BoxOfRain

I know I'm extraordinarily biased in this situation, but I really hope that sailing makes something of a comeback as an eco-friendly means of international travel. Not flying shouldn't mean …

I'm pretty useless at fixing Windows not because of any holy war or Linux evangelism but simply because I've not used it very regularly in donkey's years and don't have a clue. Las…

Like the TV series, some of its "fanbase" are a bit obnoxious and self-important. They're a bit like people who'll fight a Middle Ages worth of religious crusades over vi/emac…

Wasn't the Thresher likely sunk by an electrical fault causing the reactor to automatically shut down, followed by an inability to blow the ballast tanks and rise to the surface?

Decades is a short time on a planetary scale, at risk of sounding alarmist I really do believe we should be hoping for the best but preparing for the worst when it comes to climate change. If there wa…

I think what the argument comes down to is how much risk we're willing to tolerate as a society. There's definitely a middle ground to be had between an under-cautious world where things lik…

Which isn't without issues of its own of course, for example the EU is notoriously backwards on the issue of genetically modified crops which may turn out to be a vital lifeline if climate change…

I'll always be a Linux enthusiast, but this is one of the key things that keeps me on macOS at least some of the time. To be honest I don't think there's a reason to nail your colours t…

You fail to grasp that moving to a city or deeper within a city might be an unacceptable quality of life issue, either because of unaffordable rents and house prices or simply because city life is dee…

I remember reading a truly appalling account of how the head of antiquities at Palmyra Khaled al-Asaad endured a month of torture and was later murdered for his refusal to reveal where he had hidden m…

This reminds me of something really cool I saw a while ago but I can't find for the life of me, it was a bit of JavaScript that ran in the browser and could be used to send a signal to a nearby A…

Yes, and for me that choice is to move away from companies that insist on commuting in favour of companies that are less Luddite in their approach to remote work which is what I'm actively doing.…

Yeah exactly, I know lots of people who think I'm mad for cycling through an urban environment and it's everything to do with dangerous drivers rather than the environment itself. The key I&…

For the record, I don't really choose to cycle. Public transport is absolutely dreadful in much of the UK outside of London (I'm not exaggerating when I say it's an hour and a half to g…

I don't really have a choice, the public transport is disgracefully bad everywhere near my job (the bus is often 30-40 minutes late and comes every hour and a half, completely unacceptable for co…

I'm completely different, I despise my commute because it's time that doesn't truly belong to me and I'm not being paid for. It's getting up earlier and arriving home later fo…

This hasn't been my experience so far, I've been looking at moving jobs recently and I've got plenty of options even after discarding anything with required office hours or "tempor…

Chances are the fine for deliberately causing RF interference is more than the fine for causing harmful noise. I looked into this too when I used to share a bus commute with this complete dickhead who…

The UK had loads of these at one point, but the really enduring one is Radio Caroline. They were broadcasting from international waters right up until the early '90s when the British government g…

Yeah, the BBC doesn't have quite the same motivations as commercial broadcasting. To be honest it's pretty good if you take it with the caveat it'll always be at least mildly biased not…

In Oxford there's a lot of places called Isis because that's the name of the stretch of the Thames which flows through the city. Fortunately most businesses weren't willing to cede the …

I don't think being against vaccine passports necessarily makes you an anti-vaxxer. I've had both shots of the vaccine and I strongly oppose any sort of mandatory government ID card health-r…

That's a bit of an absolutist stance I think, a good programmer can use stored procedures just fine and in some cases it can even improve performance. Yes it makes it easier for bad programmers t…

I feel a lot of arguments for ORMs boil down to "I can't really be arsed to learn SQL properly" which is fair enough from a developer time / performance ratio point of view, but no…