h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Game recommendation: FTL: Faster Than Light. Send the crew to frantically patch up the spaceship, while being chased across the galaxy by an overpowering foe. Which is basically the plot of star wars, firefly, etc. Great soundtrack. https://www.gog.com/game/faster_than_light

Political party destruction
https://timrollpickering.blogspot.com/2018/02/can-established-party-truly-vanish.html #ukpol

QR https://dbatley.com/blog/2019/06/qr-squared.html

Soccer world cup: VAR? More like VCR! It takes that long because they need to rewind the tape.

When algorithms go bad http://timharford.com/2019/03/just-because-youre-paranoid-doesnt-mean-the-algorithms-arent-out-to-get-you/

It's midsummer, the longest day (in the northern hemisphere). A time of travel and calm seas, of bonfires and barbecues.

I now run a service which helps you diagnose slow queries in PostgreSQL. It makes a diagram from the query planner output, helping you see which bit is slow.
https://dbatley.com/blog/2019/06/dbplanview.html #postgres #sql

Estimating the carbon footprints of various sandwiches https://www.improbable.com/2019/05/23/the-carbon-footprints-of-various-sandwiches-study/ #science

The world population is aging: there are more people aged 65+ than children under 5
https://ourworldindata.org/population-aged-65-outnumber-children #world

The naked mole rat and sensitivity to pain. Starts weird, and just gets worse. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/06/10/fast-pain-relief-in-only-seven-million-years

Hong Kong government trying to allow extradition to China, weakening HK independence. Estimates of numbers protesting between 1 in 8 and 1 in 30. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/09/vast-protest-in-hong-kong-against-extradition-law-china #world

Taxing carbon dioxide http://timharford.com/2019/05/why-the-world-needs-a-carbon-tax/ #economics #climate

Exim vulnerability when localhost emails `${run{...}}@localhost` https://lwn.net/Articles/790553/rss

The newspapers will promote strange new diets, but the expert advice has remained the same: lots of veg, lots of carbs https://www.nhs.uk/tools/documents/eatwell/eatwell.mob.html

Logic with kittens https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2019/04/logic-with-kittens.html

https://www.cyclestreets.net/collisions/reports/2017420196262/

Oceans, land and deep subsurface: how is life distributed across environments?
https://ourworldindata.org/life-by-environment #science

Uncertain ballot papers in the Cotswolds
https://timrollpickering.blogspot.com/2019/05/uncertain-ballot-papers-in-cotswolds.html

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%. #EP2019

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