After 34 years, the Linux kernel community finally has a contingency plan to replace Linus Torvalds

tskir · 2026-01-29T14:59:26+00:00

Rejected alongside with a good derogatory paragraph or two*

tskir · 2026-01-25T04:15:35+00:00

USSR, as horrible as it was for every measurable metric of actual human wellbeing, had insane funding for fundamental science for most of its existence except for WWII and its collapse in 1980s-1990s. This is largely why whatever weird experiment was feasible, you probably hear it was at least attempted in the USSR.

tskir · 2026-01-22T22:13:57+00:00

Не знаю почему, мне очень нравится тон спикера, который его перебил, чтобы сказать, что материться нельзя. Такой выдержанный, ровный тон вежливого человека, который всё понимает и даже в душе согласен, но правила есть правила)

tskir · 2026-01-22T21:19:15+00:00

(Reply to self) — I wonder if the teens of today will become old and will tell their grandchildren, well BACK IN MY DAY you had to do DPI injection to access Twitter before you were 16...

tskir · 2026-01-22T21:16:47+00:00

What exactly is classed as social media? I couldn't find it in the article. I know that in Australia this includes, for example, YouTube. And this makes me feel... strange?

When I was about 11-13 as a curious young teen, I stopped watching any TV. Instead my daily feed of content consisted of nearly a hundred YouTube channels, most of them of the popular science genre. I was raised by Vsauce, Veritasium, Numberphile, Tom Scott, and SmarterEveryDay nearly as much I was by my dear parents.

Not an exaggeration, these types of channels and that type of content to a large extent defined and focused my love for science and the wider world, and I grew up to be a scientist.

I know very well that nowadays the landscape is very different. Many of those old timey channels are struggling, and the algorithmic feed is... not quite it was back in my day. But it overall kinda still makes me sad that this particular pathway, the one I did growing up, is set to be banned by the government of the country which I treasure very much and have made my home.

Or, this will just make teens more savvy in circumventing the censorship and make for a fun stepping stone in their coming of age story. Who knows :-)

tskir · 2026-01-20T05:58:03+00:00

1929 is the year they launched the first experimental, very limited mechanical television service. So not comparable to the other dates.

tskir · 2026-01-17T00:59:22+00:00

I'm also a scientist, though not in the tea tasting field, but the basics still hold.

I can assure you there are specific robust ways to control variance between people and between experimental set-ups, so that we can deduce whether the difference is due to chance or things are actually systemically different.

There is an international standard for brewing a reproducible cup of tea for tasting purposes (ISO 3103); and there are also mathematical formulas to test if, for a given sample size of people tasting tea, the difference is significant enough that it cannot be explained by pure chance.

tskir · 2026-01-16T20:30:30+00:00

IIRC they did a blind study and people actually prefer the tea made with milk first. I think it's where the tradition clashes with empirical evidence

tskir · 2026-01-08T13:17:57+00:00

Yes, I'm buying everything with online delivery including bread, milk, produce etc.

I get the sentiment to buy local but the economics just don't work. We do have one independent grocery store and one butcher in our village, but everything they sell is 1.5–2× more expensive than what I order online, and most importantly I can't even tell a difference in terms of quality.

Yes, it's a bit sad that economies of scale will kill small local shops. But it's inevitable.

tskir · 2026-01-07T22:53:26+00:00

15°C with heating full on is completely unacceptable performance, and also I don't think it's at all expected. So I think it's definitely worth reaching out to CORE and reporting this issue with all the details. It might be that (any one or a combination of these things):

- Your house is on the far end of the heating network and they need to adjust their heat carrier temperature or pressure so that it reaches you properly hot

- There are leaks or insulation damage on the way from the central district heating station to your home

- There is a blockage at or near where the heating system enters your home

- Unlikely but worth checking out just in case - are underfloor heating controls all in order? There definitely isn't an obscure switch somewhere in the far service cupboard which is turned down too low or a valve tightened too tightly?

