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Where a bank doesn't offer compliant APIs, screen-scraping integrations are explicitly allowed. Not sure how common that is at this point.

It's a strange rule. I'd be interested if any more serious grammarians can explain where this irregularity comes from.

The one that people get wrong all the time is "its" vs "it's" for exactly this reason. By the usual use of posessive apostrophe you would expect "it's" and ye…

Further off-topic: You're not wrong, but maybe you should be. It's one of the most pointless irregular grammar rules in English. Nobody is ever confused by the wrong usage of the apostrophe …

Ah, I missed that bit, thanks. My dad had (and died) of pancreatic cancer and it was too far gone for Whipple to be on the table. However I think he too might not have chosen to go ahead with it even …

Pancreatic cancer can be curable in some cases - see the Whipple procedure: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreaticoduodenectomy That said, it would depend on several other fa…

I think the Hunkin exhibit really did look a bit tired - I don't think it's necessarily unreasonable to try something else. After all, Secret Life only got its chance because they were willi…

I want to see these!

I do recall a "late" at the London Science Museum where you could collect wristbands with the names of STDs to win prizes. Ok, still not very educational, but it was quite amusing to hear …

It drives me absolutely bananas that the "interpretation" (fancy museum word for "signs") at science museums is so parsimonious. Some fascinating device vital to the history of an …

Yup. Tim Hunkin went for a last look around his Secret Life of the Home exhibition¹ at the London Science Museum and quite a few things were out of order; this may be because the exhibit was imminentl…

> I never said that guy does not need Excel. You literally wrote "You don't need Excel."

> Are the tags themselves AI generated? Yes. The full explanation's on my blog and the code's public in my GitHub repo btw. The main nuisance is that it will use inconsistent synonyms, …

You know I nearly added that caveat, but I figured it counted as more being arseholes rather than a solution per se despite the long-term reduction.

Sadly there are no technological solutions to humans being arseholes to each other.

Thanks, all I could think of was a Harry Potter reference which definitely didn't fit!

> You don't need Excel This is the kind of thing that gets tech people a bad reputation. YOU don't need Excel. I don't need excel - but that guy? You have no idea what he needs a…

There seems to be a lull right now. I did this silly thing: https://hntags.com Mostly 'cos I was trying to track whether the surfeit of AI stuff was real or my imagination - when I di…

> There was even a double-high, double-width mode for easier reading I'd forgotten that; now that waa a fugly font. I don't think anyone ever used it (aside from the "Setup" ban…

Printers aside the VT220 terminal from DEC had a 132 column mode. Probably it was aping a standard printer column count. Most of the time we used the 80 column mode as it was far more readable on what…

If you were expecting it to appear on the front page, that isn't guaranteed. It will be on the "new" page, but won't appear on the front (default) page unless it gets sufficient up…

You do you, obviously, but "now let npm work its wicked way" is an offputting step for some of us when narrowing down which tool to use. My most comfortable tool is Java, but I'm not go…

The declarative form of clap is not quite as well documented as the programmatic approach (but it's not too bad to figure out usually). One of the things I love about clap is that you can confi…

Ok, we're done here.

Do you know a lot of devs who, having tried VCS, were against it?

Not in fact true, or not as a general case, according to this paper, which is why this paper is interesting.

But here's the money quote from Mr Lowe's take on the paper: " If you were presented with these data without being told that stirring was the variable under consideration, you’d have to…

I think you're confusing neutrons and neutrinos. Firing neutrons at the floor will definitely give you a very radioactive floor.

I was reminiscing in a comment about the dot com era earlier - it occurs to me that this little documentary gem might have passed by some of the HN crowd at the time or (gulp) been made before they we…