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@bigcalm I've preferred keyboards without numeric pads for many years now, starting with an old IBM PS/2 model intended for server cabinets. They're widely available these days, described as "tenkeyless". On the rare occasions I have to go into the office, I find myself bashing the mouse against the side of the keyboard where I expect the numeric pad not to be.
Afternoon Play board games, March 2024
https://mobilizon.envs.net/events/4c6f4d5e-9279-4dfa-bc0a-2a7f29586c6b
Afternoon Play board games, February 2024
https://mobilizon.envs.net/events/ffabd345-7381-466c-bfcb-54020c869289
@dracos I wish they'd label the platforms northbound/southbound, etc., as well as just "Towards Bury" or whatever, though. Visitors typically do not have a mental map of Greater Manchester, and don't think hoping to find one of these paper maps should be mandatory.
@dracos I think this is new problem: I don't get a sensible error message if there's a typo or misspelling in a station name, e.g., https://traintimes.org.uk/bhm/borneville/15:45/today (I'm never certain how to spell Harbourn or Borneville)
Used the official National Rail Online Journey Planner today, while https://traintimes.org.uk/ briefly wasn't working. You'd think in the last two decades they might have caught up on ease of use, but nope.
@sil Are you organising a pub crawl this year, and will it be on Wednesday?
@rythie Taking a photo of a screen showing the purchase details would do it, too.
@sil Even if it was somehow true, what would you do about it? Break your function into lots and lots of smaller functions, which you then call from... another multi-line function?!
Afternoon Play board games, January 2024
https://mobilizon.envs.net/events/ad3eda4b-86ff-47e0-8610-af4c065460fe
@jameswallis Re your article in today’s Telegraph, Trivial Pursuit is good now?! What was the fix?
@rythie ...Although, novelty aside, I don't get the use-case for an e-scooter over an e-bike for most people.
@rythie I wonder what the reason is. Vested interests? A lack of imagination? A desire to save the car industry? Bikes perceived as being for weirdos? A reluctance to admit we should have started building cycle lanes decades ago, or admit that we should be building them at all?
@heydon When charities ask you to tick the gift aid box on their donation forms, they always forget to mention that there'll be an exam on it eighteen months later.
@bigcalm I'm a bit mystified by this. Who has half a day for kneading and rising, but not ten seconds to measure a teaspoon of salt and another of yeast?
@sil Here Comes the Summer by The Fiery Furnaces: take your pick from the last day in May, the 29th of March, or July the 3rd. https://youtube.com/watch?v=n6FDrlOGLzw