fredley

We had to sign a 'contract', promising never to implement our own crypto!

Until a few weeks ago the minimum wait was 12 weeks! Data on rates here: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations …

I can't believe how it's impossible to buy an induction hob with knobs. I'm almost at the point of building a control panel myself.

For those who may not know, Tony Hoare invented Quicksort and the concept of null in computing, amongst many other fundamental things.

The fetishisation of work does seem to largely come from people with enough money that they and at least several generations of their progeny will never need to do it.

The thing he doesn't mention is all the people burned out by 35, with the best years of their life behind them, coping with deep and lasting psychological damage that will affect them for the res…

A lot of the problems with concrete are actually problems with steel reinforcement. Concrete alone is incredibly long-lived and durable, see the Pantheon in Rome. However steel rusts, expands and weak…

> Fibre-Reinforced Polymer So plastic? Might look shiny now, but I wonder how these will look after 20 years of sunlight and other weathering.

This could be so much worse. Why does the form retain my information when I get something wrong? It should reset, or go back to the start.

In the city I live in we are lucky to have a lot of parks, but also they leave the grass uncut in large portions of them. It grows long, with flowers and other plants providing greater biodiversity an…

Missed an opportunity to replicate the iconic black casing and red LED

Yeah, imagine the name of your product sounding like the Western Australia Party!

Do you dispute the central claim, that petrol stations will struggle over the next 20 years as electric car use rises?

Not related this directly, but it brings to mind the whole saga around the (failed) attempt to remove the rat from the final scene of The Departed: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/…

Serious question: How is this supposed to be used? Are you supposed to print it out? (Any 'security' pointless) Are you supposed to email it/upload it when booking tickets for travel? H…

I think the power of Notion became apparent to me when I created a Page, accidentally changed it to some other type, then ctrl+z-ed it back to a Page, with all its contents intact. Seriously impressiv…

Ed Balls

I would love the inverse as well: Factorio2Verilog. Then I can use Factorio as an IDE.

I have spent multiple hours digging into something, found my own Stack Overflow answer and pasted it back in.

Have it both ways, like motorsport. There are championships like Formula 1, where the 'equipment' is a huge factor, and the teams are competing on their tech. This has lead to many breakthro…

> var = !cmd syntax Is this a standard anywhere outside IPython? I would love to use this sort of thing (python with seamless integration with a system shell) in place of bash scripts. Yes, you can…

Agreed, it's the simplest way to test and validate specific assumptions. Debuggers are useful tools, but it takes you just as long but usually longer to get to the same answer: is what I think is…

That's why you pronounce it "Cheese Shop"