rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
The answer of what we should do about the House of Lords in the UK seems pretty simple to me: everyone agrees political appointees are bad, and a second elected chamber achieves nothing that Commons can't. The answer is clearly to have the members elected by hundreds of organisations around the country: not just the CoE but unions, trade bodies, industry groups, charities, universities, and representatives of the arts, culture, and sport
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It's been eye-opening lately to see which drownings at sea get blanket media coverage, and which simply don't.
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Save yourself £20 on the latest hyped diet book by avoiding crisps, chocolate, takeaways, sugary drinks, and instead move more and drink more water.
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I've always felt like something was off about Nebula.
https://medium.com/@cameron-paul/who-actually-owns-nebula-952a1c12d9c0
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None of the really hard problems in software engineering are going to be solved by new programming tools.
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At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.
Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :)
https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/
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Every programming language with the === operator is a language where the designer made a mistake and has since had to paper over the cracks.
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@jimniels `<a>` the magic we already have
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Salt brings out the flavour in food, and is essential in our diet. Pepper just makes things taste of pepper.
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So many people don't want to admit it but a tax increase for the wealthiest in society is a pretty easy fix for most societal problems. I know it's not exactly fair but they can afford it and the rest of us can't
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petition to rename "width" to "widgth" for monospace consistency with "height" and "length"
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Tubs of fresh soup are the wrong size. They're slightly too big for one serving, and slightly too small for two.
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20 degrees celcius is the hottest the weather ever needs to get. Anything more is pointless. It's warm enough to wear a t shirt and shorts and to get a tan.
The lesson we should learn from this is that the tech industry needs a regulator. Anyone selling software that runs with root privileges should be required by law to adhere to a testing standard, especially if that software auto updates. The rest of the economy should be provided with resiliency and redundancy guidance from said regulator.
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Rebranding RSS Feeds as PostCasts
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the world needs more recreational programming.
like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?
no, but it was the most fun to write.
I've been re-reading the A Song of Ice and Fire series lately and one thing that stuck out to me is how much GRRM's writing makes each chapter feel like a children's' short story in length and structure. Coupled with the alternating viewpoints and the books feel rather than like an anthology of fairy tales. This then only further exacerbates the starkness of the sex, the violence, and the horror that the series doesn't shy away from. We're anticipating a happy-ever-after at the close of chapters that rarely deliver.
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Three years ago, astronauts aboard the International Space Station jettisoned an SUV-sized collection of trash that was supposed to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. Now it looks like a piece of it just crashed through a house in Florida. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-junk-from-the-international-space-station-may-have-struck-a-home-in/
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Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
