another-cuppa

Headphone? Deep Note was made for speakers.

It does say I.I.I.I. Awful font.

First time I've ever seen the Github 500 error page. It looks cool!

500 is a server error. I see it in Firefox as well.

It always was. When I started using Firefox it was an alternative to IE6. It was the browser you used if you were a web developer because it had things like Firebug (which Google copied and integrated into Chrome). Chrome didn't convert many Firefox users, it just did a much better job of converting IE users than Firefox ever did, but that's no surprise given that they could directly market it to users through google.com.

Chrome initially was faster than Firefox because it lacked features. This is a common pattern if you've been in this business long enough. Firefox itself was originally the fast-but-cut-down version of Mozilla. Like Firefox, Chrome quickly gained features and bloat and became just as slow as Firefox and everything before it.

My intake was not heavier than I claimed. If you read my post again you'll see that I went for complete abstinence only after drinking became an occasional thing for me. When you drink a few pints of beer once after a month or more of no drinking it has a massive effect.

People disputing this have probably never gone more than a week without alcohol. I'm not prepared to maintain a tolerance to alcohol and it makes me feel bad when I drink occasionally.

All I'm claiming is that a literal poison has a negative effect on me that far outweighs any positive I get from the enjoyment of drinking. Yet people are jumping up in arms saying there must be something wrong with me because they drink regularly and feel fine. I think people could do with some careful introspection and maybe to reconsider what "fine" is.

I didn't say anything about making alcohol illegal. I'm completely opposed to the government telling people what they can put inside their bodies.

My diet is very well-controlled. I fast for 20 hours every day and have a perfectly balanced intake. But if I drink alcohol I will sleep badly and I will have a bad day tomorrow. Why do people refuse to believe this?

> Unless you were getting wasted it's quite unusual for a few drinks to make you feel bad.

Is it, though? I know plenty of people who will just waste whole days away in front of the TV doing nothing because they don't feel like doing anything else. People are constantly telling me they're "tired". I used to be like that too. But now I work on my career or on my hobbies day in, day out. Barring seasonal illnesses I never have down days.

Nah, I still do eat rich full-fat, salty, and carb-heavy food. Trust me, it's the alcohol. The day after drinking used be completely wasted for me. Now every day can be very productive.

Obviously I can't say anything about my own longevity, but over the past few years my alcohol consumption has decreased to virtually zero and I've never felt better. I was never a big drinker, but I would semi-regularly go out and drink a few pints of beer or have wine with dinner. I never intended to cut down on alcohol, but my lifestyle changed, I stopped going out so much, and the drinking went with it. I would still drink maybe once a month, but I've realised that it makes me feel bad every time, so I now completely abstain.

The interesting thing is how people react to it. For some reason you are expected to provide a reason for why you don't drink. I don't smoke either but nobody asks me why. I've noticed also that it makes people uncomfortable if you're not drinking. When I do go out now I drink diet soft drinks so that I don't get constantly asked why I don't have a drink.

I foresee a shift in cultural views towards alcohol much like the shift with respect to tobacco of last century. I wonder if the USA and UK will again lead the way with this leaving much of continental Europe behind.

But maybe not too much? My parents let me sleep. School started at 9:00 for me but on weekends and holidays I would sleep for more than ten hours and default to a >24 hour circadian rhythm. I would eventually become completely nocturnal which is kinda funny and considered typical for a geek like me, but it really messed up my mental health for a number of years afterwards. I wasn't able to maintain "normal" sleeping patterns until my late 20s.

Why doesn't the fish wriggle? The fish looks much stronger than the insect.

So you don't trust your own eyes and nose and need "Siri" to confirm it for you?

So if the air quality is bad, you'll drive. I see, very useful.

I'm quite concerned about air quality in the UK but according to that map everywhere in the UK is "good", even London.

Why is it useful? What do you do about it?

This is definitely part of the reason. Back when git was first released there was a huge amount of scepticism about whether anyone actually needed it, but lots of people used it anyway just because they wanted to use what Linus made for Linux.

I think since then many people have realised that Linus was right and that git is good, but it just wouldn't have gained so much momentum without Linux.

Huh? How could they change once a year? The point is winter time is GMT and summer time is the change. The UK did remain on BST once, but that was during the war (interestingly it also went to double summer time in the summer).

The clocks changing really does mess up my sleep for a good couple of weeks every time. This year I might just ignore the change and continue operating an hour out of phase.

That makes no sense. The clocks change in the summer, not the winter, and in summer Scotland sees about 20 hours of sunlight.

It is a really interesting marketing move (and don't delude yourself, this is a marketing move). To market a feature that Google can't possibly compete with.

Oh dear. So they finally got to him. First Guido, now Linus. If some "nice person" would write a better free operating system I'd be all over it. But Linus is one of the people that has made it possible for me to not only run a free operating system, but the best system in the world. The people who criticise and attack Linus are the one who don't understand us. They don't understand what this software means to us.

I use a tiling WM and I use screen solely for the detaching functionality. It means I can restart X without restarting things like irssi.

I'm curious about your setup and why you wouldn't want to detach smaller screens.

Is tmux actually more reliable in this respect or have you just been lucky so far? I had a screen session running for three years with no problems.

Almost all the software used in biology is FLOSS. The problem is you need a lab process to get the data in the first place.

> Men are allowed to be bald.

Allowed to be bald?! Going bald is a terrible experience that many men have to deal with. The number of men that choose to be bald is vanishingly small.

> They’re allowed to have curly hair.

What are they supposed to do? Straighten it? All male newscasters have the same hair: short back and sides. And yeah, of course if they have curly hair the hair will be curly.

As for women having curly hair. Look around. Curly hair hasn't been in fashion for decades. It's nothing to do with being a newscaster.

> Pretending sexual double standards (or the racial equivalent, etc) don't exist

Typical knee-jerk response void of any logic. I didn't suggest any such thing. I'm just saying this isn't an example of that. The same standards exist for men. All newscasters look the same.

The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact was a great phone. But unfortunately it had a design flaw that meant the screen would become unglued and it's very hard to repair. I "upgraded" to the X Compact but it's complete garbage in comparison. So many things wrong with it. I really don't want a big phone, though.

What's the point of having print or console.log around everything? Just have one box with "print to standard output" and those two at the top.