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4ndrewl··on Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network
I've tried building one of these and the answer is - it's difficult.

There is a message queue that you can use to identify the last reported location of a train. Depending on the line you could get a pretty accurate real-time map (but first you need to georeference all of the location identifiers to eastings/northings.)

But many lines report only the last movement at a station stop - these are mostly in rural areas so the best approach seems to be to build some sort of dead-reckoning network taking into account train type and network utilisation.

4ndrewl··on A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex
Back in the day we'd use chroot to achieve something similar

https://linux.die.net/man/1/chroot

4ndrewl··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Some context - Birmingham Mail is one of dozens of clickbait-driven publications owned by Reach plc.

They're not a high quality source of news - they've more than decimated their journalism staff and replaced them with 'content' staff who are performance monitored on the number of clicks their articles generate.

Content is syndicated in different accents across their range of papers from the national papers, The Mirror and The Daily Express down into a large number of notionally 'local' outlets.

So, take it with a pinch of salt.

4ndrewl··on The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents
Weird take. And brutally, if predictably, wrong (client ad-blockers, pihole, wireguard if you must know).
4ndrewl··on The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents
He says clicking "accept" to tracking cookies and their 762 "partners"
4ndrewl··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
It does. The article clearly says that if you have a paid support contract they will be on-call as per usual.
4ndrewl··on Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency
Never mind cooldowns for dependencies, we need cooldowns for these adhd vibe projects.
4ndrewl··on EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision
But let's be clear about this - 50% of the voting population of the United States have been giving him their support for a decade now.
4ndrewl··on To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks
First principles?
4ndrewl··on The dead economy theory
I suppose, if you live in a jurisdiction/insurance regime where it's usable.

But people like buying new cars, new models, new designs. Not just features - those are just options.

4ndrewl··on Rothko for your current weather conditions
I love this. Thank you for making it.
4ndrewl··on The dead economy theory
This. It doesn't really look like Tesla is doing anything rn but selling old cars. They don't appear to be the future any more.
4ndrewl··on The Eternal Sloptember
Precisely my point.
4ndrewl··on Can we have the day off?
The reality is huge swathes of the middle of large organisations are paid to take the blame for the layer above them. AI wont solve that.
4ndrewl··on Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?
Betteridge's law at play. If they genuinely had a story, there'd be no question mark at the end of the headline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

4ndrewl··on Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
Good work everyone. We gave our labour freely and see how we all profited!
4ndrewl··on The Eternal Sloptember
I read plenty of books, but I'd struggle to write one because that's a different skill that I don't have.
4ndrewl··on The Eternal Sloptember
> I'm in the "haven't written any code in a while" boat ATM

How long do you think it will be before you can't write any code because you're out of practice?

One of the dangers of engineering management is that it can turn you into a person that can no longer do the thing.

Does that even matter?

4ndrewl··on Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links
That's the number one rule though. If someone calls you claiming to be your bank, just say "I'll call you back"
4ndrewl··on Hengefinder: Finding When the Sun Aligns with Your Street
Ye - also the henge is the circular ditch, not the stone circle or whatever in the centre
4ndrewl··on Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street
Stonehenge of course, famously not a henge.
4ndrewl··on Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
Fortunately, this is just a press release for their new product 'Claude Security'. Just contact sales to find out more https://claude.com/product/claude-security
4ndrewl··on Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
Is there a reason why they appear to conflate vulnerabilities and bugs? It's not clear where they are defining their terms, eg

"After one month, most partners have each found hundreds of critical- or high-severity vulnerabilities in their software. Collectively, they’ve found more than ten thousand. Several have told us that their rate of bug-finding has increased by more than a factor of ten. For instance, Cloudflare has found 2,000 bugs (400 of which are high- or critical-severity) across their critical-path systems, with a false positive rate that Cloudflare’s team considers better than human testers." (emphasis mine)

4ndrewl··on TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election
That sounds like you're mixing up cause and effect?
4ndrewl··on No more JetBrains products for me
Wait, don't you reverse into a parking space and drive straight out?
4ndrewl··on Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques
The only reason people write comments like this is because they've unconsciously normalised the contrarian/rage/emotionally-charged-comment economy.

They clearly don't really mean what they write and to suggest that "everyone" has access to incredible art tools in a world where millions don't even have reliable access to clean water is trite.

4ndrewl··on London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
The sad thing is that GP is not even being paid to spread this tripe. I just can't understand their motivation to post such patently false info based on what...Tiktok research from Russia?

At least Farage/Yaxley and their hangers-on are clearly on the make.

4ndrewl··on England Runestones
Depends on how you're using the terms. Norsemen/Danes were the people, Viking was a job. The viking raids of the summer months were replaced by longer term settlements/political agreements (eg Danelaw, London, Dublin, med coast, Seville) but that still necessitated plenty of waterborne travel.
4ndrewl··on London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
Or maybe it's just that whenever Tommy ten names has one of his rallies it ends in violence?
4ndrewl··on Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms
You don't even need to go back that far. The biphasic sleep regime was still happening a few hundred years ago https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medie...
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