funnybeam

Thanks for linking that. I’m a big proponent of using ISO 8601 but had either missed or completely forgotten about it specifying a format for intervals.

Note that ISO also permits a double hyphen as the interval separator which is hugely preferable to me personally and also works with file names (as mentioned in that Wikipedia article)

Jonathan Livingstone Seagull

Never entirely sure why I love it so much. First read it as a child when I hated apparently similar books - stories that seem written to speak to an adult’s idea of a sweet and innocent childhood - but it would always transport me… somewhere… I could never really describe. Still can’t, but still love it decades later

Terrorism is attacking civilian targets in order to create political pressure from fear.

War is attacking military targets to reduce the enemy’s capability to wage war against you.

Civilian target = terrorism

Military target = war

There absolutely are grey areas and overlap between the two but not nearly as much as people like to make out.

> So devs decided they could do it themselves (with better tools).

And failed. Other people’s jobs always look easy from the outside

Employees can already search through everything _they have permission to _

Copilot only has access to whatever the user has access to - it uses the same permissions.

The copilot bots in the article are slightly different from normal copilot so might have elevated permissions but if you are creating a service with access to your data then you should make sure it has the correct restrictions in place - there is nothing special about copilot in this regard.

Employees can already search through everything. Copilot makes it easier to find things but it runs with the user’s permissions and obeys the existing access rules

No, French is badly pronounced French - the English (Norman) versions are often closer to the original pronunciation

We need more air conditioners because of global heating - a problem exacerbated to some extent by air conditioners themselves

I’ve had several companies, including cyber insurers, ask for specific password expiry policies and when I’ve gone back to them explaining that we don’t expire passwords and referencing the NCSC and NIST advice all of them have accepted that without any arguments.

As you say, these are largely box ticking exercises but you don’t have to accept the limited options they give you as long as you can justify your position

Kitchen appliances and furniture basically work on multiples of feet. 1 foot = 30cm, so the reason the standard appliance is 60cm is because that’s the metric equivalent of 2 feet

And is exactly what’s being done to the NHS now

A5 north west of London and the A2 running south east of London

True,me too. But now that copilot keeps popping up on the other side, that’s starting to feel cramped too.

I used to put the task bar vertically down the side of the monitor as well for the same reason but Microsoft won’t let me do that anymore.

“less cluttered than ever before while computer monitors are larger than ever before.”

Less cluttered but with more white space, especially in the vertical direction which is particularly cramped since the change in monitor aspect ratios so the toolbars have less functionality but take up more of the usable screen space.

Progress is great…

So, de-googled then. You're using a different App Store/sideloading and disabling a load of the functionality in Google Maps (GPS is kind of useful for navigation)

As I said, this isn't an option for most people.

Really? Google doesn’t know your GPS location or what apps you’ve installed? How does Maps and the Play Store work then?

Presumably you are using a de-googled Android phone then?

For most people, the choice is between giving that data to Apple or giving it to Google. Personally I am more worried about an advertising company leaking/misusing my data than a hardware company that has made privacy a differentiator in their branding. Not saying I trust that but you have to weigh up your risk factors

Yes, all phonetic alphabets come from the same root - the Greek alphabet - it has only been invented once.

There are many other writing systems but they tend to be pictorial or syllabic.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/writing/Types-of-writing-sy...

FTP support was removed from Explorer years ago I thought?

Recently watched it. There are about 2 instances of incredible sexism throughout the whole series but the rest of the time it’s extremely egalitarian. The first episode in particular was so badly sexist that I nearly didn’t watch the rest of the series but was glad I did because the awful misogynist character in the first episode seems to have a complete change of personality and never behaves like that again - the actor playing him seemed visibly uncomfortable at times so I don’t know if he influenced that or whether they got feedback from others to change things.

Get past the first episode and it’s great, like a sci-fi version of The Prisoner. Very much of its time but in a good way - filmed in 1970 but set in the eighties it’s like a vision of the future (past now) that never happened but could have - something very bad clearly happened in our timeline during the seventies to result in everything being so grim when just ten years earlier we were full of optimism.

It’s fairly strongly implied that humans wiped themselves out on earth - the last transmissions Alpha receives as it moves away are not promising and encounters with various god-like aliens suggest that the moon base humans are the last of them

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

As a child I used to get “trapped” in the corner of the room - I’d be lying in bed and my consciousness would get locked in to the corner where the walls meet the ceiling. Felt like I was pushed hard into the corner

Never heard of anyone else having this until it was mentioned on hacker news a while ago and someone linked to Alice in Wonderland Syndrome which matches my experience perfectly - maybe your geometric nightmares are like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome

“ businesses and their relationships with consumers”

Sounds like spam to me

Yep. Mopads from 2000AD (the comic) - they saw it coming

There will be thousands of them circling the M25, crawling in and out of BritCit to drop off and collect their commuter residents

Many of those French words in English though come from Norman French which is very different to the modern language. French having also undergone a major vowel shift as well as dropping pronunciation of some final consonants so that some of the “English” pronunciation of certain “French” words is arguably more correct

This is why I only read Hacker News these days.

The thing I keep reminding myself is that most people don’t actually vote conservative, it’s just our skewed voting system that makes them appear to have vastly more support than they really do.

And the post 2019 Conservative Party effectively is UKIP - they were thoroughly infiltrated and most of the old school tories left the party

Accelerando by Charles Stross covers this well

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

Theoden also had given up hope until Gandalf shook him out of it

And the defenders at Minas Tirith, Saruman, even the elves - the whole lot of them in middle earth have given up hope.

Despair is one of the key themes running through all of Tolkiens work. Denethor was far from alone

That graph shows iPhone sales year on year. I’d be interested to see recycling stats as I know Apple will recycle iPhones for free but I couldn’t find much with a quick search.

How many Android devices are still in use after 7 years? And receiving updates? I suspect these are generating e waste at a much higher rate than iPhones but would love to see some comparable figures