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IsopropylMalbec··on Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
The battery on that circuit looks very much like a backup battery we have connected to our house alarm.

We moved in to the house in 2003 and that battery died this year, so I would imagine that it is already or will very soon die. That said, if it's a backup battery and the electricity supply is stable then it may not make any difference.

IsopropylMalbec··on Play all the OnlyConnect connecting walls
OnlyConnect is a UK quiz show which is renowned for for it difficulty and need for lateral thinking.

It has four main rounds, the third of which is a 4x4 board of words on tiles that must be connected to four concepts. This may have been the inspiration for a certain NY Times game.

This site has gathered all the games from every series since 2008, and will let you play them interactively.

IsopropylMalbec··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
It's a problem when LLMs can control agents and autonomously take real word actios.
IsopropylMalbec··on Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Sorry, what do you mean?
IsopropylMalbec··on Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong
Does this mean that cooking at lower temperatures will lead to lower pressure and less moisture loss?
IsopropylMalbec··on Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator
A benevolent dictator.
IsopropylMalbec··on Niantic plans a “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data
What you say is fair but if an individual's data doesn't matter, what happens when they ask to have their data deleted under GDPR. is there a way to demux their data from existing models?
IsopropylMalbec··on Bop Spotter
Would that not mean that Shazaam is illegal Germany? From my limited searching it doesn't seem like it is.
IsopropylMalbec··on 1M Users
Thanks, I only do it for the childish laughs! It crazy how it shaped so much yet only a very specific slice of people know it exists.
IsopropylMalbec··on 1M Users
That's what I have been trying to do with the B3ta site[0]. It is a UK humour site forum that was founded in the very early 2000s. I have been looking after it's backend for about five or so years, trying to modernise what I can and keep it stable and maintainable. I have learnt a lot of respect for people who create a site like Spacehey, it quickly spirals in to a job in itself.

[0]: https://b3ta.com/

IsopropylMalbec··on Advantages of incompetent management
The post is saying that it is a people problem. The gist is that efficient or beautiful architecture does not mirror efficient or beautiful management.
IsopropylMalbec··on Monitoring Is a Pain
If a service which provides metrics supports multiple tenants wouldn't those metrics at the very least need a label to indicate which tenant the metrics are for?
IsopropylMalbec··on Kevin Edwards in The Micro User – article series on 6502 (1985)
They are a great set of articles. Kevin is a fountain of retro games knowledge and very interesting to talk to, as a bonus.
IsopropylMalbec··on In Search of the Golden Brain
I can thoroughly recommend the site's author's other pieces. His atomic dissection of UK comedy shows goes much further than you would realistically expect from an individual. Yet at the same time the articles and the writing are interesting and engaging. If you thought that it would be boring to read an exposé of how one doorway was reused in the background of series I, II and X of Red Dwarf and no others then weirdly, you would be wrong.

https://twitter.com/mumoss

IsopropylMalbec··on Auditory brainstem response distinguishes occasional and constant tinnitus
No difference for me, in frequency or volume.
IsopropylMalbec··on Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
I think that it would make an illegitimate job posting for example.com look legitimate as LinkedIn scraped it and posted it in LinkedIn's example.com profile page.
IsopropylMalbec··on The Grug Brained Developer
You are not able to, or at least should not be able to debug your code in production. More than likely all you will have is your logs.
IsopropylMalbec··on Stepping Back from Speaking
I've had success with Valerian, it is a quite mild sedative and anti-anxiety root. It's just enough to get over the pre-presentation anxiety and get in to the flow.
IsopropylMalbec··on Tips for Interviewing over Zoom
I have to ask what your weirdest experience is then?
IsopropylMalbec··on Gödel's Loophole
The Wikipedia article about it mentions using Article V against itself, slowly erroding it and the Constitution. That doesn't seem like the loophole Godel might be concerned about. if he did find something more concerning then given his skills this looks like nearly perfect security by obscurity.
IsopropylMalbec··on Let there be more biographies of failures
That's honestly a heart wrenching story. Your bravery to write it as straight as you have is testament to you. You obviously cared a lot about the film and the people you worked with. That will go with you.
IsopropylMalbec··on As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever
I agree with the first half of this. The second half implies that the original designer felt that historical comments were important, which I think any social MVP will disagree with.
IsopropylMalbec··on Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
You are not the first person I have met with that exact same sentiment.

It feels like there is a desire for the same hacky frontend yet no one wants to invest.

IsopropylMalbec··on A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant
What would be the point of a review if it had zero impact?