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We have a hydroelectric dam near us with a salmon leap next to it. Good visitor attraction too.

It'll provide power for decades with little maintenance and not much further in the way of environmental issues now that it's built.

UK announcing they will ban under 16s on Social Media.

The existence of that article surely suggests there is no censorship of the information about his unpopularity?

There's an excellent Changelog podcast interviewing him which talks about his early career as well.

Just a point to say leasehold is very rare in Scotland. I remember being told about this when I was looking at places near London and being surprised.

Think OP is taking about UK bills which are coupled too the cost of gas for historical reasons. Which needs to change in my view too.

Anyone have suggestions for which other browser is best for power saving? I’ve been using Edge on my Surface as it seemed much better on the battery than Chrome.

"Europe" is not a homogenous working mass.

Sounds like a "no true Scotsman" argument

There are now d-locks that are angle grinder resistant. The reviews I've read suggest they need two cuts to open and each cut uses a full angle grinder disc.

As ever, impossible to stop a determined thief, but starting to get "good enough".

Not sure why you're being downvoted. Lots of phones show how fast they are charging (charging slowly, fast etc)

Yes, have used a similar technique of putting the drive in the freezer. Didn't believe it would work, surprised when it did.

True, but it's up to the client to decide if they are willing to take on the risk.

Ticks are certainly worse!

I ski and board. In my opinion boarding was the really popular thing to start a while back. That meant all the newbies that didn't know slope etiquette were doing it. I think that's why it got the bad reputation.

Skiing seems to be back to being cool again so things have levelled out a bit. The rivalry is still talked about though so it persists. There also probably a misunderstanding of what the "other" can see while moving.

The method to choose a static IP is pretty iffy too. "add 20 to your laptop's IP".

I suppose all of this will work (and likely generate fewer support calls). I really hope the person that wrote this article wasn't involved in setting up their firewall!

They released a patch in December that broke a few things. So stopped rolling it out. Meant to be a fix coming soon.

I keep them in my Bitwarden vault

Interesting, what markdown editor do you use on your phone?

I'm not agreeing with either you or the OP but in answer to your question: Being able to watch reusable space rockets.

I'd argue that while they can't "do" their own testing, developers should be writing Unit tests that prevent their code from being broken in future. They should also be writing tests that exercise their code so they find corner cases that were not obvious when coding.

The problem is it's difficult to define what that is (and particularly to teach a junior Dev what to do).

I found Surface Detail and The Hydrogen Sonata an excellent return to form. Maybe give them a try if you haven't already.

I didn't like Inversions the first time I read it either but re-read all the Culture books, in order, after Banks died and enjoyed that. I think I was expecting it to be very Culture-y and was disappointed it wasn't. On a reread my expectations were different and it was just a very enjoyable story.

I'd also suggest avoiding Excession until you've become familiar with the Minds. It's my favourite book, I think, but you lose a lot without having a little context.

I would argue that Javascript is a hybrid of pass by reference because of the case below though.

    function someFunc(v) {
      v.myvar = 456;
      v = someOtherObject;
    }

    var foo = someObject;
    foo.myvar = 123;
    someFunc(foo);
    // foo still refers to someObject
    // foo.myvar is 456

Banning our team from passing objects around except in specific, discussed, cases got rid of lots of difficult to track down bugs.

Think my first experience of this was Adrian Tchaikovsky. May not have been first though.

5k for your car? you could buy a bike for that! :)

I think two of the people who reacted in the UK carried Epi-pens. So, yes.

If you're willing to pay for it Delphix would do what you want. I've not used those features but their tech guys were describing that very scenario in a presentation I saw.

Not seen NetApp but from a quick Google it seems to be more intelligent database management.

Delphix is more using the power of ZFS and Copy On Write to give you instant database copies with minimal storage footprint. We used it to give every developer their own Database that they could do anything to and not worry about locks etc. Refreshing to a more recent copy was a very quick operation and required a developer running one command. Had a nice web interface and a REST interface for automation.

I'd recommend it but with the caveat that I've no idea how much it costs as it was a Dev thing a client was encouraging use of. Was really nice to work with though.

This looks like open source Delphix using Postgres. It even seems to be using ZFS under the hood.

Any comments from people using it? I designed a CI system using Delphix at an old client and it was awesome!