Honestly, +1 for Nation Builder. Generic isn’t necessarily a problem. It gives space for the gameplay itself to define the game’s identity, rather than its title.

I get that calling command line tools is a bit clunky, but python is always my go-to when shell scripting gets too painful

It takes 60 to pass a cloture motion to actually vote on a bill. This is necessary if somebody in opposition to the bill intends to filibuster. In the modern senate, one can filibuster simply by expressing an intention to filibuster. As such its often the case that a bill with any strong opposition in the senate does require a three fifths majority in favour to pass

Could be a non-native speaker using an LLM to translate with a specific tone

Appreciate the sentiment but can we please stop proscribing things? Surely we should have learned by now that this has an unacceptable effect on freedom of the press and the right to protest.

I do not want to see proscription become a cudgel wielded by successive political parties to ban support for any organisation they oppose.

Could this be the party desperately seeking to replace revenue streams as donors abandon them en masse?

MacOS Requirements: 💵💵💵

Debian 13.

Tried open suse, but on my laptop it was slow and loud and the battery would die almost instantly (had to make it hibernate rather than suspend if I wanted it to make it through the night).

Installed Debian 13 and it feels like a new laptop. Not sure what exactly made the difference between the two but I’m not complaining…

Probably not. Same way that increasing employers NI contributions will have led to slower wage growth (its too early to tell for sure I think)

Before we all jump ship to linux phones, is it possible that custom android ROMs can remove this feature?

I was referring to the text at the bottom of the press release:

By signing the petition you take a stand against a false narrative that downplays Africa’s vast size and diversity as the second-largest continent, reducing its perceived importance in global politics and economics. You can correct the narrative.

It seems to single out Africa because this campaign is led by Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa. I just thought it was amusing that the campaign text mentions Africa repeatedly but only indirectly mentions south america when referring to the global south.

Firstly, I do think that projections which enlarge Europe and north America relative to the global south are a problem and every curriculum should include education about how this happens and what the world really looks like.

But also, kinda funny how this project is very specifically about fairness for Africa. Why not include south America in there too?

To put this into context: Labour currently has an estimated 300,000 members, a figure which seems to be declining rapidly. (Its hard to get exact figures since they stopped publicising them…)

Obviously there’s a much lower barrier to entry here, but for that many people to be that engaged already is frankly astounding to me

Just about to head out for 3 nights on Dartmoor to celebrate the recent ruling in favour of wild camping. Makes me sad to read articles like this.

I think these stories are particularly worth bearing in mind when people say that British livestock is raised on marginal land that couldn’t grow crops. Even if that were largely true, it doesn’t mean we should shove a sheep on every square inch of land that can’t be ploughed.

The problem isn’t the reward for becoming an MP, it’s the cost of campaigning. Candidates are expected to put up £10-30k of their own money to contest a seat. Some spend considerably more.

Personally, I don’t think paying MPs more will do much harm, but it won’t fix any of the problems with the quality of the politicians we get.

You know, the more I think about this, the more I bristle at Dyson claiming this will solve Britain’s food security problem.

Firstly, this kind of system seems limited to small cash crops rather than staple foods. (Good luck growing wheat on these.)

More importantly, Dyson has personally done far more to harm British food security than this gadget could offset. He was an ardent Brexiteer, which resulted in substantial barriers to importing food from our closest neighbors. (He also then immediately started relocating his business to Singapore in a stunning show of confidence in post-Brexit Britain)

These people don’t want to save the world. They just want to look like heroes

Yes, but it’s still competing with a field full of dirt. So the value add has to be pretty substantial to justify any cost.

Not saying I disagree, but out of curiosity I looked up the yield of a conventional strawberry field, which is apparently 15-25 tons per hectare, or 11-18% of your threshold.

I agree that this would likely never be economically viable for strawberries, as I imagine it’d cost way more than £1M for a “hectares worth” of this setup.

More importantly, I don’t consider strawberries vital to our food security, unlike Dyson

Seems like a pretty fun language with an unfortunate amount of 90s baggage.

However, I firmly believe that trying to de-parenthesise lisp is a distraction. The main reason being that s-expressions make the beloved code=data concept very obvious.

A suitable editor makes it really easy to ignore the parens (until they’re useful, e.g. for navigation). When reading, the structure of the code is inferred from indentation and line breaks. Just like C.

I think the article said CVLR would be battery powered to eliminate the need for overhead cables. I’m not saying I believe it is worse than e.g. and electric bus. But even the company producing it seems to struggle to articulate its advantages.

The reason I care is because I really want more trams in English towns/cities. But not if it’s a pared down version that gives the entire concept a bad image