Theodores

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by Theodores 2mo ago
What has yet to be mentioned is why Hollywood, in the first place? Out of the many reasons, one is quite simple: daylight. This used to be really important with film. Historically, this was why efforts to move filming to somewhere like &#x2
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by Theodores 3mo ago
Paul Graham writes about this in an essay on procrastination. Procrastination doesn't have to mean time on the couch, the person that keeps their house 'unreasonably tidy' is also procrastinating, albeit in their own special
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by Theodores 3mo ago
https://epson.com/company-history It started with the watch making, EPSON was the spin off technology, developed for the 1964 Olympics, when printers were needed, along with precision timekeeping. The watch engineering mean
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by Theodores 3mo ago
If you work in the West End and want to go to the pub with your workmates, you soon find that one lives in Greenwich, another in Twickenham, another in St Albans, another in Brighton and everyone 'blows you out' because of their f
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by Theodores 3mo ago
Wasn't there a Microsoft idea to build data centres in shipping containers a few years ago, again using the ocean for cooling? What happened to that? Given the expense of the latest AI chips, or just the RAM for them, the price of land
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by Theodores 3mo ago
It could be just a filter, along with dietary requirements. In this way the one webpage can be made to work for everyone. Honestly, although fast food is normalised in America, there are lots of people that would never be seen dead, chompi
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by Theodores 3mo ago
This might be the better application. Some of us from outside the US do not want to eat ANY American food unless it has come from the actual ground or a tree, seen actual daylight and not been processed in special American ways. So all that
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by Theodores 3mo ago
If I was their mischievous uncle, I would get them a full feature drum set, maybe with extra percussion instruments. Hopefully the kids will show the same enthusiasm for it, before the parents let them play the drums in the bath or the rain
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by Theodores 3mo ago
As one miracle is solved, another is opened. I had the guy rocking up in his truck to spend a day doing carpentry for our AI overlords, and could not see the magic wand. So now we have him solving the world's problems by killing everyo
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by Theodores 3mo ago
Allegedly many an American 'believes' that Jesus will be back some time right about now. They are serious about this belief, however, it is never explained as to how he waves a magic wand and fixes the many, many entirely man-mad
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by Theodores 3mo ago
Yes and no, the skin connects to the spinal nerve in regions known as dermatomes, there being 31 spinal nerves and 30 dermatomes, with left and right sides. Some nasty rashes get confined on a dermatome basis, to not cross the left-right ax
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by Theodores 3mo ago
Before we developed a taste for fish, marine life was far more abundant, particularly in rivers. There are rivers that we consider to be in good health today that have a fraction of the original species. For example, the Thames in London wa
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by Theodores 3mo ago
Substack also comes with a brand, and having a substack is a social cue that you are a higher status person, it goes with the beefed up LinkedIn profile, playing tennis and conspicuous consumption. Having a substack shows that you are time
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by Theodores 3mo ago
People always want to make a place their own with renovations, which means a new bathroom, a new kitchen, a complete lick of paint and the list goes on. They would prefer to throw out an old suite rather than something that has just been fi
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by Theodores 3mo ago
The railway is the historical norm, roads as we know them needed rubber tyres to really 'get traction'. This was a late innovation compared to rail. Rails for high speed with safety, ride comfort and advanced signalling to maintai
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by Theodores 3mo ago
As a human SVG-maxxer, I doubt there is the training data out there for true SVG maxxing. SVG has its neat SVGO tool that optimises SVG code, this is very clever but it won't spot easy wins such as when a group of elements can be mirro
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by Theodores 3mo ago
Don't be immature! Stick to what you know.
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by Theodores 3mo ago
It is not about courage or confidence, it is more a calling, where few are called and that often turns out to be just one person, or so it seems, since everyone finds their excuse to not take a stand against the oppressor and for the oppres
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by Theodores 3mo ago
Telegram is important if you get your news from sources outside of the 'Anglo American empire'. People all over the planet use Telegram to curate their own news feeds and cultivate their own communities. This is generally done wit
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by Theodores 3mo ago
I am not sure I want to use the API when it is not that hard to get the hands of a clock going with Javascript. I know I can do the latter, but the former poses a new learning challenge that doesn't guarantee a result. My current SVG c
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by Theodores 3mo ago
Although I have had rechargeable batteries in gadgets for decades, I would not like to have an EV parked in a garage beneath my bedroom, juicing up with many kilowatts, every night. No amount of fire exits would help, I mean, what about my
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by Theodores 3mo ago
But imagine if you were fantastically rich and you could pay people to do leaf blower things at the crack of dawn. That would be true luxury, bossing around 'little people' that depend on you for a job waving around a leaf blower,
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by Theodores 3mo ago
I like your reading material. I do think the foundations are to be found in the old texts too, but there are limits to it. Take web development, I honestly think that what Tim Berners-Lee conceived has to be understood because the design go
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by Theodores 3mo ago
I have just been looking for a book on O'Reilly, of an existing tech, but I am not sure that tech really matters because AI has taken over in ways that do not interest me. With printed books for web development you want a recent book.
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by Theodores 4mo ago
DRY applies, even in SVG. Draw one horizontal line and then reuse it for the other horizontal lines. Same for the vertical lines. The advantage of this technique is that you can clone the master lines without having to repeat yourself with
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Excellent book, seconded. Regarding buttons, or rather 'buttony' (which used to mean the craft of making buttons), the UK has many regions that have historical claims to being the former button capital of the world. First it was D
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by Theodores 4mo ago
This was my starting point, a belief that other languages were 'better' at expressing different things. However, I have done a few projects requiring translation over the years and I have found European language speakers, notably
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by Theodores 4mo ago
At the start of WW2, the UK was struggling to make enough planes the hand-crafted, coach built way. A deal was done for US automotive concerns, notably Ford, to make British planes under license, en-masse. Note that this was to be done with
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by Theodores 4mo ago
I happen to need the inspo, some of the decorative details 'need' the SVG treatment. The tools we have shape our graphic design and sometimes a look back through history, when they had different tools, provides a rich seam of insp
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by Theodores 4mo ago
As a connoisseur of SVG, I like the approach, the results, the use of Zint and WASM. That said, there are a few opportunities. The version string isn't needed these days, nor the XML header or the doctype. The code/url/page t

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