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Comment · 5 months ago

St Yorre is my favourite. I will have to seek out this Rozana !

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Comment · 1 year ago

I remember around 25 years ago being in the big music hall in Philadelphia and feeling a bit like I was inside a giant cello.

The cheapest seats were in the coolest place architecturally because you were right up at the back, closest to the ceiling, which really was a bit like in these instrument photos.

Some pictures here from a quick search: https://voithandmactavish.com/projects/the-kimmel-center/

Comment · 1 year ago

You can get nasties like legionella growing in tanks if the temperature is hot but not hot enough to kill them. The insides of these tanks can be filled with oxidised metal bits too.

Comment · 1 year ago

When I was a kid I worked in a double glazing factory. Some of the old timers demonstrated just how hard it is to break a piece of toughened glass to me by whacking one with a bit of wood right in the middle of the pane, really really hard. Nothing happened. Then the dude tapped it really quite gently with a glass breaker in the corner (where it can't flex as much he said) and the whole thing exploded into those little cubes you see on the ground in dodgy car parks.

Comment · 1 year ago

Forklift is the one I settled on as well. I had the experience you describe with Path Finder before and finally I gave up.

Forklift has a couple of things that annoy me daily though. Often I will have to refresh a pane to see a file I know has recently been added. Eg in downloads. I may even have navigated to downloads after the download finished and it's still not visible until I refresh.

The other is that it doesn't reuse existing tabs if I "reveal in finder" or whatever, so after a while there's a million tabs open, most pointing to the same directory.

Comment · 1 year ago

I have a (badly made) variant of kill sticky that I use on my phone. It kills sticky, then messes with any code blocks it finds to make them full width and use a smaller font.

It drives me mad when I'm reading articles with embedded code blocks where the code has less room than the prose and sometimes a bigger font!

It works well on eg this page (https://www.programiz.com/swift-programming/inheritance), but maybe someone that knows what they're doing can make it work on GitHub. It'd be nice to not see those line numbers taking up half the width.

I'm on my phone so I've only the bookmarklet to hand:

   javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20i%3Bvar%20b%3Ddocument.querySelectorAll(%22body%20*%22)%3Bfor(i%3D0%3Bi%3Cb.length%3Bi%2B%2B)%7Bvar%20el%3Db%5Bi%5D%3Bif(getComputedStyle(el).position.match(%2Ffixed%7Csticky%2Fgi))%7Bel.parentNode.removeChild(el)%3B%7D%7Dconst%20c%3Ddocument.querySelectorAll(%22html%22)%3Bfor(i%3D0%3Bi%3Cc.length%3Bi%2B%2B)%7Bif(%22hidden%22%3D%3D%3DgetComputedStyle(c%5Bi%5D).overflow)%7Bc%5Bi%5D.style.setProperty('overflow'%2C%22scroll%22%2C%22important%22)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%3B(function()%7Bvar%20i%2Cj%2Cb%3Ddocument.querySelectorAll(%22pre%22)%3Bfunction%20setPropertiesOuter(el)%7Bel.style.setProperty('margin-left'%2C%22calc(-50vw%20%2B%2050%25)%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('margin-right'%2C%22calc(-50vw%20%2B%2050%25)%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('font-size'%2C%2211px%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('text-indent'%2C%220%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('border-left-width'%2C%220%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('border-right-width'%2C%220%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('border-radius'%2C%220%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('padding'%2C%2210px%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('width'%2C%22100vw%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('max-width'%2C%22100vw%22%2C%22important%22)%3B%7Dfunction%20setPropertiesInner(el)%7Bel.style.setProperty('font-size'%2C%2211px%22%2C%22important%22)%3Bel.style.setProperty('text-indent'%2C%220%22%2C%22important%22)%7Dfor(i%3D0%3Bi%3Cb.length%3Bi%2B%2B)%7Bconst%20el%3Db%5Bi%5D%3BsetPropertiesOuter(el)%3Bvar%20descendants%3Del.querySelectorAll(%22*%22)%3Bfor(j%3D0%3Bj%3Cdescendants.length%3Bj%2B%2B)%7BsetPropertiesInner(descendants%5Bj%5D)%7D%7D%7D)()

Comment · 1 year ago

I remember hearing an interview with Richard Hipp where he said he pronounced it as you do ("rhymes with kryptonite" I think he may have said, or perhaps "like a mineral").

I'd always pronounced it in my head S-Q-L-Lite up until that point, but I much prefer this other way that I'd never considered. It rolls off the tongue easier and adds a bit of fancy.

Comment · 1 year ago