GlennS

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by GlennS 6y ago
> consumers for tolerating massive install sizes You don't find out until after you've bought the game...
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by GlennS 6y ago
So it does, I missed that!
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by GlennS 6y ago
I know of two other existing solutions to this, although I don't know enough to compare. I don't think either of these tick all the author's boxes. Microsoft MRAN https://mran.microsoft.com/ > For the purp
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by GlennS 6y ago
I guess it seems like a surprising view to have (to think that the government should let it run its course)? I mean, the evidence is pretty clear by now isn't it? Countries that responded to the pandemic with swift strong action, espec
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by GlennS 6y ago
People have been successfully prosecuted for knowingly spreading HIV.
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by GlennS 6y ago
I guess this is tricky because you want all that energy to go into deforming the wood and not the nail. The physics is beyond me here. Intuitively, I feel like weighty hits tend to drive the nail into the wood, whereas fast hits just bash t
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by GlennS 6y ago
Do you definitely want to transfer kinetic energy more than momentum? I reckon a lighter hammer swung faster is more likely to end up with a bent nail. Also, exponential would be 2^v. v^2 is quadratic. (And you need to sub in the F=ma part
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by GlennS 6y ago
I think if someone wrote the GDPR is a net negative, that's actually a good sign in that it implies some actual consideration and weighing up of the advantages and disadvantages. I agree with your overall point though. It does make it
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by GlennS 6y ago
There's an interview with Sid Meier floating around somewhere where he discusses how, in Civilization, people will assume the computer is cheating at combat, unless you actually bias it quite strongly in the human's behaviour. Civ
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by GlennS 6y ago
Second datapoint to fill in the inflation a bit: 16 years ago I paid £270/month to live in a sharehouse in Bristol (not generally as expensive a place to live in as Cambridge) in a boiler cupboard that had been converted to a bedroom.
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by GlennS 6y ago
Powershell suffers from this same problem, and I find it very annoying. Really recommend you speed this up if it's possible.
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by GlennS 6y ago
There is no way East Timor has an equivalent opportunity to spy on Australia. Australia needs these island states to stay friendly for national security reasons. It shouldn't be taking advantage of their small and relatively unsophisti
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by GlennS 6y ago
My experience has gone against this. I went through a few companies, some better than others and some in more interesting spaces than others. I ended up going back to a different company in the field I found most interesting (energy/en
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by GlennS 6y ago
I've heard this put an alternative way: it's not that posh people have unwarranted self-confidence, it's that everyone else has excess self-doubt. We've been broken in by our schooling. Don't know if there's an
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by GlennS 6y ago
This is basically about the cost of capital for the build and inability to insure for liability and future unforeseen costs.
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by GlennS 6y ago
That's assuming no returns on investment. With £2 million you could spend £75,000 a year and reasonably expect to preserve your $2 million (and grow it by inflation) forever. (Going with 3.75% rule instead of usual 4% rule so you have
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by GlennS 6y ago
Turns out this is me mis-remembering. They're basically identical. Probably it's just org-mode's useful built-in shortcuts for moving the headers around and folding them that made me think it was better in that regard. Presum
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by GlennS 6y ago
Markdown plus some other useful stuff: + really good keyboard shortcuts + better header structure + better tables + calendar + interactive multi-language literate programming environment + some other stuff that I don't us
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by GlennS 6y ago
You're right that a lot of talented people immigrate to the US, (and emigrate from India in general), but India is very populous. The number of talented Indians who don't leave their country must be many times higher.
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by GlennS 6y ago
If you're interested in old games you might also find this website useful: http://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/genre.php?id=10&sg=0&sort=...
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by GlennS 6y ago
You seem shocked, but this was my understanding too. An Apple is the computer you buy for your parents or grandparents.
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by GlennS 6y ago
Speaking to NixOps in practicular, I've used quite a bit at previous jobs, and still use it for my personal stuff. It's very good and convenient (if you already know Nix), but it doesn't have a lot of maintainers so it's
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by GlennS 6y ago
In Python you'd usually use a `Decimal` for money and it would give you an error if you tried to mix it with floats, not silently throw away information (which I certainly agree would be a dire consequence). In JavaScript, good luck fo
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by GlennS 6y ago
Microsoft's share price didn't go up much because they paid out large dividends. If you look at total return people who owned shares in Microsoft did very well. (If you look at a company's share price, you will see a drop rou
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by GlennS 6y ago
When the Hinkley project in the UK was originally planned it probably looked like a much better calculation. Renewables were still expensive then. Oil prices were heading over $100/barrel - with no reason to believe they would drop. Th
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by GlennS 6y ago
The atom used to be defined as the smallest indivisible thing, but we didn't rename it when we learned that you could split them into smaller things.
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by GlennS 6y ago
I think something like this might be more useful outside the USA. Publicly traded companies in the USA already re-invest quite a large chunk of their profits for future growth, where companies in other countries would tend to pay out larger
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by GlennS 6y ago
Google Docs is OK, but it's still missing a lot of very useful features from Excel. Most important for me is being able to define tables. Also, a lot of the keyboard shortcuts missing if you want to work fast. And if I'm in Excel
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by GlennS 6y ago
Really interesting website, thanks for linking that.
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by GlennS 6y ago
I always find it a little suspicious that all the university rankings in English-speaking newspapers rate English-speaking unversities the highest. That said, there are definitely opportunities in the USA that aren't available elsewher

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