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It just feels like there are so many (life) lessons to be learned from the characters and especially from Chris. From his readings and interpretations, but also from his interactions with other characters.

I remember his patience with Maurice and others was exemplary, almost to a fault. Maybe he was more forgiving of others because he was incarcerated earlier in life, I don't know. In one episode he finally loses his cool with a builder who has completely bodged the decking and plumbing outside his caravan in a hilarious way, but even then he manages to stay calm and polite when firing him.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely add "Local Hero" to my list. I like Doc Martin.

If I had to think of anything recent that would perhaps have a similar feel it would be "The Detectorists" and (very recent) "Small Prophets" (by the same writer).

I read about this. I watched it on Amazon UK where it was included with a Prime subscription until recently. I never found out it if it had the original score for all episodes, if it didn't I thought it wasn't too obvious.

Coincidentally after I watched the show I found that the original leading actors (Rob Marrow and Janine Turner) had started a podcast called 'Northern Disclosure' right at that moment (https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernDisclosurePodcast/featured).

I have never seen M.A.S.H. but I agree the human moments were unique to this show. I didn't mind the jokes- I thought they kept it light, almost a reminder of how it didn't take itself too seriously.

This episode is just one of the gems and if I remember correctly Maggie eventually returns the washer because she misses the social interaction.

I'd have to respectfully disagree and feel the show holds up surprisingly well when you stick with it and forgive it the sort of things you would find in shows of that time. It's like a refuge from the dark and gritty stuff that you can't escape on streaming platforms these days.

I had the privilege to watch this show last year for the first time and I was completely blown away by it. I still think about it from time to time and it is easily my favourite show ever. Every actor is great and every single character in it is likeable (despite their flaws) and the show is proof that not everything has to be edgy, dark, gritty and have a murder in it to be good.

The writing is phenomenal. Sure, some things wouldn't get past studio execs these days but it holds up very well and there is a spirituality and positivity about it that sticks with you long after you finish watching the 110 episodes.

The Playdate seems an ideal device for busy dads and mums who would pick it up to play a few games here and there and are into programming and maybe would like to teach their kids how to program. I've had a quick play with the tools and API Panic provides and they seem very, very good. The games on it seem to be ideal for short stints of gameplay and are made by some very creative folk.

This seems to be the ideal target audience for a device like this, however at around £250 including delivery here in the UK it's wildly expensive and falls well outside the 'frivolous expense once in a while' range for most parents (I'd say it would be a stretch at £150). I find that really strange, are these just economies of scale or is it a business decision Panic has made and now likely regrets?

They are supported on just about every device and platform

Except they aren't. I recently used a simple SVG in a background and Safari wasn't able to render it properly so after trying lots of different things I gave up and used different sizes of raster images instead.

Yes- in the Netherlands the term 'fatbike' is pretty much synonymous with the battery powered bikes only (I presume elsewhere this may be different). They are mini motorcycles really- but exempt from all the rules and regulations that would apply to regular motorcycles.

They are routinely modified to exceed legal speed limits and owned by 10 year old or younger kids. Going nearly 30mph on a footpath whilst holding a mobile phone. I think they are also unregistered.

This seems to be concerning but as a Dutch person who has lived in the UK for a long time the relatively recent home-grown 'fatbike' issue seems to be a much more pressing problem for Dutch road safety than this and isn't being dealt with effectively as far as I understand.

Having said that I think these American pick-ups (and large SUV's, they are part of the same problem) are a common sight here as well and should not be allowed on the road (unless maybe you can show you need one for work or business).

This is a great idea except for me (and for the author I suspect) I regularly come across attachment of Imgur hosted images on sites (like a post on a DIY forum but not all of them) so it wouldn't solve my issue unless I were to use your browser in the container all the time (I suspect the author also doesn't just 'surf imgur' but randomly comes across images hosted on imgur linked to from other locations).

This is great thank you.

The new syntax avoids having to do that "double" declaration.

Yes, that's right. It is in other words a way to access the compile-time generated backing field for auto-implemented properties. It is quite nice to be honest, I just wish they presented a bit of context in their announcements.

I usually feel ambivalence with announcements of new C# versions.

Yes, a lot of great features have been added over the years. But it also introduces some amount of cognitive load and confusion. Take the first new feature in the example:

Field-backed properties simplify property declarations by eliminating the need for explicit backing fields. The compiler generates the backing field automatically, making your code cleaner and more maintainable.

