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Very well put.

Good to hear Bradford On Avon mentioned, the town where I grew up. Is there a link to the place where they're installing Linux? The Tithe Barn in Bradford On Avon was the medieval …

Could IPFS be the solution here? https://ipfs.tech/

I'd have thought there are many tech angles. For example, in a possible Greenland invasion, what are the implications of the US having control of dominant platforms such as Windows…

I must confess, the Python driver pg8000 which I maintain doesn't support pipeline mode. I didn't realise it existed until now, and nobody has ever asked for it. I've created an is…

Exergy is the amount of work that a system can potentially do. It was on my physics course in the UK I'm fairly sure.

The least well-off don't have cars at all, but suffer from their ill-effects the most. So the least well-off benefit the most from congestion pricing.

Is anyone using the TruffleBot electronic nose (or something like it) to detect bed bugs from the VOCs emitted by them? https://projects-raspberry.com/trufflebot-sniffs-out-and-acc…

I was 18th on the list, thanks for the donation! There's also the approach to funding that looks at things from another angle, and says we should have a basic income, or negative i…

I work on Chellow, an open source Web app for checking and reporting on UK electricity and gas bills for large organisations https://github.com/WessexWater/chellow . It's a mature …

For nuclear, the subsidies are often in insurance and decommissioning and long-term storage of waste. So looking at insurance, it's impossible to fully insure a nuclear power stati…

Comparing electricity costs between countries probably says more about government subsidies than the underlying cost of generation. Nuclear fission is an expensive source of electr…

The Android app StreetComplete is an excellent start for updating OSM I found. There soon become occasions when you have to bring out the big guns and edit it using the web editor …

I know the light switch idea as Thomson's lamp: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%27s_lamp I used it as an interview question many years ago. I wasn't very rigorous about it,…

True, I struggle to think 10 years ahead these days. The horizon for predictions is definitely shrinking.

Yes, fertility is heritable.

I'd like to see an option for automatically adding indexes for performance. Perhaps a background process could re-run the query planner for frequent queries and add an appropriate …

I met Simon once ages ago when I was due to speak at a PostgreSQL conference. It was my first time speaking at a conference and he was a nice bloke and gave me a bit of advice afte…

For my projects I prefer a permissive licence, specifically the MIT No Attribution Licence. People argue that corporations will just take your code and make it proprietary. They mi…

The way I think of it is that with permissive licences the freedoms can be removed from the code, but with copyleft the freedoms can't be removed from the code. By freedoms I mean …

> “I’m so fit that I can afford to expend valuable energy to show you how strong and robust I am compared with the other gazelles.” Is this why humans dance?

Out of interest, whereabouts in Europe is that?

Interesting. In the language feature list, what is 'try star' ?

I'd argue that even though it's well defined behaviour in Python, it still appears to me as a programmer as weak typing. For example, Python lets me write: if 23: print('hello') an…

Interesting, so I did a little test: python -m timeit 'sum(1 for age in range(100000) if age > 17)' 50 loops, best of 5: 5.08 msec per loop python -m timeit 'sum(int(age > 17) for …