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The bow doors? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Herald_of_Free_Enterprise

https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/

Nice self-own by Tata. Guy blows whistle while working at their obscure VinFast brand, but they sack him once he's moved to work for Jaguar - so all the headlines are about JLR rat…

Not even 1024 bytes. There were 1024 bytes available to the computer, but some of that was required to store what was displayed on the screen. Exactly how much depended on how much…

Or, you could confuse the heck out of GeoGuessr players :)

When I first tried it, I was like "oh, so the left-most column is the ads". It was only after trying a different query that produced fewer ads that I realised the left-most column …

I still take issue with the idea that a rise of 3% is unprecedented. I speak as someone who purchased my first property right before the ERM crisis and saw my mortgage payment almo…

> I believe this is actually the fastest rise in rates ever. Why do you believe that? https://www.propertyinvestmentproject.co.uk/property-statist...

I'm more concerned about how possible it is that one of these systems is used to harm humans deliberately.

Why would you want an image-manipulation feature in a text editor (unless you were a developer who thought that it'd be a fun thing to work on)? That sounds like bloat of the worst…

> You need stable government So yes, Italy is the obvious choice :-).

One of the things that make this possible is the sudden increase in space in [what was] the engine compartment, now that electric cars are more common. Most small cars with petrol …

Not as sad as it is for Ukraine.

Sadly not - it was a longer post than that, but that's an interesting one nonetheless - thanks! BUT, it's linked from the page you linked ( https://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/enginee…

I'm looking for a blog post I saw on HN some years ago (maybe 3) about an underground electricity sub-station. It may be been couched as "what's that mysterious building" or somesu…

See also: FX rates that affect billions of transactions daily. Where there's money to be made or lost on the value of anything that's determined subjectively, pressure will always …

> no C/P/M/N which are all much more frequent than G/J/K/Y Yep, I sometimes follow up with MANIC or PANIC if I've got too few letters, to test for C/P/M/N

I started playing an Wordle-like app to get around the one-per-day limitation (I know, sue me), and played probably dozens of rounds per day. I ended up with a simple strategy of a…

The browser was called Guide. OWL is the company name (or nickname, since the formal name was Office Workstations Ltd).

My wife visited Torness (the plant in the article) for a meeting with one of the managers. She went through reception, got her badge, and was on her way up the stairs to the meetin…

This is simply describing a method in the Excel object library, which is not implemented in C#. The method pre-dates C# by many years. FWIW the place to look for documentation of A…

Graphics look great, but gameplay looks dull. Same tired old stuff, shooting at prettier targets (none of which can shoot straight other than when the plot calls for it).

We absolutely do not have a shortage of gas (petrol, as we like to call it). It's just not in the right place because we have a lorry driver shortage - and the media has created a …

So if it's an array, why isn't it @addresses?

Last time I checked, 5 of the top 10 questions on StackOverflow were about Git...