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I like this, I’ve been tracking with MyFitnessPal. Would be great if I could import historical calories to see how it performs. Also note that tracking calories is hard - often it’…

Worth mentioning Gene Wolfe’s superb Latro books ( https://www.goodreads.com/series/49453-latro ) I think the premise for the books is that the story is found on ancient papyrus.

Which reminds me of a weekend I took a few years ago where we drove to Edinburgh from Manchester on day 1 then up to Arisaig on day 2 to camp on the beach - then back to Edinburgh …

The uk government development service as you call it is not a service. It’s more of a declaration of process that is adhered to across diverse departments and organisations that ma…

And now imagine the future where code is embedded in the world all around. No one knows it’s there, except… the magicians! They’re the only ones who managed to RTFM before it was l…

I have visited 2x - Once recently and it was very impressive. But I also climbed the towers in a thunder storm in 1990. Which was a terrifying experience. The stairs had about 50cm…

Sounds like consumers need AI identities to help them get the best deals from this kind of thing.

I have never heard it referred to as North England. Northern England or the North of England yes. As a reluctant “northerner” it dunt sarnd reet.

Just found out about this by looking into why I get dizzy when I swim crawl in the sea! The body is truly a complicated and wonderful thing. from this page: https://www.outdoorswim…

Slightly tangential but along the same lines. Worth a read, BlackBerry Wine by Joanne Harris. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberry_Wine

Totally agree with this. I do big corp work and the problem space is totally different from what is needed for a single developer.

I’m currently reading Flux. Brilliantly bonkers.

That chimes with my experience. Back in 2009 my (then) 9 year old son made a few stop frame lego movies and we posted them on YouTube. Some of the comments were really mean. I reme…

Fun fact and one of my dinner party anecdotes; I have the accepted answer for one of Ross Ulbricht’s (Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts) SO questions that got him busted. https://st…

I’m a competent amateur guitarist and I feel your pain. Learning pieces so they are good enough to perform takes so much practice and I too get sick of them before I can play them …

So does Dominic Cummings read HN?

I don’t think it’s about ability or interest. It’s about presence. There’s loads of developers out there with a range of skills. I work with devs who are great who you’ve never hea…

Care to substantiate that?

Yeah, but how many?

I was thinking about this yesterday and came up with this question: How many trees would I have to plant, and how long would they have to live to offset my (average Western Europea…

The best thing about this is that the vessels’ names are inspired by Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels. https://fivedeeps.com/home/technology/names/