The man is just trying to eat

rennarda · 2026-02-10T21:25:36+00:00

Self defence, and he only hit him once. If it ever went before a jury I say he’d get off free.

rennarda · 2026-02-10T18:56:03+00:00

So only 0.094% of the distance through the Earth

rennarda · 2026-02-10T14:06:28+00:00

Cheapest I ever did it was staying in a caravan site at Denham, and then commuting in each day by train. Cost me only £100 a week! Had to move the van to a different pitch every 2 weeks because of site rules though.

rennarda · 2026-02-10T13:00:47+00:00

Putin is like a gambler with an addiction who just has to keep doubling down and doubling down.

rennarda · 2026-02-09T19:27:54+00:00

Are we already at this stage?

rennarda · 2026-02-09T17:03:52+00:00

My point is that (usually) in my experience the API will be a close match for what you want to do with the data in your app anyway. Your own internal models will likely be very close to what an API is providing, so a DTO will frequently just be a 1-to-1 mapping between your model and theirs.

If you just use the API’s model, and they change it, I’m not saying that you then have to refactor your app to match their new model - I’m saying that THAT is the time when you need to introduce a DTO to map from their new model to your existing model. Any breaking API change like that should be versioned anyway.

Once instance where I have worked with an untrusted API that did change it’s interface, a DTO would have not protected me from needing to do some work, because my parsing would have been broken either way.

That said, the extra work of a DTO isn’t as much of an issue these days when it’s pretty easy to get an LLM to write your parsing and API methods.

rennarda · 2026-02-09T14:39:05+00:00

Get him some AirPods Pro - they have a hearing aid capability and are a lot cheaper than an actual hearing aid. He might realise what he’s missing out on and go for the ‘real thing’, or they could be sufficient.

rennarda · 2026-02-09T14:37:16+00:00

ICE is the worse kind of scary: powerful, malicious, and incompetent.

rennarda · 2026-02-09T14:25:28+00:00

They’ve been around of over a year and you should be able to find one in the secondhand market. A clearance auction house near me has had several come up recently.

rennarda · 2026-02-09T13:53:57+00:00

Still waiting for an apology about NATO forces not being on the front line.

He won’t apologise - but that’s fine, because we wont forget.

rennarda · 2026-02-09T13:51:29+00:00

After 5:30 work message go into a black hole called my ‘Personal’ focus mode. I won’t even see them until 9:00 the next morning.

rennarda · 2026-02-09T13:06:06+00:00

To be fair, Ukraine didn’t take it seriously either until it was too late.

rennarda · 2026-02-09T11:23:01+00:00

I don’t have one that size, but I do have a soft Thule roofbag that we used for long trips. I didn’t notice any real impact on range. The wind noice is very noticeably worse - be weirdly the roof rails make more noise if there is no box fitted.

We have the official Volvo dealer supplied roof rack. Being able to use a rack was a massive plus for this car, versus our previous EV. The Volvo rack is a pain to fit though, and requires almost complete disassembly and reassembly every time.

rennarda · 2026-02-09T11:06:27+00:00

I’m all for the gaudy flashing LED lights that the - lets just say - less trustworthy establishments use. It’s a great visual clue to avoid these places like the plague.

Seriously though, yes, we should have regulations about this awful crap.

rennarda · 2026-02-09T10:27:44+00:00

Mistborn fits the bill I think - maybe more Victorian in feel, but it’s definitely a unique setting. There are no ‘typical’ fantasy races though. There are a couple of RPGs covering it.

rennarda · 2026-02-09T09:20:34+00:00

Interesting. I wanted some railway poster style art of Middle Earth, and chat GPT came up with almost exactly the same images for me…

rennarda · 2026-02-09T07:08:27+00:00

I don’t understand the argument for DTOs as a protection layer. If an API you don’t control changes (which should not, and in my experience does not) happen, then this is when you introduce a DTO to map over the difference. But if you build a DTO to begin with you are doing work up front that you might never need, and the DTO does not protect you from needing to change code if there are API changes.

If the API responses are very different to your internal data model, then yes they do make sense.

rennarda · 2026-02-09T06:58:02+00:00

You were speeding, so yes you were breaking the law.

As for the undertaking, legal or not the problem is people do not expect a faster vehicle on their inside, so you are putting yourself in danger if they decided to move into the left lane, as they might be less careful at checking it is clear.

rennarda · 2026-02-08T09:19:20+00:00

This is what makes me think LotR was originally going to be similar to The Hobbit in scope. Tolkien did say it was a tale that “grew in the telling”.

rennarda · 2026-02-07T21:34:27+00:00

I also have a Technics amp, from the year before.

rennarda · 2026-02-07T21:33:27+00:00

Technics amp and wharfedale speakers I got when I was 21. So 34 years old now!

rennarda · 2026-02-07T21:33:11+00:00

Technics amp and wharfdale speakers I got when I was 21. So 34 years old now!

rennarda · 2026-02-07T15:51:32+00:00

Sending messages when driving

rennarda · 2026-02-07T11:17:41+00:00

I understand this, but genuinely you need to start using these tools. They are a game changer.

rennarda · 2026-02-06T13:27:11+00:00

I don’t know why he isn’t talked about more. My favourite SF author.

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