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by mathw 10y ago
I've started buying microfiltered milk (am in the UK) because I've always had trouble with milk going off before I can use it all when buying ordinary pasteurised milk, but the microfiltered milk stays fresh plenty long enough to
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by mathw 10y ago
Are any of these nutritionally equivalent to cow's milk? Or human milk? Or some kind of adult-biased version of human milk? Oh wait, yeah. Soylent, Huel, Mana, 100%Food etc. etc. etc. are effectively "artificial milk for adult hum
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by mathw 10y ago
Whole milk is delicious and wonderful and soothing and lovely not-quite-white comfort in a glass. Or straight out of the bottle, I'm not fussed. Yeah, I live alone, why do you ask?
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by mathw 10y ago
The article's introduction explains the uncertainty principle as the observer effect, where the process of measurement changes a system. Which it's not, quantum uncertainty is a fundamental consequence of the underlying physics, i
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by mathw 10y ago
Last time I tried to use Clojure CLR, all the useful libraries were JVM-only because they called out to JVM libs underneath.
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by mathw 10y ago
It might be fun. I don't know that you'd gain much in the real world though. Starting such a project now? Rust, for sure, for me anyway. But is it worth rewriting Curl? I agree with the author there, it most probably isn't.
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by mathw 10y ago
The press release says "gameplay and balance have been precisely preserved". If that doesn't include the pathfinding algorithms, complete with bugs, I don't know what would.
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by mathw 10y ago
Very strange. Neither of my cats have ever paid the slightest bit of attention to the contents of any screen on any device I own. Yet I know people whose cats like to watch television, so there's some thing going on where some cats see
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by mathw 10y ago
Given that the major appeal of Twitter is the ease with which you can reach effectively unlimited numbers of people, I doubt that would be a very popular move. It might be more feasible to charge people for following other people. Or just o
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by mathw 10y ago
Does depend where you are though. If you're in London or Paris or in easy reach of the Eurostar stations by train, then Eurostar is amazing. If you're in the north of England, it'll take you longer to get to London than it wi
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by mathw 10y ago
It's awful. I know plenty of straight guys who have a "gay-sounding" voice, and I'm gay but people tell me I sound "straight", which at least in my experience means this is all complete nonsense. What they real
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by mathw 10y ago
You have to remember there are layers of governance here. The EU is a conglomerate formed of democratic member states. The Commissioners are appointed by those individual governments (which have to be democratic, it's a requirement of
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by mathw 10y ago
"Willingly". Yeah. We all changed our minds the moment the result came in because "the people have spoken". Rupert bloody Murdoch has spoken more like.
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by mathw 10y ago
"The people" did not tell them to do this. It's not like it was unanimous. 48% of those who voted voted to Remain 52% of those who voted voted to Leave 28% of the electorate didn't bother to vote But "the will of th
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by mathw 10y ago
Well, most of the dire economic predictions of Brexit would never pan out until Brexit actually happens anyway, so it's way too early to expect that. It's not like things were going to collapse immediately upon the result of the v
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by mathw 10y ago
I'd concur. It's mostly around tooling for me (and Stack has helped here) but whenever I pick up Haskell for an out-of-work project now I end up putting it down again. I find Rust increasingly pleasing, although the lack of constr
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by mathw 10y ago
I never found monads particularly difficult. I still don't understand what the problem is with them. It's just a box with some "stuff" in, a function that makes a new box with a thing inside, and a function that takes a
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by mathw 10y ago
BotW does this to an extent... if you die of heat exhaustion in a desert, you probably want to come back later when the story's gently guided you into acquiring heat-resistant clothes. Or you could locate the ingredients for heat-resis
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by mathw 10y ago
Is better TLS interception actually possible? Is it just that it's usually badly implemented, or is it a fundamental weakening? Other than the unavoidable weakening of having another system seeing the unencrypted data, which is inheren
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by mathw 10y ago
I've played both, but The Witcher 3 didn't engage me at all. In gameplay it felt like a poor imitation of Skyrim. Breath of the Wild, on the other hand, is repeatedly delightful and entertaining, and has me exploring just for the
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by mathw 10y ago
Yes. Yes. What we need in helping us find the games we will love is an understanding that not everyone likes the same things. Some reviewers do acknowledge this, but far from all, and a lot of it boils down to finding individual reviewers y
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by mathw 10y ago
Yes that's a good characteristic - it's sometimes too responsive. But not consistently, so you can't actually get used to it. The imitation TrackPoint is even worse, which is quite a feat if it was done deliberately.
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by mathw 10y ago
The Witcher 3 did nothing at all to show me this in the time I played it. Admittedly I didn't get very far, but by the time I'd not enjoyed it for a good 15 hours or so I thought it was about time to do something more entertaining
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by mathw 10y ago
Honestly I started out thinking this article was satirical, and I'm not at all convinced it's not now, but it's a bit difficult to tell around the author's probably-non-native grasp of English. Everyone else seems to be
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by mathw 10y ago
There's a bit of music that occasionally appears which seems to reference the dawn theme, but a lot of standard Zelda musical cues are mostly absent, and almost none of the ones that are there go where you'd expect. The approach t
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by mathw 10y ago
Minecraft can be good fun. KOTOR is pretty awesome. The Witcher 3 I thought was awful. I'd suggest watching some gameplay video from it first and see if you like the setting, because the gameplay's not good enough to overrule that
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by mathw 10y ago
The characters repelled me, I hated playing as Gruff Brooding Manly Man all the time. I could have dealt with that perhaps, but because the gameplay systems had so many issues I just put it down again and never even had a flicker of interes
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by mathw 10y ago
Well, you can automate music making, but the automated systems tend to produce incredibly generic music that's fairly bland and kind of aimless. We still need that creative spark to give it emotional content, direction and to break the
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by mathw 10y ago
No laptop these days should have a terrible trackpad. There's just no excuse for it anymore. It's like people producing Windows laptops without including a Precision Touchpad. Why would you do that to your customers? My work l
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by mathw 10y ago
Well, you can blame them, because they could have picked a browser that's rather more up to date.

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