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by fredley 2y ago
Lava flows?
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by fredley 2y ago
It is outlawed, in the EU.
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Autumn, and the Plot Against Me (2007)(vanityfair.com)
2 points by fredley 2y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 2y ago
See also: The search for Autumn https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/02/autumn200702
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by fredley 2y ago
I do this too. Making games for the Playdate has been the most enjoyable programming I've done in years.
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by fredley 2y ago
RISC OS was the first graphical OS I ever used - my father ran Sibelius (the very first version I think) on an Acorn computer for engraving music. The three-button mouse approach is totally unique, I'm glad they explain it in this arti
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The Secret Life of Arcade Machines: I-Zombie(youtube.com)
5 points by fredley 2y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 3y ago
I am a certified (British) Vegemite fiend, I go out of my way to stock up from the supermarkets that carry it (it's tragic to see a whole metre of shelving, top to bottom, taken up with differently packaged marmite and its derivatives
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by fredley 3y ago
An elite-like for Playdate.
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by fredley 3y ago
Aren't Glassdoor's reviews pretty much a scam anyway? Last I heard companies can pay $$ to gain moderation control over their own profile to delete/downrank bad reviews.
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by fredley 3y ago
The way you make an addictive anything: * Random, variable rewards, with the possibility for really great rewards. * In as many different ways as you can feasibly include. * Optimise for 'near-misses', which have been shown to inc
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Doom via Console.log()(mattcozendey.github.io)
2 points by fredley 3y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 3y ago
I'm a WFH worker. My company is fully remote. They are really great at managing departures and make sure everyone's aware and has a chance to say goodbye. However I can't shake this feeling that the mindset that got us from t
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How Does a "Reverse Sprinkler" Work?(nyu.edu)
1 points by fredley 3y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 3y ago
It's interesting that despite being a BBC article, the customers supposedly ditching them are nearly all US retailers, with only one very minor UK retailer mentioned. From my experience (in the UK) they tend to work well if staffed app
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by fredley 3y ago
Not as big as King's Chapel over the road though!
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by fredley 3y ago
Photopea is an embarrassment to GIMP. I had a very similar experience trying to use GIMP once. Using Photopea was seamless and easy and it hasn't lacked any feature I've wanted yet.
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by fredley 3y ago
That's how I was rolling until I got a new (to me!) car to replace a very old banger. It has phone connectivity and it's great, but it basically requires voice control, which works quite well. This meant I had to re enable the Goo
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by fredley 3y ago
On language, in Britain there was (and still is to an extent) a whole host of words that would mark you as 'non-U' (aspirant middle class) rather than 'U' (upper class). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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Ghost in the Machine: How Fake Parts Infiltrated Airline Fleets(bloomberg.com)
2 points by fredley 3y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 3y ago
At times it can feel like being trapped in a nation of self-saboteurs.
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by fredley 3y ago
A House Through Time, series 3, is one of the best portraits of Bristol I think I've ever seen. Astonishing television. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000jjn8/a-house-throu...
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by fredley 3y ago
Bristolian here (nice to see others here too!) Painting houses like this is quite common in Wales, near the sea particularly. See places like Tenby. Bristol being very close to Wales means it does have more cultural crossover than the rest
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by fredley 3y ago
I now wear a cheap (~£20) vintage mechanical watch. It tells the time. It does need charging every day or two, but charging only takes a few seconds and doesn't require an adapter or power socket.
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by fredley 3y ago
In any other field of engineering, the engineers are all trained and qualified. In software 'engineering', not so much.
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by fredley 3y ago
Have you read Sahil Lavingia's blog? https://sahillavingia.com/reflecting
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by fredley 3y ago
No micro transactions, offline single player. A luxury in 2023.
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by fredley 3y ago
Tim's book "Almost Everything there is to Know" had a profound impact on me as a child. I was lucky enough to see him give a talk once in Cambridge. He's as disarmingly curious and chaotic as you might expect. A true her
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Control vs. Acceptance(healthydev.substack.com)
1 points by fredley 3y ago|1 comments
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by fredley 3y ago
Just let me exclude songs from recommendations, please. There are songs that are superficially similar to those I enjoy, but that I never want to hear. It's infuriating.

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