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There is a scene in "Thick of It" where ministers, in a cash-strapped government, are brainstorming laws and policies that cost nothing in terms of budget. The latest Tory proposal…

I'm honestly amazed that people seriously compare an 8bit machine with no network to a smartphone with Internet and social media. The Internet, amazing as it is, it's also the home…

I have to use both Jira and Workday. Unpopular opinion, perhaps: I find them ugly and slow, but not soul-crushing. Granted, I only use WD to book PTO. If my whole work was around i…

Imagine an Adobe version of this. 64Gb at least.

So many great movies mentioned here, I won't repeat them. I'll just add Hitchcock's The Birds. I saw it as a kid and it made an impression on me on several levels. For instance, a …

I've heard somewhere online (can't find the source) something along the lines: > I wish AI would do my laundry and dishes so I could do my art and writing. > Instead, AI is doing m…

Setting aside the gravity of the situation, I'm 100% gripped by the "mystery novel" side of this. Seeing the internet piecing together the Who? the How? an the Why? is fascinating.…

Absolutely, the time saved formatting a table + time triple checking it might be the same as doing manually in the first place. But I was talking about the intended usage, it doesn…

I don't have time to properly go through the entire list, of course, but the first paper that I've opened seemed to use ChatGPT to format a table of values, presumably not in tabul…

_Many_ moons ago, before I had a job, I remember that Hackintosh seemed like the only way I could enjoy a Mac OS. These days I have literally piles of old Macs that I have fun tryi…

I lived in one the buidings mentioned in this article. Pros: It was the most spacious flat I've lived on. I'm not talking about area, but the layout itself, it was amazingly well a…

Plus another 15 to read this.

I'm no expert in design, but it's really interesting to see the signs that a design "won". That is, when you see echoes and influnces of it everywhere.

Hijacking the topic: I don't use Wayland. But I have a lot of Mac hardware running Fedora with GNOME X11. What's the status of Wayland to configure input hardware, namely keyboards…

AI still has poor performance when "thinking outside the box". When AI is able to think creative, novel thoughts then I admit progamming will be a thing of past. But he should reme…

Perhaps I'm overreacting, but I had my personal site on Netlify and decided to move it. I don't need anything more than a dumping ground for HTML, and Netlify was "good enough" (I …

Isn't this changing soon (or at least when the Renter's Reform Bill passes[1])? Contracts will not have fixed terms anymore and "no-fault" evictions will be illegal. Those are two …

Same for the UK, I guess: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/07/pay-rises-a...

This is very interesting and I can see how it can produce good results. What I can't do is square this with my own observations of the current generation of parents. In my particul…

Not OP, but I think it has to do with the reference to Niklaus Wirth's death.

Looks cool and and a clean site, but... it actually changed my ethnicity from caucasian to asian...

There is no tenable contemporary argument for keeping them in the Bristish museum, IMO. It seems to be all variations of "You gave me for safekeeping, now it's mine". The weird thi…

- I've created a shopping/recipe app. An app that supports a database of nutrients, recipe ingredients, supermarket shopping links. Something like "give me 10 balanced[1] meals, gi…