wrboyce

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by wrboyce 9d ago
“The Code Book” and “The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets” are also great books by the same author.
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by wrboyce 12d ago
I suspected that might be the case, but I wasn’t about to turn down an opportunity to share one of my fun facts!
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by wrboyce 12d ago
It’s barm, with an m, from barm cakes. Barm is the frothy scummy stuff you get on top of fermented beer, and it contains yeast. Back in the day bakers would take the barm from local brewers to make weakly fermented bread rolls… barm cakes.
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by wrboyce 28d ago
I managed to break my F100 at the weekend, fantastic timing!
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by wrboyce 28d ago
Booths makes Waitrose look like Aldi.
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by wrboyce 1mo ago
I did this a few years ago with a few companies. The most “interesting” was eBay, the data itself was predictably boring but they sent it to me on a USB flash drive!
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by wrboyce 1mo ago
Hmm, this dataset is pretty poor. There are at least 3 pubs near me that are missing.
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by wrboyce 2mo ago
Worth noting that after playing an incredibly irritatingly slow game of chess, Noctie will ask for 14 Euros a month to carry on playing!
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by wrboyce 3mo ago
Corvids have been known to investigate deaths, truly fascinating creatures! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00033...
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by wrboyce 4mo ago
There’s been a bug when ordering an Uber in my (quite small, circa 20k pop) town recently in that they think our annual festival (which is in July) is on now and try to force a stupid pickup point which in my case is about the same distance
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by wrboyce 4mo ago
I would love refurbished one of these in my back garden, unfortunately they weigh far far too much to lift into my limited-access back garden and I’m not sure it’d have the same impact in the front garden. You can get a refurbished K6 for a
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by wrboyce 5mo ago
I have friends who have been those mercenaries, and I think your comment underplays it a bit… they are all ex-SBS and not somebody I’d want to fuck with!
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by wrboyce 5mo ago
As a Welshman, I’d say North/South Walian are more common among the populace!
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by wrboyce 6mo ago
https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Inanimate_Carbon_Rod
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by wrboyce 6mo ago
I took a similar path, but with an additional final step of moving to film and doing the development, scanning, and editing myself. Definitely more work per photo, but each photo taken is a lot more considered.
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by wrboyce 6mo ago
Jump across borders of non-cooperative nations, too. Say using boxes in Iran and USA, or India and Pakistan.
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by wrboyce 6mo ago
In the UK “registrar’s ink” is used for marriage certificates, I believe it is supposed to be good for many hundreds of years.
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by wrboyce 6mo ago
Interesting read, and nicely follows last week’s Lunchbox Envy where “Oranges” was the subject. A great podcast if you like food and fun facts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0n1sn05
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by wrboyce 7mo ago
My British perspective: I don’t want advertisers free to lie as much as they want. I’ve had ads taken off the TV for being clearly misleading (anyone can raise a complaint to the ASA - the Advertising Standards Agency).
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by wrboyce 7mo ago
Feels more like you don’t understand the concept of the tragedy of the commons. EDIT: Sorry, I’ve had a shitty day and that wasn’t a helpful comment at all. I should’ve said that as I understand it TOTC primarily relates to finite resources
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by wrboyce 7mo ago
Obviously… https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV
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by wrboyce 7mo ago
All of my “characteristics” (a setting I don’t think I’ve seen before) are set to default and my custom instructions are as follows… —— Always assume British English when relevant. If there are any technical, grammatical, syntactical, or ot
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by wrboyce 7mo ago
Wow, haha. I tried this with gpt5.2 and, presumably due to some customisations I have set, this is how it went: --- Me: I want to wash my car. My car is currently at home. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? GPT: You’re
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by wrboyce 7mo ago
Allow me to shamelessly plug my blog, I have been (very slowly!) re-visiting microcorruption and writing up the solutions in a tutorial-esque fashion. https://lovesexsecretgod.com
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by wrboyce 7mo ago
I really don’t understand silent mode on the iPhone (and I’ve used iPhones since the OG!) but your app is one of those that ignores it. Either obeying silent mode or having an option to disable the, admittedly pleasant, sounds would be very
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by wrboyce 7mo ago
You’re right, some random guy commenting on HN is a much better source.
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by wrboyce 8mo ago
The latter one is a rendering issue I think, the right hand side of Processor is being used as an input from Config and an output to Log but the arrows overlap and become ambiguous.
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by wrboyce 8mo ago
Um… might want to double check your brain there!
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by wrboyce 9mo ago
Worth mentioning NextDNS and ControlD under this! I migrated from the former to the latter about six months ago, but both are a solid choice.
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by wrboyce 10mo ago
I’ve been browsing the archive since I left that comment, they really were the good old days weren’t they. IRC was my introduction to geekdom, and I don’t think it would be unreasonable to say it shaped my life. Here I am 30-ish years later

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