The Warning guitarist Daniela "Dany" Villarreal Vélez shows off her favorite Warning riffs YouTube video by Guitar World

She talks about it in this video with Guitar World, discussing riffs used on their 2024 album Keep Me Fed (starting at 7:21)

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*Nerd hat on* One of the necks might be a baritone. I learned about baritone guitars from Dany Villarreal of The Warning, who plays a baritone Strat on a few songs. The neck is slightly longer to allow the strings to be tuned down a bit lower without going too floppy. She uses it for drop-A tuning.

www.cleanwisconsin.org/wp-content/u... gives 8:1 ERoEI for solar and 1.2 for corn ethanol.

I'm not even sure that the actual energy value of corn ethanol exceeds the energy value of producing it (including the energy equivalent of fossil-fuel-derived fertiliser).

The land used to grow the extra corn might be better utilised for solar panels.

Nik Kershaw - I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me YouTube video by NikKershawVEVO

My contribution would be Nik Kershaw, "I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me".

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I believe this was the first record I ever bought, at age 6 I think, but at the time the meaning passed me by.

Whoops, I scroll down and see that's where this comment originated!

AUG. YouTube video by Ahoy

I didn't know what an AUG was until I stumbled on this video a few days ago. youtu.be/db-JxEwK5Ng?...

The heat shield on the Orion capsule was pretty fucked last time - large chunks came off instead of gently ablating - and they've done some fairly dodgy analysis to convince themselves this one will be safe.

Link I read on Hacker News yesterday: idlewords.com/2026/03/arte...

I find that writing out the post can be cathartic. Then I delete the draft without posting.

I've been using a Filco Majestouch 105 for more than 10 years. The same one. UK layout, Cherry MX brown key switches IIRC.

Can you pull the key caps from the Datamancer? What key switches are they compatible with?

Whoops wrong terminology. "Lining figures" refers to height not width. I should have said that the digits aren't monospaced.

Because Segoe UI doesn't have lining figures. '1' is narrower than '0' in that font.

An actual tabular layout is probably harder.

Didn't know you did hermit crab in the shell.

Last time a shop (a Morrisons Local) I was in lost power, they refused to sell anything because they couldn't record the transaction on their till system. The power was only out for seconds but the tills took a long time to boot.

"The Bank of England should be independent!"

"Wait, not like that!"

Has anyone actually seen these in real life? It looks like hardly any have been minted!

£2 - none
£1 - 10M
50p - 200k
20p - 525k
10p - 600k
5p - 32.4M
2p - none
1p - 600k

www.royalmint.com/corporate/ci... (which still shows the old designs)

Fast forward a decade, and that company - now merged with a former competitor of theirs and ours - bought us out again. Totally different management and ownership.

I started at a small independent software company in 2001. Due to prevailing economic conditions we were bought by a customer that was the UK arm of a US computer hardware reseller. After a few bad deals, the owner decided to sell the new hardware+software business in a management buyout.

One major issue is the tendency for UK founders to sell out to US capital to get their exit, or to get investment. My employer actually did it twice, effectively to the same company (although it was under different, private capital, the second time).

Maternal Grandad was a toolmaker for the Cambridge Instrument Company. He had briefly been a coal miner in Wales as a teenager, near Neath, but the family moved to Cambridge in the 1930s.

For completeness, paternal Grandpa was an electrical engineer, then a patent clerk. Family legend has it that he almost sank (or did sink) a German submarine - and was reprimanded for it.

Maternal grandmother (Nana) worked at Eaden Lilley department store in Cambridge before she married my Grandad. She came from a family of Norfolk farmers.

Paternal grandma worked as a food scientist in J Lyons & Co's Ice Cream department. Dad never had custard at home, because Grandma knew what was in the custard powder! When she left to have children, a certain M Roberts (later Thatcher) was her replacement.

Sorry, should have said supermarket milk *in the UK and Ireland*.

Müller provides a lot of "own-brand" supermarket milk, through their acquisition of Robert Wiseman Dairies in 2012 and subsequent acquisition of Dairy Crest's milk distribution business in 2015.

What chance the Labservatives contesting the next election?

What chance the Labservatives contesting the next election?

In American English, any corporation is a singular person.

In British English, a corporation is rightfully described as a collection of people. We see through the abstraction.

The manual "nop" is 1 byte, the two xors (to zero eax and edx) are 2 bytes each, so the compiler used a 7-byte and two 10-byte nops to insert 27 bytes to get back to 32 byte alignment (offset 20 hex into the function).

x86 has a variety of ways of encoding a "nop" (or alternatively there are lots of "nop" opcodes in varying instructions encodings). You can see the actual bytes above the instructions in Compiler Explorer.