BoxOfRain

Even if we kept national politics partisan which I'm personally against for a number of reasons, the petty squabbles and power plays of Westminster are utterly irrelevant to the functions of loca…

I think we have to fundamentally change how the party system works if we're going to get people in politics for the right reasons in general, but especially in local politics. There's no rea…

I learned about MAC filtering and how to get around it with MAC spoofing at an early age this way!

I often find myself really liking the idea of local democracy and wishing for more of it where I live, but then I remember the kind of insane moral puritans with nothing better to do that get attacted…

I'm sure there's a middle ground between our default level of evolutionary baggage and no pain at all though. I wouldn't mind keeping burns and broken bones being painful, but I'd …

It's really not that deep, people will always find sport in scandalising people with a stronger disgust reaction than themselves. It's more a new way of teaching a parrot to say "fuck&q…

I'd have loved to have been arond to a Dead show! I know it sounds a little ungrateful coming from someone who lives in a period of unprecedented access to all kinds of wonderful music being writ…

I'll definitely keep an eye on this! Much appreciated.

That's more of a reflection on the people doing the teaching than the style of teaching itself I think. This is purely anecdotal but I absolutely hated most of my pre-university education as it f…

How is this not just a crap take on Roko's Basilisk?

Me too, I’m younger but very much in the boat of “paying for software quality with your privacy is usually a bad trade”. Nothing inherently needs to phone home, it’s a design choice rather than a ma…

I suspect so, still getting this error as of 21.39.00 British summer time.

> I'm not saying "strive to be a prick because then you can be a great artist". I'm saying, separate the prick from the art, because if you don't, you have no art and you s…

I’d take a shoddy UI and no spyware over a good UI that’s spying on me despite being an offline application. I’ve used Audacity for years and I shan’t be upgrading until a spyware-free fork is availab…

>The idea that politicians and bureaucracies can defer to external international conventions to be the bad-cop for wildly unpopular policy decisions It's as though so many people saw Brexit an…

Kotlin and IntelliJ IDEA really are a joy to work with in my opinion, they're very much my primary tools at the moment. I'd never really been exposed to functional programming features until…

It's shocking just how much seawater will corrode steel. If you look at pictures of shipwrecks like the Lusitania and Titanic they've degraded a lot since they were first dived to in the…

>Only privileged person wouldn't value that. Hard disagree from me, it very much depends on what you value in life. While I have a lot of respect for people with that kind of technical ability…

Thanks for your reply! It's interesting how you found yourself moving back to your hometown, I've always thought if I ever settle down properly it'll be in the coastal town where I went…

I went down that YouTube rabbit hole too, the production value is some of the best I've ever seen from any government department.

It depends on how you're measuring value I suppose. Research for research's sake is rarely pointless, contributing to the sum of human knowledge is a worthy endeavour if you're okay wit…

I stopped watching broadcast TV out of sheer spite towards the TV licensing system and the slack-jawed oafs that enforce it, but that's a uniquely British reason!

“Rules for thee but not for me” is an enduring part of British social stratification, while I’m glad Hancock’s resigned the time for an honourable exit was months ago. There’s a real notion among memb…

I suspect it works like any other sail. On an ordinary sailing boat you’re aiming to balance the aerodynamic and hydrodynamic forces as efficiently as possible, if you’re heeling over too much you can…