Notices by Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)

@MediaActivist A good way to ensure that more people remain "fit for work" might be to stop pretending that covid has gone away and stop pretending that long covid doesn't exist.

@dj_cthulhu @Jgmeadows They used to make all the computer chips but these have come from the far East for some time now.

@grumpyoldtechie @jxrxme @pierstoval @djlink In the UK the only usage of "cup" as a measure for food that I've ever heard is "borrow a cup of sugar" as an excuse for going round to chat up the fit looking new neighbour. Yes I know they're on those measuring jugs but they're not in UK recipes so I've never had reason to use them.

@idbrii @pierstoval @grumpyoldtechie @jxrxme There is that. A cup of sugar is reasonably well defined, but flour? - how hard do you pack it down?

And I've never understood how you're supposed to measure a cup of butter. I guess if you've got a whole churn full in your dairy you can scoop it out, but if all you 've got is those blocks from the supermarket?

@jxrxme @pierstoval @djlink Mine aren't, and yours may not be. But I gather that USA recipes are targeted at people who buy "measuring cups" and "measuring spoons" which *are* all of the same size.

@rotopenguin @tokensane @gavin57 @CaffeinatedBookDragon @cstross @Oggie @pluralistic Not a problem in the UK - we don't need AC.

@gavin57 @CaffeinatedBookDragon @cstross @Oggie @pluralistic Thing about a dumb wired thermostat is that you can't turn the temperature up remotely a day or two before you return home.

I've wired a smart relay in parallel with the dumb thermostat so that I can do that. We'll see if it works in a couple of weeks.

@tokensane @gavin57 @CaffeinatedBookDragon @cstross @Oggie @pluralistic My dumb thermostat has a prediction feature! - there's a resistor in it which heats up faster than the radiator and turns the heating off before the radiators overheat. Unbelievably crude, but they've been making the same device for several decades so someone must think it works.

This resistor is however the reason that someone bothered to run a neutral wire to the thermostat, so there was a neutral available where I tapped into the cable, which is good because the smart relay needs a neutral.

I'm controlling the smart relay with a #HomeAssistant virtual thermostat run from a temperature sensor in the living room (as compared to the dumb thermostat which is in the hall, which we have no particular desire to heat). Left to itself it keeps the temperature to within 0.1°C. But it's not always left to itself, eg if the cooker is on the temperature overshoots.

@inthehands Go on, then, let's see a noughts and crosses game coded purely in HTML - if it can't be done it's not a programming language.

@FranceskaMann @anarchistquotes @Radical_EgoCom I have plenty of other things higher up my list of things to think about. *Nobody* can think about *everything*, there's just too much "everything". And the world wouldn't work as well if we all thought about the same things and we all ignored the same other things.

@Radical_EgoCom @anarchistquotes Ah! Meta-squabbling! - Luvverly!!

@Radical_EgoCom @anarchistquotes I don't have any perception of Marxism other than that lefties are always squabbling with each other (there was even a film scene about it), which I don't think you can claim is "incorrect" with a straight face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4

@Radical_EgoCom @anarchistquotes In which case *everybody* "chooses ignorance" about *most* things. Which is a somewhat obvious, and therefore not interesting, observation.

@Radical_EgoCom @anarchistquotes I choose to prioritise my finite bandwidth for learning things in other directions, that's all.

@Radical_EgoCom @anarchistquotes If I heard "dictatorship of the proletariat" I would think "Trots squabbling amongst themselves, BAU for them, none of my business" and I would get on with something else having felt no need at all to educate myself about the various factions of lefties.

@aei What pisses me off is having to show a boarding pass to be allowed to buy a bar of chocolate in an airport. WTGAF is that about??

@dalias @robpike Yes well, my web site has dropdowns for dates because I'm too lazy to write any decent validation, but at least it almost always defaults to the date that the punter wants.

@dalias @robpike Isn't it an ancient attempt at a security device, harking back to the days (last century?) when there were malware thingies called "key loggers" which could capture what you typed in a text box but couldn't capture what you selected in a scrolling widget?

@pvonhellermannn It exists. How can one not "believe in" it?

@ChrisMayLA6 @PaniczGodek Once Upon A Time mortgages were regulated and limited to three times salary.

Guess what houses cost then? Yup, you've got it, three times salary.