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Re:I built my own CityMapper on Saturday November 01, 2025 @03:01PM (#45784337)
Check out api.tfl.gov.uk which should have everything you need for London in a more structured format.
Re:I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019) on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:34PM (#37214255)
Also a great teaching language, as used at London Imperial College Electrical and Electronic Engineering dept. in the early 00s. Gave you lots of power but not too much, and enough rules to force you to learn without doing mad things. I have fond memories. And I miss the compilation speeds!
The problem is people buying cheap devices that skirt or fake existing battery quality regulations. There would surely be a higher number of people making that kind of purchase if they were to be allowed on UK public roads.

I can’t see how anyone would be made safer by decriminalising scooters - either charging them at home or out on the roads.

Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:06PM (#29853598)
Also you can mostly still click straight though to the image file itself, a feature which I believe Google removed at the request of site owners.
Re:The UK’s delta surge is collapsing on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:49PM (#28043682)
There are plenty of tests available since then, we picked some up recently. This was a temporary blip, if anything. You can see the testing rate on the gov dashboard [0] and it hasn’t really changed enough to account for the fall in cases.

[0] https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing

Re:Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible on Monday August 02, 2021 @02:18PM (#28040563)
Sunshine is the other big variable. Most fruit will only get sweet during ripening if it's receiving enough sunlight. This is why red grapes are seldom grown in northern latitudes - their dark skin blocks sunlight and prevents them from sweetening during ripening.
Re:Monolith First (2015) on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:16AM (#26193356)
Article is from 2015. Should this be added to the title?
Re:Could giant SPACs be next? on Sunday January 24, 2021 @04:19PM (#25896186)
It’s not in particularly common usage anymore though, if at all.
Re:Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:14AM (#21004490)
I'm guessing they don't do this voluntarily because they've seen how the music industry had its revenues eroded by Spotify/iTunes (where mostly the user can pick one and get pretty much everything). They're probably ignoring the fact that music piracy is presumably lower than ever because of this.
Re:A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers on Saturday August 10, 2019 @06:15PM (#20664793)
Was hoping someone would say this. Times by 8 divide by 5 is super easy. And easy to reverse when you’re doing km to miles.
Re:My humble tribute to Apollo 11 AGC on Sunday July 21, 2019 @12:29PM (#20492090)
A lovely tribute - and please take this as constructive criticism nitpick - but it would be even better if the Readme was in markdown so that GitHub would render it correctly on mobile.
Re:The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core on Monday July 08, 2019 @03:19AM (#20380582)
Our build system very much needs to be on-premises for the foreseeable future.
Re:The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core on Sunday July 07, 2019 @06:10AM (#20374404)
Yes I got that impression. Azure DevOps wouldn’t be the right solution for us unfortunately.
Re:The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core on Sunday July 07, 2019 @05:09AM (#20374242)
It’s nice to see the .NET Core team hitting on the same solution as we are heading for internally for our multi-repo builds - the “dependency flow” with Maestro sounds very similar to what we intend to do with propagating latest NuGet package versions to consumers via PRs, then auto-merging those PRs if all checks pass (and the repo owner has opted into this, of course).

Will the .NET Core team open source this tooling I wonder?

Re:London Bus Stop Distance Analysis on Thursday May 30, 2019 @03:56PM (#20055297)
For the TfL API, have a look at https://api.tfl.gov.uk/. You can also get GeoJSON line strings of the bus stops (or other modes of transport!) if you’re interested.
Re:Waking up during surgery on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:03AM (#19376657)
6 hours
Re:Waking up during surgery on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:03AM (#19376652)
Could be! It’s an emotional moment and not a particularly nice place to wake up. But there’s definitely something at the back of your mind telling you something fairly awful happened. Of course your mind knows this anyway - you know you had surgery and have the scars - so it could all be an illusion.
Re:Waking up during surgery on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:42PM (#19374612)
Even if you don’t wake up during surgery, it feels like there’s an imprint of the trauma. I had a very long operation and by the time I came round I was in pieces emotionally, with no clear idea of what had happened but still a deep sense of dread. On some level it felt like my body knew what had just happened.
Re:Productivity tricks in Visual Studio on Thursday February 28, 2019 @03:10AM (#19269827)
JetBrains Rider is a significant productivity upgrade to Visual Studio, especially when working with a large solution.
Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:17PM (#19267792)
You can learn to type very quickly on a touchscreen keyboard and work within and be helped by the autocorrect. If you’re typing a couple of sentences why does it even matter that you’re not up to full keyboard typing speed? Sure, if you’re typing an essay, but why would you be doing that on your phone anyway?
Re:Robot Hotel Loses Love for Robots on Sunday January 20, 2019 @08:33AM (#18952958)
To get round the paywall for WSJ, click the “web” link next to the article link above, then the first result.
Re:iPhone XS – A12 Bionic on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:47AM (#17977047)
They admitted to making a trade-off that would throttle performance with older batteries so that the phone wouldn't shut down when the CPU did not receive enough power. Turns out that trade-off was interpreted quite badly by some consumers who apparently would have preferred a phone that stayed as fast as the day they bought it, but instead crashed without warning with poor battery health.
What's going on with the salary disparity between US ($100k) and UK ($50k)?
Re:BAE sold cyber-surveillance tools to Arab states on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:48AM (#14558800)
This is more of the same inglorious British Government tradition of being willing to sell anything to anyone, provided they've got the cash.
Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? on Sunday October 09, 2016 @06:30PM (#12673917)
As a useful public resource, it could be. Along the lines of ICANN?
Re:Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles on Saturday September 24, 2016 @02:06PM (#12571883)
Glasshole meet Snaptwat.
Re:Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac on Monday August 29, 2016 @07:48PM (#12386340)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned GitKraken yet (gitkraken.com). Cross-platform and beautiful. Edit: oh and free!

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