patrickdavey

I hoped this was going to be a recipe on how to make gigantic soap bubbles!

Also some pretty interesting tax and voting rules there ... Corporations get a vote, pretty much meaning they run the place.

https://www.thecollector.com/what-makes-the-city-of-london-u...

There's a good book called "treasure islands" all about tax havens... The city definitely features.

I can absolutely recommend osmand+ (Android) or maps.me (iPhone) for OpenStreetMap offline data. Streets better than Google maps ;)

Funny, I find OSM most useful for all the little walking paths people plot... Way better than Google maps. No car based system will ever be good there.

Termination shock here we come...

According to this link [1] I saw yesterday, the UAE is seeding clouds to cause rainfall too....

I'm not sure where this ends, but, once you start taking water which might fall someplace else it seems it might end badly....

1. https://mastodon.solar/@dave/112233242269447817

What tools/methods have you found that help with aphantasia?

I have a handful of sites I run on a VPS with a basic setup, including MySQL.

One thing I've always liked about MySQL is that it pretty much looks after itself, whereas with Postgres I've had issues before doing upgrades (this was with brew though) and I'm not clear on whether it looks after itself for vacuuming etc.

Should I just give it a go the next time I'm upgrading? It does seem like a tool I need to get familiar with.

Can you explain what you mean by rebalancing in the context of index funds?

Finally got around to getting a Benno boost last month... Dropping the kid off at school has never been more fun!

Love the cargo bike

Not all life though right? Usually accompanied by extinction events. Worth remembering that too.

I'm running a pihole at home.. but, I definitely still see YouTube ads. I don't see how it's possible with a pihole to block YT as the adds are served from the same domain. I guess you're only referring to the Amazon ads?

I went to college in Trinity and the Book of Kells is housed in the old library.

Once you've finished seeing the book, you head upstairs through the Long Room, and that place is just special (they used it as the hall of the jedi)

As a student there you could visit for free. I used to just go up and hang in the library for 10 mins or so a few times a year. Loved it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Trinity_College_D...

What resources have you been using to relearn?

If you are going to try it... I'd discussed it with my two wonderful co-organisers before we put it to the group... and, we really would have shut it down. I think if you just half threaten, well, might not work so well :)

We used a doodle.com poll with a set of months and just let people say which one(s) they could do.

Best of luck!

I've been running my local ruby meetup for about 6 years now. It was pretty stressful to begin with, trying to get people to give presentations, or thinking of one myself.

Then maybe 4 years ago I had the idea of threatening to shut the meetup down unless we managed to get 11 people to sign up to do a presentation once a year. This basically meant we had an entire year's worth of talks sorted by January.

We've been doing this every year now for the last 4 years, and it's working really well. It's not _my_ ruby meetup, it's the community meetup, I'm just helping facilitate it :)

I keep seeing this suggestion (put devices on a subnet, lock them out of everything else)...

Do you have a link or guide to help me understand how to set this up. It seems like a great idea!

Damn right! I got awesome grades, no idea how anything worked(s) though!

There were definitely people in my uni course who got worse grades, but who had a better understanding of the material.

Have you looked at "Zen mode"? It removes the chat while you're playing ... you'll still see any insults after the game though ;)

I'm curious how you did this?

I'm actually sorry to see this down voted.

I have a daughter, and it is just crazy once you start reading books how much is needlessly male focussed.

From the first farmyard books where the boy is driving the tractor and the girl is in the cart on the back. To fantastic Mr fox and his four small foxes (all male) etc etc. It's just extremely unbalanced.

In our community, there's every reason not to use a male default everywhere. It would not have changed the original commenters meaning at all to have said "they" instead of "him" and would have been more inclusive. Surely that's a good default?

We had a delayed flight (24 hours) from Frankfurt to Christchurch, New Zealand. As the compensation is a sliding scale of time and distance we were the maximum.

It did take about 4 months to get the money, but, Singapore air were very good (well, they didn't deny anything at least).

Hurrah for European legislation, and hurrah for Frankfurt airport not letting take offs after 11pm so that even if they could have fixed the fault in time it would have been too late :)

Just make YouTube lite available everywhere...

I thought that was coming down from the trees? And didn't some people think even the trees were a mistake?

How about a task you could pin to the top of your gmail. Maybe call it "Inbox". That'd be super handy rather than having to go to a different app to manage your tasks.

Please do!

Hah! Very good. Yes, just starting to work on the CBT. I'm definitely a work in progress :)

I'm somewhat anxious at times, and definitely one of the things I'm paranoid about is getting bedbugs (hasn't happened yet!)

One day our daughter had some small bites on her arms, and then we found small creatures in her bed... my brain went straight to "*k we have bedbugs, burn the house down and start again, but fortunately* my friend is an entomologist and his partner was visiting and she took one back for him to look at.

The answer came back that it was a definitely a carpet beetle and not to worry (simpler to get rid of, which we did).

I recommend having a friend who's an entomologist. Definite life hack ;)

The rancilio looks great. A different comment said it takes 4 minutes to switch from brewing to steaming? Is that correct? I quite like a flat white in the morning and 4 mins is quite a while ;)

For your personal life mainly. I guess I'm most curious about whether you're planning on where you're living etc in the context of various forms of climate breakdown.

I'm also curious how many personal changes you've made (flying less, vegetarian) when it seems like we need massive government intervention to move the needle.

Thanks for replying!