Theodores

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by Theodores 5d ago
50% of consumer spending is by the top 10% of consumers, with that 10% generally being Apple ecosystem people. Anyone with ecommmerce stats can confirm this, Apple consumers just shop and consume more, particularly at the high end. This giv
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by Theodores 5d ago
Impressive! I had to peek at the SVG file and it superficially looks good, however, as is the case with everything AI, the more you look, the more it doesn't make any sense. By now AI should know of the DRY concept. But no. Hence the k
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by Theodores 5d ago
I was spoilt by SGI and their wonderful interface, where every detail was awesomely cool. The Sun machines were just old-fashioned at this superficial but important level of how it all looked, but only if you knew better, and that meant exp
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by Theodores 11d ago
In Europe we had this minor disagreement in 1914, which we would prefer not to talk about. One consequence of this was the decimation of skilled craftsmen. Millions of them were sent off to become machine-gun fodder, to never return to thei
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by Theodores 11d ago
Groups such as Extinction Rebellion are easy to steer off course by the state into taking meaningless actions such as gluing themselves to London Underground trains. Perhaps this is just as well. If Extinction Rebellion really wanted to tak
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by Theodores 11d ago
Almost all magazines go though an arc of success, plateau and decline. Audiences and writers move on or retire. I very much like and use CSS-Tricks, however, in itself it reflects a somewhat dated frontend design process and rarely uses any
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by Theodores 11d ago
Here is the Union Jack from the article. Concise and surprisingly human readable (I could draw this with felt tip pens on graph paper). One problem though. The Union Jack is not symmetrical. This is tantamount to spelling someone's nam
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by Theodores 11d ago
My Union Jack (in SVG) is coded to reflect the union of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. I live in Scotland where it is commonly known that the English flag is plastered over the Scottish Saltire, and they don't even get the sam
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by Theodores 11d ago
Technically the US has had 'space weapons' for many decades, due to how an intercontinental ballistic missile works. Incidentally, the Shuttle raised concerns in the USSR because they saw those large cargo bay doors and rocket thr
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by Theodores 16d ago
What we have going on here is a false dichotomy, with one car-dependent tribe wanting one type of car whilst another car-dependent tribe wants another type of car. Across Europe they have 2030 targets to get half the journeys in urban areas
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by Theodores 20d ago
In the olden days we read because there was nothing better to do, with no TV until evening. If all you have is books, you read. It is as simple as that. Some people came from houses that had books in them and others did not. Accessibility t
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by Theodores 26d ago
Can anyone recall how well Matrox performed with early implementations of OpenGL, from the days before DirectX was taken seriously? At the time I worked in broadcasting and we had a lot of respect for Matrox, however, I can't recall ex
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by Theodores 29d ago
Now you tell me... After drowning my last laptop in tea I needed a PC urgently and bought ASUS. Had I known that a refund was possible, would I have applied, to get what amounts to £10 refund on a £2K machine? I am not sure! The Windows ins
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by Theodores 1mo ago
Thank goodness that God hasn't entered the AI chat in a cult-following type of way, however, I now have images of AI at the altar, in American mega-churches, with people seeing the 'second coming' in the machine. The Scientol
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by Theodores 1mo ago
It is conspicuous leisure and a game of status in a time-poor world. Or, as we used to call it, 'keeping up with the Joneses'. The odd thing is that most people that go to the overly-touristy places have very little to say. Sure t
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by Theodores 2mo ago
You can over ride lib-jpeg-turbo with the moz-jpeg 'update' if you want much nicer jpeg things going on. Mozilla wringed out more from JPEG for Meta/Instagram about a decade or so ago, and their library would be noteworthy in
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by Theodores 2mo ago
Phew. I thought we were just about to leave it, albeit not quite getting to space, just dissolving the financial system so our AI overlords can make some more harvester drones.
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by Theodores 2mo ago
In twenty years time, will there be a secondary market in random USB sticks? I have a vast quantity of random USB sticks from clearing out my father's house, keeping them just in case something needed, nothing was. Rather than take the
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by Theodores 2mo ago
TB? Trigger me, thought you meant Tony Blair for a minute!
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by Theodores 2mo ago
They sold six million copies and made a big profit from Myst, which they presumably invested in the company, to make the next game, with the profits from that (and the diminishing returns from Myst) topping up their coffers. At some stage o
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by Theodores 2mo ago
I can remember the Thatcher years when redundancies for hundreds of thousands was routine, with the unemployment figures going stratospheric. The miners, auto-workers, ship workers, BT (phone) workers and other swathes ended up leaving the
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by Theodores 2mo ago
In the UK a typical Gateway 2000 desktop PC came with a Trinitron screen, made by Sony in South Wales. Their business model for the UK was the same tax scam as Apple, Dell and others. Everything was mail order, operating out of Dublin. Thei
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by Theodores 2mo ago
To complement the treat rewards, can you get the cat wheel to power a small pump to provide a water fountain for the cat? Assuming the treats are dispensed after a variable amount of distance is travelled on the cat wheel (to turn your cat
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by Theodores 2mo ago
Erotica != porn... What is the difference between erotica and porn? I am no expert, however, the former requires and stimulates the imagination, whereas the latter doesn't do that, everything is shown and nothing is left to the imagina
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by Theodores 2mo ago
Ruby first became known to me as a vegan contestant on the BBC Great British Bake Off. I think she is fab, however... (I write this for the American reader.) The essay didn't mention the lore regarding Margaret Thatcher in her food sci
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by Theodores 2mo ago
Wool thief! That industry was ours, in Gloucestershire and in Devon. All that red cloth that native peoples the world over wanted, and clothed every soldier, that was our broad cloth. You meanies undercut us and put us out of business. We h
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by Theodores 2mo ago
Carlton Reid, the guy who started the trade website BikeBiz, is my source for this, and his is a name to look out for, his writing is consistently good and his advocacy based on a knowledge of history. I am just paraphrasing what I have lea
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by Theodores 2mo ago
Transport museums in the UK are fascinating because they are full of machines that didn't solve any problem satisfactorily. My local museum has the bicycle well represented along with much else of the times, early lawn mowers, sewing m
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by Theodores 2mo ago
It wasn't so much tarmac, it was just anything passable between towns. When the trains came along (to replace the canals), people just took the magic teleportal that was the train, same for goods traffic. This led to there being nobody
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by Theodores 2mo ago
I hate to burst your bubble, but... The Wright Brothers started in a bicycle workshop, as did practically every auto maker, in Europe, in the early days. The bicycle workshop was the cradle for many things. The Wright Brothers were not good

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