It's a merge sort. In C. I... But it... But... Okay, nicely done. https://youtube.com/shorts/-zEDLdeyJnc

Today I saw someone toot, in dismay, people are posting their everyday life to Mastodon when they could simply buy a diary for $1.99. I can't stop thinking about this. What if this is all they have? What if they're isolated with or without people in their life? What if the only kind word they […]

Interesting. I've noticed that Rocky (one of @[email protected]'s mum's cats) is particularly rubbish at grooming his left flank, and wondered if this was correlated with a leftward bias in his flopping habits... RE: https://mstdn.science/users/CurrentBiology/statuses/115315862137193323

Evicted a slug from the kitchen. I suppose it makes up for the lack of camping trips this year...

Just finished a 3-hour bumblefuckery epic uninstalling the old hot water cylinder (managed it in the end, but my pipe cutter died for the cause). So it must be time to catch up with @[email protected]'s heat pump saga...

Btw, I made a meme back then, but I lost it, so I made a new one:

Please don't toot quotations from fascist morons for us all to condemn together. I'm on Mastodon to *avoid* reading what fascist morons say. I'm really distraught that the Internet has given them a voice. They belong back in their photocopied 80s skinhead fanzines. #fascism

I've previously muttered about how people born before about 1970 shouldn't be allowed to use electricity without supervision. I'm revising this statement to include 'nails'. (Why yes, I did just remove a mystery piece of wood from the airing cupboard and discover a nail through the cable […]

Citation needed. RE: https://mastodon.social/users/simple_sabotage/statuses/115249390807551409

This is why you don't use LED bulbs in ovens

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Advice / recommendations please I need a simple site to host images to upload onto my Mataroa blog site. It needs to be mobile friendly. It must not require images to be downsized before uploading. The output URL must work with Mataroa (or Bear blog etc) Storage of images for at least 6months […]

I also saw the article, and thought there was a word missing. Can't quite put my finger on it... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87ydw7xdxvo RE: https://mastodon.social/users/plaguepoems/statuses/115215497401039392

I've reached the age where my joints ache on cold damp days and seriously, this is bullshit. How do my joints even know what the weather's doing anyway? My hips are completely surrounded by soggy meat at constant body temperature, how do they even know what the weather's like outside?

Beware the laundry goblin! #caturday #cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour

In #hpv news, this amazing video of Yesterday's attempt by the #bhpc's Russell Bridge to set a new British record at the World Human Powered Speed Challenge currently taking place at Battle Mountain, Nevada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsQWaNPOec4 The potatovision is a capture from his […]

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

There is a woman in this carnage (on the train) who has just taken the seat apart to recover a lost earbud, really, I am not making this up. She borrowed a multi tool from a fellow passenger... Now she is trying to put it back together again...

Just got round to playing with a set of Schwalbe CLIK valves. As hoped, these are a game changer for disc (in the aerodynamic rather than braking sense) wheels, where you need a narrow right-angle head to fit through the hole in the disc. The positive click action requires surprisingly little […]

We are in a period in history that, if there is more history after the now, will provide future historians with a slow drip of COINTELPRO-like horrors to expose and discover for decades to come. For every disgusting policy out on the open there are dozens happening in secret. It will take […]

Your mother paints roundabouts and your father shouts at hotels.

CURSING the PATRIARCHY every time I, a tall man, have to mop the floor with this CRAP SHORT MOP made for TINY WOMEN and not GANGLY MEN so it makes me BEND OVER and HURT MY BACK Introducing MANMOPS™, MOPS FOR MEN® The Invention: Same as other mops but six inches longer so you don't have to bend […]

When your code works but no idea how

What a triumph for SpaceX. Fabulous demonstration just how much an engineering team can achieve in a mere six months of not having Elon hanging around.

#bhpc double-bill at Darley Moor tomorrow. Looks like one day of decent weather, and one day of scorchio with hairdrier crosswind on the straight. It''ll be interesting to see how I cope with a 3-hour race in the heat. Normally I do well at those on account of superior bladder control, but I'm […]

I've decided I hate tiling more than I hate plastering. They're both messy, wreck your hands and exhaustingly physical. And the results are always slightly disappointing. But it's much easier to bodge things with plaster when the walls turn out to be non-euclidean...

I read Day of the Triffids at a formative age, and have always been wary of doing things that everyone else is suddenly doing. As such, I've never read Harry Potter, or learned how Sudoku works, and have been careful to avoid Walkers Crisps since they started frying them in that special oil […]

Just got an new ant guide "Ants of Britain and Europe" ... ... did ya'll brexit the ANTS too???

Apropos of nothing in particular, I've just noticed the upside-down Union Flag on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T72TopWbXJg

I propose replacing calories with watt-hours. - Almost same value (1 kilocalorie / Calorie is ~1.1 watt-hours) - more intuitive for people who use electricity - never the confusing between calories (science), Calories (food, which is technically kilocalories), kilocalories, and 'kilo Calories' […]

South Birmingham has been suffering from an outbreak of England flags. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/defiant-weoley-campaigner-defends-england-32265869 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyj4y8vq7vo That's all very nice, but it doesn't stop me feeling like I'm going to […]

This is a good optical illusion.

Kiddo: why do you put the full year with "20" at the front when you sign the school forms? Me: _thousand-yard Y2K stare_

I can hear bagpipes...

A conversation elsewhere has reminded me of this bracelet I once saw in Spitalfields market

Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

Hey, Linux people: a LOT of folks are screaming off Windows right now. Be. Kind. To. Them. They don't know much yet, so they are going to ask really basic questions. If you're KIND, you might get some to give it a try and stick to it bc they know they can ask for help. If you're unkind, you're […]

“Oh. Oh, no” “What?” “I think this is a simulation.” “What is?” “THIS. Everything. The universe. Us.” “What, like _The_Matrix_” “Yea, but not as trans.” “Wait, the Matrix is trans?” “Where have you been. Anyway, Simulation panic!” “How can you tell” “I’m thinking about aliens. Like, if […]

Giffgaff are doing a 100GB/month for £10 SIM deal for UK students. A student appears to be anyone with a .ac.uk email address. Use/abuse at your discretion, #ukhe folk.... https://www.giffgaff.com/students

Rocky is also Too Hot, but less so than yesterday...

Went for a hilly bike ride in the Peak District. This was a mistake.

This is all true, and you might reasonably assume that the flip side of this is that our houses do an amazing job of retaining heat in winter. I can assure you that this is very much not the case: They were designed for open fires and leak like a sieve. As a bonus, attempts to rectify this […]

Skye says it's too hot. 🐱

Today's earworm, courtesy of Pulp: ♫ _Buy a PC from Gateway 2000, won't it be cool that the case looks like a coooow..._ ♫

Yeah, that's not supposed to be like that. Trimmed the wires back and re-terminated. Maybe that'll stop the thermal cut-out tripping. #notmyimmersionheater

Visiting @redcognito@eldritch.cafe. There's an unexpected void in our bed...

I just invoked `ht://dig` as the benchmark for uselessly bad search engines, and thought to check whether it still exists. Last release was in 2004, which makes me feel old. But the 'introduction paragraph' has aged like a fine wine: > The ht://Dig system is a complete world wide web indexing […]

#alttextheroes RE: https://discuss.systems/users/dan/statuses/114989515907458444