h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com
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Hello! I post something interesting every few days.
Joined Feb 2019
Triodos comes top of the list of ethical banks again this year, with HSBC at the bottom https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/sites/default/files/flipbook/Issue200Preview/12/ #banking
London Reconnections' impossible quiz is back again for another year. Hurrah! https://www.londonreconnections.com/2022/london-reconnections-2022-christmas-quiz/#london
Switch your website from dark to light theme automatically based on the user's settings, by using the prefers-color-scheme value in CSS
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme #webdev
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Next, I *think* this is the world's first domain name with #Braille characters
If I'm wrong, please let me know.
Find out if your MP will change when the boundaries are redrawn. Consultation closes Monday. https://www.bcereviews.org.uk/ #ukpol #elections
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Time to think about #AdventOfCode! A 2-part coding puzzle every day until Xmas.
Might this be the year I get anywhere near collecting all 50 stars? ⭐️⭐️
If you're interested, have a look at some previous puzzles, pick a programming language, join in!
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Every now and then I come back to this fascinating article by @bert_hubert
#ReverseEngineering the #source #code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/
Looking forward to the book!
This weekend is your last chance to have your say on boundaries for electing MPs. I commented about my local Southend. Please comment on your area. https://dbatley.com/blog/2022/11/boundary-review.html #ukpol #southend
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NATIONAL IDENTITY
#Census2021 offers a case study in "question order bias". The choices for "national identity" on the 2011 census form in England had "English" as the first option. In 2021 "British" was first. In each case, the first choice on the list proved most popular
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Large slow tables in PostgreSQL can sometimes work more quickly by being split into smaller tables. Table inheritance magic makes them appear as one table. Instead of using an index to find matching rows from the big table, the query will only search the matching tables. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-partitioning.html #postgres #sql
Here's the real deal on Feynman Diagrams and how to use them to calculate quantum systems, from PBS Space Time https://youtu.be/fG52mXN-uWI #physics
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i'm beginning to realize that the vast majority of folks never grew up seeing a computer downloading files from a BBS.
here I go, pirating warez like a maniac from a bulletin board system in belgium. you'll notice the filenames are all CLS*.ZIP - CLaSS scene releases of various games from the 90s. They're downloading at some godforsaken speed not possible in 1995. Around 115200 KBaud.
UK postal addresses. What is the highest house number in the UK? And the lowest? http://www.paulplowman.com/stuff/uk-address-oddities/ #uk #data
Ektoplazm is my go-to site for interesting and weird music. Try the album Trojan.exe by Virus Installer for some uplifting psytrance.
https://ektoplazm.com/free-music/virus-installer-trojan-exe #music #creativecommons
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This is one of my favourite educational images so I’m going to share it just because. #languages #world
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🆕 blogging - “Experiments with domestic load shedding in the UK”
Electricity demand varies throughout the day. When demand is higher, electricity prices go up. Most UK consumers are insulated from this variability - we pay a fixed price per kWh no matter what the actual wholesale cost. But it doesn't need to be this w…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/11/experiments-with-domestic-load-shedding-in-the-uk/
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#electricity #EnergyCrisis #money #NaBloPoMo #SavingSessions #solar
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I wrote a nano tool that tries to extract the #Fediverse accounts of your #Twitter followings: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
It searches for the patterns @user@host.tld, user@host.tld and host.tld/@user in the screen name, description, location and URL field. It displays them to you in the correct format for easy copying as well as a CSV download that can be imported to #Mastodon.
Known issue: Mail addresses are included as false positives because people write their handle without a leading @: name@host.tld
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For a gentle way to be told the time, try this Literature Clock:
#time #quotations
Via @levparikian
https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com/
Map Men ask: how many continents are there? https://youtu.be/hrsxRJdwfM0?list=PLfxy4_sBQdxy3A2lvl-y3qWTeJEbC_QCp #maps
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Joined Feb 2019
