noneeeed

80 ms·

391.
by noneeeed 5y ago
Totally agree with you on that. However a slight variation about joking with kids that I find does work surprisingly well is the totally exhagerrated consequences. But it really has to be totally over the top and utterly unbelievable, the s
392.
by noneeeed 5y ago
This is apparantly one of the reasons actions around the ozone hole got broad support. Margaret Thatcher had been a chemist before getting into politics, she understood the science that was being presented to her when the issue first became
393.
by noneeeed 5y ago
I saw something similar with my gf in uni. She hadn't had a computer at home and she was really intimidated by the computers there. It wasn't just because she was unused to them, but she was petrified of breaking them. It wasn&#x2
394.
by noneeeed 5y ago
I try to keep this in mind with my kids. I try to not worry too much about them breaking stuff, and where possible put them in situations where they can experiment and try stuff without risk of screwing something up. Although I also like to
395.
by noneeeed 5y ago
The most dispiriting day of my childhood was when I discovered that the write connection to the tape deck on my Spectrum +2a had failed and the day's worth of code I'd written had been lost and I had a blank tape.
396.
by noneeeed 5y ago
New homes, certainly in the UK are double-skinned with insulation between the layers. In the past most were double-brick, but some combination of brick and timber has become common.
397.
by noneeeed 5y ago
I'd say most people probably have their heating set to 21 to 22, which for most of the year is more than the external temperature (hence why so few houses here have AC).
398.
by noneeeed 5y ago
It's our climate. During the really hot spells we had this year our butter melted at least partially when not kept in the fridge. The rest of the year we can keep butter out of the fridge. If it was consistently 5-10 degrees hotter tha
399.
by noneeeed 5y ago
That's basically the idea in The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson. It's years since I read it but it's set in a world of nanoengineering where whatever you need can be created out of common feedstock.
400.
by noneeeed 5y ago
Yes, they are normally used in conjunction with testing. But they are also used in conjunction with careful systems engineering to minimise the amount of code that needs to go through the most rigerous processes and focus on what really mat
401.
by noneeeed 5y ago
I loved Dune 2000 when I was a teenager, but I remember never finishing it. The last couple of maps were just too hard for me to beat for all the reasons you listed. I think my sister managed it but it took several goes.
402.
by noneeeed 5y ago
This is similar to how some homeless people will turn down the offer of a temporary bed. Having a night in a clean bed just makes the following night feel worse. Once you're used to it, it can be easier to live with discomfort, or dull
403.
by noneeeed 5y ago
I agree, I think it's a great pedagogical language for teaching a lot of concepts. Our algorithms and data structures course was taught in it. It was great for learning real-time systems as its built in concurrancy primitives are so go
404.
by noneeeed 5y ago
I'm pretty sure I had Andy for the real time systems course in my third year. A good lecturer if I remember correctly.
405.
by noneeeed 5y ago
I loved using Ada for concurrancy at university. I'm always surprised how few languages seem to have such a good built in concurrancy toolkit. I guess it's more use in the contexts where Ada is normally found.
406.
by noneeeed 5y ago
Did you got to the University of York? I did and I've never met anyone from another uni who learned Ada. I think I was lucky to go and work for a company where I got to do both Ada (specifically SPARK) and Prolog in a professional capa
407.
by noneeeed 5y ago
Thanks. Luckily we managed to get her into a really good home for the last few months, which made the end easier on her, but that kind of age and innactivity related decline is a rubbish way to end your life. It's made me rather evange
408.
by noneeeed 5y ago
This is ultimately what killed my mum. She stopped moving. Once that happens so many things in the body just don't work so well. Combined with her other ailments her body just didn't work properly any more. She initially went down
409.
by noneeeed 5y ago
> What I know is we're born to this world knowing how to eat, breathe, cry, and a couple other things Something I found interesting about having kids was the realisation that even some of those things had to be learnt to some extent
410.
by noneeeed 5y ago
Right, that makes sense. Also, that sucks. Capital "P" politics really is a grubby business.
411.
by noneeeed 5y ago
Sorry, not from the US so I might be missing something, but the link you posted was about someone from the Democrats. Did your friend switch parties after that election (I wouldn't be surprised if that kind of thing had happened)?
412.
by noneeeed 5y ago
If you visit the Roman Baths here in Bath they have a load of lead tablets that were thrown into the water as prayers/requests to the gods/curses, I love how like an angry facebook complaint some of them are. I'm alway hugely
413.
by noneeeed 5y ago
I hadn't even considered those. It would be interesting to see how confused Telsa FSD got when confronted by something like that.
414.
by noneeeed 5y ago
Just checked it out on google. What a beautiful place. My scepticism around SD cars in places like that and Bath is not even the roads themselves, but the traffic. The are quite a lot of roads around me that are quite narrow and frequently
415.
by noneeeed 5y ago
I don't think most people in the UK who express an opinion on it have ever actually used it. I used to live round the corner from the magic roundabout. It's actually fine. The best analogy I have for it is juggling, if I concentra
416.
by noneeeed 5y ago
As someone who lives in Bath, an old european city with roads (and other drivers) that can give experienced human drivers a nervous breakdown I'm rather more interested in how they do in SF than their current deployment in Phoenix. Fro
417.
by noneeeed 5y ago
This was both awesome and frustrating. I remeber not being able to play networked games with friends at university because they had hardware that was a couple of years newer and the difference in performance and in what games we could run w
418.
by noneeeed 5y ago
I've always felt the defensiveness/unease from some in the deaf community is understandable, even if I think fitting kids with things like implants is a good idea. Being deaf, certainly up to the widespread use of the internet in
419.
by noneeeed 5y ago
No, and the author says as much > I am by no means saying that developing electric cars or reusable rockets is not brave, hard, and impressively inventive work. This work does, however, build on large bodies of prior work and on existing
420.
by noneeeed 5y ago
The podcast this story is from has been pretty interesting if you're interested in the social side of technology. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09ndpbv As much as I miss people using old-school smilies, emoji

More ›