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by milliams 3y ago
Interesting, good spot. I might try to find a way to notify them, lest someone gets hanged for treason.
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by milliams 3y ago
It looks like Firefox caches the favicon more aggressively that I thought. Even a shift-refresh or explicitly clearing `blog.gov.uk` in the settings doesn't update it.
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by milliams 3y ago
(2023)
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by milliams 3y ago
> Last edited 76 months ago That's an interesting "failure" mode.I wonder if the code starts with "hours ago" then "days ago" and just tops out at "months ago", or whether it just always round
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by milliams 3y ago
> Each one weighs 50-100x more than the old bags and I guarantee they aren't used proportionally more times. Previously I'd get a bag from the shop which would be used that one time. Now, the "bag for life" I own has
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by milliams 3y ago
This is where fun protests like https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-43559636 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWz_p445Oh0 help. I've noticed a more concerted effort by supermarkets to
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by milliams 3y ago
In the UK we brought in a similar law and the shops were allowed to charge (if I remember correctly) 5p for the thin bags that were previously used or 10p for a stronger one. It wasn't long before they mostly phased out the thin bags a
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by milliams 3y ago
At my local there's often a few columns of trolleys next to each other. I always go for the column with the fewest trolleys as I assume that the trolley sitting at the head of the longest column is likely to have an issue.
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by milliams 3y ago
Look interesting. From the linked page. > This book takes a hands-on, bottoms-up approach I think you mean "bottom-up". "bottoms-up" is a toast.
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by milliams 3y ago
I'd argue that these are not fractals in the mathematical sense, but they do seem to be demonstrating chaos.
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by milliams 3y ago
That's really nice, especially with the perspective transform.
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by milliams 3y ago
From Mexican Fender, by Weezer: She got a bachelor's degree in physics and a job in computer programming That's pretty cool for a singer in a band so I knew we would end up jamming
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by milliams 3y ago
Though it's interesting that the lady in the background seems to have her smile in anti-phase.
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by milliams 3y ago
"features"
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by milliams 3y ago
Specifically, the Raspberry Pi section at http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/Cray%201%20Supercomputer%20P...
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by milliams 3y ago
Brandt gave a talk about this at the CPython Core Developer Sprint late last year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxSHIpEQRjs
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by milliams 3y ago
What I find interesting is the SSH-based comment system ( https://blog.haschek.at/2023/ssh-based-comment-system.html ) for their blog.
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by milliams 3y ago
What's "serverless" if not basically CGI scripts? (only slightly tongue-in-cheek)
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by milliams 3y ago
There's a willingness from the systemd devs to start incorporating Rust into it, possibly quite soon: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/19598
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by milliams 3y ago
I thought "tob" was a typo in the HN submission but no, it's right there on their website.
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by milliams 3y ago
> People were also more likely to litter if they were in an area that already had trash on the ground. A person at a highway rest stop cluttered with cigarette butts and food wrappers was more apt to litter than someone at a manicur
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by milliams 3y ago
I thought it was this ( https://noteable.edina.ac.uk/ ) Noteable for a minute. They two similar services in a similar space with a similar name.
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by milliams 3y ago
Krasue is a Linux Remote Access Trojan that has been active since 20 and predominantly targets organizations in Thailand. Off-topic, but this is the first time I've seen post-1999 year denoted with just two digits without the u
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by milliams 3y ago
I'd argues it's less about not having any `unsafe` code, but rather about being able to easily identify where that unsafe code lives. In a C or C++ codebase, you'll also have "unsafe" code but there's no easy
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by milliams 3y ago
It's just a shame that the $100k that was raised for "RoundCube Next" ( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/roundcube-next--2 ) back in 2015 produced exactly nothing ( https://github.com/roun
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by milliams 3y ago
Why not add the context to that page?
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by milliams 3y ago
None of those things are "Open Data". They might have provided access to the data via an API, but OSM, Wikipedia etc. are open data. ... Ah, it's a veiled advert for "Sort".
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by milliams 3y ago
Graphs like https://hacks.mozilla.org/files/2023/10/FCPRUM.png which don't start at zero on the y-axis are very misleading.
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by milliams 3y ago
Several times in the last several months I have wanted to contribute to a new Rust codebase to fix bugs or add small features. Every time it's been a real breeze :) I'm finding that while it can be sometimes hard to write Rust cod
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by milliams 3y ago
“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is

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