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- paul_h parentisolated-vm (https://www.npmjs.com/package/isolated-vm) here we come for increased sandboxing of node bits and pieces? And we are a year after Java took out the security manager that could sandbox jars in separate classloaders - a standout feature since 1995.
- Diverged as well as standardized. I did some research into "out of pocket" and how it differs in meaning in UK-English (paying from one's own funds) and American-English (uncontactable) and I recall 1908 being the current thought as to when the divergence happened: 1908 short story by O. Henry titled "Buried Treasure."
- My sister in law has a stem cell transplant under this team https://sheffield.ac.uk/neuroscience-institute/research/brea... for Multiple Sclerosis. It was a small multi-country trial of about 100 people, I recall. This was nine years ago and she counts herself as cured, though to has a follow up once a year with the same team. The treatment is expensive, and though this was all UK National-Health-Service linked, the NHS is seeking cheaper MS treatments now: https://www.mssociety.org.uk/research/latest-research/latest... (Metformin, ALA, ?) There was a trial before this trial - some 20 people in Canada (?) and a couple died. In the 100 person trial they changed the selection criteria for patients, and I'd like to think nobody died cos of the treatment, but I've not heard anything to be able to add a figure. Its Mexico only now perhaps, people did self-fund to go to Moscow for the same treatment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54560236. These two ladies are not updating how it went for them, years later, but one is on Instagram living a normal life, and the other Facebook
- Ask AI number 2 to summarize the intention (look at the .patch) to markdown. Reset. Ask you AI to read the intention as of the orig author had written it, and say you've grave doubts about the contrib's functionally and non-functionally and for it to help you put that into words to feel back to the contributor. Basically the playbook from https://paulhammant.com/images/SimonSinghsFermatExcerpt.jpg
- That book is new to me. I wrote https://paulhammant.com/2013/05/07/android-and-the-art-of-wa... on Google vs MSFT and phones before the book. Mine's a perspective that doesn't mention Nokia or its leadership.
I did own a Treo and loved it up to the OG iPhone - I repaired the eff out of it in the hope that something worthy would come along. I kidded myself I would write apps for it. I'd previously played with Simbian tech (and met a very bitter Simbian team dev in London one "eXtreme Tuesday Club" meetup in 2003). I had a Psion Organizer way back and Palm pilot. I thought Palm's WebOS stood a chance. I still own a Ubuntu Phone that I don't use - single script QML apps would have been the killer, but all that's passed now.
- A more up to date fork? https://github.com/onlinedj/QRV (last commit 4 yrs ago)
- At this stage, agency must either:
Option A: Return the deposit themselves immediately (since they claim to be mere intermediaries, surely they can recoup from their client)
Option B: Provide full landlord details AND actively facilitate the return by compelling their client to comply with the law
The pdf-forgery and the back and forth with the agency is huge shaming fun, but the deposit is the goal.
- Thank you for TaOS, Chris. 1991 give or take. There's scans of byte mag from back them, but here's one article as words not a PNG - https://sites.google.com/site/dicknewsite/home/computing/byt... (dick pountain's pages - The Taos Operating System (1991))
- Alpha and shipped too early - spot on. My personal strategy is to adopt at the last moment I absolutely have to. I know Dan, and liked the article, but I feel he ended it too early. The Passkeys leads don't have a solid website with an FAQ from a non-technical end user point of view and it is desperately needed.
- Dr Sean Mullen on Twitter "there are now over 500,000 studies on the consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection" - https://x.com/drseanmullen/status/1924960793264525772 *IF* that's true - yeesh!
- England has small accent shifts every 25 mins (the other audible accent / http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7843058.stm) - the situation you describe is two communication orders more complicated than that!
- Original Author should have put 4 lines atop each source with then as copyright holder. https://github.com/sohzm/cheating-daddy/blob/master/LICENSE#.... I sometimes make GPL and forget that bit too
- From a few weeks ago - https://civileats.com/2025/06/11/honey-bees-learn-to-fight-d....
- Topical: "How I Built an Open Source AI Tool to Find My Autoimmune Disease (After $100k and 30+ Hospital Visits) - Now Available for Anyone to Use" --> https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1ij6619/how_i_built...
I'm in the UK. As well as doctors making mistakes, they can be under direction diagnosing critera. The UK has had a multi-year struggle for people with ME/CFS, (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). It falls under neurology in the UK, and a sub-chapter neuro-psychiatry has the ear of the national health service's supremos, and has historically entertained an "all in the mind" approach. I digress. Back to AI and medicine again: https://x.com/vipintukur/status/1931049593535627417 - insights can come from that quarter, and medicine is going to have to play catch up at times.
- An edu piece on Google style monorepos - https://github.com/paul-hammant/google-monorepo-sim and video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L67ri_xe2oQ - showing how their Piper would work for slimming checkouts (git sparse checkout for the sim).
I go into the DAG-centric nature of Google's in my video, and that was one of the reasons for making it and the sim repo.
I did at the outset think that the Google way lead to faster builds. It could could be with parallel step execution and a build cache is setup, but I don't think it is significantly different in a vanilla serial mode.
Perhaps there's another benefit - slimming a monorepo to feed to a coding AI, in order to bring down tokens needed for a task.
I've WIP for a C# module, but I'm stuck on some fine-grained setup for 'vstest'. I also asked Google's Jules agent to migrate one of the depended-on modules to Kotlin, and it has been 24 hours now, with it assuring me that it hasn't stalled.
- Copilot suggests:
I don't know why it's suggesting `neilpang` though, as he no longer has a fork.docker run --rm \ -v /srv/mywebsite/certs:/acme.sh/certs \ -v /srv/mywebsite/public/.well-known/acme- challenge:/acme-challenge \ neilpang/acme.sh --issue \ --webroot /acme-challenge \ -d yourdomain.com \ --cert-file /acme.sh/certs/cert.pem \ --key-file /acme.sh/certs/key.pem \ --fullchain-file /acme.sh/certs/fullchain.pem - I just used Mermaid for multiple sequence diagrams from build-steps sequences in a video talk I did on comparing build systems - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L67ri_xe2oQ (slides - https://paulhammant.com/google-style-dag-build-systems/). The new boost for me was GPT4o. It was able to quickly make what I wanted from the build logs alone, though it took some hand tweaking too. A new (or very old) problem after that was not taking sufficient save points (URL bookmarks) and sometimes making the same edit twice cos I'd lost a URL. That there was a second save of the PNG form for each (https://kroki.io/mermaid/svg/...) added to the keep-track-of-changes problem for me, especially when I'm very tired me :(
- Great tech - thanks for your pioneering work. I made https://vsm-book.com/app as a tool to support a meeting and leave a lasting artifact. WebSequenceDiagrams (and https://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/ which also credits yours) was very much in my mind, though my grammer is much less elegant.
- Someone else made the same - https://github.com/Paul-Browne/HTMLInclude - but it's not been updated in 7 years, leaving questions. I'll try yours and theirs in due course. Err, and the fragment @HumanOstrich said elsewhere in comments.