BoxOfRain

I wonder if the Botley Road will be reopened and the improvements to the train station will have been competed by then? I suspect they'll have been delayed by another archaeological dig when they…

Another fun fact is that UK gallons are based on the volume occupied by ten pounds of water. Combined with the fact there's 20 ounces in UK pint this means a fluid ounce of water weighs an ounce,…

Also the British, we're metric on paper for most things but in practice we use both systems interchangeably for a lot of things. In a few cases like the roads and draught beer imperial units are …

Different desktop but KDE still has the wobbly windows as an option, I enabled them out of nostalgia recently.

I don't know take valve amps for example, the subjective qualities the clearly imperfect technology produces can be quite pleasant. Yes you could just as well simulate such an amplifier in softwa…

Scams in online advertising are ubiquitous, I'm amazed adtech companies don't seem to see any consequences for it. I really think there needs to be an onus on online advertisers to prove tha…

I'm afraid there's limitless prior art that would prevent this patent from being granted.

>Are you certain this is correct? An individual with a genetic mutation does not necessarily pass it down to its offspring, even if it was beneficial, in my understanding. So there is a probability…

That reminds me of the old 'long S'[1] that used to exist in English and survives in the symbol for integration. That worked in a ſimlar way for writing Engliſh, at the ſtart and middle of w…

>Mind you, even if a beneficient mutation occurs, it is still not guaranteed to be passed onto the next generation. It would have to randomly occur over and over again. Why would it have to re-occu…

You're comparing chalk and cheese to an extent, a perfect copy of Shakespeare's work can exist in exactly one way but DNA isn't required to be copied perfectly, DNA can change without n…

You'd have to really try. 10 milliamps across your heart can kill but using Ohm's law we can calculate 3V / 0.010 A to get a resistance of 300 ohms. This means you're probably stil…

Hence the saying 'it's the volts that jolt and the mills that kill'.

Deliveroo as well is incredibly needy about wanting me to let it send me notifications. This has the opposite effect as I assume it'll send me spam notifications constantly. I have a strict rul…

I think pre-decimal pound sterling coins had a 3p coin, but it makes more sense in that context.

Aren't a lot of old TVs 'live chassis' as well as using very high voltages?

Radio Caroline was the first and longest-running of the offshore 'pirate' radio stations that operated off the British coast just outside of territorial waters in an effort to circumvent the…

I'm one of that 'too young to be a millennial, too old to be a zoomer' cohort and we definitely played it in the '00s, I vaguely remember the rumours of it being banned encouraged …

Radio Caroline would be such a good HN topic in its own right. Peter Chicago's name in particular should be up there in hacker lore for some of the things he did to keep Caroline on the air.

I think there's some cases where the medium is part of the experience, Radio Caroline in the UK are a former offshore pirate who used AM by necessity in their heyday (they'd anchor the ship …

England your England by George Orwell is essential background reading for understanding why the UK looks the way it does in my opinion.

That's a good point about the regulation given the low quality, I suppose if it was a problem they'd already have gone after public SDRs capturing the broadcast bands. It doesn't sound …

A soapbox of mine here in the UK is that since BBC and commercial AM radio is more or less dead with the remaining stations set to close over the next few years, Ofcom should open up the band to low-p…

There's no 'I think therefore I am' equivalent for the notion of a soul as there is for the notion of a mind though, it's easy to say there's no such thing as a soul for lack …

Isn’t it usually the phosphor that wears out rather than the radium decaying that stops them glowing? Would it be possible for someone with the correct safety equipment to apply a new layer of fluores…

For ID cards specifically most of the hostility was towards Blair's specific implementation which had a wide-ranging database that pretty much everyone and their dog in the public sector and beyo…