CiaranMcNulty

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Comment · 2 days ago
It’s also because Spain being on CEST makes little sense, with its longitude
Comment · 4 days ago
The core tool is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

They’re charging for the bundled plugins for various editing suites

Comment · 2 months ago
It looks like the data is from OpenStreetMap so maybe you could add them if they’re missing there?
Comment · 3 months ago
I have fond memories of playing Settlers in split screen this way on the Amiga
Comment · 10 months ago
It’s not a loading blink, it’s just some text telling you what the service is
Comment · 11 months ago
Whether 0 is a natural number is still fairly ambiguous; I remember being taught (1990s UK) to be specific about which definition was being used, or to prefer another name such as 'positive integers' or 'non-negative integers'
Comment · 11 months ago
Domestic solar is huge in Germany
Comment · 1 year ago
It's good to see more focus on static analysis.

With Phpstan and Psalm already in the space I'd like to see more differentiator features than 'written in Rust' - there are certainly advantages to that, but the disadvantage of not using PHP is it's harder to get contributions from the community using the tool.

Cool project overall!

Comment · 1 year ago
It's sad how the bloat of '00s enterprise XML made the tech seem outdated and drove everyone to 'cleaner' JSON, because things like XSLT and XPath were very mature and solved a lot of the problems we still struggle with in other formats.

I'm probably guilty of some of the bad practice: I have fond memories of (ab)using XSLT includes back in the day with PHP stream wrappers to have stuff like `<xsl:include href="mycorp://invoice/1234">`

This may be out-of-date bias but I'm still a little uneasy letting the browser do the locally, just because it used to be a minefield of incompatibility

Comment · 2 years ago
The best analogy is a toaster

Is it really that hard to grill bread? Nope, but you have to pay attention somewhat to stop it burning.

Once you hit a certain volume of usage, an automatic device makes a lot of sense.

Comment · 2 years ago
A major difference will be that PeachPie produces a compiled deploy artefact, while mainstream PHP is interpreted (albeit with heavy opcode caching and a JIT in production)
Comment · 2 years ago
I played with this a lot during my degree back in 97-99. A friend used it to render her final year project.

Amazing to see it's still going!

Comment · 2 years ago
The majority of existing homes and hot water supplies use natural gas
Comment · 2 years ago
I thought the new GM ICE was going to be developed by Google?
Comment · 2 years ago
Hm I'm not sure if it's correct but here's my logic (here on mastodon https://social.ciaranmc.com/@ciaran/111850662374227629)

There are N-1 red balls out of 99 remaining, so the probability the next ball is red is (N-1/99).

The possible values of N are evenly distributed [1...100] (we discount the N=0 case because we drew a red ball)

The total probability that the next ball is red is the sum of the individual probabilities divided by cases:

P = SUM[1...100](n-1/99) / 100 = SUM[1...100](n-1) / 99 * 100 = SUM[0...99](n) / 99 * 100 = 4950 / 9900 = 5.0

So red or green are equally likely

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