stevekemp

I guess this might depend where you are. When I lived in Scotland there was a "loose change" machine at the local Tesco. You pour in your coins and it would give you a receipt you could tak…

I live in Finland, and here the kids mostly walk to/from their schools themselves and that starts around age 7. Sometimes the kids walk alone, sometimes they pickup friends en route, or they have…

Very much so. If programs are well-behaved, and call "int 21", etc all is well. But a lot of programs would use undocumented things, such as the list-of-lists and they'd directly peek…

Seems to be a dupe of this story from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821154

I think you could replace tail with awk, if you absolute needed to. This is a naive attempt: cat /etc/passwd | \ awk -v n=10 '{ lines[NR] = $0 } END{ …

Back in the day I knitted something similar for myself, though I don't recall if I'd seen the original product. In fact earlier this year I bought a new kindle and knitted a little "soc…

I think it's largely a matter of how regular these events are. Finnish winters are universally cold, with lots of snow. So car-owners switch to winter-tyres in advance of snow/ice, trams a…

I moved from Scotland to Finland, so I guess I'm familiar with the UK temperatures ranges! I'm generally one of those people who is always warm, so with that caveat inmind I don't find …

I built a small hardware device to show the departure time of the tram next to my house, because here in Finland it gets cold in winter. Mostly the winter isn't super-cold, something like -10°C&#…

Sadly it seems like it is down Connected to example.fi. Escape character is '^]'. /home/example/services/ircd/ircd.sh: fork: retry: Resource temporaril…

Performance, mostly. I worked for a hosting company that sold UML-based virtual machines, while we trialed Xen as the successor, before moving to use KVM instead. But also KVM supported things like li…

When we played with our game I had to read a fair amount of the text, but he was able to type in the commands. I did have to explain type "down" instead of trying to write "go down the …

I wrote one in z80 assembly language, to amuse my child. Making it with such a constrained environment, and language, made it a bit of a challenge. But the end result is that you can run it on any CP…

Helps to hold the button down and shake over the circle - if you don't mouseup it doesn't count as a new stroke.

My child started walking to school, alone, at age seven. More importantly he'd start walking home from school in the afternoon a couple of hours before his parents were home. Having a child be a…

His wikipedia page is worth reading for that, and other details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Dibnah Definitely one of a kind.…

No idea, if I see a medium link I just ignore it. Substack is heading the same way for me too, it seems to be self-promotion, shallow-takes, and spam more than anything real.

In the UK you do not have to have your drivers license upon your person when driving a car. Usually you'll be instructed to present it to a nearby police station within a few days.

There was an interesting, and related, article I saw recently on the topic of the Mushroom poisoning case in Australia https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep…

For the structure I "solved" that problem by creating folders with three main files: Websites/foo.com/username Websites/foo.com/password Websites/foo.c…

Makes sense that Finland has such things though, when the roads are covered in snow and ice for a lot of the year. Though this year we did good in our capital: "Helsinki has not recorded a single…

And back in the day sites like kuro5hin and even slashdot, allowed their users to have a public diary, or scratchpad. Then there were sites like Advogato which were built around diaries as well as rep…

I maintain that his best game was absolutely Chaos: The Battle of Wizards. Although later creations were more popular it's that first one that really stands in my memory 40+ years later. I guess …

That's probably the real reason, but I think their redesign didn't help either. The /. redesign wasn't as brutal as that which Digg had, but it was certainly something that stopped…

And currently we have the second highest unemployment rate in the EU: https://yle.fi/a/74-20175260 That said Finland is a lovely country to move to. Raising a child here in part…