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If you clicked through and viewed the artwork details page then it will be in the "recently viewed" collection at the bottom of the page.

In a world full of Nintendos, be Atari.

They are things that you know, that you don't know you know. For example, uncovering links between existing knowledge that uncovers something that then feels obvious.

This happens occasionally where two previously thought seperate fields of study discover a common link with each being able to explain the questions the other had struggled with.

You make a great point. I would enjoy going back to the office if it involved a 15 minute bike ride.

Based upon the recruiters messaging me, if I gave up my remote job for one that required in-office attendance I would get an immediate 30% pay bump.

That would however, demand an hour and half commute each way and that would impact my ability to take my children to school and be involved with family meals. Back when I did have a hour commute each way it was costing me £2,800 a year in fuel, plus £2,220 in parking fees, plus about the same again for lunch out with colleagues.

So yeah, i'd get a 30-40% pay bump, but a large percentage would be consumed by additional costs with no benefit to my performance.

I did exactly the same, thinking that maybe it was invisible unicode characters or something I didn't know about.

Not forced but the tooling has been made available to those who ask. Work have provided Microsoft Copilot through Teams and Github Copilot through my IDE of choice.

I found the Microsoft Copilot to be reasonably good when given a complete context with extremely limited scope such as being provided a WSDL for a SOAP service and asked to write functions that make calls and then writing unit tests for the whole thing. This had a right way and a wrong way of doing things and it did it almost perfectly.

However, if you give it any problem that requires imagination with n+1 ways of being done it flounders and produces mostly garbage.

Compared to the Microsoft Copilot I found the Github Copilot to feel lobotomised! It failed on the aforementioned WSDL task and where Microsoft's could be asked "what inconsistencies can you see in this WSDL" and catch all of them, Github's was unable to answer beyond pointing out a spelling mistake I had already made it aware of.

I have personally tinkered with Claude, and its quite impressive.

My colleagues have had similar experiences, with some uninstalling the AI tooling out of frustration at how "useless" it is. Others, like myself, have begun using it for the grunt work; mostly as "inteligent boilerplate generator."

Agreed, LEGO aren't like Nintendo.

I had similar many years ago in a custom paint shop. We had an expensive colorimeter that interfaced over serial with a program that ran in DOS.

When the pysical computer gave out, I replaced it with a reasonably new one but instead of using a modern OS I installed MS-DOS in order to get it up and running as reliably and quickly as possible.

If I were doing the same today, I'd likely get a new computer and install FreeDOS.

I'm pretty sure it can be done via the IIN. Services like https://binlist.net/ provide a convenient solution to identify if it's a prepaid card.

Yes. When I started working in hospitals it wasn't the case. We had an onsite laundry facility and tailor. You would obtain your uniform from the tailors, tailor made to fit, they would also repair any damaged uniform.

You would place worn uniform in a bag labeled with your name and drop if off at the laundry to collect the next day.

Then privatisation came, first they shut down the tailors and you were expected to both purchase your uniform and pay for alterations and repairs (costs you could claim back as a tax rebate if you knew how, how not being advertised.) Then they privatised the laundry, shutting down the one on site and shifting everything to a central location, by everything I mean just the bedding, you were now expected to wash your uniform at home.

The only exception I am aware of is Surgical scrubs, those were provided in sterile wraps and were to be returned to a certain laundry bin for cleaning.

You're right about the food industry, when I worked in kitchens that days uniform was provided, freshly cleaned and returned for laundering at the end of my shift.

I guess a lot of people don't leave the door open so the machine can dry between loads. None of my washing machines have had issue with smell but I also run a 90 degree boil wash once a month to clean things out.

It's almost as though people forget these are machines that require maintenance and cleaning.

I have a similar spider story, for the past nine years a rather large spider (for the UK) had been living under the bookcase by my front door. I have left it alone, but do hoover up the graveyard of consumed insects every couple of months. I caught it a few months ago when I had new carpet laid, released it back to its spot once the bookcase was back in place :D

While there may be a 100% anilation with matter-antimatter reactions the resulting thrust is not perfectly efficient due to energy consumed as the rest mass of charged and uncharged pions, energy consumed as the kinetic energy of the uncharged pions (which can't be deflected for thrust); and energy consumed as neutrinos and gamma rays.

