NeoTar

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by NeoTar 4y ago
I thought the JetBrains subscription was actually a good example of a subscription - when you buy an annual subscription, you get a 'perpetual fallback license' for the version at the time of purchase - i.e. you can continue to us
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by NeoTar 4y ago
I love how it's a similar origin story to the word 'Barbarian' - deriving from anyone who wasn't Greek, and so whose language sounded like "baa-baa baa-baa"
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by NeoTar 4y ago
The Germanic tribe who invaded and conquered the lands currently known as France, forming (at least) the aristocracy and then naming it after themselves? Isn't that a reasonable name for the country? I mean, it also happened in Englan
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by NeoTar 4y ago
Which can also create another problem. The second company might think there is a market for 100k users, and price accordingly at $10, but only sell 10k copies and go out of business. Now, however, people see the product as only being wort
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by NeoTar 4y ago
I know your comment is light-hearted, and you're probably aware of the below, but nevertheless.... Presumably you use the good forks more often than the weird old forks? So each good fork's exposure to 'times when it might be
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by NeoTar 4y ago
There is a minor genre of YouTube content with people speed-running longer games (e.g. Fallout, Skyrim) to fit into the two hour Steam-return window. Ironically because speed-running requires a lot of practice this often means purchasing tw
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by NeoTar 4y ago
> The fictional population of NYC in Soylent Green (released 1973, set in 2022) was 40 million, whereas the actual population today is 8.8 million, but even 40 million would give it about the population density of Manila today and wouldn
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by NeoTar 4y ago
Which flag should you use for the English language? Union Jack? English Flag? USA Flag? Some horrible hybrid between them? None of them is a perfect fit. As a techie I'd say ISO codes ('en', 'en-gb', 'fr',
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by NeoTar 4y ago
The trouble with Germany is the need to do too much in person, and thus too much needs to be done on a local level. The UK isn't a great example for much, but for instance: * Passport application - controlled centrally. Has been done b
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by NeoTar 4y ago
Because dates are supposed to be fun - the best kind of a date should be with your married partner - no 'do they like me' debate running through your head, no 'I wonder what they look like naked'. You can be completely
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by NeoTar 4y ago
Great argument for using the 24h clock ;-)
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by NeoTar 4y ago
I'm not sure what I am supposed to be concluding from this map. Is the claimed correlation between Parliamentarian or Royalist support and Leave/Remain? As an example: two Remain areas - Oxford and Brighton - one consistently roya
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by NeoTar 4y ago
Please tell me you also do the classic Microsoft progress bar... 0/100 50/100 95/100 97/100 98/100 99/100 99.5/100
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by NeoTar 5y ago
I think Polish shops are pretty common across the UK these days - in Huntingdon (pop. 23k, 1 h north of London) there are at least two, and you can pick it up in the big supermarket (Tesco). I think it has gone down a bit from the peak arou
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by NeoTar 5y ago
I'm going to avoid spoilers because I don't know how welcome they would be, but I kinda hated the ending. It felt like a lazy cliche which made me feel more distant from the characters who I had become friends with.
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by NeoTar 5y ago
I know not everything needs to be about the pandemic, but not to mention it at all in this article seems like a conspicuous gap since a lot of the early super-spreader events were on cruise ships, and my understanding is that the whole indu
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by NeoTar 5y ago
I was intrigued by your comment, and did five minutes research, Apparently you're half right - pretty much every mammal will sweat to some degree (its almost a defining feature of mammals - mammary glands are modified sweat glands) - b
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by NeoTar 5y ago
That’s very much a cultural thing. An average European pizza is more of a ‘personal’ pizza and 8 or 10 inches in diameter. Twelve slices would be too much. I propose the Imperial/English pizza theorem. The optimal number of slices for
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by NeoTar 5y ago
It would be really interesting to study this - in Europe the same time-zone covers between approximately 30m behind true time (e.g. in eastern Poland) and 1h 30m ahead (in Galicia) - do Galicians typically get up later than Poles? China has
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by NeoTar 5y ago
Sorry to raise an irrelevant point to the question asked, but if you are a United-States American, could you please either not use two-letter state abbreviations, or spell them out on first use. A lot of people who use this site are located
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by NeoTar 5y ago
Another point for anyone considering whether we should send a space-probe there... The current fastest man-man object is the Helios 2 space-probe, reaching something like 25 000 kilometres per hour. Proxima Centauri is 1.3020 parsecs away f
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by NeoTar 5y ago
On behalf of all Europeans, can I express the sentiment: LEGO is a brand, LEGO Bricks, or LEGO pieces are the individual bricks/tiles/plates, etc. 'Legos' looks very wrong to us.
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by NeoTar 5y ago
As an example where I imagine this may have happened, in the early two-thousands I listened to a radio show (Brothers in Law) from the 1970's. It was in general a light-hearted comedy series starting Richard Briers - something people m
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by NeoTar 5y ago
Because for the most part these are actually broadcast, that is to say the archive that the BBC makes available have been sent out over TV or radio waves within the past few weeks. It's not a matter of someone actively seeking out cont
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by NeoTar 5y ago
apparently 9.3% of all '5 digit' numbers are prime, so random guessing isn't a bad strategy - you'll find one in 10.75 totally randomly chosen numbers to be prime. Being a little smarter, prime number can only end in a 1
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by NeoTar 5y ago
Whereas the joke for English speakers learning German is that they really should be called hand-socks ;-)
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by NeoTar 5y ago
An interesting visit if you are ever in Berlin is the “Unveiled. Berlin and its Monuments” exhibition in the Spandau Zitadelle. https://www.zitadelle-berlin.de/en/museums/unveiled/ It houses at least three er
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by NeoTar 5y ago
I agree the term life-hacks has lost all meaning. For me what destroyed it was a video about home-decorating 'life-hacks', and one was basically 'have a laundry chute' - great if you have one, but basically pointless oth
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by NeoTar 5y ago
Apparently the story there is a little more complicated that just being sued for using silence. The composer of the new piece was intending to challenge / satirise copyright law, and actually credited Cage as a coauthor. https:/&
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by NeoTar 5y ago
For lots of people around the world the ability to love their partner is a very political thing - homosexuality being illegal in a majority of Africa, and punishable by death in parts of the world.

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