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Why Britain can't get anything done

Posted by konamicode on Friday October 23, 2026 @09:57AM
from the spectator.com dept.

https://spectator.com/article/why-britain-cant-get-anything-done/

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Re:Ask HN: Are you too getting addicted to the dev workflow of coding ... on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @05:03AM (#47598527)

https://claude.ai/share/7859cbe1-1350-4341-bb40-6aa241d6a1fe

This is an example of a session shared by Simon Willison in one of his recent blog posts if that helps?

Re:Ask HN: Are you too getting addicted to the dev workflow of coding ... on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @08:39AM (#47586480)

I think for someone who hasn’t experienced this it would be helpful to see a real world example whether it’s a Claude session or illustrated in some other way. Can anyone share?

Re:Electronic Nose for Indoor Mold Detection and Identification on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:44AM (#46523676)

I’ve done that - moved out of a mold infested house into a brand new house and kept some but not all belongings. Can you elaborate on risks? What do I need to watch out for?

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) on Monday September 29, 2025 @08:58PM (#45420780)

What would be a good strategy to prevent companies from cottoning on to this and gaming the system? They could for example change packaging on production runs for a product that’s undergoing laboratory.love funding campaign.

Re:Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and r... on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:54AM (#38276135)

I might be generalising but in some countries (UK) it's common to not rinse soap/washing up liquid off dishes after washing them by hand. Being hypochondriac I was always curious about health aspects of this and feared something similar to what's described in the article.

Re:Making life easier for newcomers to the .NET ecosystem on Monday November 15, 2021 @06:22AM (#29226152)

VS's windowing system is better than Rider's. I often use VS with a layout which takes up two full screens (editor on one and Tests Explorer/Solution Explorer/Output Window/Find window etc on the other). I haven't yet found a way to replicate this in Rider.

Re:Our plans to improve navigation on Gov.uk on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:52AM (#27673439)

Out of interest - who are the senior leaders you’re referring to?

Re:What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018) on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @04:22AM (#26011972)

If you’re interested in machine learning I can recommend Christopher Olah’s blog: https://colah.github.io/

Re:To the moon: defining and detecting cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps (... on Saturday January 09, 2021 @06:46PM (#25706419)

> Tether is 80% of trading volume lol.

This statement might need a reference to back it up.

Re:First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:41AM (#25358910)

N.B. Oxford have since published[0] a peer-reviewed study of phase 3 trial in The Lancet.

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Tocilizumab: Arthritis drug may treat severe Covid

Posted by konamicode on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:20PM
from the imperial.ac.uk dept.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/209033/arthritis-drug-effective-treating-sickest-covid-19/

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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @04:34AM (#24774449)

Same position here. Pro is compelling because I own an old iPad mini that's due an upgrade and I wonder if Pro would provide that for me. But for size I like my current SE gen 1.

Re:Robinhood 20yo trader with no income loses 700k on options, takes life on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:33AM (#23524114)

If I am a Robinhood customer who is investing for the long term instead of day trading - should I care?

Buy interactive recipes to support chefs and restaurants who need it most

Posted by konamicode on Saturday May 02, 2020 @06:06AM
from the relief.recipes dept.

https://www.relief.recipes

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Re:Keeping the coronavirus from infecting healthcare workers on Saturday March 21, 2020 @10:52AM (#22646863)

> They just need to be put into boiling water for a few minutes to kill sars-cov-2 at 100%.

I was looking for information on (high) heat killing viruses such as sars-cov-2. Are you able to point to a reliable source on this?

Re:Handbook of Covid-19 Prevention and Treatment from Hospital with 0%... on Friday March 20, 2020 @04:25AM (#22635965)

Do you know if the other countries you mentioned have equivalent documents to the one you linked for Belgium?

Re:C# Pattern Matching on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:36PM (#22241249)

Unlike in C# pattern matching in F# is exhaustive. I’m guessing this is what was meant by “better”.

Re:Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why on Monday February 03, 2020 @12:54PM (#22226815)

This is mentioned elsewhere in the comments at least some of the code for climateprediction.net appears to be on GitHub: https://github.com/CPDN-git.

Re:Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019? on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:42PM (#22030575)

“13 Minutes to the Moon” by the BBC World Service.

Re:ProjectPSX – A C# coded emulator of the original Playstation on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:20PM (#20922016)

Any chance you have an example of this pattern you can point to? Also, would the use of Span<T> make it possible to do this without unsafe code?

Re:Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation on Thursday June 20, 2019 @10:03AM (#20233018)

One of the harder things with English pronunciation I found was to be able to correctly vocalise "warm" and "worm", "crap" and "crepe" and similar. Think a resource like this would have helped.

13 Minutes to the Moon: New BBC Podcast Tells the Story of the Apollo 11

Posted by konamicode on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:12AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2

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Re:Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub on Thursday May 23, 2019 @12:13PM (#19993017)

> binding system that's full of footguns

Please elaborate?

Re:Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation on Monday April 08, 2019 @01:42PM (#19607330)

Seealso: IntelliCode for Visual Studio.

Re:Programming: Doing it more vs. doing it better on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:54AM (#19604314)

> At the other end of the spectrum are the “cowboys” who are productive by writing sloppy code with bad architecture and are either oblivious of or just ignore the huge pile of technical debt they pass along to the people who get to maintain their code.

Ousterhout uses the term "tactical tornado"s, which I quite like (source: https://twitter.com/johofer/status/1035442341199446017 apologies I don't have a better source handy).

Re:Paul Graham inspired the creation of Redis on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:54AM (#19499363)

I'd be keen to see a simple example of this pattern in Lisp (or another language). Does anybody have a good link?

Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) on Monday February 25, 2019 @04:38PM (#19249698)

I have a 2008 MB (first of the unibody models) and it would be OK if not for hardware no longer being supported by the newer versions of macOS. This means I am unable to install .NET Core 2.0 or some of the newer Node versions which is a shame.

Re:Apple Said to Launch 16-Inch MacBook Pro with All-New Design in 2019 on Monday February 18, 2019 @09:52AM (#19190967)

I often have the need to have multiple instances of Visual Studio open simultaneously. I’ve been looking to get an Alienware Area 51M with i9 9900K and 32GB RAM. If this MB Pro comes with similar specs I may have a dilemma on my hands.

Re:Why you should learn F# on Saturday December 22, 2018 @03:40PM (#18742350)

There is Mechanic (https://github.com/fsprojects/Mechanic), an OSS project that's meant to take away some of the pain, though I don't have any experience using it and I'm not aware of how useful it is in practice.