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901.
by Lio 3y ago
I was always intrigued by the motivation for building houses on the bridge itself. It seems like one of those interzone areas that shouldn't exist but does[1]. The usually listed reason is that space inside the City walls was at a prem
902.
by Lio 3y ago
It’s papers like this that will act as the justification of the next round of FAANG lAIoffs. Regardless of how successful this approach is in the long term.
903.
by Lio 3y ago
Entree really is a particularly egregious example because it's meaning is different in different English speaking countries.
904.
by Lio 3y ago
No but I can blame them for profiteering during covid. Michelle Mone clearly wasn't the only one punting over-priced, poor quality PPE via the special Tory VIP system. Cumulatively, how much have Tory VIPs taken out of the economy sinc
905.
by Lio 3y ago
Well obviously but poster's point was that it's a British/Commonwealth colloquialism to do that. It started as "J Sainsbury" with no apostrophe s. Then it changed it registered as "J. Sainsbury Limited" in
906.
by Lio 3y ago
Datums? ...and lets not get into the "paninis" situation.
907.
by Lio 3y ago
British supermarket Sainsbury's even put it in their logo. The actual name of the company is J Sainsbury plc.
908.
by Lio 3y ago
That's an interesting question because there are actually two legally separate Aldi companies, Aldi Sud and Aldi Nord. They divide Europe up by country so you'd have to get them to cooperate on that. https://en.wikipedi
909.
by Lio 3y ago
I had an N95 when it first came out. It wasn't the screen so much that lured me to an iPhone but the web browsing experience. Trying to use the browser on the N95 was difficult it was slow to load pages and the reformatting was bare
910.
by Lio 3y ago
You mean Ericsson. It only became SonyEricsson after the Ericsson management fucked up handling a fire at their supplier Philips. The story I heard was that Ericsson had a culture of not handing bad news up the management change unless it
911.
by Lio 3y ago
Can you even use Malebolge on a Tuesday? That's definitely not canon.
912.
by Lio 3y ago
I wish I could up vote this comment twice. Larry would be proud.
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by Lio 3y ago
I got bitten with the metalwork bug during lockdown. I spend most of my time making imperfect tools that I could buy cheaper. It's just so satisfying to build something yourself from a design though. Being able to take soft silver-ste
914.
by Lio 3y ago
Totally agree on the Lotus. Although I prefer the original 108 design to the 110. Seeing Chris Boardman win on it at the Barcelona Olympics was like seeing something arrive from another planet. It left quite an impression on a young me. I
915.
by Lio 3y ago
That is true but aluminium requires less energy to recycle when you're finished with it. I have bikes made of steel, aluminium and carbon fibre. I don't worry about the longevity of any of them. Hydro-formed aluminium is cheap, r
916.
by Lio 3y ago
They fell out of favour because the UCI doesn’t allow them in road TTs. Now that doesn’t matter to pure triathlon bikes (as they’re not governed by the UCI) but it matters to the manufacturers accessing a much smaller sub-market. It also ma
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by Lio 3y ago
Is Chrome the better product? IMHO Firefox provides much better tools for ad blocking and privacy. Those are both very important to me and areas I think Chrome is weak.
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by Lio 3y ago
I love noise cancelling headphones in public. Many shops, cafes and restaurants insist on playing music I really hate. Certain types of popular music make my skin crawl. My favourite tech product of recent years has been effective noise can
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by Lio 3y ago
That interesting. I’d love to know more of the story. I guess these days you’d use either GPS on its own or a cadence sensor and let your Garmin GPS figure out the wheel size automatically.
920.
by Lio 3y ago
Nah, I still think the author has it right. The combination of cheaper, faster processors and a market that wanted to constantly upgrade is what killed the Amiga. As mentioned by an earlier commentor, who your market was really counted ba
921.
by Lio 3y ago
Disabled but not uninstalled. That's what people are asking for. This is like one of those cheap phones that you can't uninstall Facebook on.
922.
by Lio 3y ago
I've seen this study before that claims that air pollution is worse for car drivers[1][2] than cyclists and pedestrians. If that's true a cargo bike is going to be a win over driving if air quality is an issue for you. Take with
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by Lio 3y ago
If you find cycling up hill difficult then an electric cargo bike should solve that problem for you.
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by Lio 3y ago
Nah, he’s got it right unfortunately. A printer is never an “investment”, it’s always a “liability” because it won’t increase in value if you sell it. A printer customer, however, is an asset because HP can always use new dirty tricks to sq
925.
by Lio 3y ago
I can think of at least one situation where this idea of a "united country" is still being forcefully pushed today...
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by Lio 3y ago
It's not so much that the upper classes adopted French after 1066, it's that the upper class was replaced by people that spoke Norman French. If you examine the richest landed gentry in England today a very sizeable number still b
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by Lio 3y ago
Yeah, that's less a clever "hack" and more just plain old fraud. Like putting a loop in an ATM and calling it free money. It's not a free ride, your nephew is just dishonest.
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by Lio 3y ago
I've had the same car since 2014 because I don't drive much. From my perspective this is still good advice. With current EVs I'd have to keep that it a very long time just to break even with the energy used in manufacturing.
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by Lio 3y ago
This sounds like it would be really suitable for a BBC Micro second processor. They had designs for, amongst other, a 64K 65C02 running at a different clock speed[1]. Back in the day I always wanted one for playing Elite[2] (but then I also
930.
by Lio 3y ago
I vaguely remember a story about an Acorn Archimedes[1] or it's Unix variant used for some embedded system in the City of London that was caught in an IRA bomb blast. Apparently that booted up like a trooper and carried afterwards too.

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