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In Firefox 98.0, it actually works but is well-hidden. You not only have to turn on dom.webmidi.enabled in about:config as you've already done, but also need to manually add 'Acces…

This website was redesigned a little while back, and the replacement is still missing a lot of useful content that was on its predecessor. For example, although tor --help still se…

I had the same problem building Kakoune on more elderly systems, and settled for building a static binary on my own machine that I could then run on shell accounts on other people'…

I'm puzzled by which machines are covered by these regulations, and which aren't. I bought a new farm telehandler three or four years ago, and a dairy farmer friend did about the s…

"A more intuitive solution would be to resolve globs to nothing (the empty string) if they don't match." I agree, so I use shopt -s nullglob in both bash scripts and interactive sh…

Sorry, I don't I'm afraid. I have plenty of stories of my complete incompetence to relate, but I find it so much harder to motivate myself to write that kind of thing in the evenin…

Not at all: I'm between Ellesmere and Whitchurch, same end of the county as you.

The one thing I did that I'd recommend to anyone who wants to move into running a farm business: spend as much time as you can working for other farmers before you start. You'll ha…

Ah, I was on HN before I was a full-time farmer, and I still work on various free software stuff. After we sold the startup I co-founded to a large acquirer, I took on a Shropshire…

Also, we don't pick the time we start or finish work based on what the clock says, although the weather definitely has quite a lot of input! The main effect of BST vs GMT on farm l…

UK farmer here. We're often cited as justification for BST vs GMT, but it's complete nonsense. We don't care! In fact, the discontinuity is a nuisance to us in many of the same way…