When a laptop can simulate anything, the physicality of the interface is most of the attraction, so might as well go all the way...

The script would write new html files for new posts and do "fun" (I mean, terrifying) string manipulation on the main index to insert links to posts etc. Sometimes they used comments with metadata to help "parse" pages which would see edits.

These both were, and definitely were not, "the days" :D

I'm in the southern UK, and I'd take our late-May/early-August "it's light while I'm awake and dark while I (should be) asleep" all year round if I could get it.

The cycle is roughly 30 years, and teenagers are revisiting the 90s trends right now.

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I belong to a community hobbyist workshop. There are a lot of rules, lockouts and a key in place around the table saw usage, but they won't install a sawstop because they can't afford to keep up with the wasted blades.

Personally, I think I'd rather have one, but I can absolutely see why people would disable them if they were mandatory.

Some of the asides are also hilariously/terrifyingly prescient. The passages on the evolution of video calling are some of my favourites.

But actually the decision about which general purpose registers to use for what is made at compile time (hence we're discussion a compiler flag here, the frame pointer is not a hardware dictated feature), so the question is actually kind of moot. If the compiler is out of registers to allocate and instead uses the stack, the CPU isn't reasonably going to be able to undo that.

I live in London and recently passed a convenience store whose signage advertised the usual stuff: "Fresh veg. Off licence. European specialty foods. Oyster". I was genuinely confused for a second that such a place would carry such short shelf life seafood...

Pre-pay card are gone here. The only people I know now who have an Oyster branded card are those who get discount or free travel.

£40 is very reasonable :D

I thought it looked fun, but no way to justify the price.

At least that's the oral tradition I've been given in the UK. Makes sense for the old aristocracy, the US may have wanted to make a deliberate break with the tradition?

Pubs in the UK are much less like this than in Ireland, which I also believe are quite special. There are pubs like this in the UK, but they're less and less common the larger the town you are in - which (my pet theory) correlates closely with the likelihood that there are people in the pub who don't already know each other anyway...

Edit for clarification: the more people are mixing in the pub, the more likely they all knew each other beforehand. Likely because it's a small town pub, although tight community pubs do still exist still in London - they're rare).

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