ukfarmer

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by ukfarmer 5y ago
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 'Access MIDI devices' and 'Access MIDI devices
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by ukfarmer 5y ago
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 sends users to https://www.torproject.org/ , a
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by ukfarmer 5y ago
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's boxes if the toolchain isn't new enough to build
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by ukfarmer 5y ago
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 same time. His machine has the reversing alarm whic
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by ukfarmer 5y ago
"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 shells. It retrained my interactive habits with
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by ukfarmer 5y ago
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 evenings than to tinker with software projects.
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by ukfarmer 5y ago
Not at all: I'm between Ellesmere and Whitchurch, same end of the county as you.
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by ukfarmer 5y ago
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 have fun, learn loads, find your strengths and weakn
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by ukfarmer 5y ago
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 farm where I've been building a calf-rearing and beef
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by ukfarmer 5y ago
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 life is the unexpected one hour jump in the times of day
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by ukfarmer 5y ago
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 ways as it is to city people. Time-dependent nat