BoxOfRain

Some pint glasses designed for lager are made with nucleation sites for the bubbles at the bottom, over time these wear out and make your pint of lager look 'dead' compared to a fresh glass.…

This is why I stopped eating keto; I lost two stone really quickly but you pay for it when you're on the throne.

I'd dispute that in the UK at least, I think most people of a nerdy disposition tend to at least be aware of the films.

I think it depends on the context. I think there's artistic cases for it, for example I've played around with using AI tools to extract speech from its background music for use in further (n…

Also you can just wear your customers down over time apparently. I wish I could make Apple Music's subscription nag screen go away for example, I have local music I sync to it iPod-style for when…

Given there's literal seas of hydrocarbons on Titan I wonder if there's a source of oxygen that could be liberated, allowing probes to operate without the need for fuel from Earth?

https://hn.algolia.com/ is quite good for finding things on HN.

I've always felt ChatGPT sounds a bit like an American version of Will from the Inbetweeners. It doesn't really comprehend the appropriate register to use from the context in my opinion; it …

I wonder if any boats with a traditional long keel have been affected? I'd expect that arrangement to be even less attractive to an orca given there's no gap between the rudder and keel.

This is definitely a thing I recognise in myself, a year and a half of writing Scala daily has made me much more prejudiced against Java than I was before.

I love how our Prime Minister no matter how grand has to be re-elected standing next to a bunch of comic characters, it's a little moment of speaking truth to power in my opinion. You surely can&…

I know this is a pretty unoriginal point, but I wish cookie consent could be a browser setting you set once and never have to deal with again unless you need to change it for a specific site. The nag …

>what capitalism wants to avoid is putting "money" in with "power" I'd argue the enormous amount of private money in politics is evidence against this being the case in pra…

It brings to mind the fact the Inner Party of Oceania had the privilege of turning their telescreens off.

A few years ago I had to call an ambulance for someone (in the UK) and began giving coordinates, only to hear 'oh do you have what3words it's easier that way' which I found very surpris…

I wonder what will step into that role in the future? There's clearly a demand for a place where people broadly know what they're talking about.

If you're on a Transport for Wales train you'll hear it said as Amwythig as well. There's a surprising amount of Welsh names for English cities: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x…

I really prefer the old yellow sodium light to the harsher white LEDs, I get that the SOX bulbs weren't economical to make any more for various reasons but wish we could have migrated to monochro…

Fun fact about that film, the broadcast studios in that film aren't props; all the sound equipment was borrowed from Radio Caroline's real-life pirate radio ship Ross Revenge .

Radio Caroline is definitely an interesting bit of history, they alone survived the Wilson government's attempt to bring offshore broadcasting to an end and carried on for decades on and off desp…

I've definitely noticed ChatGPT generally writes better Python than it writes Scala, presumably for the same reason of there being a fair bit more Python code in the wild.

Yeah I played around with it a bit and I really like it, but I've never really had a reason to use it professionally since I'm mostly targetting Linux and as you say it's definitely see…

A rather militant approach to testing for the most part, even if I don't know how to do something off the top of my head I know what I want my code to be doing so in my opinion having decent test…

My use-case for LLMs in writing software is 'documentation I can talk to'. I don't have ChatGPT write my code but it's a much faster and more pleasant alternative to wading knee-de…

I think you have a good point here; there's a reason that deep into the digital age there's still plenty of analogue cameras, valve amplifiers, vinyl records, and all manner of 'obsolet…