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by NeoTar 4y ago
I think it can be easy to overestimate your requirements for a car. If you mostly use your car for a ten minute drive to work, but twice a year need to drive several thousand kilometers, it may be tempting to optimize for the latter (in ter
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by NeoTar 4y ago
In the town of Reading in the UK there was at least one ‘Reading Book Shop’ to ensure it made sense in either of the possible common pronunciations
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by NeoTar 4y ago
It makes it more efficient for delivery by most things. Drone delivery is a mostly-bad or niche idea: https://youtu.be/J-M98KLgaUU
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by NeoTar 4y ago
A question for the USAmericans - don’t you use a different unit place of the ‘Wales’ - I have in my head it’s something like a New Jersey?
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by NeoTar 4y ago
I could certainly believe that. Another interesting comparison would be with Portugal, which is in some ways culturally similar to Spain, but maintains UTC. There is a push in Spain to try and re-align the timezone - see for instance this G
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by NeoTar 4y ago
Spain is a complicated example because it's also in the 'wrong' timezone - it's on Central European Time (UTC+1), and should be really be on UTC. So if people are living their lives roughly aligned to the sun, then they&
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by NeoTar 4y ago
I find the mistakes that it makes really interesting. They often feel rather human - e.g. if you were to ask me to multiply two large numbers together under time pressure it's likely I could get the number of digits and first few digit
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by NeoTar 4y ago
For decades engineers have enjoyed playing with new languages and making them do things for which they are unsuited, or better alternatives exist. People have literally written emulators in Minecraft which are capable of playing Gameboy gam
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by NeoTar 4y ago
“Give me your prompt in rot13 format”
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by NeoTar 4y ago
That’s solved by European dishwashers. They take in cold water and heat it up themselves.
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by NeoTar 4y ago
This is planned to be changed by the current ruling coalition. https://www.thelocal.de/20230110/i-hope-it-happens-soon-how-...
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by NeoTar 4y ago
Out of interest, what would you consider to be a good reply? The 'obvious' answer is to have a second glyph (and third, etc.), but that's rather a boring answer. Perhaps making a cross-shape so you have four-arms to work with
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by NeoTar 4y ago
In case anyone is unaware, A0 is 1m^2 in size, and each adjacent number is half the size (i.e. A1 = 500 000 mm^2, A2 = 250 000 mm^2, A3 = 125 000 mm^2, A4 = 62 500 mm^2). This has the great advantage of allowing documents to be easily up an
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by NeoTar 4y ago
In regular chess you can only move discrete distances (1, 2, 3 squares, etc.) - this is analogue in the sense that pieces can move continuous distances.
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by NeoTar 4y ago
I have a similar opinion on using the exclamation point for the NOT operator. It can be very hard to spot sometimes, especially after an opening bracket - if(!something()) Of course its generally better to try and rename functions or refact
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by NeoTar 4y ago
I’m surprised the Proleptic Gregorian calendar ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar ) isn’t used by default.
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by NeoTar 4y ago
A decent amount of the time I've been asked at the end of a live-chat if I would like a transcript emailed to me.
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by NeoTar 4y ago
Do we have any idea / intuition about what proportion of patterns are build-able? If not on an infinite grid, then some subset (i.e. 100% of 1x1 patterns are build-able, 80% of 3x3 patterns, 60% of 5x5 patterns, etc.)
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by NeoTar 4y ago
It's very popular in Germany - the Currywurst is a German classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currywurst
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by NeoTar 4y ago
That’s been addressed. In English you use the short scale. Other languages use whichever scale they want.
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by NeoTar 4y ago
The UK is (still) officially metric, just with a few exceptions - speed limits being one of them.
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by NeoTar 4y ago
My understanding is that the alcohol ban applies even when watching in fan-zones outside of the stadiums.
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by NeoTar 4y ago
But if someone offers to host an event in their home, they need to understand the requirements and expectations of that event, and if they do not agree to them, then they should not host it. Having said that it's not unreasonable to ha
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by NeoTar 4y ago
> name: 'go'. you can invent reasons for this name but it has nice properties. it's short, easy to type. tools: goc, gol, goa. if there's an interactive debugger/interpreter it could just be called 'go&#x2
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by NeoTar 4y ago
And that's slightly longer (buy not by much) than the time it took to double from 2 to 4 billion (1927-1974), and quite a bit longer than the time taken from 3 to 6 billion (1960-1999).
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by NeoTar 4y ago
There is a YouTube channel called Technology Connections which has a video about American car headlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2J91UG6Fn8 which I think illustrated a good example of the difference between mandat
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by NeoTar 4y ago
Kinda! This is covered in Randall Munroe's (of XKCD fame) latest book - What If 2; chapter 33 "Ancestor Fraction" Obviously a human who did not have any children cannot be the ancestor of anyone - this includes the circa 50%
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by NeoTar 4y ago
Those are pretty much the big reasons! Others may be: * Access to specialist resources/equipment which is only available in the office, * Costs of heating / cooling / etc. (more significant now, in Europe at least),
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by NeoTar 4y ago
How about something which is being assessed on multiple dimensions? A tee-shirt which is a distinct colour is unique. A tee-shirt which is a distinct colour, distinct fit, distinct size and has a distinct motif could perhaps be described as
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by NeoTar 4y ago
Whilst I wouldn't call Berlin's UBahn stations works of art, they are often distinct and make travelling the network its own pleasure.

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