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I love this.

I hope you don't get cease and desisted by MS for mentioning PowerPoint.

I bought a subsidised Windows EeePC 901 and stuck Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it. Much more useable. Windows was laughably bad. It limited the number of open applications!

There was also a EeePC specific https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyPeasy which was even better.

Since then I have installed various things for amusement, including a cut down Chromebook OS and the OLPC Linux. The limit was always the tiny root partition (4GB SSD). I had some limited success joining with the second SSD (16GB) using btrfs.

I think the albeit tiny SSD was this machine's saving grace compared to HDD models, in terms of speed.

The city that never plays itself, a classic episode

And Scotch eggs

Possibly not. Buying yourself out of employment and commercial rental contracts can give rise to costs.

In the UK, statutory redundancy pay, after 2 years of service, is 1 week of pay per year of service and 1.5 weeks if you're over 41.

For a long duration commercial lease it might be worth paying to break the contract rather than the running costs for an unused building.

These are probably short-term costs, with longer term savings projected from the reduction in headcount and premises.

You could also blame the constant negative press covfefe

Could you adjust the refresh frequency based on your usage patterns? So refreshing less frequently outside your main transit times. An extension of your current pause at night.

Impressive seeing as last week we heard that AI had killed SAAS.

Sounds like you're describing the uncanny valley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

I'd argue it's more malleable than a skyscraper.

How rapidly has business software changed since COVID? Yet how many skyscrapers remain partially unoccupied in big cities like London, because of the recent arrival of widespread hybrid working?

The buildings are structurally unchanged and haven't been demolished to make way for buildings that better support hybrid working. Sure office fit outs are more oriented towards smaller simultaneous attendance with more hot desking. Also a new industry boom around team building socials has arrived. Virtual skeet shooting or golf, for example.

On the whole, engineered cities are unchanged, their ancient and rigid specifications lacking the foresight to include the requirements that accommodate hybrid working. Software meanwhile has adapted and as the OP says, evolved.

Twilio's Flex isn't far off this concept. For building simple voice and text message applications, it does quite a lot out of the box. It's their full telephony stack but presented at a much higher level of abstraction.

That looks significantly more like a long-term energy strategy than grabbing oil from Venezuela and Greenland.

Only there is no forever when you're talking about a finite resource, like fossil fuels.

That's brilliant insight, thank you. I enjoyed reading Steve's extensive read me.

Also I'm planning a trip to Cambridge so I've bookmarked one of the pubs for a visit.

Excellent. Found me three other stars and one to that I knew from before but hadn't started. Nice!

I'd like more tries to pick out the notes when pecking at the on-screen keyboard. I don't need to hear the pattern again, I need to learn where the note pitches are on the keyboard.

Not quite true. This pub's changed hands now but it was possible to pay in bitcoin for several years.

https://www.wired.com/story/london-bitcoin-pub/

I can't see how half of the icon choices made in the article would pass internal testing, let alone actual user testing.

Maybe stakeholders were calling the shots and everyone was like, "Fine. If you want us to reuse the same icon for different purposes, you're the boss. We are done trying to explain why this is a bad idea."

Lovely project and a really great idea.

Have you come across soft tooling for injection moulding? It's a lower cost, short run approach using much less durable moulds from various materials.

Ahh, I get it now. Maybe you can improve the wording around this to make it less suggestive that your value proposition is I can change one cell when it fails. That's not safe. The value prop is I can change for a new set of cells cheaply when I get a failure in my current set.

You're going from when one cell fails, change the entire battery assembly, including any management electronics, case etc

To

When one cell fails, just get a fresh set of cells, at a fraction of the cost of a new battery assembly.

In the future, you also expect working cells to be circulated back into second-life use. Your casing makes this much more likely.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I'm confused why your value proposition is that you can replace individual cells but your website also says it's recommended to replace all cells at once. Isn't that the same as the current situation where we have to buy a new battery assembly rather than replace the failed cells?

When an E-bike battery fails, 90% of the time, its just 1 or 2 cells that are dead inside or a single electronic component. But since traditional batteries are spot welded and glued, there is no chance to replace the faulty part and you need to replace the complete battery.The infinite battery is different. It uses a technology that makes it easy and safe to replace any parts, including lithium-ion cells. It doesn't require any specific tools nor knowledge. It takes less than 10 minutes.

For safety and durability, it is recommended to change all cells at once.

https://infinite-battery.com/products/infinite-battery?_pos=...

We're a Ruby shop and we have pretty much zero commented code. Ruby's intended to be readable enough not to need them and when we do need them, it's a sure sign we need some refactoring.

Double texting: Most coding agents don’t support accepting new requests or feedback while they’re running.

This caught my eye too. Given they say 'most', what other tools that support this?

Every detail of the Barbican is a joy. Even the skirting board where the wall meets the flooring is gently curved, making it a easy to clean.

Another fun Barbican fact is their Garchey System for waste disposal.

The wet food waste is collected communally and taken away by custom-built tanker vehicles that connect to the holding tanks. https://www.barbicanliving.co.uk/barbican-now/garchey/the-ga...

In the UK, our national mapping service has built a tool for hosting vernacular place names to help first responders.

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/new-national-vernacula...

I remember a time before Ireland set up postcodes (zip codes) for the whole country. If postcode was mandatory field in an e-commerce address form, you couldn't mail stuff from the UK unless it was in Dublin. Dublin had postcodes.

I managed to find one site that would accept 'null' so the form would submit.

That is very nice! It reminds me of Usman Haque's WiFi Camera project from 2006. That wasn't anywhere near realtime but it did use wasabi-pea cans

https://haque.co.uk/work/wifi-camera/

I miss tech art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

It's pretty good on Chromecast, though some of the media player design patterns don't quite translate to non-apple.

This is ripe for a Krazam adaptation.

https://youtu.be/1RAMRukKqQg?si=CrRUbA3Ktsm5v7Kk

There's a school of thought in change management that suggests that a time comes when current stories aren't working for the culture you're trying to move an organisation towards. A few here have said morale was low at FB right then.

At times like that, restating some important old stories and legends, salted with some useful new ones can help to galvanize people and create the culture change you want.

A good example is someone mentioned in this thread is Zuck's beat up old car. That's a great old story for the early days, but probably needed burying at the Red Book time. Clearly he's not going to drive that forever, so you need some more up to date motivational culture lore which embraces more excess while retaining how the Devs are still world-changing hackers who should work all nighters because 'we're all in this together for mankind, team'.