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I write code, sometimes it works first try and I spend the next 4 hours debugging it because I don't trust it.
I get paid monthly so I'd never considered this, but it is weird now I think about it.
They know how much you use each day with a smart meter, they could bill at basically any frequency and it'd make no difference for them.
I expect there's just limited demand for more flexible billing schedules.
They know how much you use each day with a smart meter, they could bill at basically any frequency and it'd make no difference for them.
I expect there's just limited demand for more flexible billing schedules.
January 6, 2026 at 9:46 PM
I get paid monthly so I'd never considered this, but it is weird now I think about it.
They know how much you use each day with a smart meter, they could bill at basically any frequency and it'd make no difference for them.
I expect there's just limited demand for more flexible billing schedules.
They know how much you use each day with a smart meter, they could bill at basically any frequency and it'd make no difference for them.
I expect there's just limited demand for more flexible billing schedules.
For some reason it's interpretting it as
```
- ( 2 ** 2 )
```
Which is indeed -4
To get the intended behaviour you need brackets
```
(-2) ** 2
```
```
- ( 2 ** 2 )
```
Which is indeed -4
To get the intended behaviour you need brackets
```
(-2) ** 2
```
January 2, 2026 at 9:29 PM
For some reason it's interpretting it as
```
- ( 2 ** 2 )
```
Which is indeed -4
To get the intended behaviour you need brackets
```
(-2) ** 2
```
```
- ( 2 ** 2 )
```
Which is indeed -4
To get the intended behaviour you need brackets
```
(-2) ** 2
```
> [...] it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, [...] while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom [...]
- Plato on reading
- Plato on reading
December 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
> [...] it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, [...] while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom [...]
- Plato on reading
- Plato on reading
The main selling point is to deter theft.
Depending on where you live there can be a lot of opportunists who smash windows to quickly search back seats/boots for anything valuable.
A hard to break window means it's less likely to result in a successful theft.
Prioritising anti-theft over safety.
Depending on where you live there can be a lot of opportunists who smash windows to quickly search back seats/boots for anything valuable.
A hard to break window means it's less likely to result in a successful theft.
Prioritising anti-theft over safety.
December 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The main selling point is to deter theft.
Depending on where you live there can be a lot of opportunists who smash windows to quickly search back seats/boots for anything valuable.
A hard to break window means it's less likely to result in a successful theft.
Prioritising anti-theft over safety.
Depending on where you live there can be a lot of opportunists who smash windows to quickly search back seats/boots for anything valuable.
A hard to break window means it's less likely to result in a successful theft.
Prioritising anti-theft over safety.
Venom can be interesting if done well.
The problem is it's hard to do him well while also appealing to everyone who barely knows who they are.
Like how many people know he bypasses spider-sense?
Or can turn invisible?
Or access the symbiote hive mind?
Or digest bullets shot at it?
Or spit acid?
The problem is it's hard to do him well while also appealing to everyone who barely knows who they are.
Like how many people know he bypasses spider-sense?
Or can turn invisible?
Or access the symbiote hive mind?
Or digest bullets shot at it?
Or spit acid?
December 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Venom can be interesting if done well.
The problem is it's hard to do him well while also appealing to everyone who barely knows who they are.
Like how many people know he bypasses spider-sense?
Or can turn invisible?
Or access the symbiote hive mind?
Or digest bullets shot at it?
Or spit acid?
The problem is it's hard to do him well while also appealing to everyone who barely knows who they are.
Like how many people know he bypasses spider-sense?
Or can turn invisible?
Or access the symbiote hive mind?
Or digest bullets shot at it?
Or spit acid?
He couldn't win defamation case over it anyway.
To win he has to prove damages to his character; he's on video talking about SA-ing women, watching underage girls change, and talking about how Epstien was a great guy.
No reasonable person is going to think differently about him.
To win he has to prove damages to his character; he's on video talking about SA-ing women, watching underage girls change, and talking about how Epstien was a great guy.
