h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com
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Hello! I post something interesting every few days.
Joined Feb 2019
Quality tablecloths in quality restaurants
https://www.improbable.com/2019/04/11/the-impact-of-a-quality-table-cloth-in-a-restaurant-new-study/ #ig
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Vote vote vote vote, vote vote vote vote, vote vote vote vote, VOTEY VOTEY VOTE VOTE!
https://giphy.com/gifs/heyduggee-hey-duggee-3o6fIY80HLB2vOGibu
Vote for a pro-eu party: Lib Dem, Green or Change UK.
Where: https://wheredoivote.co.uk/
If you want to vote tactically: https://medium.com/@Metatone/a-strawman-on-ep-election-tactical-voting-for-remainers-9b17edcdbcfd
Your candidates for the European Elections tomorrow https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/ #ukpol #ep2019
What happened to the buses, now that Hammersmith Bridge is closed? https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2019/05/route-533.html #london #map
Recent improvements to PHP
https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2019
Tactical voting for Remainers - who to vote for in the European Parliament election
https://medium.com/@Metatone/a-strawman-on-ep-election-tactical-voting-for-remainers-9b17edcdbcfd #ukpol #ep2019
Career Advice from Moxie Marlinspike
http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/career-advice/
Xanthan Gum - used to make tomato ketchup gloopy - is made by bacteria. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthan_gum #bacteria
A Biography of Archimedes, Written Entirely in Anagrams for “Archimedes”
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019/03/06/a-biography-of-archimedes-written-entirely-in-anagrams-for-archimedes/
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Thanks to @c3voc@twitter.com and particularly @tsaitgaist@twitter.com, video recordings of OsmoDevCon 2019 (#Osmocom Developer Conference) are online at https://media.ccc.de/c/osmodevcon2019
EU election: most UK political parties have a good balance of men and women, with one major exception. https://dbatley.com/blog/2019/05/eu-candidate-gender-bias.html #ukpol
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Here's an interesting perspective: Code Is Not Literature http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-reading/
It addresses a puzzle:
> [So many programmers say], “People should read code” but few people seem to actually do it. I’d be surprised if I interviewed a novelist and asked them what the last novel they had read was, and they said, “Oh, I haven’t really read a novel since I was in grad school.” Writers actually read other writers but it doesn’t seem that programmers really do, even though we say we should.
People solving problems is strangely relaxing - Apollo 13 flight director loop
https://youtu.be/KWfnY9cRXO4 #space
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Introduced my 6 year old to voting this morning on the way to school. Start ‘em young I say.
Local election day today. If you have elections today, vote! https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/ #ukpol #vote
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RT @kenshirriff@twitter.com
Back when there were 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shilings in a pound, the IBM 1401 computer had optional hardware (i.e. transistors) to do arithmetic on pounds/shillings/pence. Of course, there were two incompatible data standards—BSI and IBM—so this knob selected the format.
PyPy uses utf-8 internally for unicode strings. Such a better idea than 4-byte characters (py2) or 1/2/4-byte (py3) https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/03/pypy-v71-released-now-uses-utf-8.html #python
Very cool 3D map of undersea internet cables https://he.net/3d-map/ #map
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Hello! I post something interesting every few days.
Joined Feb 2019
