JdeBP

This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by JdeBP (npub1f22…ltwj).

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2026-04-12 08:11:39 UTC

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I regularly, many years ago, reversed a car with a trailer. And I had visibility out of the rear window. I've also reversed light vans where there are only mirrors.
I can only imagine how careful one has to be to reverse one of those things without jack-knifing. Around a bend and on an incline, too.
Looks like xe mounted the verge a bit, from that soil trail, and then took the outside of the bend for best visibility.
10 minutes seems about right. (-:
#ArticulatedLorries #HGVs

2025-12-18 12:00:23 UTC

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Sans context, I'd merely venture something along the lines of "Stop there immediately, sir!" as a translation into English. (-:
#EnglishLanguage

2025-07-06 18:20:40 UTC

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It is a shame that neither
> Resolve-DnsName -Name where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io -Type LOC
nor
> nslookup -type=loc where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io
work.
Not even @npub1sd9…279m 's Resolve-Dns supports the LOC resource record type.
Although I suspect that might be the Windows tool that gains support the most quickly, just for the bragging rights of being able to show an ISS LOC record in Windows when no-one else can. (-:
#PowerShell #DNS #MicrosoftWindows #nslookup

2025-01-15 14:18:18 UTC

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Humphry Davy called it "aluminum" in 1812, and Noah Webster stuck with that spelling in his 1828 dictionary. It was the original spelling, bar Davy's abortive attempt of "alumium"
"aluminium" came from French and German chemists, and there's an amusing 1891 account of English chemists resisting "foreign" interference and sticking with "aluminum" until 1827 when German chemist Friedrich Wöhler published the Wöhler process and the German spelling took hold in England.
#chemistry

2024-12-06 06:14:47 UTC

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People focus overmuch on bank costs.
I was hit by the problem of restrictions on taking cash out of my account last year, and it was only when the manager took me aside and asked me whether someone had told me to lie about why I needed the money (which was to pay a landscaping contractor) that I realised that I looked to them like an old person victimized by a telephone scammer.
They are *also* trying to protect us from scammers and dodgy traders.
#banking

2024-10-29 18:20:02 UTC

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There is *so much* that I almost don't know where to start. Even sticking solely to Names (Asimov, Baxter, Bova, Clarke, Harrison, Heinlein, Herbert, Niven, and so on) could keep you going for years. And there is so much beyond them.
This being the FediVerse, I shall however explicitly recommend James Tiptree Jr's Brightness Falls From The Air.
#SciFi

2024-10-10 00:30:23 UTC

The new deck mode in the #Mastodon WWW UI is awful.
How they've gone for collapsing various things to make them consume less real estate, and narrowing scrollbars, and yet ended up with being overall *wider* than before, is ridiculous.

2024-08-30 04:33:49 UTC

One of these days I'll read how #Mastodon works internally; but my educated guess is that a post going into the local timeline is basically a no-op, as constructing the local timeline is an exercise in querying all statuses in descending date order and filtering by mute/block/visibility/origin requirements; whereas a post going out to peer nodes and into home timelines needs a background mechanism to work out the complexities of who exactly needs to be fed what.

2024-08-24 07:45:30 UTC

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The #Mastodon-branded app has a long-standing reputation for being difficult & for hiding some of the fundamental things about the #FediVerse.
Whether that it still true since last I checked over a year ago, I don't know, but you might want to check out some of the many other reading/posting apps. In some of the better ones, switching between the home, local, & federated timelines is just a simple matter of swiping sideways or picking from a drop-down.
https://hueyy.github.io/awesome-mastodon/#ios

2024-08-13 10:21:13 UTC

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But can you get it to run Elite? (-:
https://universeodon.com/@markmoxon/112938627393744036
#BBCMicroComputer #retrogaming