No reasonable person is going to think differently about him.
December 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
He couldn't win defamation case over it anyway.
To win he has to prove damages to his character; he's on video talking about SA-ing women, watching underage girls change, and talking about how Epstien was a great guy.
No reasonable person is going to think differently about him.
To win he has to prove damages to his character; he's on video talking about SA-ing women, watching underage girls change, and talking about how Epstien was a great guy.
No reasonable person is going to think differently about him.
American companies tend to use X for yes, and O for no.
Japanese is the opposite.
Sony got annoyed dealing with the inconsistencies and made a rule. English games MUST use X for yes, Japanese games must use O for yes.
Nintendo just left it because most games still use A for yes in English.
Japanese is the opposite.
Sony got annoyed dealing with the inconsistencies and made a rule. English games MUST use X for yes, Japanese games must use O for yes.
Nintendo just left it because most games still use A for yes in English.
December 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
American companies tend to use X for yes, and O for no.
Japanese is the opposite.
Sony got annoyed dealing with the inconsistencies and made a rule. English games MUST use X for yes, Japanese games must use O for yes.
Nintendo just left it because most games still use A for yes in English.
Japanese is the opposite.
Sony got annoyed dealing with the inconsistencies and made a rule. English games MUST use X for yes, Japanese games must use O for yes.
Nintendo just left it because most games still use A for yes in English.
Waterfox is a fork of firefox that removes the AI/telemetry, upgrades incognito mode a bit(it can now be tabs, not just windows), by default uses an encrypted DNS so your ISP can't see what sites you're visiting, etc.
They also say if Firefox gets rid of ublock they'll still support it.
They also say if Firefox gets rid of ublock they'll still support it.
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Waterfox is a fork of firefox that removes the AI/telemetry, upgrades incognito mode a bit(it can now be tabs, not just windows), by default uses an encrypted DNS so your ISP can't see what sites you're visiting, etc.
They also say if Firefox gets rid of ublock they'll still support it.
They also say if Firefox gets rid of ublock they'll still support it.
I have the same issue. Electricity meter is perfect.
Gas meter doesn't give automatic readings and I have to take them manually every so often so they can bill me correctly.
The annoying thing is it does send the right usage data to the little handheld device, just not the supplier.
Gas meter doesn't give automatic readings and I have to take them manually every so often so they can bill me correctly.
The annoying thing is it does send the right usage data to the little handheld device, just not the supplier.
December 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I have the same issue. Electricity meter is perfect.
Gas meter doesn't give automatic readings and I have to take them manually every so often so they can bill me correctly.
The annoying thing is it does send the right usage data to the little handheld device, just not the supplier.
Gas meter doesn't give automatic readings and I have to take them manually every so often so they can bill me correctly.
The annoying thing is it does send the right usage data to the little handheld device, just not the supplier.
A rule we started playing with when I was a kid to avoid people sitting it out for an hour upduring the last half of the game was that when someome is knocked out they actually just do a merger with the player who knocked them out.
The two now play together sharing properties, money, and decisions.
The two now play together sharing properties, money, and decisions.
December 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A rule we started playing with when I was a kid to avoid people sitting it out for an hour upduring the last half of the game was that when someome is knocked out they actually just do a merger with the player who knocked them out.
The two now play together sharing properties, money, and decisions.
The two now play together sharing properties, money, and decisions.
But you returned the equipment you didn't catch fish with, that's the reason you didn't catch anything with it, right?
I used to have a similar rule for games, I broke it once because a disk was scratched and I couldn't finish the game.
Now my steam library is 90% unplayed.
I used to have a similar rule for games, I broke it once because a disk was scratched and I couldn't finish the game.
Now my steam library is 90% unplayed.
December 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
But you returned the equipment you didn't catch fish with, that's the reason you didn't catch anything with it, right?
