A ton of election material landed on the doormat this morning! LibDems, Labour, Conservatives, Reform, Greens, even the SDP! (View Post)

FPGA synthesiser / compilers are notoriously awful: What is it about hardware companies that makes them completely incapable of producing high quality software? (View Post)

Add up the house & pension for a middle-class person in this country & you’ll hit a £million for a sizable chunk of them. The state pension is worth £250k at current annuity rates all by itse… (View Post)

Yes, this is definitely a “take advice” or at least do some proper research first scenario. I think you’re generally OK emigrating to the EEA or USA, but anywhere else can be a bit fraught. In partic… (View Post)

The System of the World is three extremely prolix books which contain within them one excellent one. The problem is you have to read the whole damn thing to find the good bits. Cryptonomicon was fun … (View Post)