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bmsleight_··on Django 4.0 release candidate 1 released
I think for beginners Django rocks. I dont do software at all in my career (Engineering), but I can pick-up a django project, look through the example project in the documentation and then throw (and I mean throw) together a working django project in a few evenings. With a very much an amateur knowledge of python. As in another thread, the css takes longer.

Are they any other beginner alternatives I should be looking at ?

bmsleight_··on 3D printed mirror array
Wow how wonderfully geeky romantic. Did he say yes ? [Edit the sand said yes!]
bmsleight_··on Tuvalu looking at legal ways to be a state if it is submerged
440,000 Shipping containers

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%28srt%2829%29*1000...

bmsleight_··on Thousands of phone boxes around the UK will be protected from closure
Of which some have not be used for 2 years. There is a balance in providing the public regulated service and providing something that nobody uses day to day. The criteria appears sensible.
bmsleight_··on Why is Excalidraw so good?
Possible to save the source to a .json and re-upload it. (Save button)
bmsleight_··on Show HN: I built a CNC-machine from scratch, using 40x 3D-printed parts
Love to see the brass Christmas ornaments have you a photo ?
bmsleight_··on The Math Behind “Spot It”
No longer maintaind, but I did make django-project that automatically generated a pack from a set of images. As the kids and I loved playing a snap like game.

It rotated, random-sized etc all the images.

https://barwap.com/projects/splendid-snap/ https://github.com/bmsleight/SplendidSnap

The python script works standalone form the command-line https://github.com/bmsleight/SplendidSnap/blob/master/libspe...

bmsleight_··on Classified tank specs leaked on War Thunder game forums again
I liked the game http://flythrough.space/
bmsleight_··on Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
"I refer you to the reply given in Arkell and Pressdram".

https://prunescape.fandom.com/wiki/The_Reply_Given_in_Arkell...

bmsleight_··on Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)
Considering Events yesterday - how do you test non-live ?
bmsleight_··on Downsides to planting trillions of trees
Great tip, I am only 1 hours drive away. Look great - I fancy the walks. Have you done a stay over or a walk or something else (treehouse) ?
bmsleight_··on Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates
Curious how this works, trying to do the maths in my head, but polar integration not my strong subject.
bmsleight_··on Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search
A British term, means formally charged with an offence. Police compile evidence and/or arrest a person. If the Police think there is enough of a case, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decide if there is enough evidence to support a 'charge'

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/cps-says-role-cps-deciding-w...

Basically Police arrest, looked at the evidence then took no action as Police decided no crime - therefore not charged.

bmsleight_··on The Framework Laptop is now shipping
Customise the order and there is an bring your own OS option.
bmsleight_··on Autonomy founder Mike Lynch can be extradited to US
HP Paid 70& premium on the share price. Bit of a hint HP paid too much.
bmsleight_··on Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone
FedEx are very good, the sender can choose to pay all the charges.
bmsleight_··on Perth man jailed for 7 months after breaching self-quarantine instructions
If I invited a contractor into my home and I knew there was say exposed live electricity wires. Even if the contractors was not damaged - I should be prosecuted.

So he exposed someone to a risk that was avoidable. Any other Health and Safety risk, would have been prosecuted in the same way (in the UK not Australia). [CDM regulations]

bmsleight_··on Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube
If it is a well known song - maybe the audio coudl be subtracted - noise cancellation style to remove the rogue song.
bmsleight_··on Online, mug shots are forever – some states want to change that
There is an art to this traffic engineering. You can design so that the majority of people drive slowly. You have narrow roads, shared spare with pedestrians. So the edge of the highway is not clear. All of this leans to 85 percentile speed dropping with a much better environment.

But (there is always a but), for visually impaired people it does not work that well. For example no kerb edges. For idiots (think stronger word than that), they will drive at the still high speed - at then the accident are worse (severity of outcomes) so it fails.

Speed bumps just are not good - better with a chicane or shuttle working which allows an emergency vehicle to go straight through the obstacle.

>If you want people to drive 20mph, make it hard to navigate at 30mph. There is a wide range of driving skills - design sometime has to account for the worst. Making driving test harder - is a political problem not a technical problem. Driver assist means road get easier to navigate. Driver assist enforcing the speed limit ... is a political problem not a technical problem.

bmsleight_··on Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
Another 6: ఢ૫ໃυޛඞਖࡨௐงເƍ౫൶ลٽ௨౾ІJ௮ටСݺԊق໐ɞ௨൜షݸ౻ටܬݹԪࡄถࡨ௭ඞФॡஸػʒஆಒ෩ಸݹࢳටଜݶౚ൜ਈމ௧෬ІھƐೲໄߢসࡆІݚɷ൜ປ൴ƋٯຯРமҔПܢமɈܢܭԤڌฅٽߤఏە

Agree it is like chess.

bmsleight_··on Why MPs have two mobile phones
I am not alone by having two phones. One personnel and one work. Knowing that the work phone I do not the phone or the data or anything.

I also guard my own phone number like a hawk.

bmsleight_··on US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer
I understand your point better now - thanks.
bmsleight_··on US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer
AFC Wimbledon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFC_Wimbledon

Combined Counties League divison 2 -> Two below premiership. Who beat a the team now 4th in premiership (West Ham) two season ago.

No wealthy individual replacing all the players, just fans.

bmsleight_··on US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer
>How can true fans support Chelsea when the money from Abramovich change the dimension,

Man City were getting 30,000 fans attending in the third tier. Sunderland gets 30,000 fans attending in the third tier.

bmsleight_··on US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer
>Wimbledon in the 3rd tier. "Only took nine years" to get back in to the league. Getting promotion on ** merit. Not buying a place.

Then eventually beating the Franchise and watching them get relegated. Sweet sweet justice.

Now with a fans funded new stadium.

Football is beautiful. Even on a wet cold night in stoke.

bmsleight_··on US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer
Football is a sport played by Gentlemen watched by hooligans. Rugby is a sport played hooligans, watched by Gentlemen.

Although the rugby hooligans are very respectful to the referee. Mic-up the referee in football.

bmsleight_··on Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee
Not a lawyer not legal advice.

Not correct. The price on the 'Box' is the invitation to treat [0]. The price you pay in the UK is the verbal Offer at the checkout. They may/should sell it a the RRP, but it is not correct in law.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation_to_treat

bmsleight_··on Physicist 3D-printed a Lamborghini because his son liked one (2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_...

Pirsig explains that, despite its title, "it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles, either."

a fictionalized autobiography of a 17-day journey that Pirsig made on a motorcycle from Minnesota to Northern California along with his son Chris

bmsleight_··on I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
I am in a long marriage,we each have our own money and joint account money. We are both in the same team and can spend our own money. Each person has the same percentage of take-home to spend as an individual.

Work for us, may not work for others.

bmsleight_··on Someone is hacking the hackers
dang - can we change the source to https://krebsonsecurity.c om/2021/03/three-top-russian-cybercrime-forums-hacked/ please ?
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