NeoTar

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   by NeoTar 3y ago

   Putting Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (AKA Ireland) on different timezones strikes me as political suicide for anyone proposing it. But otherwise I am warm to the proposal. Some tweaks would make it more practical/politi
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   by NeoTar 3y ago

   I kinda hate the buttons here in Berlin - a lot of them look like this: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2AEHF8N/traffic-light-switch-for-p... I still will hit the yellow bit, but I'm not sure if I need to, or if th
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   by NeoTar 3y ago

   If there were thirty companies competing in the space then it could be good for consumers - e.g. by allowing economies of scale for the company and so reduced prices for consumers. With two or three companies - yeah, not so much.
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   by NeoTar 3y ago

   Yes - before I go on, please note this is not my area of expertise, but just something I am interested in. I haven't seen anywhere which suggests that Thomas is Q, but to me if a book of biblical quotations is hypothesised when none ha
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   by NeoTar 3y ago

   'Recent' needs to be interpreted in biblical terms - the book I was thinking of is the Gosple of Thomas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas - discovered in 1945 (the 'Q' hypothesis havi
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   by NeoTar 3y ago

   Q is a not a figure, but a document or a number of documents. It could have been written by a single figure, or compiled by many individuals. What is interesting is that is appears to be a book of quotations, rather than a narrative - so Ma
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   by NeoTar 3y ago

   > Sure, Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time are classics. But what’s a must-have 3rd party N64 exclusive? I can’t even think of one. Banjo Kazooie? Developed by Rare but published by Nintendo, global sales of 3 million.
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   by NeoTar 3y ago

   There was the Famicom disk-system released in Japan which (I assume) used the lower port: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom_Disk_System - although that was based on floppy disks rather than CDs.
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   by NeoTar 3y ago

   I think GURPS (or at least some games that use this engine) use the mechanism described: https://gurps.fandom.com/wiki/Wealth
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    It feels like they were perhaps hindered by wanting to conform to the chemical periodic table format.
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    At one company we talked about doing the ultimate version of that prank (which ultimately would make it easier to discover)… 1. Unplug the mouse, 2. Cover the mouse sensor with tape, 3. Replace the desktop with a screenshot, 4. Flip the sc
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    There are eighteen Pokémon types. Initially fifteen, dark and steel introduced in generation II and fairy in generation VI.
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    Spidering and scraping is 'more' legal?
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    > Given that the percentages of blocked spam are just 17, 50, 67 & 83, it appears that the sample was likely just 6 spam emails which isn't a lot. This is mentioned, but a little hidden (in the description for URL encoding): &gt
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    Doing five minutes research it seems that it's just down to the Piccadilly line being busier than the Bakerloo line - given that the Bakerloo being duplicated in parts by the London Overground. The Central line are on much more modern
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    Is this not just a different manifestation of the third key observation? "Division of Labor: There’s a limit to how effectively a task can be partitioned among multiple workers. Some tasks simply cannot be divided because of their sequ
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    From my time in the dying days of Usenet, I can remember there were compact codes so you could fit as much about yourself into your signature as possible. Something like the old dating ad codes, e.g. GSoH = Good Sense of Humour, but more ge
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    There was someone who did something similar with Tesco (UK Supermarket) Clubcard Points (a reward system which, I believe, essentially returns essentially 1% of your supermarket shopping spend in return for correlating shopping data with yo
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    I think he missed the band called just ”A”. Who released the song “nothing” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_(A_song) I can recall having trouble searching for their album on Amazon in the day, and indeed it doesn
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    Then I guess I am lame. Most of the time I am meeting friends to hang-out and we will spontaneously find somewhere to eat. I really enjoy that. Occasionally I am hanging out with friends from out-of-town, or friends with kids who don't
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    Your rooms were too cold!
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    Yep. One of the strengths of the British Constitution is also one of its weaknesses - under the concept of Parliamentary Sovereignty "[the parliament] may change or repeal any previous legislation and so it is not bound by written law
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    Note for anyone interested, this game is called ‘Dobble’ in Europe (or at least the UK and Germany).
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    I think that's generally a sensible idea. Anything which required a schedule for humans to read - theatre performances, trains, planes, etc - are better off being scheduled for 23:55, 23:59, 00:01 or 00:05 than exactly at midnight beca
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    [finite_depth says this much better than me in a parallel comment!] I believe this is explicitly about how 'regular' speakers of languages agree on colours, and which are distinct. For instance 'lime' can describe a colo
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    I have wondered with colour words if the increasing prevalence of computers and their related vocabulary is influencing English speakers use of colour words. For instance, as mentioned in the article English speakers have historically divid
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    Which is why you need either a roll-up system, or pre-payment.
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    There were suggestions (pre-Covid) that the Elizabeth line, which increased east-west capacity in London by some ridiculous figure (over 50% if I recall correctly) could be saturated by induced demand (or if you prefer the realisation of su
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    by NeoTar 3y ago

    When this was applied in some European city (Paris?) there was a joke - "The rich got around this by using two cars. The poor got around it by using two number-plates".