Huh, I thought we have had this for years, what were they called, ah Auto-Implemented Properties- so why is there a need for this? In this example:

  // Automatic backing field with custom logic
  public string Name
  {
      get => field;
      set => field = value?.Trim() ?? string.Empty;
  }

  get;

I feel like the documentation is always somewhat lacking in explaining the reasoning behind new features and how it evolves the language from earlier versions.

An incredibly beautiful visualisation but I felt the same. As well as being confused by the threshold map, at first the text seems to suggest that the 'binary' image is the input to the dithering algorithm in order to 'flip' some of the whites to black and vice versa but then it uses a gray area as input to the threshold map.

Great- thanks for this.

I'm interested in starting out like this, I have a bunch of 2.5" SSD's I'm not using- do you have any tips on what cube to get? Are you concerned about power usage at all especially if this is always on?

Same here (on a Pixel 7). Apart from there being absolutely no reason to upgrade, really, even with the generous trade-in values offered by Google around the time of release. I kind of miss the time when a new smartphone release was exciting.

Could anyone more across the detail of this chime in on what this means for the 'average' .NET developer?

I rely heavily on LINQ calls in a .NET (Core) Web App, should I replace these with Zlinq calls?

Or is this only helpful in case you want to do LINQ operations on let's say 1000's of objects that would get garbage collected at the end of a game loop?

Thanks for the thoughtful comment.

I love the integration with iOS and so I should probably try again and expect a somewhat steep learning curve due to muscle memory coming from Windows.

TBH I expected the monitor to 'just work' so I was a bit surprised it didn't- but apparently monitors in a certain PPI range are less suitable and make text and interface elements look blurry.

Thanks for the suggestion- I must try this next time I use a Mac.

From what I can remember I was expecting drag and drop of files with multiple windows each snapped to the side of the screen to work intuitively but I accept that I was probably thinking of a Windows way of doing this instead of finding the best way to do things on MacOS.

I should probably retry MacOS with this in mind. Thinking of it I suppose I expected MacOS to be as intuitive as iOS, which is a bit unfair.

Your experience with Windows hiding settings reflects mine- I think it's partly because of the mix of modern and classic menus and the latter being harder to find. Using things like Microsoft PowerToys and custom registry settings makes the Windows experience better but you could argue that this should be standard as well.

I owned a M1 MacBook Air and I was similarly impressed by everything mentioned in this review.

MacOS coming from Windows, not so much. A menu bar 'orphaned' from the application window? A 'File Explorer' (Finder) lacking basic functionality. Dragging a file download onto the Applications folder to install software (what?). Plugging in a 2K monitor to find it is unable to display at native resolution without installing third party apps. MacOS feels like it is some relic from the past.

EDIT: judging from the comments here, I accept it may be part unfamiliarity. Maybe I should give it another go. What resources would you recommend for someone new to MacOS?

I remember Flight Unlimited. Besides what you mention I remember it having very impressive world graphics for its time.

What you are looking for seems fairly niche to me especially on console, the only game that comes to mind is Star Wars Squadrons.

On PC I'm sure the story is a bit different (but not being much of a gamer these days I may not be the best person to ask). It may be worth checking out MicroProse games. This is the legendary publisher of old, with the brand being passed on through various mergers and acquisitions and the current stewards do a remarkable job and publish quality titles. Tiny Combat Arena may be worth checking out as it fits your description somewhat (if you can get past its stylised graphics).

In my experience this also uses tabulated data or simplified equations based on some geometric parameters (such as the exposed surface area). For the purposes of simulating flight, ball park figures are sufficient to get a reasonably accurate representation of an aircraft's behaviour and stability in various flight conditions. The additional accuracy you get from fluid dynamics simulations is computationally expensive and usually only needed in aircraft design.

I don't know React very well but I used Angular in a large project and it was completely baffling to me how overly complex it was. In certain areas of the application it felt like it was completely unpredictable what value the state was going to be.

I sometimes long for the simplicity of something like Windows Forms.

I always find it fascinating that what you are seeing is a 1500 year old `close-up' of the nebula as that is how long (approximately) it took for the photons to get here.

Can anyone explain why Htmx is such a big deal? I really don't get their 'motivation' section on their landing page.

I mean, for example, the first motivation it lists is 'Why should only <a> and <form> be able to make HTTP requests?', why is that an issue? And 'Why should you only be able to replace the entire screen?', I mean that hasn't been an issue since XMLHttpRequest or am I missing something?

This looks super cool, can't wait to try it. Does anyone know why the project is called 'A Logo-like DSL for Godot', it doesn't really mention Godot much except for it being a (runtime?) dependency?