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wigster··on My second year without a job
over a third in the uk
wigster··on Fructose in diet enhances tumor growth: research
or in Inuit people who i imagine don't get much fresh fruit except a few berries?
wigster··on Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ
made me smile - i don't know anything about the go+htmx+templ stack i thought i'd check out the htmx docs...

htmx 2.0 has been released!

there is no escape! ;-)

wigster··on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back
i'd argue the interface on the old yamaha dx synths with FM synthesis was a bit of a car crash

I certainly never got my brain round them.

;-)

wigster··on Notepad++ is 21 years old
yes this is me too mostly. i also love the sort/mark/delete marked options for extracting data.
wigster··on Optimizing Beer Glass Shapes to Minimize Heat Transfer – New Results
or just go back to dimple's with handles?
wigster··on Show HN: Mermaid ASCII Diagrams
nor i
wigster··on Sequencing wastewater may be key to getting a grip on the H5N1 bird flu outbreak
why not just put the word "genetic/genome" at the front of that headline?

*kers.

wigster··on NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean
a fine excuse to listen to a top tune by the multi talented Thomas Dolby.

Thomas Dolby - Europa And The Pirate Twins

https://youtu.be/qkj4p3rI17s?si=1Ui8lskcljKfGo-E

wigster··on ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional match fails to mention her
so when do i get to hear live sports commentary from my favourite commentator (hugh johns) who died 15 years ago?
wigster··on ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional match fails to mention her
i was amazed to see there is a web site dedicated to bad sports announcing.

what a time to be alive!

wigster··on Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist
i can't read that due to the bobbing header. atrocious design.
wigster··on Disney's not alone in saying your clicks means you can't sue
with this type of activity. and apple's 30% patreon m'larky. i feel we're reaching a point where some people will really start to rage against said machines. there will be blood.
wigster··on 1935: Britain's First Milk Bar Opens
ovaltine on the menu when it was called ovomaltine. i never knew that
wigster··on Medieval
i prefer almost medieval. but very nice
wigster··on Self-Compressing Neural Networks
i know nothing of which i speak.... but the theme reminded me of the insect brains, with very relatively few Neurons that manage pretty extraordinary feats. i guess random evolution pruning happens and if there is no detrimental effect, cheerio.
wigster··on First Contact with SQLite
https://www.sqlite.org/quirks.html does list a few of these
wigster··on The Race to Seal Helium HDDs (2021)
if helium is better, why not use a vacuum?
wigster··on Why is Chile so long?
yes - but i don't follow him. yet there is was. i guess some sort of promotion.
wigster··on Why is Chile so long?
oddly, why was this also at the top of my twitter feed?
wigster··on Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine
just want to say thanks for spore - my son's favourite for a long time.
wigster··on AES-GCM and breaking it on nonce reuse
nonce really should be renamed. if only for british slang avoidance.
wigster··on What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? (2017)
it seems obvious to me...

one is a guard against losing stuff you have

the other is a short cut to riches you don't

wigster··on Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission
boeing + spaceflight. they are braver than i
wigster··on L(O*62).ONG: Make your URL longer
i'm glad its not just me
wigster··on British Museum gems for sale on eBay – how a theft was exposed
my first girl friend is still alive.
wigster··on Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on its new PCs
my browser is gonna need amnesiac mode to go with incognito
wigster··on Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email
maybe we need one penny email. just stop the spam would be a delight
wigster··on Equinox.space
i always thought it was people of a certain age who required inversion (i include myself here) because the first 3d games were flight sims, so pulling back on stick/down goes up etc.
wigster··on Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on orders from Beijing
wiki... Tencent was awarded a score of zero out of 100 in an Amnesty International report ranking technology companies

lol

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