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I've been using Nginx/Passenger:

https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/deploy/nginx/deploy...

Those were excellent. Such was their popularity that their (badgers, Weebl) creator was invited for a presentation at the Holywell Music Rooms in Oxford; I can't remember exactly when but it must have been 20 years ago. This was fairly well attended (including the entire bioinformatics group from my institute).

I'll have to revisit those episodes, which I've not seen for a while.

I recall the Covered Market becoming a bus station in one Endeavour episode.

The Morse/Lewis/Endeavour programmes often show that sort of thing, with the characters walking through various scenic areas of central Oxford which aren't directly connected.

Unfortunately so - sorry about that.

No problem. There does seem to be quite a bit of good stuff these days, though it's not easy to get much engagement (I'm probably too dull).

I've tooted plenty on topics other than those - not that anyone seems to be remotely interested.

Thanks for the link. I looked, but missed it.

...according to an ad (now deleted) by CMG Local Solutions, reported in this Mastodon thread.

That's a good blog. Sadly, Mark Wadsworth (the author) appears to have died within the last year.

Edit: Link: http://www.yppuk.org/2023/03/mark-wadsworth-obituary.html

All good stuff, indeed.

> Handle bad results in the same way that the NTSB deals with plane crashes - find the flaws in the system instead of somebody to blame.

Definitely. I'd like to see a lot more of that, but the default often seems to be blame.

I recall a system at a place I worked where the stakeholders (native or skilled non-native English speakers) would produce requirements by holding meetings with the developer (much less skilled non-native speaker), dictate what they wanted, and have the developer take notes (which the stakeholders would not check) then immediately implement the software. When the resulting software was built incorrectly they would blame the developer for incompetence, and hold another meeting.

Your comment reminds me of a time I was a member of a sports club. One other member was thrown out as they were revealed in a newspaper article to also be an active member of a neo-Nazi organisation. But, they'd never said or done anything that gave the slightest hint of it and appeared to be quite pleasant and liked within the club.

I wonder if anyone in the sports club would ever have noticed if it weren't for a journalist looking into that neo-Nazi group.

Similarly, not de-banked, but I did recently have a payment blocked, with no explanation from my bank other than that the recipient seemed suspicious. It was a payment made in person to a garage that had just serviced my car, to which I've been going for servicing for ~15 years, for an amount similar to the usual cost. This was rather worrying as if they'd block that I have no idea what other payments might mysteriously fail (the bank's agent did not seem to understand why this might be a concern).

Perhaps not the "stun gun". It would be interesting to know if a properly-qualified engineer has ever taken a look at the Eagle and determined if it would be possible (e.g. with nuclear thermal rockets).

This one is particularly bad for lane changing:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.7874467,-1.278506,17.57z?ent...

Coming out of Oxford on the A4144 there are two lanes; the left lane is for taking the first two turns and the right lane for the remaining three. But, drivers unfamiliar with the layout who haven't seen the markings, or who fancy jumping the queue, will sometimes use the left hand lane to go straight ahead onto the A44. There's a similar situation coming from the A40 to the East.

I've seen a few accidents there and even been involved in one as a result of this (someone tried to undertake me at speed as I exited, and caused a collision, 100% their fault according to our insurers).

Looks good, thanks. I'm somewhat constrained for space and room size, but might look for that or similar to replace the current one: https://www.agaliving.com/products/catalog/stoves/little-wen... Stoves are useful in my area as there's a lot of wood around, often for free, though it does of course have to be dried.

Thanks. Looks like it's for a house much larger than mine, but that offers a hint of the sort of design for which to look.

May I ask what brand of stove you are using?

Whether or not it counts as PTSD, I remember it being a stressful time, causing worry that has persisted through to the present. There were the films, of course; When the Wind Blows and The Day After are films I watched (the former was also available as a graphic novel IIRC). I'm not sure about Threads, but I definitely saw The War Game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Game). The scene with firemen trying to put out a firestorm and being suffocated has stuck in my head. The Protect and Survive booklet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_and_Survive) was around to instruct families in how to construct temporary makeshift shelters against nuclear blast. I recall such planning, including watching a film explaining how long the various Protect and Survive shelters might last at different distances from a blast ("The occupants of this shelter will be fine, for 6 seconds until the blast wave hits..." etc. etc). Military training at school (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Cadet_Force) also involved, from time to time, lectures from liaison officers who would remind us of the odds against us in terms of land forces, and how long we might hold out before things went nuclear (should the Warsaw Pact have attacked NATO).

Both my wife and I had these and, despite initial promise, they behaved horribly. One particular issue was overheating and shutting down. IIRC the boot loop issue, when it eventually struck, was worked around by a hack to disable two CPU cores. Due to this and the poor performance of Wear OS (or was it still Android Wear at that time?) we switched to iPhones. I note that the reason I first got a 6P was because my 6 completely died one day and a 6P was the only available insurance replacement. Despite all this, I'm likely to by the Pixel 8 and Pixel Watch 2 to replace my iPhone 8 plus.

I agree. The Apple Watch is very useful, but I'm not happy about having to buy an iPhone to go with it. With luck the Pixel watches might become good enough to replace it.

Thanks for the links. I wonder if it’s entirely that, or if management fears that staff might somehow gain a benefit by taking obsolete hardware.

My org insists that the disks of all obsolete machines are destroyed and the rest of the hardware sent for disposal. I have a few systems that could be wiped and given away for charity but that’s not allowed. This seems incredibly wasteful to me.

Thanks for the recommendation - I've ordered a copy. It should be very interesting as I can play both instruments to varying degrees.

Interesting. I learned bass guitar (fretless - I don't much like fretted bass) without a teacher, and did fairly well at it. I was able to get gigs etc. and play adequately at an amateur level. For learning double bass, later, a teacher was useful and perhaps even necessary. It is a physically harder instrument and direct feedback from someone in the same room watching me was very helpful. From a teaching perspective, I have taught fencing for over 30 years. One thing I notice with many students is that they lack the ability to use proprioception. They think they are doing the thing they are supposed to do, but cannot feel that their body isn't doing it. Unlike a YouTube video I can see this and let them know, and also suggest means by which they might get to their goal. Having said that, I had one student who did quite well studying YouTube videos during the pandemic when classes were suspended. That student still benefitted from coaching later, but it was more along the lines of refinement of existing skill rather than imparting the basics. In relation to videos, these are useful for improving fencing also. Students will often be surprised to see what they look like during a bout.

Thanks! I’ll take a look at Netflix later.

Which episode showed Klingon scientists? I’d be very interested to see that.

Similarly, at a place I used to work, messages such as "sudo echo 'Hey John, please would you chmod -R a+r on /storage/data/filename.txt, thanks!'" were used. This usually resulted in irate "Stop that! You have to submit a ticket!" emails.

I’m reminded of a previous house move. A two-bedroom flat 20 miles from work was £125k, and one within a mile, but otherwise similar, was about £350k. I could barely afford the first one.