Theodores

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by Theodores 4mo ago
Such a weird take, it sounds as if you have never read or listened to anything that the Chinese leadership have had to tell the world. Or for that matter, Confucius. Yet there is certainty of a paranoid mindset, with some 'yellow peril
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Many a health or ethics rabbit hole can be bypassed with simple abstention. However, this is not good for 'content creators'. They need the controversy and rage bait for engagement. With saturated fat the health authorities that h
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by Theodores 4mo ago
Yes and no! In the UK, tea means tea bags and that normally means tea bags made of a plastic/paper mix. If I remember, the bag material is made and then they heat it up to get the plastic out, revealing the holes, needed for the bag. O
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by Theodores 5mo ago
Note that blue was an expensive colour until recent times. Painters would use it sparingly. Nowadays blue is easy and common in flags, and much else, so this flag design is high tech.
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by Theodores 5mo ago
The story is an embroidered myth based on a sprinkling of facts. This is my understanding and I eat no processed food!
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by Theodores 5mo ago
Honest question: Is anyone here looking to put their own money into the Anthropic, OpenAI or SpaceX IPOs? Maybe it is my poverty mindset that is holding me back, however, I can't imagine becoming an investor in any of the AI 'star
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by Theodores 5mo ago
In 2002 I spoke with a lecturer in the humanities and he told me about how nobody was learning French at university level (in the UK). My own course had been cancelled due to the cost of teaching it, and the era of 'easy degrees'
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by Theodores 5mo ago
Part of the problem is that images are used by everybody, including the non-technical people. It is usually the non-technical people that make the images, so we can't confuse them with file formats. Hence the workflow with least amount
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by Theodores 5mo ago
I appreciate the ambition and the tech, however, I do wonder if you have bitten off more than you can chew regarding localisation. I write this as a Brit, so not that far off the Standard American Diet. First off, the locale switcher needs
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by Theodores 5mo ago
From the article: > However, the declaration argues math is more than a machine for producing correct answers. The discipline, its authors believe, is a deeply human endeavor built on creativity, understanding, collaboration, and the pur
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by Theodores 5mo ago
My great-grandfather used to complain about crappy German tools. My great-great-grandfather used to complain about crappy Scottish tools. He was English. I am not sure you can buy as much as a paperclip made in England now. Has to be said t
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by Theodores 5mo ago
Yes and no. The article does not go into the full history of the phrase, but it goes back to the work of Dr Ancel Keys, who was a fascinating genius of a man, with an equally talented wife. He did his crucial work on nutrition in the post-w
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by Theodores 5mo ago
Almost: 0.07%, allegedly 'perfect'. Getting an early win makes the game so much more 'playable'.
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by Theodores 5mo ago
Great. I tried the Google examples a while ago and got nowhere with it, time for another go, within the netherworld of SVG, to map to several different layers.
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by Theodores 5mo ago
Nothing has actually changed? The toy market is under continual change and every child is borne into the context and culture of their era. There is also opportunity cost. Had I listened to my mother on that fateful day in Woolworths, we cou
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by Theodores 5mo ago
When I was ten, my mum questioned whether my sister and myself were 'too old for LEGO'. In Woolworths we had to reassure her that Set 376-2 Town House with Garden was what we wanted as it came with lots of lovely red bricks that w
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by Theodores 5mo ago
Absolutely! I put dl lists in a grid with no divs needed. As MDN says, div is the last resort, invariably there is something better, and nowadays that is grid styling. New to me is multiple dd's. For legacy layouts littered with divs a
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by Theodores 5mo ago
Another problem with the UK retail scene is the charity shop, of all things. It is hard to hate the charity shop as they are Mother Theresa and Bob Geldof in retail form, feeding the starving of Africa (name me one) and bringing us one step
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by Theodores 5mo ago
Sounds to me that you have never worked in your life. Virtue signalling, my arse!
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by Theodores 5mo ago
The option that doesn't exist in America is to get the bus. Before the pandemic I was commuting by bus and this meant an early start to the day, but not as early as what the bus driver had. The bus had its own community, so I had my &#
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by Theodores 5mo ago
A while ago I worked with a guy that did not put effort into written communication and he was doing the marketing for the company. I would have words with the boss about this and, initially, I struggled to explain why spelling, grammar, pun
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by Theodores 5mo ago
My mother was one of those teachers that had questionable qualifications. This was a problem from time to time as different government edicts and local authority changes made teachers effectively reapply for their jobs. Eventually she did g
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by Theodores 5mo ago
The last hold out in the UK was the offices of BAT (British American Tobacco). They had ashtrays, spittoons and untold free cigarettes for their staff to help themselves to. To spice it up a bit, they had lots of cigarettes to try from deve
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by Theodores 5mo ago
I worked in weather for TV as a technician and I was lucky enough to work with meteorologists. I thought they were high priests in the church of science, however, I detected a gambling mentality going on. I was just surprised at how subject
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by Theodores 5mo ago
Even if you had some genuine snake oil with every step of the manufacturing process documented, with the product protected by the best anti-tamper technology and legal department, nobody today would buy snake oil. You could make it organic,
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by Theodores 5mo ago
I like it how the author says how busy he is and how he finally snatched a few minutes out of this busy life to bring us this edict: don't hijack mouse pointers, or else! What next, don't use blink or marquee elements? Or else! St
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by Theodores 5mo ago
Everything get heavy when machines get this big. I wonder what the optimal height is for a bipedal robot? With humans there are limits to height as the heart has more work to do in order to reach a brain that is higher up than it needs to b
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by Theodores 6mo ago
The B-word - boomer - is what it is about. The government has always been about them, well, at least since WW2, or WW Eleven as one of the few youthful members of Congress would have it. In the UK and elsewhere in Europe we had free educati
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by Theodores 6mo ago
My thoughts too, however, has that fad not passed? I always found designs worked better without lorem ipsum, for example, if building a website for a T-shirt company, you might as well use their existing descriptions to see if the content a
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by Theodores 6mo ago
Clearly the car was the Top Gear KIA Cee'd and you must be The Stig. We all start pet projects with the tools we know, to learn new tools along the way. Sometimes you have a nail and the hammer is the right tool for the job. However, w

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