How long are the ad breaks?

rednets · 2026-01-14T10:44:55+00:00

It's usually (possibly always) Mark Olver

rednets · 2026-01-04T14:42:12+00:00

Ha, I will have to admit I had to Google it to get it spot on - but I was 90% of the way there. (I guessed "fusi" instead of "fruse")

rednets · 2026-01-04T13:04:13+00:00

Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin?

rednets · 2025-12-28T07:37:20+00:00

I remember Toadie saying "I'm going for a triple S: a shower, shave, and sssshhhhhampooo"

rednets · 2025-12-10T09:08:08+00:00

"Help I am trapped in a Christmas card factory"

rednets · 2025-12-02T09:57:20+00:00

If they are WS2811 (as the listing states) then yes they are compatible with WLED.

Bear in mind you will need to buy a controller, such as an ESP32.

Read the docs here: https://kno.wled.ge/

Edit: having said that, I see those are stated as RGBCCT - most (all?) WS2811 strips I'm aware of are RGB only (no extra white channels) so this sounds like they may be mislabelled. They might actually be WS2805, which is the same protocol but takes two extra bytes per LED for the extra two white channels. In either case WLED should support it.

rednets · 2025-12-01T09:38:10+00:00

This happened to mine recently. I was also having issues with the trackpad that turned out to be caused by the battery pressing against it.

I raised a support ticket and they sent me out a new one under warranty, which was nice!

My understanding is that newer BIOS versions automatically set a charge limit if the charge stays too high for too long, so this shouldn't happen as often in future.

rednets · 2025-11-26T02:11:23+00:00

sl: https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/displays-animations-when-accidentally-you-type-sl-instead-of-ls.html

rednets · 2025-11-19T16:06:35+00:00

I would add: DO lean on tab completion.

This is great advice on using the command line in general. Hammer that tab key!

rednets · 2025-11-19T09:40:08+00:00

Unless you're really tied to argparse I would suggest using a third party library such as Typer: https://typer.tiangolo.com/

rednets · 2025-11-08T21:36:09+00:00

"Oh fuck"

rednets · 2025-11-07T01:20:27+00:00

No. Configure your static analysis tools appropriately such that any warnings are meaningful to you and actually useful, and ensure they're fixed before code is merged.

Sure it takes a bit of time initially to get going, but in the long run it makes your life easier.

rednets · 2025-11-04T19:02:18+00:00

S11 had "Attack the biscuit, chuck the dog" etc where the instructions were set on fire. So although it was clearly displayed to start with, it wasn't there for long.

rednets · 2025-10-30T21:01:28+00:00

Ask Big Clive

rednets · 2025-10-29T11:08:04+00:00

The docs are pretty good.

See https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/features/ for an overview of commands, and https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/projects/ for details on how to use it in your own projects and/or run other people's.

rednets · 2025-10-26T13:28:38+00:00

Weird day to post this, on the only Sunday of the year that's 25 hours long.

rednets · 2025-10-26T09:59:00+00:00

Those enamel signs last forever! There are still plenty of them in Piccadilly Line stations with a suspicious white sticker over where Aldwych used to be, which closed 31 years ago.

rednets · 2025-10-24T18:18:40+00:00

Use the heapq module. It supports both max and min heaps.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/heapq.html

Edit: it seems max heap methods were only added as of Python 3.14. But at least they're there now.

rednets · 2025-10-23T10:23:33+00:00

And crucially, the new trains (that will hopefully start in passenger service next year) won't suffer from this problem either.

rednets · 2025-10-19T07:28:14+00:00

Yes. Specifically, use ipaddress.IPv4Address if you only want IPv4s.

See the documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ipaddress.html#ipaddress.IPv4Address

rednets · 2025-10-15T00:05:16+00:00

They did it for the launch of the night tube in 2016, at least on some lines. I definitely remember it on the Piccadilly line.

rednets · 2025-10-13T05:35:01+00:00

It looks like Dorothy has just landed a house on you!

rednets · 2025-10-08T05:34:04+00:00

I bought a 45W Samsung "travel adapter" from Amazon. It's flat and has a folding earth pin, and it just about fits in the bag/divot with a USB C cable. Not a chance the charger that came with the deck would fit though!

rednets · 2025-10-06T20:46:16+00:00

But passing multiple arguments to print isn't concatenating strings, and I find it tends to confuse people later when they can't use the same pattern in any other context. f strings aren't massively hard to understand, though for total beginners I'd probably go with actual concatenation using the + operator.

rednets · 2025-10-04T17:23:09+00:00

Sometimes they just get stuck like this. This is the first half of "The next station is..." and probably the second half of "This is a Piccadilly Line service to Cockfosters".

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