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I’m evaluating the usability of GitHub merge queues under a set of conditions that makes merge queues hard: pull requests have a high probability of failing CI when merged together despite passing on their own. (Plus, GitHub’s implementation has like 11 different knobs, and the documentation is somewhat limited.) I could make a bunch of PRs on my own, but that’s boring, and I’m not good at finding edge cases …

Hundreds of babies have begun to be tested for over 200 rare genetic conditions as part of a world-leading study in NHS hospitals that aims to screen up to 100,000 newborns in England. The pioneering study aims to identify conditions such as metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) in babies sooner, and could enable hundreds to benefit from […]

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Singular Joys is a series of short-form blogs that highlight a single element of a game that has surprised, intrigued, or delighted me. It’s the best bit of something, distilled into 500 words or less. Ghost Squad is everything you could want from a lightgun shooter. Its action is chaotic, its shooting is sublime, and its terrorist antagonists are profoundly – beautifully! – dumb. Originally released in arcades in 2004, …

Work on an 18-storey Travelodge on the Greenwich Peninsula has stopped after the developer failed to pay a £2 million bill to the council. Plans for the building, which is set to feature a distinctive “sail” design on the roof, were approved in January 2021 and signed off last year. Councillors had demanded a landmark […] The post Work stops on Greenwich Travelodge site with £2m bill unpaid appeared first …

The Guardians of the Galaxy are coming to the Ultimate Universe — or at least a new version of the team is. Star-Lord, Captain Marvel, Cosmo and the Ultimate Nullifier will make their debut in January’s The Ultimate #8 by Deniz Camp and Juan Frigeri. The story in that issue will focus on America Chavez, as a group of galactic travelers “from a far-flung, Maker-free future” show up looking for …

First iteration of the floating Mario head used during the Mario in Real Time interactive displays at Nintendo events, as well as famously in the cutscenes of Mario Teaches Typing 2. In this version, Mario’s cap was for some reason black with a grey brim.Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source

September 2024 For my second day I would at least be walking the coast! First however I needed to get to the border. On the coast, no buses cross the border. Instead buses from Slovenia run right up to the border, then turn back, the same is true on the Italian side so if you want to cross you have to do that bit on foot! To be honest I …

I QUIT MY JOB TWO YEARS AGO! Isn’t that crazy? I can’t quite believe it’s been two years of early retirement. Two years with no boss, no annoying colleagues, and living every day like it’s the weekend. I can hardly believe it, and can’t wait to dive into it. What are my finances like, after […] The post 2 Years of Early Retirement (With Numbers) first appeared on Financial Mechanic.

I guess I have used part of it for a week now, and the whole thing for 5 ish days. What I like about it is that it is much smaller and lighter. I also like that it is fewer things than before. What I don’t like about it is that travelers notebook refills don’t open flat.

In Part 1, we looked at what happens when you try to record a signal whose frequency is higher than 1/2 the sampling rate (which, from now on, I’ll call the Nyquist Frequency, named after Harry Nyquist who was one of the people that first realised that this limit existed). You record a signal, but it winds up having a different frequency at the output than it had at the …

We take class warfare to 300mph as we pit the aristocratic Mosquito against the no-nonsense proletariat muscle of the Beaufighter to find out who the real war-winning twin is. A well-born beauty with two Merlins running on blueblood, the ecstatically swift Mosquito was the most refined fighter in the war. The Mosquito was stealthy enough to choose […]

Had to head out to Oakland to celebrate the Mai Tai becoming the official cocktail of the city, popping into a bustling Kon-Tiki in mid-evening. The crew has decorated the venue for Halloween using a variety of retro looking decorations including some nice pumpkin lanterns hanging over the bar. There was quite the crowd too, with lively music that made Tuesday seem like a Friday. I’ve been pretty transparent about …

My wife and I picked up the then-unknown-to-us 3M game "Regatta" (1968) a few years ago at an antique shop. And after playing it, we instantly fell in love with it; movement is based on wind direction, the components are top-notch (metal boats and buoys, and great island terrain), it's a tiny easy-to-teach ruleset, and fun to play with larger groups (we bought a second copy and have had up …