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Very pleased with EU election result.
- Strong Remain (Lib Dem, Green, etc) got 40.4%
- Strong Leave (Bexit and UKIP) only got 34.9%
Don't Know (Lab and Con) got 23.2%.

Wonder why your screws never go in straight? Make a pilot hole using pin punch and mallet first!

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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 media.ccc.de/c/osmodevcon2019

EU election: most UK political parties have a good balance of men and women, with one major exception. dbatley.com/blog/2019/05/eu-ca

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Here's an interesting perspective: Code Is Not Literature 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
youtu.be/KWfnY9cRXO4

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Introduced my 6 year old to voting this morning on the way to school. Start ‘em young I say.

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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.

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