BoxOfRain

It really pains me that the people involved in this cover-up likely led lives of absurd luxury rather than seeing the meanest hint of justice for what they did. People talk about climate change as tho…

My understanding is the cancer was mostly killing bees.

The wolves are running round The winter was so hard and cold Froze ten feet 'neath the ground Don't murder me, I beg of you don't murder me...

I don't think the UK is willing to licence any shortwave for broadcasting. There's pirates of course but I think Ofcom still track down persistent offenders on shortwave.

> Hell, even the BBC in the UK is closing down local AM transmitters on cost grounds (but I suspect there is political pressure to move the masses to digital UHF infrastructure). Yeah in a couple o…

Until recently a must-have in my .bashrc was `fortune | cowsay` but this tripped me up when one of the spicier fortunes was output during a video call with my then-boss, no harm done but I decided to …

>Further, the notion that the USSR failed because "they tried to make a better man" is an absurd whitewashing of Soviet history. Isn't he referring specifically to the notion of the …

Unfortunately the original developers left long ago taking the source with them, and none of them are reachable to provide an explanation even through exotic means of communication.

That's odd I remember checking Farnell because I use them myself, I guess I must have forgotten my coffee that day and missed it.

I needed leaded solder recently too for a vintage audio project, I'm in the UK and while it was a bit of a faff to track it down initially I was able to order some locally. Might get better shipp…

Visiting the tip in many parts of the UK is such a postcode lottery, if he could improve the operation of the tip he actually would stand a decent chance of earning an income from it.

When I lived in Aberystwyth on the Welsh coast you could always tell a newcomer to the town because they'd eat outside without aerial cover. The herring gulls there are pterodactyl-like, massive …

>Named after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord For bonus points, your version scheme should follow the Law of Fives.

It feels like it's got more expensive though, and worse quality. A lot of the garlic I've had this year has been in a sorry state to use a random example, and as well as food you buy to cook…

Reject neutrality and embrace the Welsh seaside town aesthetic[1]. Aberystwyth is a good example of a place where the architecture makes it look happier than most towns, it's all bright colours a…

What happens in the case of plausibly-deniable keys? Say someone has an encrypted drive with a hidden volume, one key decrypts decoy files and one decrypts the true files. If the person gives up the k…

I wonder if this is what radicals like Gerrard Winstanley had in mind when developing the English Reformation as chance for social reform as well? This quote for example suggests he was I think: >I…

The really satisfying thing for me was when I was on a sailing course and was instructed in how the moon causes the tides, and how the phase of the moon corresponds to springs and neaps.

I completely agree, I'd fully support copyright being reduced to 25-30 years. The whole point of copyright is to grant an initial monopoly to a creator so they can benefit from their work, promot…

I'd say ChatGPT at least is a fair bit better at Python than it is at Scala which seems to match your experience.

No, term limits aren't really a thing in the UK for elected officials in general and the longest-serving MPs today have been there since the early '80s. Even Prime Ministers can stay in thei…

>A hopelessly out of touch political class Orwell pointed this out in England your England which was written during the Blitz. Many of the problems he described have only got worse in the decades…

I wonder if Gorbachev had any pathway available to him that wouldn't have lead to the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union? By the time he rose to power their economy was in such serious trou…

When I lived in Wales a German friend of mine shocked me by complimenting what was then Arriva Wales's railway services. The Cambrian Line was and presumably still is notoriously under-served wit…

If there is one political change I could make to the UK it'd be the adoption of the single transferable vote. There's massive amounts of political alienation in the UK which have complicated…

I love the way the fish move around! It's a very pretty webpage in my opinion.