Theodores

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by Theodores 4mo ago
You have given me the encouragement I needed... Recently I put some 8-bit graphics in SVG using lines and stroke dash arrays. I also got them animated, in a space efficient way, by keeping the lines that do not change from frame to frame. (
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Sometimes I look at dystopian futures from literature and wonder what the problem is. I suspect some might prefer 1984 for the stability, some might prefer Brave New World for the Soma and some might prefer Wall-E because life looks good wi
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by Theodores 4mo ago
The helmet business is amazing, and proof that one is born every minute. It deserves to be shown how many logical fallacies there are. Top of the list is anecdotal evidence, everyone with a mouth can tell you about someone that had their li
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Ah, but it is new to Claude. Claude has main character vibes, so it is always about Claude. Isn't he clever? Claude can stay in his own lane, I want to know how I can use this during development to simulate uploading photos, so Chrome
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Well, at least he wasn't in the Ep*tein files! There seems to be some top twenty that rank highly, probably in part due to them being in the files that can't be named!
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Context matters, and a big country house in England is not the same thing as a McMansion, unless it is an American inspired newbuild, and plenty exist. In former times the servants lived in the top floors and worked in the basement floors o
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by Theodores 4mo ago
AMERICA.
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by Theodores 4mo ago
My home town was famous for the red cloth that the British Army used to wear. This same red cloth was the main 'trade cloth' for the East India company and native peoples, the world over, just wanted it. The East India company was
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Actually, American roads are excellent for cycling. Same for public transport. After Vietnam, many accessibility features for folks in wheelchairs were mandated, this also favours the bicycle. Grades in America are excellent for cycling. If
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Too easy. In the UK there are far more torturous roundabouts, for example, Five Ways in Birmingham, notable because you have to inch forward up a hill, always in traffic, typically with a manual gearbox, to finally get to the roundabout whe
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Not really, it is different in America, where everyone is utterly car dependent. Raise US fuel prices from barely nothing to barely nothing plus a tenth of a cent and TikTok explodes with Americans sat in cars, junk food in hand, saying som
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Actually, I looked into it some more, and SVG Switch, which should do stuff based on browser locale. However, it was showing me 'en-US' not 'en-GB'. There is a bug in SVG switch that means it can do languages automagical
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Pre-iphone no tech was cool, not even ARM. Source: me, out drinking.
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Most comprehensive write up of JPEG et al. I have ever come across. I think the MozJPEG compression optimisations deserves a mention, as does where we started, with RLE encoding for printer things. Also important for my personal understandi
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Correct! It has been a year since I last checked, and I did use JS and 'navigator'. However, importantly for me, I was able to avoid a trip back to the server for the few bits I wanted - introduction - in different locales.
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by Theodores 4mo ago
So, 72 decibels in a car is fine, with that just being noise pollution, not even music? And there is you on your high horse telling me this? How patronising!
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by Theodores 4mo ago
As per your points, Europe really can't compete, particularly when power is considered. However, frontier models that require city-sized data centres might not be all they are cracked up to be. In China they seem to be nonchalantly doi
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Switch has some gnarly options with it, and I do want to find an excuse to use it in my 'SVG embroidery sampler'. Flags are a possibility, although I only have the UK flag in my SVG sprite sheet thus far. I will have to see if I c
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Imagine an article about sidewalks, there could be an explainer for Brits that explains that 'they mean the pavement' and another about 'customary units'. Americans would not need the explainers, so they could be made vi
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Annoying. Blame the Germans and their lighting laws for bicycles. I want human powered USB-C with enough oomph to power a modest sound system or lights, whilst charging my phone. The allure of USB-C is what interests me, but 3W is not much
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by Theodores 4mo ago
In former times you had to serve a twelve year apprenticeship before you could be trusted to split wood for barrels, you can do a PhD in rocket science in less time.
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Very interesting, but also quite sad that today's renderers ignore the finer points of the specification. On a related note, I like the ability of good old HTML to be able to change text for different human readers, based on their chos
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by Theodores 4mo ago
I explicitly stated that I do ride with lights, reflectors and high visibility clothing. The lights aren't on midday unless there is an eclipse. I explicitly stated that my experience is from UK roads, not American. Our roads go back t
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by Theodores 4mo ago
In manufacturing you have mass. Stuff has weight to it and sometimes I think it would be best to imagine data has mass. In the widget factory there is the option to put stuff in the warehouse until you need it. Great in principle, but if yo
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by Theodores 4mo ago
In the olden days you could not stop some children from reading, and parents could be heard telling their kids 'don't stay up too late reading', as if it could be a problem. For many, school holidays was when a lot of reading
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by Theodores 4mo ago
My observations from the UK, formerly almost 'Europe': Boomers need cataract operations! A huge part of the car dependent population are elderly. These folks need ten times the light to see anything when compared to the seventeen
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Or as an SVG file. I have an interesting experiment that puts a sprites sheet, CSS and even some scripting in the favicon file. Since every browser wants some type of favicon anyway, why not overload it with fun stuff? Sure the JavaScript w
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Totally unrelated fun story. Recently I learned that the park nearest where my parents lived was named after a Mr Park, hence the name of the park, 'Park Gardens'. It contains a war memorial, albeit with Mr Park's name on it,
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Why not ask someone that can do astrology to do your stock picks and sports bets for you? You know and I know that The Product is at best nowt more than 'astrology'. The Product does do search engine things though, and it could be
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Everyone pays lip service to 'user experience' and 'putting the customer first', but, only with experiences such as acing customer service forms can one really claim to know what 'putting the customer first' me

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