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by frereubu 2y ago
This is a great idea. I can't see the icon on the Warehouse site though - can you point me to it? How do people come to know about what the icon does?
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by frereubu 2y ago
Thanks, that's really useful to know - I might try and implement something like that on the sites that we run.
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by frereubu 2y ago
That information is out there, but people in these kinds of circumstances don't always have unrestricted internet time to research it. They might just be able to snatch a few minutes here and here and therefore not know much about how
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by frereubu 2y ago
Does anybody have any stats for the use of these kinds of buttons? A few of our clients - victim services and honour-based abuse services - ask us to add these kinds of buttons, but I've always wondered they actually get used instead o
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by frereubu 2y ago
The UK NHS website is usually pretty good for this so sticking "NHS" in the search terms might help, although I imagine they may not cover non-UK brand names.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Princetown to the city centre of Plymouth is 15 miles. If the entire way was 20mph then it would be 45 minutes rather than the 30 minutes if it was 30mph. But that's under ideal conditions where you're driving at a constant speed
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by frereubu 2y ago
There's an area of the brain called the fusiform face area which, despite its name, may actually be an area that's involved in visual expertise rather than faces per se: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusiform_
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by frereubu 2y ago
There are plenty of brown-field sites where NIMBYs have managed to block housing, including places like old gas works, which thankfully seems to be changing under the new government. We don't need to build or have high speed limits on
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by frereubu 2y ago
The way you've phrased this comes across as a counterpoint, but both of these things can be true and need fixing. It doesn't have to be either / or.
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by frereubu 2y ago
After getting really annoyed with the pseudoscientific naming around this I built a whole site about it a couple of decades ago to get to the top of search results and got threatened with a lawsuit by Danone... https://whatisbifi
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by frereubu 2y ago
I imagine for such a small island chain you'd need a "parent" country to provide services, so picking the one where most people when when they were exiled probably makes sense. May also be a language thing?
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by frereubu 2y ago
You may be right historically, but I don't think it's common practice any more - there are quite a few "virtual freehold" leases of 999 years, and most other domestic leaseholds are 125+ years when they start. When a lea
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by frereubu 2y ago
Reminds me very much of the Masquerade book in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book)
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by frereubu 2y ago
"What the adult brain does to excessive screen time". I imagine there are probably feedback loops here too.
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by frereubu 2y ago
That's too dismissive in my view. Duolingo isn't as good as in-person lessons, but it's still way better than nothing. I'd also argue that grammar exercises are cripplingly boring for most people, so if the choice is not
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by frereubu 2y ago
I imagine, like most things, it's on a spectrum. No screen (for the first hour of the day) is probably better than Duolingo, which is better than doomscrolling. I also imagine it varies between people. I can get overstimulated by scree
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by frereubu 2y ago
This sounds like hocus pocus to me, along the lines of the claim that phone alert tones activate the "love centre" of the brain. Just so happens that the "love centre" is also the "vomiting centre" along with a
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by frereubu 2y ago
This is the crux of the bigger picture. I'm pretty sure all carmakers want to do this and they'll introduce it gradually, keeping an eye on each other to make sure that they're all doing it roughly in tandem so the vast major
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by frereubu 2y ago
You might enjoy this piece by Charles Simic, which is a touchstone of mine: "I’m having trouble deciding whether I understand the world better now that I’m in my seventies than I did when I was younger, or whether I’m becoming more and
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by frereubu 2y ago
Showing my age a bit here, but when I think of her this film is always what I'm reminded of. That phrase "I am Miss Jean Brodie... and I am in my prime" in her frightfully posh Scottish accent rattles around my head quite a b
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by frereubu 2y ago
My main beef with these menus is that I can't see the entire menu on my phone screen, and end up scrolling up and down multiple times before I can decide what I want to order. With a paper menu my eyes can flick up and down much fast
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by frereubu 2y ago
This is a great run-down and mirrors my experience of reading Fagles, Fitzgerald and Wilson. My favourite though is Christopher Logue's version of the Iliad called War Music - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_
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by frereubu 2y ago
My first thought was some kind of 16-bit sound when you open and complete different brackets, perhaps a different sound for each depth, but I imagine that would become annoying pretty quickly!
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by frereubu 2y ago
I use this, which I use for exactly those kinds of scripts, but I don't really like noises: https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier
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by frereubu 2y ago
I studied for a Fine Art BA, and I don't see an issue with generative AI in art per se. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that what matters is the outcome, not the process. If someone can produce something meaningful to other pe
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by frereubu 2y ago
The name links up nicely with AI enshittification. Although if you wanted to be pedantic, for that metaphor to work you'd really want to call it "gorge" or something more related to ingestion rather than vomiting. (I'm a
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by frereubu 2y ago
Wondering if there are any Stripe people on here who could do something about this as the scammers are using Stripe as their payment processor.
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Scam of the day: the fake "company-registry" preying on new companies(taxpolicy.org.uk)
2 points by frereubu 2y ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 2y ago
I'm saying the left (not everyone by any means) unfairly oversimplifies the views of economists. Absolutely no-one who is taken even vaguely seriously in economics thinks that consumers are rational or that markets are 100% efficient.
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by frereubu 2y ago
I think you misread my comment. I'm saying that's how the left unfairly characterise capitalists / economists, which is particularly unfair in the case of economists.

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