I used to have a similar rule for games, I broke it once because a disk was scratched and I couldn't finish the game.
Now my steam library is 90% unplayed.
I used to have a similar rule for games, I broke it once because a disk was scratched and I couldn't finish the game.
Now my steam library is 90% unplayed.
You could make it more efficient if you could use heatpumps to move more of the heat to the radiators.
The Stefan-Boltzmann law says the temperature to the fourth power determines the rate of change, so concentrating the heat should massively increase the speed of cooling.
The Stefan-Boltzmann law says the temperature to the fourth power determines the rate of change, so concentrating the heat should massively increase the speed of cooling.
December 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
You could make it more efficient if you could use heatpumps to move more of the heat to the radiators.
The Stefan-Boltzmann law says the temperature to the fourth power determines the rate of change, so concentrating the heat should massively increase the speed of cooling.
The Stefan-Boltzmann law says the temperature to the fourth power determines the rate of change, so concentrating the heat should massively increase the speed of cooling.
A certain measure of noise has to be introduced into the model deliberately to make it more natural sounding.
No one wants to talk to a robot that always chooses the best words because most of the time that just leads to it sounding really robotic.
The price is more hallucinations.
No one wants to talk to a robot that always chooses the best words because most of the time that just leads to it sounding really robotic.
The price is more hallucinations.
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A certain measure of noise has to be introduced into the model deliberately to make it more natural sounding.
No one wants to talk to a robot that always chooses the best words because most of the time that just leads to it sounding really robotic.
The price is more hallucinations.
No one wants to talk to a robot that always chooses the best words because most of the time that just leads to it sounding really robotic.
The price is more hallucinations.
Good password managers encrypt passwords and metadata separately, they don't decrypt your keys on their side, they send the browser back the encrypted key and the browser on your side decrypts it.
This removes the risk of someone stealing your password by hacking their servers.
This removes the risk of someone stealing your password by hacking their servers.
December 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Good password managers encrypt passwords and metadata separately, they don't decrypt your keys on their side, they send the browser back the encrypted key and the browser on your side decrypts it.
This removes the risk of someone stealing your password by hacking their servers.
This removes the risk of someone stealing your password by hacking their servers.
I got to feel smart, show up my brother, and help my nieces.
Win, win, win.
Win, win, win.
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I got to feel smart, show up my brother, and help my nieces.
Win, win, win.
Win, win, win.
My nieces learning from home meaning I sort of stepped in as an unofficial tutor because remote learning was not great and their parents really didn't remember school(at one point their dad was arguing that m/s² for acceleration was wrong because "how can you have square seconds?").
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
My nieces learning from home meaning I sort of stepped in as an unofficial tutor because remote learning was not great and their parents really didn't remember school(at one point their dad was arguing that m/s² for acceleration was wrong because "how can you have square seconds?").
My first time playing I won, not by figuring it out myself, but by deliberately letting everyone else think I'd figured something else out, then waiting for them to guess having made the bad assumption giving me the info I needed.
The people I played with did not want to play with me again.
The people I played with did not want to play with me again.
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My first time playing I won, not by figuring it out myself, but by deliberately letting everyone else think I'd figured something else out, then waiting for them to guess having made the bad assumption giving me the info I needed.
The people I played with did not want to play with me again.
The people I played with did not want to play with me again.
Their logo was always at the bottom.
The issue is that now there are two Blu-ray logos(one at the top like on the rest and a new one at the bottom), and that displaced the Universal logo.
The issue is that now there are two Blu-ray logos(one at the top like on the rest and a new one at the bottom), and that displaced the Universal logo.
November 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Their logo was always at the bottom.
The issue is that now there are two Blu-ray logos(one at the top like on the rest and a new one at the bottom), and that displaced the Universal logo.
The issue is that now there are two Blu-ray logos(one at the top like on the rest and a new one at the bottom), and that displaced the Universal logo.
