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I always wanted to build a local mesh network of pay phones on the playa and call it Black Rock Telecom. Maybe 12 or more phones set on plazas. Geographically not being located in the US made this project tricky to realise.

Shouldn't a sufficiently powerful laser be able to cook the sensor quickly and easily?

I had an idea years ago to hook up a bunch of old payphones on the playa at burning man. Solar powered and connected over VoIP on a mesh network. Sadly never got to make it happen but would have been a fun art project.

Maybe we can skip the compiler...

Why stop at getting AI to write Rust? If everything is vibe coded and code is no longer reviewed, get an LLM to devise its own ultra terse, super dense language intended solely for minimal token use and speed.

/s... sort of

GDS was a national level effort and they certainly did a better, albeit not perfect, job than the myriad of private solutions councils use. There just doesn't appear to be the capability to properly specify and source IT at a council level.

It's is the most ridiculous situation with council technology that they all use different providers for what are fundamentally the same functions. It's the same for council tax and a host of other services as it is for planning. Consequently, at least from the various portals I've used, they all do it badly. This absolutely could and should be done by a single, well funded central team.

Am I alone in not wanting banal homogeneity even on a work trip?

Which Claude literally uses.

Given their username I would raise you that they're on the victoria line :-)

This was many moons ago, written in perl. From memory we used Regexp::Trie - https://metacpan.org/release/DANKOGAI/Regexp-Trie-0.02/view/...

We used it to tokenize search input and combined it with a solr backend. Worked really remarkably well.

Supporting 10 different languages in regex is a drop in the ocean. The regex can be generated programmatically and you can compress regexes easily. We used to have a compressed regex that could match any placename or street name in the UK in a few MB of RAM. It was silly quick.

Agree with this. Mismatching types are generally an indicator of an underlying issue with the code, not the language itself. These are areas AI can be helpful flagging potential problems.

Railway is getting so good I'm not sure what Vercel brings to the party anyway.

I don't think OP was implying punishing voters.

That is ... an oddly specific reference?

Never understood why the yanks don't like vans? Pickups are much less popular here in the UK, many more people use vans. A crew cab van with removable seats is infinitely more flexible than a pickup, other than long stuff which you chuck on a roof rack.

I don't use it but I did still have an account which is now deleted. Thanks for the reminder.

My ADHD brain recoils at the thought of this, which probably means I would benefit even more from doing so.

FWIW I gave up trying to render SVG for our project and switched to using fabric.js (and node-canvas for server side rendering). For us it was mostly because it had far better text support.

We've very recently been testing multiple dithering techniques for graphics we send as bitmaps to a TIJ printer that's used as a dynamic labeller.

It hasn't gone well for several UK companies listing through SPACs on US exchanges recently. Think that's given plenty of reason for a rethink.

I currently use Mylio. The feature I like most is that I can store a compressed version of my entire catalog on my phone so it's very quick to find something and it works offline. I can then download the full res image if I want it.

My biggest complaint about Mylio is there is still no automatic synchronisation from Android. You have to leave the app open for it to sync.

Wondering if the Memories Android app can handle both of these points?

There's a good choice in formaldehyde free boards these days. In the UK a popular one is Sterling Zero.

There are various research projects looking at storing waste heat, often for the purpose of more efficient defrosting.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-022-00018-3

Yes, there was a noticeable drop in the count of number 13s too.

I did a bunch of analysis of UK addresses at a former job. My favourite was the clear inverse correlation between house number and value, with a noticeable dip for number 13s, which from memory were valued around 2.5% lower than where they should have been.

Yes, they're so incompetent they haven't changed their parking page. See google search results:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=tarantope...

It's all on subdomains, e.g. https://wandsworth.tarantopermits.com

Absolutely, there's massive duplication of functionality. I think it's partly incompetence and partly a control thing.

The flip side of this is local government technology. Truly some of the worst crimes against web development have been committed by local councils, or rather their outsourcing partners.

The service that takes that crown in my experience is tarantopermits.com, a parking permit management system that fills me with rage just thinking about it.