I'm unsure if the resulting efficienty is 60% however, not all of the energy produced in the anilation is converted to "stuff" that is useful for thrust.

[name redacted] did in the beginning have a paid tier that I was subscribed to but the author found it too much hassle to deal with and so removed it.

haha, many years ago when I worked in a large office the three meeting rooms where constantly busy so my team would grab a laptop and pop down the road to the pub for our meetings.

I should look into replacing my X230 with an X270, they look to now be the same price point I paid for mine second hand three years ago.

I bought a second hand X230 about three years ago and was so impressed I bought a second one for my Wife. Thinkpads from that era feel so well built and for a laptop thats a decade old at this point it still holds up as a daily driver now that I have replaced its battery with a new one.

At a previous employer we used gitea along with jenkins.

Where I live it's very similar to electric and gas supply, where you have a common carrier that you get your supply over. There is one fibre cable into the building that goes out to some kind of interface accessed via a manhole ourside; all the local telcos use that fibre as common carrier and either rent existing fibre thats already been laid and hooked up to that interface, or lay their own at their own cost.

I have choice of half a dozen suppliers this way but only one set of hardware in the house.

That broadcast power is required to provide range. Radio waves obey the inverse-square law: for every doubling of the distance from source you get four times less power. This is also why wireless power transmission at a distance isn't really viable.

Yes, but that was due to Brexit.

.eu domains may only be registered to a person or entity that exists within the EU. As soon as Brexit crystallised any British person or entity owning a .eu domain was unable to renew it unless they had an address they legally occupied within an EU country.

I know a few companies who rented a small amount of office space in France so that they could retain their .eu domain.

I have heard people say "vanity TLDs are bad" but never experienced it myself.

I have email addresses at .co.uk, .digital and .social never had deliverability issues with sending or receiving.

When I worked at a large (100m emails/wk) email service provider the key thing was sending IP reputation followed by things like DKIM and SPF DNS records on the sending domain.

IP reputation would be an issue if you self hosted your email, but using a reputable provider such as tutanota and fastmail should pose no issue.

I sometimes use svg's define symbol method `<defs>` (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/def...), you combine all the icons you use into one document that you load with display none and then reference those symbols anywhere else on the page using svg `<use>`.

I wouldn't say stuck...

The adoption rate in August 2021 was 35.26%, August this year is 39.71% thats a reasonable 12 month growth of 12.6%.

Between August 2020(33.24%) and August 2021(35.26%) there was a 12 month growth of 6%.

Adoption velocity is increasing year on year and for much of the past 25 years there was little reason to roll out IPv6 with gusto and so telcos didn't bother with the investment. With the exhaustion of cheap IPv4 we should see IPv6 adoption velocity only increase.

Ha, I found your website late last year and eventually started publishing lists of things I had found interesting in a per week, week in review: https://photogabble.co.uk/topic/week-in-review/

The "slow web" never left it just became more underground as the flashy algorithms paved over it in favour of turning visitors into media consumption addicts then into a product to sell to advertisers.

I removed Youtube from the TV so that my children only now have access to age appropriate material on BBC iPlayer, Disney plus and Netflix.

There is some quality for children's material on Youtube, but it's by far in the minority and I just don't have time to monitor everything they watch, nor should I need to.

If I had to guess this is fall out from the rate increase Visa put in place after Brexit. Now that they are no longer restricted by pro-consumer caps they hiked the rates from 0.3% to 1.5% on credit card payments: https://www.ft.com/content/4820b619-4d35-4c6a-8523-fc685c047...

Due to Brexit merchant fees in the UK are no longer capped.

Visa for example, plan to increase the interchange fee on digital payments made between European customers and British businesses from 0.3% to 1.5%. Other providers will surely follow.

Still lower fees than in the states but probably not for long.

Wasn't this what fast.com was created for?