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I'm not sure a medieval king would take that swap. Maybe for EU poor.

I had a client and they weren't to bothered if they sold the last item twice, they would call the customer, apologise, and offer a discount on an alternative and keep the sale.

I've built a site https://www clublaunchpad.com/

It's a Kickstarter for groups that want to feel like they are a club. This helps with the chicken and egg problem.

UK only at the moment but that's easily changed if anyone asked interest elsewhere.

This is good. I picked up a copy of the encyclopedia britannica from 1973 and quite enjoy browsing that rather than the internet. The articles seem well written, and as mentioned here, you have the fact and the history and everything all mixed in to some articles, and it's super interesting.

I highly recommend getting an old set of volumes.

We were discussing this last night. The solution seems to be we need to do very boring things each day, like stare at paint, watch grapes grow, etc, but then do that with different people in different places. In this way, each day seems very long, and retrospectively the changing of place and boring thing means there's a lot to remember.

I think it does mean though that optimising for this is probably not the thing to do.

I've been self hosting it for 20 years. Best technical decision I ever made. Rock solid

Is this some kind of pre-AI crash long game? Does that make any sense?

I remember using a TUI for a Bank in the UK, and them switching to a web-based javascript system. Because the TUI forced keyboard interaction everyone was quick, and we could all fly through the screens finding what we wanted. One benefit was each screen was a fixed size and there was no scroll, so when you pressed the right incantation the answer you wanted appeared in the same portion of the screen every time. You didn't have to hunt for the right place to look. You pressed the keys, which were buffered, looked to the appropriate part of the screen and more often than not the information you required appeared as you looked.

Moving to a web based system meant we all had to use mice and spend our days moving them to the correct button on the page all the time. It added hours and hours to the processing.

Bring back the TUI!

I don't think the average horse is heavier than the average cow.

I'm on the octopus agile tariff that has 30 minute pricing and an API to query it. Prices for tomorrow published at 4pm today. So the pricing bit is sorted. Just need to make the devices understand it now.

But if you're the only one doing it because the competition haven't figured it out, then you win in until they do. You can outbid on each ad.

Airsoft is probably played in a private woodland.

But "investment" as the water companies define it is every penny not taken as profit. Staffing costs? Investment! Fixing leaks? Investment! So that figure sounds like money above and beyond, but I don't think it is.

The claim was a pub doesn't track your identity. I think I proved mine did.