The bristol stool scale also works well. Although that’s better for sprint planning maybe..
I live in south Bristol where the “Bristol stool scale” and the “pubs that need your help” overlap distressingly.
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grumblepeet commented on Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN hn-wrapped.kadoa.com?year... · Posted by u/hubraumhugo
That was hilarious, the XKCD-esque comic was funny however it did me with a beard (im a woman) but I did belly laugh at the jokes.
Building an app that scans file systems prior to being migrated into M365. Looks for common governance issues and file and folder trees that won’t play nice in SharePoint. Not a migration tool as such, just something to scratch a consultancy itch. Python and Tkinter for now until I hit something that requires more complexity. Also a command line version that I’ll use more often. This probably could have been a PowerShell script but this is more fun.
grumblepeet commented on Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? · Posted by u/hodgesrm
I did despite being quite resistant to the idea at first. Eventually I didn't have a choice, as many things I wanted to read were suddenly hidden. I am paranoid however and worry that the VPN maker is tracking me, but there is only so much I can be paranoid about in the day.
grumblepeet commented on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/robbiet480
Could you share a bit about your use case/experience? Siri does what I need it to do— send messages, create reminders and calendar entries, look up basic facts and cites the source, play music, add things to lists, etc. I’m curious if you’re trying to do things that I haven’t, or if you’re just having a very different experience with those same things? Or maybe just have higher expectations for it?
Edit: why in gods name are people downvoting me for politely asking about someone’s differing experience?
‘Siri turn on torch’. Used to work, now all I get is “sorry, Torch isn’t available right now” this is at night when it is plugged in and I need to work as a nightlight to go open the bedroom door to let the dog in or out without blasting myself awake with the main phaser array next to my bed.
grumblepeet commented on Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats cell.com/current-biology/... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh
They defined the terms in the article, as leftward is lying on their left side, left shoulder down.
Ahh thanks. I see it in the article now. This why I’m not a scientist!
grumblepeet commented on Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats cell.com/current-biology/... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh
Am I crazy or are the cats pictured under the graph swapped? The cat under the "leftward" bar is curled the right and the cat under the "rightward" bar is curled to the left. Did they just decide that egocentrism in directions doesn't apply to cats?
I came here to say the same thing. I’ve seen this multiple times today in several places and thought exactly that. Maybe they should have said clockwise (starting at the head) or counterclockwise?
I wonder what will break as a result of this?
Will it be possible I wonder to have a M365 that doesn’t have annoying CoPilot forced down our necks in every app and screen?
And interested to see how the licences and costs pan out.
grumblepeet commented on The History and Legacy of Visual Basic retool.com/visual-basic... · Posted by u/ibobev
I miss VB6 so much.
For rapidly prototyping an idea, I have yet to find anything that was as good as VB6. Drag a button, write code. Want to change things about the button? Use properties, that live update the GUI without recompiling. It was so simple that a reasonably intelligent person could grasp it in an afternoon, but in the hands of a capable developer could do some very impressive things.
It was also a fun game to hunt for VBX/OCX controls that you could use in things that were downloaded or came on random disks or CDs.
I really feel like VB6 was the peak of that development model and we've been moving away from it since. And I get some of the reasons why (just look at the mess that comes from trying to do anything with Xcode storyboards and version control.) But for just rapidly trying out an idea, I have yet to find anything anywhere that was as good as VB6 was.
I totally agree with this. When I worked at a University (mumbles) years ago I wrote a build system for rebuilding the OS and apps on student lab PC's and I used VB6 as the front end. It seemed in those days we could do anything, and nobody told us we couldnt do it.
I also made a simple two button menu app for use on repurposed 386's that we were using as thin client pc's. Years later I went back to see they had been replaced with tiny HP thin client devices but my menu was still being used!
grumblepeet commented on The second birth of JMW Turner newstatesman.com/culture/... · Posted by u/prismatic
As an artist Turner has inspired me not just with his use of colour, which was masterful, but with his readiness to break normal painting rules. We would scratch at his paintings with a specially long fingernail, stab at them with brushes, use watercolour almost like oils, do anything to get the image that he needed. We get most of this from looking at the paintings and from anecdotal evidence because as the article says he painted in secrecy behind closed doors.
His later works are truly amazing, given the time in which they were made. Many of the later images we know him for were from sketchbooks and studies, and not necessarily for sale or to be seen by others (code snippets?) but are impressionist years before that became a thing.
You can go to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and go to the Print Room (you have to book) and ask to see some. I'm told by a friend I've not done that.