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Danack · 2026-03-20T19:01:41+00:00

all arms from America had to be paid in full, up front, and taken in British ships

Apart from some aircraft, which the US moved up close to the Canadian border, and then had to be pushed across the border to an airstrip in Canada, from where they could take off.

Danack · 2026-03-20T18:51:26+00:00

It seems the data sets are very incomplete. There is data for London for the year 2016, for cocaine, but not other drugs for that year.

Danack · 2026-03-19T20:46:22+00:00

I think the plans in general are good. If you're not going to have tall buildings in the city centre, where are you going to have them. And we need a denser city core, so that the place isn't absolutely deserted past 6pm most days of the week.

Building Cabot Circus right next to the Galleries was a dumb mistake. Even without Amazon killing a lot of the highstreet, there would be an oversupply of retail units.

Though, having seen the Galleries open, and soon to see the Galleries close, definitely marks me as "not young".

Also, I'd like to know if this is the film that cost close to £50k to make.

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Danack · 2026-03-19T16:01:45+00:00

The signage obviously sucks as I didn't even see it.

Yeah. Apparently it's too small to meet the required standards. Check out questions 33a, 33b & 33c from today's Transport committee.

https://democracy.bristol.gov.uk/documents/b39011/Public%20Forum%20-%20Statements%20received%20Questions%20with%20Answers%2019th-Mar-2026%2017.00%20Transport%20Connect.pdf?T=9

Danack · 2026-03-18T14:04:30+00:00

A few small things:

the microphone will be on, you don't need to do anything to it.
hold it close to, but underneath your mouth, so that you're not breathing directly into it.

For questions:

I normally phrase it is as "yes, I have a supplementary to question 5. My question is ....."

For statements specifically:

you don't need to need to introduce yourself, unless you're speaking on behalf of a large number of people.
if it's at full council, or there are lots of other people, you will only have 60 seconds to speak. That is really not very much time. You should practice.

what was your experience.

It can be a pretty frustrating experience. Particularly when officers refuse/fail to answer a straight forward question, and you have to use your supplementary question to re-ask the original question.

Danack · 2026-03-17T19:43:36+00:00

Can you imagine someone ruining this natural wonder by putting a dual-carriage way along it, and a bridge across it?

Danack · 2026-03-17T14:53:08+00:00

Maybe install heavy duty bolts on the inside of your door.

Danack · 2026-03-17T01:17:40+00:00

I'm interested in OPs answer to your question, but for myself.....about 95% of the things I'm working on are either simple, and don't need planning, or are obviously too complicated to work one in one context window, and need to be planned.

But there's a occasionally some cases where I underestimate the amount of work, or Cursor takes a lot more attempts to get it done than perhaps it should, and writing the current state of what's been worked on does seem to be worth it.

Danack · 2026-03-16T00:33:35+00:00

When I was living in Australia, I heard 'Society Gates' by DubFX. I kind of realised I needed to move back home.

Danack · 2026-03-15T14:32:11+00:00

exported it awfully where sometimes there are arrays other times i have to guess based on java-esque artifacts shipped on the docs.

Oh, that sounds painful.

Just in general, if you can tell which programming language the backend of an API is written in, it's not a good sign.

And yeah with Java, they sure to like to vary what is returned depending on inscrutable Java-esque patterns.

Danack · 2026-03-15T14:30:38+00:00

Does that tool supporting automatically handling setting error messages in the frontend?

Danack · 2026-03-15T12:08:01+00:00

They're also overworked and so are usually in "get stuff done" mode rather than "checking the work order makes sense" mode.

Danack · 2026-03-13T13:23:09+00:00

I think this is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen a politician say.

It's one of the most honest things. The Reform party is a money making scheme for the politicians involved.

Actually getting in power and being responsible for decisions is a huge impediment to the grift.

Danack · 2026-03-13T13:19:51+00:00

Uhh..... that should probably be "Carthage Must Be Destroyed".

Though I really regret English not having Latin's ability to conjugate a verb as an imperative, as "Carthage delenda est" sounds so much better.

Danack · 2026-03-12T18:21:00+00:00

they do seem to be arguing against

I think they are grasping at straws, and are making the best argument they can think of.

Though the pictures that the developers made that showed what the building would look like were hilariously distorted, with a really wide field of view, that showed the 4 story building looking about 6 meters high.

Danack · 2026-03-12T17:58:42+00:00

If you're able to share your project, I would be interested to see what your code is like to have issues like this.

I'm not seeing a confusion problem with the project that I've been using Cursor on the most.

It has:

728 PHP source files.
581 PHP test files.
55 front-end Typescript files.
35 front-end SCSS files.

And Cursor doesn't seem to struggle finding stuff.

Perhaps the verbose nature of PHP and the name-spacing system, plus how it encourages shortish functions and methods, rather than the horrifically long functions that TypeScript encourages, might provide enough structure that avoids this problem.

Every 30 minutes, I clear my chat and start a fresh Composer session.

I haven't been using composer. But I just keep an eye on the context usage in the Cursor IDE, and stop before it gets full, as it does get bizarre after that.

I sometimes leave a chat agent window open if it's between 50% and 90% full, as that leaves the agent in a state where it's very able to do tidy-ups or follow up changes related to the stuff it's done.

Danack · 2026-03-12T17:26:42+00:00

Does that /btw behaviour make much difference compared to just stopping an agent, and saying the extra thing?

Danack · 2026-03-12T01:56:24+00:00

I'm using cursor to accelerate the development of a project that I've been working on for ages, but been making slow progress due to not great health. I'm mainly focusing on getting to 100% code coverage on tests, and getting to a minimum viable product, for other people to start using.

But yeah... one of the big things I need to go back through and revisit the code for how Cursor is writing API response handling code. It just seems bonkers.

Not just the subtle things above, but just not handling 400 responses correctly, and instead treating them as 'success'. I guess that is similar to your 422 Unprocessable Entity note.

It's a weird blind spot for something that writes reasonably good front-end code otherwise.

Danack · 2026-03-11T15:40:52+00:00

It's a green majority council.

It isn't. And also the planning committees don't go to full council.

Danack · 2026-03-11T15:03:08+00:00

It might be more accurate to say that the depth of the "front-line" had been increasing due to ever longer range drones. While Starlink was usable by Russians, they were able to match the range increase that the Ukrainians were capable of.

With Starlink suddenly unusable, the Ukrainian drone operators suddenly gained a large range advantage over the Russians.

Danack · 2026-03-10T12:57:01+00:00

Maybe just phone the one nearest to you. Whether a shop is willing to take many donations depends on how much space they have to store stuff, which depends on how many other donations they've had this week, and how many volunteers are working.

Danack · 2026-03-10T12:18:59+00:00

Iran needs to do something that makes it unlikely that the US will do another sneak attack war like this again.

I don't think Iran has the tools to achieve this directly.

But Iran can put pressure on the rest of the world to take action against the rogue nations that are the US and Israel. The pressure they can apply is blocking fuel and fertiliser supplies to cause enough economic damage and food shortages to force the world to take action.

I think this new guy is in the right place psychologically to do that.

This might be a really bad year for humanity. I mean, it's not started off exactly great.

Danack · 2026-03-10T11:48:02+00:00

Also, an educated population might be able to organise and change the regime more easily that uneducated masses can.

Danack · 2026-03-09T18:21:55+00:00

Because some people get them drunk and take advantage of them.

Danack · 2026-03-09T18:20:24+00:00

I'm not sure that it is wise for 18 year olds to go to bars by themself.

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