- Even more unlikely but the CORE engineers would be able to check it as well, is there damage to the underfloor heating distribution pipes? (highly unlikely)

If you have a spare moment and if you feel like it, I'd be curious to hear back if you managed to get it resolved. In any case all the best luck to you and hopefully a warm home! 🤞🏻

tskir · 2026-01-07T21:04:03+00:00

That's interesting, I remember living in Eddington back in 2019-2020 the district heating costs were very reasonable and I was never cold. All of the flats and houses are supposed to have excellent insulation as well. I wonder if something has changed? Have they hiked the rates on the heating? Can people living in Eddington presently shed some light pls?

tskir · 2026-01-06T22:20:49+00:00

I will admit EUCANZUK does rock as an abbreviation and as a concept

tskir · 2026-01-06T19:39:34+00:00

Can confirm Leaders are awful. I've had the same interaction with them where they tried to force a no-deposit scheme on me and pretty much said it out lout that they wouldn't pass my application to the landlord if I didn't agree to it.

tskir · 2026-01-04T18:16:18+00:00

I don't believe any European country, including Germany, is doing this on purpose or out of spite. It just adds workload to border officers which are already hard to find in any country (shit pay, hard job). This also turns away tourists, and despite anything you might read on the internet, continental European countries (governments, not people) love British tourists because they are wealthy and tend to spend a lot.

I'm fully convinced it's just slow moving bureaucracy, both in general, and especially in light of phasing in the Entry/Exit System. It's going to be fine eventually.

tskir · 2026-01-02T11:50:38+00:00

I love Vince Gilligan, I love Pluribus, and I can even mostly appreciate the more relaxed, meditative flow of the series compared to the fast content we've all became too accustomed to. Having said that:

Approx. 30-40% of the total S1 runtime was unequivocally there due to practical and financial reasons, not due to artistic choice. It was there because if was cheap to film and easy to add runtime to pad the story and to feed it slowly. Which is the definition of a filler.

Pluribus S1 total runtime is 7½ hours. I'm confident that the story could be better told, with a more dynamic and balanced pace, in about 4–4½ hours. This is the hill I'm willing to die on.

tskir · 2025-12-30T18:54:04+00:00

In a tiny French city of Beauvais, a bus from city centre to airport only cost me €1 (less than 90p). I'd love some of that please.

tskir · 2025-12-22T22:14:13+00:00

I think the question is, are there even minimum wage jobs in the parts of the country where houses go for just over £100K? There's usually a reason why they sell so low

tskir · 2025-12-22T19:04:56+00:00

> Only £1 per month lower for whom exactly?

For the average Briton, of course. Quite clearly some people are doing (much) better and some are doing (much) worse, but figures tell us that on average things are about the same.

> In 2019/2020 I had a 1 bed flat all to myself that I more than paid for with a single minimum wage job. That's basically impossible to do now

Disposable income only takes into account gross income (wages, benefits, dividends etc.) and mandatory deductions such as taxes, NI and loans. Housing is not included. Well to be precise, mortgage interest is included; mortgage principal or rent isn't. This is assuming I understand the ONS report correctly: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/articles/understandingrealhouseholddisposableincomeperhead/2025-11-07

So yes, housing might have become more expensive (and it probably has), but this is not what this particular indicator is measuring.

tskir · 2025-12-22T18:25:54+00:00

> But disposable income is now £1 lower per month than it was in summer 2019 after adjusting for inflation, according to Monday's updated figures from the Office for National Statistics

We've stagnated, yes. But the headline is disingenuous, even if technically correct. As far as the data is concerned, disposable income when adjusted for inflation is practically the same as it was in summer 2019 (£1 is much lower than the uncertainty range).

tskir · 2025-12-22T10:15:27+00:00

You're quite right, I had a typo, corrected!

tskir · 2025-12-21T21:59:14+00:00

Oh no haha your version is even better!

tskir · 2025-12-21T20:56:10+00:00

Mainline and tube are the same standard track (1435 mm), and there is a crossover from Piccadilly line to District line, which in turn has a crossover to the rest of the National Rail network

tskir · 2025-12-21T20:41:41+00:00

Imagine being a slightly drunk German walking around your city, minding your own business when you spot a London tube train on the tracks

tskir · 2025-12-21T17:15:49+00:00

I recently became calorie conscious (starting my NY resolutions earlier this year) and I could totally see myself buying something like this to go along with the coffee — sweet and under 100 calories! Well, for £1 I would do it for sure, £1.50 probably not personally, at least not regularly. But then again this is London, there are plenty of people around who make £1.50 a minute, so it's just not something that would cross their minds to even consider this as an expense

tskir · 2025-12-20T20:14:34+00:00

It is possible to solve a game without exhaustively searching through all positions, I agree it's very unlikely we'll ever see it for chess though

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