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Pretty sure that The Maypole (https://maypolefreehouse.co.uk), which is round the back of the Baron, is safe... thank goodness.


> We are a Euro FREE Zone which means no sports will be shown at the pub.

American here. What the heck does this mean?


It means they haven't updated their website since summer when the European football championships were on :-) (and that, as the sibling comment says, they're advertising themselves as a pub where you go to avoid the coverage rather than a pub where you go to watch it).


LOL. Pubs in the UK tend to fall into roughly 2 camps... with TV, and without. And the with TV ones can be quite extreme, and conversation can be difficult when people are distracted by a TV visible whichever way you look. During the European football championships, lots of pubs have wall-to-wall football coverage (as in soccer, not Rugby in drag) which serious drinkers might want to avoid ;-) (And for the more sports obsessed, it also makes, avoiding seeing the scores before you get home and watch it properly on catch-up much easier...)


> "Every news site has advertising sections"

Ahem, bbc.co.uk/news * *?

* Note, not bbc.com ;-)

* Also, editorially, BBC News has also gone a little downhill in recent times. But it's all relative.


Hi Liam - can't seem to see a call graph. I've sent a report, but wasn't sure what to expect, as your site has a nice preview of the architectuer graph, but not the call graph functionality. Perhaps add a second preview? $19 does seem a little steep. Would it be possible to have a lower cost with a user supplied 3rd party LLM service key?


Thanks for the report, following up now. We'll make some updates to our website asap. Preview of the call graph can be seen in our video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgfDXUtWzRk. Happy to chat about reduced subscription price.

I created an issue for user provided API keys, tracked here: https://github.com/EdisonLabs-Inc/CodeViz-Public/issues/3


Someone really screwed up the OCR on that ;-)

Apart from the typos, I suspect that there's at least one paragraph in the body (the summary introduction?), that wasn't written by Mr Chandler.


Missed opportunity dept.: the title should have been "The Magic Goes Away", in reference to the Larry Niven novel.


But wouldn't that leave the door open for the idea that "The Magic May Return"?


Yes. Who doesn't secretly love a magic number ;-)


My first programs were in Basic on punch tape sent down an acoustic coupler to Imperial College in 1981. I get that it was the end of an era. But just after leaving school, I ran a Linotype photo-setter in the late 1980's - with different spinning optical discs for different fonts, and Hot wax rollers, and Letraset lines. And after university, I worked on computer magazines in W1, which went from photo-setting to Desktop Publish. So I remember an entire era, from start to finish. Boy, do I feel old.


By the early 1980s, Mergenthaler was selling the 202, which used computerized fonts rather than spinning film, and was considerably faster. A type-shop owner I met in New Jersey said that in the spinning film (VIP) days, his company ran the VIP three shifts, graveyard being given over to someone whose third job it was, and who slept beside the machine, which had been rigged to sound an alarm at end of job. Once the 202 came in, the backlog went away.


I'm pretty sure I saw some technology like this in the UK in the late '90s? With prints (pictures) in frames being used as wall-mounted speakers?


... and active retrieval of cadmium batteries from infant digestive tracts is not something to joke about.


Apparently, this is NOT an April Fool's joke, just a classic case of poor timing?


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