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UK, and other regions too; our APAC installation in Australia is affected.

https://archive.is/wOP3A (the site seems to be struggling under the load, e.g. not showing images)

Nice article, thank you. I've been landed in an SRE role (having been a devops engineer / platform engineer) with an inheritance of various tools I didn't previously know, includin…

I am amazed at that too! This is (according to the article) defence industry and government jobs, which you'd thought would take these things more seriously.

There's a few things I don't get about this. Are they after primarily the salaries? In which case, the NK worker is going to try and work well enough to keep the job and remain und…

Listing 33 different file watcher programs for linux, with strengths and weaknesses

> I.e. common people had access to the land Only in a limited sense. The public did not have access to the land; specific "commoners" (local farmers) had specific usage rights e.g.…

Another bit of ignorance: they refer to 'commons' as if that meant, in English, unrestricted public use or access. It doesn't. A commons is a piece of land with specific usage righ…

This article never mentions the existing access setup: 1. a really dense network of rights of way – almost entirely on privately-owned land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_…

It's from an Old English toponym, and those are sometimes quite variable across the country; for example locally in Sheffield any steep hillsides are named 'cliffe' e.g. Attercliff…

Maybe? But a few things count against that hypothesis. Elephants are already very mobile animals, so they can simply move away if they don't like the smell; dislike of the smell wo…

Relevant: https://meltingasphalt.com/music-in-human-evolution/

> Take Joyce Higashi, a San Jose homeowner who built an ADU in her backyard. She now rents out her 500-square-foot abode for $3,000 per month to traveling nurses. That's not scalpi…

I realised a while ago that I dislike the "Show, don't tell" rule; I much prefer writers who allow themselves to tell, to be story-tellers. A couple of particular examples: Angelic…

The comparison with the previous cathedral, the Basse Œuvre - which is still there - is astonishing. In this photo, that's the tiny-looking red-tile-roofed building on the left: ht…

In retaliation, the Yorkshire Dales national park are proposing to rename Pen-y-ghent to something more English. (this is a joke; the point is that there are lots of places in Brit…

The discoveries that are being made about plant biochemistry (and soil and fungi and so on)and the implications for agriculture remind me a lot of the debates about diet and nutrit…

The key is to think about it, not in terms of just the money brought in, but the wider benefits to society: keeping traffic off the roads is a big one. That is what makes running n…

The studies weren't asking about marriage success, but about mating success. Female preferences can be pretty different between those two.

Weaving and making clothing was done mostly within the household, by women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_medieval_clothing#:~:t... .

I'll start; I don't often have an inner voice (as in, formed of a sequence of words); my inner world is sometimes abstractions, sometimes words - if I'm rehearsing an anticipated c…

Full title: "The last great mystery of the mind: meet the people who have unusual – or non-existent – inner voices"