So for very small tables it's often quicker to do a full table scan than use an index. Also DB engines usually choose indexes that have many unique values because they are more likely to reduce to smaller sets quicker, this means the order of preferences for indexes can change over time.
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
So for very small tables it's often quicker to do a full table scan than use an index. Also DB engines usually choose indexes that have many unique values because they are more likely to reduce to smaller sets quicker, this means the order of preferences for indexes can change over time.
The query plan can change as the amount of data changes, which means you can't always depend on checking that during development to predict how the query will execute a year later.
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The query plan can change as the amount of data changes, which means you can't always depend on checking that during development to predict how the query will execute a year later.
Simultaneously UK energy prices are based on demand and reliability.
Wind is frequent, but with no guarantee of a consistent output, and it rarely reflects people's consumption.
The end result is the price paid for Scotland's wind energy is low while the price paid to oil burning plants is higher.
Wind is frequent, but with no guarantee of a consistent output, and it rarely reflects people's consumption.
The end result is the price paid for Scotland's wind energy is low while the price paid to oil burning plants is higher.
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Simultaneously UK energy prices are based on demand and reliability.
Wind is frequent, but with no guarantee of a consistent output, and it rarely reflects people's consumption.
The end result is the price paid for Scotland's wind energy is low while the price paid to oil burning plants is higher.
Wind is frequent, but with no guarantee of a consistent output, and it rarely reflects people's consumption.
The end result is the price paid for Scotland's wind energy is low while the price paid to oil burning plants is higher.
It's complicated, but a huge part of it is how the standing charge is calculated.
Basically Scotland has a lower population density and a higher rate of breakages(because of their weather).
The end result is a higher bill shared between less people.
Basically Scotland has a lower population density and a higher rate of breakages(because of their weather).
The end result is a higher bill shared between less people.
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
It's complicated, but a huge part of it is how the standing charge is calculated.
Basically Scotland has a lower population density and a higher rate of breakages(because of their weather).
The end result is a higher bill shared between less people.
Basically Scotland has a lower population density and a higher rate of breakages(because of their weather).
The end result is a higher bill shared between less people.
Coins as pawns? What were they thinking? That's clearly a Toadstool job.
The existing Toadstools as Rooks seems weird given their role in the game is normally as minor characters.
The existing Toadstools as Rooks seems weird given their role in the game is normally as minor characters.
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Coins as pawns? What were they thinking? That's clearly a Toadstool job.
The existing Toadstools as Rooks seems weird given their role in the game is normally as minor characters.
The existing Toadstools as Rooks seems weird given their role in the game is normally as minor characters.
As a kid I used to go to the library every weekend and return the books from the previous weekend and get the max(10) again.
The librarian at one point overhead me asking my older brother to check out a book so I could have 11, and the librarian explained they could raise the limit.
Libraries rock.
The librarian at one point overhead me asking my older brother to check out a book so I could have 11, and the librarian explained they could raise the limit.
Libraries rock.
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
As a kid I used to go to the library every weekend and return the books from the previous weekend and get the max(10) again.
The librarian at one point overhead me asking my older brother to check out a book so I could have 11, and the librarian explained they could raise the limit.
Libraries rock.
The librarian at one point overhead me asking my older brother to check out a book so I could have 11, and the librarian explained they could raise the limit.
Libraries rock.
I don't know, there's a certain niceness to having a console where you just know every game on it will work the same as for everyone else.
On PC there are minimum specs and those can be hard to understand for non-technical people(and even for tech people graphics cards make no sense).
On PC there are minimum specs and those can be hard to understand for non-technical people(and even for tech people graphics cards make no sense).
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I don't know, there's a certain niceness to having a console where you just know every game on it will work the same as for everyone else.
On PC there are minimum specs and those can be hard to understand for non-technical people(and even for tech people graphics cards make no sense).
On PC there are minimum specs and those can be hard to understand for non-technical people(and even for tech people graphics cards make no sense).