olane.bsky.social
Software Engineer, UK
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We have 4 or 5 on my street fairly recently planted and it’s such a pleasure to watch them grow. They have little planting areas around them that the residents keep well kept. A very good initiative.
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We’ve had lots this year! Even more aphids though. The larvae actually eat more aphids than the adults AIUI
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I broadly agree that “free” is probably swinging the pendulum further than optimal but pricing _is_ important. In my city it used to cost more/similar for two people to get the bus than drive or taxi most places. There is now a fare cap that reverses that situation and I do use the bus more now.
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Thank you. Drove me very minorly mad that none of the news articles had this.
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Ban banning ball game bans
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We could have had many of these plants online in the time that people have been arguing that nuclear is “too slow” to help the climate. The second best time is now. This is the one issue that consistently makes me reconsider my Green Party membership, I’m afraid.
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I always wonder how (if) inflation is factored into these headline figures for projects that last decades. £16bn in 2013 is over £22bn in 2025.
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Oh that’s great news
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I wish you more luck with it than we had in Cambridge
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Kinda slightly a little bit interferes with the back gesture in the browser but I kinda think that’s inevitable, they’re the same gesture. Feels great apart from that. (iOS, Arc Search)
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Amen. Doesn’t matter how fast you all row if you’re not rowing in the same direction.
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen it not be local time. I don’t disagree though.
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I liked it despite its flaws, but man oh man when I then went back and read The Martian that book is so much better. As you say, the PHM protagonist is very one dimensional.
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That two way one is so rubbish 😂
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Well, as long as the mowers are electric.
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Hah, true, but I do that in a decidedly non professional capacity. Dunno who’d do that for a living
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Comments might be a reservation but.. don’t write a comment you would be embarrassed to have made public. Backend or frontend.
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They’re public, I don’t think of it as a security problem. We didn’t transform the source at all for a long time anyway. It does require devs to treat the frontend code as public but they should do that anyway for lots of reasons.
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A disproportionate amount of workers there though, to be fair.
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Agreed. I was a Labour member under Corbyn and now I’m a Green member. The left is stronger together. Politics is about compromise and leadership is about bringing disparate groups with common interests together in pursuit of the right outcomes.
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Yes. I wasn’t a huge fan of Windows Update but Mac’s system updates are way more disruptive (iOS too).
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I think this is true for most uk airports now (you have to search for the dispenser sometimes though, it’s usually near a toilet)
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Yeah it’s the sheer arrogant confidence of the wrong opinions that really rub me up the wrong way. I miss the Shit HN Says account.
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I use Slightly Sarcastic Capitalisation for this quite a lot. Or just quotes but that never feels quite right.
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www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1... here it is (their trans rights or I bites sticker is also 10/10)
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Not actually my design I’m afraid so I don’t have any more but I can find where I bought it from
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Do you already have this as a sticker or have I finally beaten you to one?
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Merlin single handedly turned me into a birder. Great abroad too when you’re not familiar with the local species.
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Excellent. I already subscribe to the tree planting but when I sponsor tree planting what I’m actually hoping to fund is ecosystem restoration as a whole so that makes total sense to me.
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2 or 3
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Glad to hear you’ll be continuing your good work
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Took me a while to work out what was going on because I wasn’t looking for anything near that dumb
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Yep. I use Trainline because it handles my railcards seamlessly too. Which is a bandaid on a silly workaround to a problem that shouldn’t exist but here we are.
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Well now I have to spend an hour scrolling around openinframap.org
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I don’t think it’s wild to put effort into making the most out of a tool if the results justify the learning curve. It took me a while to learn to touch type but that was worth it. In the specific case of LLMs with the current state of things I broadly agree though, the juice ain’t worth the squeeze
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I’ve yet to meet anyone who even knows it’s happening
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_And_ it even makes the car park better to park your car in. Wins all round.
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Certainly a chance, yes. If so it would be a fairer outcome, though, even if I think that specific result would have been a disaster.