JacobAldridge

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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
I’m reminded of the paper, just over 10 years ago, that reporting measuring neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light. When published, the authors made it clear: this is probably wrong, but we can’t see where we made a mistake … s
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
Nice concept Jacques. I’m reminded of the (apocryphal?) story, about the Ranger at Yellowstone National Park who was asked why they didn’t just make all the bins bear-proof. His answer: “There is a surprisingly large overlap between the sma
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
I’m making some youtube videos with my 4 year old (mostly as a bonding activity). They’re fairly generic fare for that age group and genre - a bit of plot, I set a puzzle for her to solve, it reveals some clues or saves the day. For the fir
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
That’s a Lot of salt…
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
https://jacobaldridge.com/articles/ I’ve not been especially active the past few years. Now doing something at least weekly, but via email and intermittently uploading to my blog.
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
“Starting in 1995, Breitwieser and Kleinklaus committed an average of one theft every two weeks for seven years.” I can imagine smaller galleries had only a few cameras, if any, during that time period.
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
With apologies for not remembering the article I read, to provide a source… I have read that stolen masterpieces are sometimes used as currency for (high level) criminals. Similar to how Tide bottles were (still are?) used as a value exchan
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
Several years ago I bought myself a post-WWII era copy of Hanmerton’s “Practical Knowledge For All” - the English encyclopaediast had edited together 50 educational courses in a set of 6 books. I love immersing myself in both the content an
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
Absolutely, in the same way “SEO for Voice” is (was?) a thing. What that means though I’m not sure - one of my clients rates a mention on Bing Chat when discussing their industry services in my city, despite not being on the front page of n
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
It does, but doesn’t always get it right. I was curious so tested Bing Chat on … myself. I asked a few basic listicle questions that are pages on my website, and while it linked to the relevant page it also spat out answers that I disagree
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
Children are an insurance policy - negative EV for sure, but if you raise them right, and they do alright, and you hit skid row in your dotage then they’ll take you in and provide free food and board for the rest of your life. Ice floes wer
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
I reckon you could get there by ferry from Pontypandy.
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The economics and politics of Thomas the Tank Engine (2015)(medium.com)
43 points by JacobAldridge 3y ago|27 comments
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Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong(ft.com)
91 points by JacobAldridge 4y ago|102 comments
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
Congratulations! Week 3 is tough - I believe babies tend to mostly sleep for the first 14 days, and I do remember when ours began engaging with the world it got a little bit harder. (This is one of the few apps we've ever paid for, and
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
I look forward to exploring your site, as someone with a 3yo looking at homeschooling and worldschooling options. Do you have much content on worldschooling, or at least homeschooling while doing extensive travel (eg, as a digital nomad fam
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
This year seems the worst we've ever seen in our parts of Eastern Australia - we've also had some of the worst ever floods thanks to La Nina (and climate change), so that's more water than ever. And mould being a living thing
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
They are, and we've found them effective (thankfully my area in Brisbane has been mostly dry this past month, so we seem to have it under control). They've been so popular they were selling out of the supermarkets for a little whi
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
And quite a different interpretation. My grandmother was the idiom queen (by the time the dementia really took hold, she was communicating in trite phrases just like 'kids these days' communicate in memes) and this was one of her
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
One question I find can help is "What's the worst that can happen if I make the wrong decision?" If you enrol to a university and hate it ... well, you can drop out / change majors / return to your life again, perha
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
I enjoy the right subreddits, and my engagement can wax and wane with my interests. Mostly I'm active on r/DigitalNomad and a few of the relevant-to-me Financial Independence subs. I imagine hobby stuff can be a little hit and mis
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
Have you upgraded to Showcase / LI for Creators - https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/li4c/ ? I haven't put the effort into it yet, but occasionally bump into a profile that has upgraded - it took a few vi
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
I changed my voicemail several years ago to say "Hi, you've reached NAME. There is no voicemail on this service, so please send me an SMS or Whatsapp message, or email me EMAIL. And have a great day!" I still get a voicemail
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
If you're using a free service, expect to be the product. If you don't want to be the product, with YouTube you can pay to be the customer instead.
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
Did you know Airplane was a remake of an earlier film ‘Zero Hour’? Most impressively, Zero Hour was a serious film that had a script adjusted and combined with directing, acting, and visual gags to create this comedic masterpiece.
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
Just played a few games - and No, they don't, though it will tell you (for example) 'S changed to G' which means that G is now in the same place the 'S' was ... unless there were two Ss of course!
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
I'm not so sure, at least for some of the AR stuff we're working on - most people we're testing with still point-and-aim their phones vertically, even when consuming 360 degree videos. Headsets will make another huge change o
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
> I work a lot on trains crossing Europe, or sometimes on flights. I just want to have my files accessible. I have a similar use case (plus add in cafes where I'd rather not be on their wifi or my own mobile data). It amazes me how
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
The way you describe Wordle is exactly how I play; however I play on Easy Mode, while this game uses Worlde’s Hard Mode rules about reusing green and yellow letters.
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
You've got several great strategies here along the ETF / Index Fund / Vanguard route, which I would endorse, as well as some subreddits I know too well! JL Collins's 'Stock Series' is an excellent set of articl

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