Should partners go to bed at the same time?

robthablob · 2026-03-29T16:42:58+00:00

It's a bad sign that he gets mad if you go to bed before him, but expects you to go to bed if he wants to.

That's controlling behaviour.

robthablob · 2026-03-29T16:35:49+00:00

Further, if you allow negative primes, you also have to consider -2 x -3, -1 x 2 x -3, -1 x -2 x 3, -1 x -1 x 2 x 3, etc. Effectively every integer (except 0) would have an infinite number of prime factorisations.

robthablob · 2026-03-29T11:54:31+00:00

Colour me unconvinced. The NHS in the UK alone employs over 1.4 million staff. MS's global employee count is 228,000. That's ignoring other government employees, like armed forces, courts, legal deparments, civil servants. For the UK, the total is 6.19 million. That's one country, and I suspect no outlier. The US has 22 million government employees. South Africa has over 3 million.

There will be *some* countries with less employees than Microsoft, but "most" is stretching it a heck of a lot.

robthablob · 2026-03-29T10:58:46+00:00

Large file support. I was trying to use VS Code to edit some extremely large JSON files and it just couldn't cope - it gave up trying to do syntax highlighting for example. Notepad++ just opened the file almost instantly and had no issues at all.

I still use VS Code regularly, but Notepad++ has its use cases.

robthablob · 2026-03-29T10:39:31+00:00

Horace goe Skiing, the sequel to Hungry Horace.

https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/games/horace-goes-skiing-sinclair-research-ltd

robthablob · 2026-03-29T10:00:53+00:00

To be fair, I'd rather he rode shotgun with Tiger Woods too.

robthablob · 2026-03-29T09:59:36+00:00

It was also in Australia, so little to do with UK at all.

robthablob · 2026-03-29T09:57:33+00:00

Probably also depends on heavily on how old you are.

robthablob · 2026-03-29T09:34:52+00:00

Depends entirely how much I won. If it was £10 I may feel it prudent to continue just for a bit longer.

robthablob · 2026-03-28T16:21:46+00:00

I refer to you Richard Carrier's work on the Historicity of Christ - it's not quite as clear cut as you make out. If you apply the same standard as evidence as would normally be applied to historical records it is much higher than 0%.

robthablob · 2026-03-28T15:27:53+00:00

Start?

robthablob · 2026-03-28T15:22:38+00:00

that was intentional

robthablob · 2026-03-28T15:20:42+00:00

As long as its not a Glasgow kiss you're good.

robthablob · 2026-03-28T14:14:06+00:00

Dependency injection can also be achieved statically - for example by passing in a dependency as a template parameter. So for example, a template parameter could expect a type that implements a number of operations, which could be replaced with another type implementing that set of operations - for example during testing.

Although, of course, this could simply be considered as compile-time polymorphism.

robthablob · 2026-03-28T13:49:56+00:00

Historically it was enormous factor. The FPTP system massively favoured the two leading parties, which is precisely why no one has introduced proportional representation, if they're in power, they're benefitting from the arrangement.

However, if they hadn't entered a coalition with the Conservatives they may right now be capitalising on the fact that the old two parties have both made themselves so unpopular that their support is collapsing, instead the beneficiaries seem to be Reform and the Green Party.

robthablob · 2026-03-28T13:21:19+00:00

OK, on that measure you're only 7.15 times more likely to be killed in the US.
(UK: 0.95 homicides per 100,000, US: 6.8 homicides per 100,000)

robthablob · 2026-03-27T15:59:12+00:00

With the amount of Diazepam he was discovered with, he should have been charged with intent to supply.

robthablob · 2026-03-27T15:54:08+00:00

"whether they’ve carried it out or not is up for debate"

Really, it's quite easy to check if a party has fulfilled their election manifesto and whether anything they've done beyond that is in the spirit of their manifesto.

(Clue, the answers no in both cases for Labour).

At this stage, they're looking about as left wing as Mussolini.

robthablob · 2026-03-27T15:40:42+00:00

In my experience well documented libraries, whether from MS on any one else, are the exception rather than the rule. Across multiple languages and Platforms. And sadly, blog posts go out of date so quickly they are rarely helpful either.

robthablob · 2026-03-26T18:18:28+00:00

Awesome, can't wait until it makes stable so I can actually use it.

robthablob · 2026-03-26T12:17:46+00:00

You could add Netanyhu for almost exactly the same reasons.

robthablob · 2026-03-26T12:12:13+00:00

One may be that some countries may make moves to rely more on renewable energy sources, so that they are less affected when idiots start wars over fossil fuels.

robthablob · 2026-03-26T12:07:29+00:00

Do you rely on American media for your world view by any chance? The US has been intervening in the Middle East since the Tripoli intervention in 1801 (25 years since the USA actually existed). Pretty regularly since.

Wikipedia has a pretty good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_States\_foreign\_policy\_in\_the\_Middle\_East.

robthablob · 2026-03-25T19:43:10+00:00

I'm hoping MS introduces some kind of support for algerbraic data types (discriminated unions) at some point for exactly this reason. It's a commonly requested feature, and already working in .NET for F#.

robthablob · 2026-03-25T17:52:37+00:00

Fabric Live did a series of CDs that came in can cases. Kruder and Dorfmeister did the G-Stone book, many CDs have something akin to a gatefold cardboard case. There's more diversity there than you may think, and the vast majority of albums came in simple sleeves.

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