The only difference between alpha and release is the fixes needed to get through a sales demo.

Regex, the write only language.

tar --help

The home page doesn’t even mention Apple or Mac at all.

Ah, if only it was a server room and not a customer 3 hours drive away. And he’d closed and gone home for the night.

Fortunately it just needed a reboot, and I was able to talk him through that in the morning.

Nice barcode you have there. Be a shame if somebody took any leading zeroes off.

Nice Int64 you have there. Be a shame if somebody rounded it to 14 significant digits.

Google’s AI gives it as:

The length of the German-Italian border depends on how you define the border. Here are two ways to consider it:

Total land border: This includes the main border between the two countries, as well as the borders of enclaves and exclaves. This length is approximately 811 kilometers (504 miles).

Land border excluding exclaves and enclaves: This only considers the main border between the two countries, neglecting the complicated enclaves and exclaves within each country’s territory. This length is approximately 756 kilometers (470 miles).

It’s important to note that the presence of exclaves and enclaves creates some interesting situations where the border crosses back and forth within the same territory. Therefore, the definition of “border” can influence the total length reported.

Or is all just LLMs summarising the same badly translated source.

Surely it would be better to get to a multi-storey car park? Can’t be followed by helicopter. Lots of vehicles to transfer to, or stash to money in to return to later.

A highway seems a great way to get caught. Limited exits. Very visible.

Ok, that works, ta.

Strange how just setting the default doesn’t.

I have a Pixel 7, and random things open in Chrome.

You are spreading lies.

Where do you do that? There’s only an option for Default Browser as far as I can see, and that’s set to Firefox.

And opening most links in Android apps still opens them in Chrome, even if Firefox is your default browser.

Time for Android to get the EU treatment.

I don’t understand environments that don’t wrap things in transactions by default.

Especially since an update or delete without a where clause is considered valid.

My PC went through a phase of switching off when you accessed the network share with my pictures on it.

I could access it locally. I could use other network shares.

It stopped doing that when I swapped the PSU.

Fuck computers, I want to live in a cave.

I think the worst thing about PHP is all the ancient tutorials that litter the web like landmines. SQL injections everywhere.

And there’s way too many low-budget wannabe web developers who know just enough to blow their own feet off. Or more likely whoever paid for its feet, because that web dev will be nowhere to be seen a week after handing it over.

Octopus. I think the plan is just called Agile Octopus.

I think the price goes up over winter, so might be worth switching in and out of it depending on the time of year.

Yeah, but how is it for older games? Because last I looked there were games that wouldn’t even run on it.

I’d love to see Intel compete properly but AMD/ATI and nVidia have been fixing broken games at the driver level for decades now, and I doubt even Intel can catch up with that.

I switched to a half hourly tracker earlier this year. So it’s like 10-15p/kWh (and sometimes as low as negative so they pay you to use the electricity) and jumping to 30-40p between 4pm and 7pm.

As someone working from home with pretty much constant electricity use all day, it’s saved me tons.

Or because you must have been Hitler in a previous life and now have to use Delphi, which sometimes falls over with internal compiler errors that might resolve themselves, but sometimes needs an IDE restart, and sometimes a full machine reboot with no rhyme or fucking reason to any of it.