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New comment by hardlianotion in "I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph"

hardlianotion — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:49:06 +0000

This reminds me of the great pleasure I got from technical drawing at school.

New comment by hardlianotion in "Another Day Has Come"

hardlianotion — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:44:10 +0000

As far as I can tell, there isn’t a post in the Daring Fireball archive on Nov 3.

New comment by hardlianotion in "Another Day Has Come"

hardlianotion — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:04:25 +0000

That is a generous assessment of Tim Cook’s reign at Apple and especially of his character. I found it a real pleasure to read.

New comment by hardlianotion in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

hardlianotion — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:13:45 +0000

Can't see from the UK as the poster claims the UK Online Safety Act prevents them from showing it to me (unless folk use a VPN, I guess).

New comment by hardlianotion in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

hardlianotion — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:48:39 +0000

The issue is more the other way at the moment. Norwegian prices can get high as they are exposed to German demand over the interconnector.

New comment by hardlianotion in "72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes"

hardlianotion — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:33:59 +0000

I think probably the interest rate is higher, but the value as a proportion of the starting value on LHS is less significant, compared with the periods you mention. If you look at the monthly interest rates at the bottom, it seems to support this notion.

New comment by hardlianotion in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

hardlianotion — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:33:10 +0000

I am going to have to ask you for a source this time.

New comment by hardlianotion in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

hardlianotion — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:54:05 +0000

Brent crude is a light, sweet oil. UK oil is extracted from same oilfields as Norways - little difference in quality - and the major extraction from both is Brent crude

A handy explainer on Brent quality is here: https://kimray.com/training/types-crude-oil-heavy-vs-light-s...

New comment by hardlianotion in "America tells private firms to “hack back”"

hardlianotion — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:47:08 +0000

He could be referencing this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_of_Marque

New comment by hardlianotion in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

hardlianotion — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:35:44 +0000

I think the quotes is to say that these people who say that they are pronatalist have revealed preferences that indicate that it is not a serious concern for them.

New comment by hardlianotion in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

hardlianotion — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:18:22 +0000

Okay, though to be fair to me, you said just after

> and ignoring the Salisbury Convention (which is that they shouldn’t block manifesto commitments)

which is what attracted my question.

Thanks for the link. I haven’t watched it, but I will observe that a lot of the modern legislation that comes out of the commons should properly attract the attention of the Lords, as it doesn’t get nearly enough attention from the commons.

New comment by hardlianotion in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

hardlianotion — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:53:24 +0000

Most western democracies have exactly the same fault, maybe having unscrupulous, shameless legislators are the end state of the current models of democracy being practiced.

New comment by hardlianotion in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

hardlianotion — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:49:33 +0000

Which manifesto commitments have been blocked in this parliament?

New comment by hardlianotion in "Bet on German Train Delays"

hardlianotion — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:55:09 +0000

That is the only disappointing aspect of the site. It's genius.

New comment by hardlianotion in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

hardlianotion — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:58:54 +0000

RIP Dan

New comment by hardlianotion in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

hardlianotion — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:51:04 +0000

And is a decidedly superior breakfast.

New comment by hardlianotion in "xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems"

hardlianotion — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:36:09 +0000

The word "trillionaire" does not appear in the discussion. Not good form to imply quotes where there are none.

New comment by hardlianotion in "European Tech Alternatives"

hardlianotion — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:09:54 +0000

UK is European. Membership of EU is unnecessary for that criterion to be met.

New comment by hardlianotion in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

hardlianotion — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:01:30 +0000

Are all of these dark patterns seen in the wild? OR are some of these merely a dreadful warning of what may happen?

New comment by hardlianotion in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

hardlianotion — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:49:23 +0000

I think some examples are in order - where has the UK, having recently left the EU, changed its laws so that it was completely out of step with consumer protection? Or is this one thing that made it necessary for them to leave the union, perhaps?