stevekemp

I learned this lesson when camping on an alcohol stove, a covered pot will boil a lot faster in the wild than an open one. I suspect if you're turning things on "high" on an average kit…

Lots of people working in IT have tattoos, I like to see what theme/image overlap they have. Three people in my current workplace have a balloon tattoo (interestingly all of them are red balloons…

When I was 11 years old my parents bought a 48k ZX Spectrum for the family. These were huge in the UK, and to a lesser extent they were popular in Spain too. The tape-recorder which was used to load …

People keep bringing up the "advisory" nature of the referendum, but that's because referendums are not legally binding in the UK. There was a vote. The public made their decision. Ha…

That is beautiful. I wrote a console-based emulator, and a simple CP/M text-adventure game somewhat recently https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/ At some point I should re…

How do you decide if something like that works? Is it by stats on "repeat offenders", or something else? All I can say is that when you've been asked to pay €50,000 for speeding I susp…

Look up the concept of "day fines", which are used in Finland elsewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine Surprisingly they were experimented with in the UK, for …

You're thinking of the Perl Power Tools: https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools I guess there are related projects such as busybox which contain a collection of utiliti…

Even if you reject their changes remember they have their own fork, and they can keep using it locally. Sure they have to keep updating their local work if you don't include it in your reposito…

I deleted my account, and stopped visiting it at least five years ago. Too often old answers would be frozen in time, not being updated for new software and better solutions. Similarly most questions…

Honestly I reached a point where I was getting pull-requests which were best characterized as "AI spam", I just archived all of them. Every single one of my public github repositories is arc…

Sure! Walk out of the sauna, over the garden, down the dock, then jump into the lake for a naked swim. Do that daily for about four weeks, come rain or shine, whilst enjoying your summer vacation. Of…

I guess it would, but remember there are more services out there than just HTTP(S). For example the last time I had an IPv6-only host I had issues cloning things from github, as "git clone git@gi…

I used it until I switched to GNOME2 at some point, and I also have fond memories. Just seeing the title of this post recalled the desktops I had had over the years. My linux days started around 95&#…

There's a good three-part writeup starting here, covering Douglas and the game: https://www.filfre.net/2013/11/douglas-adams/ For my money the "best" adv…

There are no useful discussion to be had on such topics as war in Isreal, Donald Trump (be it "stolen elections", or foreign politics), or Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Nobody will ever…

If you keep this up you'll want to add yourself to the public suffix list: https://publicsuffix.org/ You should also consider grouping your random hostnames under a dedicated sub…

I flag posts like this.

Same for me. Medium, SubStack, and several other sites, have ruined any former good will and interest they once held. Instead of being sources for good writing they're 99% full of low-effort sp…

Same here. On/For the ZX Spectrum, looking up the hex-codes in the back of the orange book. At least it was spiral-bound to make it easier. Later still I'd be patching binaries to ensure t…

> the issue here is specifically with `pull_request_target` I just went to github to search for references to that trigger-type, and I admit I was surprised at the sheer number of times it is visib…

I have approximately one meter of snoopy books - collections of the comic strip - dating from the 70s and 80s. Now and again I read a few strips, but at least once every month I wear my snoopy watch,…

Snoop is the name of my favourite characters from the later series of The Wire. I like the idea her nickname came from Peanuts.

It is a good read, even now. I read it for the first time in my early 20s, and reason I read it was because when I was about 11 years old I saw an old black and white movie of it, and I had nightmares…

Allegations they operated a pump and dump in conjunction with Wata games, a "grading" company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Auctions#Controversie... …

I wrote a wee helper to export all the repositories of your profile/organization into an MR configuration file: https://github.com/skx/github2mr But to be honest given the r…

Ahh, somehow I misunderstood. Thanks for the clarification!