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In the UK these ate known by the wonderful term "Crinkle crankle wall"

Better if they're the CEO in my experience. Then it trickles down the whole org.

In a word, populists. This is part of a stance of being 'tough on crime'. Whether or not the bill succeeds or fails isn't really important, what's important is that they can trumpe…

WordPress was where I got my start, a while ago now. From poking around with PHP files, to building my own things, to Django, and on. It would have been inconceivable back then (mid noughties) that th…

Only started recently, and finding it very hard to press publish! Lots of ideas but putting them out there goes against the grain for me. https://healthydev.substack.com/ …

The traffic can be that bad where I am too.

This articulates a feeling that I've had for a long time. I struggle to buy gifts, which probably does me no favours socially, for this reason. I can't help but feel the burden I'm givi…

Sky as in Sky Bet? https://skybet.com/

Privatising utilities like this (and electricity etc.) has never made any sense to me. It all happened in the UK well before I was old enough to understand that sort of thing. I have grown up very awa…

11k. I visit a few times a day, for the last 12 years. I rarely comment or post, and ~10% of my karma is from one front page post, and likewise the rest of it is heavily skewed towards a few popular p…

Thanks for your feedback. It's taken me forever to publish this - it's the first thing I've written online. To do so required clearing some major emotional hurdles! I definitely plan to…

As a Brit, my favourite is the annoucements in the Chalk Farm tube station lifts, specifically. It is a very old fashioned accent indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUI3EwR8DM …

Not OSS but Photopea is an embarrassment to GIMP.

Mad to me that this hasn't been resolved after _years_, despite it seeming (naïvely) to be quite a simple fix? I worked around it once—I can't remember how now—and got Inkscape running witho…

If you're that worried, strip open a small section of any USB-A cable and cut the data lines, and fix back up with tape.

Like these? https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable $100 a pop.

Like I said, good enough for cooking!

I'm reasonably sure they're not identically accurate any more, but good enough for the kitchen. The kg was initially defined by the mass of the water, but as the kg has been redefined it…

These games exist to lower the cost of cleaning. By motivating you to piss accurately, you spill less, meaning cleaning is quicker and can be done less frequently.

Congrats Marius, and everyone else at CM!

I would argue that not eating fish is not the solution. We can eat fish that are farmed or fished sustainably with minimal and sustainable environmental impact. A World exists where that is all fish. …

Individual action alone cannot stem climate change and mass plastic pollution. All the cheapest food is packaged in single-use plastic. All the cheapest clothes and toys are made of plastic. One simpl…

I have a playdate. This would be even easier when there's a crank for harvesting power!

I am going this way too. I recently tried to onboard a few contractors with limited python experience. It took several deep sessions to work out why they couldn't get an environment set up. After…

Legend has it that when he was director of music at Eton College, a postcard was delivered to Ralph Alwood from China simply addressed: "Ralph, Eton"

Even Stardew Valley fell afoul of this and replaced it's red cross medical logo with green: https://www.stardewvalley.net/1-3-32-small-bug-fix-patch-rel... I imagine many other v…