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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Look at it from the flip-side. You, a classic theatre orientated studio, are looking for a distributer for your new film called 'Big Bangs & Car Chases', now you know that Netflix is a viable place to put your expensive film,
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
But that is the whole point of a 'hollywood type' movie. It's pure escapism for 90+ minutes, even if you can guess early on how it's going to play out. For people who don't like these type of movies, there are plent
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Title needs the word 'Combatting...' re-inserted, else it's contrary to the article.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
The 24Hz/fps thing is a legacy from original film where it was the sweet spot that created the effect of a moving image without too much flicker, unfortunately you seem to be one of those people who are sensitive to this frame rate. Th
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Can't you just insert a GPO registry entry to simulate a corporate policy to set the new tab page as blank? In fact if that works, a small tool to build/set fake GPOs for Edge would be quite useful.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Ok, so I have a dynamic page hosted externally. It's set as my homepage on all my browsers. It's full of links to things I use. Some of those links are on my internal network, and are NOT https (seriously, for small things/ap
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Person buys a phone, it's not got massive amounts of storage because person is not rich. On the box it says the phone has 64GB of storage (we could call that RAM, but it's not like a computers RAM as it's persistent). Person
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
The blurry mess of fast CGI is NOT down to the 24fps problem. As the action is so fast, it's faster to render complex scenes in lower detail CGI as the eye (mostly) can't see it. However if you pause the action, you can clearly se
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
I read recently, that the Hobbit films have been re-colour graded to align them with the main Lord of the Rings films in the latest UHD 4k box set.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Hacker News group-think is strong these days. Instead of bothering to stop and post a counter-reply, many just downvote like it's Reddit, and move on. I've been a few times recently, whereas in the past my counter opinions would h
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Maybe I don't have the spare capital as I'm a fledgling start-up, but still want to be able to reach as many people as possible?
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Matrix's need exponentially more computing power, and current injection every 1000 LEDs or so. I've been looking into a 1m x 2m matrix xmas display for one of my house windows, and have decided to use low density strips to keep th
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
> The best practice as of 2021 is to take your existing, best-performing content and get it professionally translated or re-written. Yeah because we've all got money to burn on hiring translators. Another example of small websites
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Farmers, then Vikings, then Weather, Then MORE farming, then the English, then World War 1.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
In a completely different vein, there's also Nuclear War for the Amiga: https://youtu.be/_SFq7q3Yueo (Not my video; first one that popped up on a search)
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
To have full rights in a civilised society, you need to prove that you can be a good citizen first. What's wrong with that?
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
My opinion on this, is that they should hide BOTH the counts, and only the creator can see it. Keep the actual buttons, as they signal to YouTube what you do and do not want to see in future, but the actual counts only have use to the creat
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What Is Frobnicate?(techopedia.com)
2 points by mattowen_uk 5y ago|0 comments
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Fabric technology: Modified silk keeps skin 12°C cooler than cotton(newscientist.com)
1 points by mattowen_uk 5y ago|0 comments
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
The cost of a removed phone box in poor condition is a few thousand pounds, and good condition ones are over 10k GBP. Not a cheap option for something that s just decorative. That said, many people do buy them and put them in their gardens.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
I had MX-510/518s for YEARS, until I went wireless. I now use a M510 and it's a good replacement. I never used the side buttons though. I just like the weight and shape.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
> It was possible to run AMIGA UNIX (also known as Amix) on AMIGA hardware. That was an AT&T Unix System V Release 4 developed as alternative to default AmigaOS but you needed Amiga A3000UX hardware for that. Correction: Any Amiga
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Agreed it's on the 'magic' scale. For the universe to work, everything (down to the sub-atomic level) has to be moving all the time[1]. To observe movement, you have to have a timeframe. And everything needs to be moving in
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Is this article satire? ...described by Ernest Cline in his masterpiece Ready Player One I stopped reading at that point, as RP1 is turgid 80s-fan-boy scribblings and hardly a 'masterpiece'. But, maybe I didn't get the joke
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Looking at the NUM protocol, this looks a lot like X500 type addressing format glued into a DNS record. Conceptually the idea had legs, but I can't see wholesale adoption of it. Whilst all (most?) of the records are hosted at Num.net i
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Users with enough Karma can 'vouch' for a flagged entry, and effectively de-flag it if they think the flagging is erroneous. Flagging isn't a one-way street.
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New Microsoft technology will make your web apps run a lot faster(techrepublic.com)
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
iPlayer link for those in the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p093wp6h/cant-get-you...
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
OK, good to know, thanks!
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Password Managers all have the concept of a 'Primary' user, who shares access to passwords etc. with 'Secondary' users. The primary can cut off the secondary at any point, but not the other way around. For couples/g

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