years ago because I marked up a business’s open and close hours in a table during a coding test. I was told that my skills were clearly out o…

There was some discussion of text-based news sites on HN a while back. You may enjoy the coverage. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35313232

I just moved back to Canada from the UK. In the UK we got our milk from a local dairy in glass bottles with a wee foil tab on the mouth. Occasionally the magpies would get to it be…

My first real exposure to Lua was as the configuration language of imapfilter. Absolutely loved both. https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter

I used to set my laundry to run so that when I got up in the morning it would be ready to hang or run through the dryer. When my old machine broke the landlord replaced it with thi…

Highly recommended. They used to have a gaming-focused satellite in the Grand Arcade. It’s gone, now, but I heard a rumour they may bring it back in the summer.

At the Code Club for which I volunteer the next step is Python. We use the Raspberry Pi projects[1] which use the Tinker[2] repl. [1] https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/a…

I volunteer for a code club, so maybe I can help you out. I’m not sure what I’m missing in your issue, but Scratch scripts run continuously once the green flag is clicked. You can …

I bought a couple of the Budget Bytes ( https://shop.budgetbytes.com ) meal plans a while back. They're not fantastic if you're outside of North America, but I was able to make the…

The elitism is in calling what is absolutely the largest market for gaming "wannabe". I have sunk tonnes of money and time into gaming, and I spend a lot of time helping friends ge…

Well, we're halfway there. "Last year, cassette sales grew 28% to 440,000 units, up from 343,000 in 2021." https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2023/01/the-cassette-comebac...

This announcement falls into a category I like to call “we are closing to serve you better.”