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by noneeeed 6y ago
Thanks, that's described my thoughts about his films really well, I could never quite explainy problem with them. I think they are good, but they are almost too well made, too persuasive. If they were less well made I'd come away
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by noneeeed 6y ago
I find a lot of the science being done at the moment truly astonishing, the precision and scale of many of the measurements being made are mind-blowing. The sensitivity of instruments like LIGO is hard to get your head around.
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by noneeeed 6y ago
I've been reading William DAlhrymple's "The Anarchy", which is a history of the East India Company and how it was pretty much responsible for the initial colonization of India. The simple fact that the colonization start
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by noneeeed 6y ago
As far as I'm aware, Lego have never produced models of contemporary weapons. So you have been able to get medieval, fantasy or sci-fi themed models with weapons, but not a tank or warplane. It isn't a recent decision, and nothing
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by noneeeed 6y ago
I think it meant you wrap it in pastry, like you do with a beef wellington.
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by noneeeed 6y ago
Amazon appears to be determined to make itself an untrustworthy place to buy stuff. It's like it's actively trying to get itself lumped in with eBay as a "tat-bazaa" as The Register likes to call it. I've become inc
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by noneeeed 6y ago
Interesting, this seems much better than the "lateral-flow" tests that we've started using in the UK for mass community testing. Apparantly those are only detecting about 50% of positive cases (not sure what the symptomatic&#
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by noneeeed 6y ago
As a total monoglot who regrets not learning languages properly when he was a kid, this still seems pretty obvious to me that at least I don't read code in the way I read natural language, or maths. However it's always good to hav
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by noneeeed 6y ago
Yeah, 99% Invisible did an episode on this a while back. It really was a wicked thing to do, and in the process also bought out the worst in society as a whole.
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by noneeeed 6y ago
This is one of the small number of takeovers (along with Sparrow and Dark Sky) that actually make me angry, because they deprived everyone of something really great, for little apparent benefit. The fact that so many people use Slack, but t
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by noneeeed 6y ago
No. I think that's the new turbolinks.
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by noneeeed 6y ago
My spelling has always been bad. I'm not dyslexic, but I did get extra help as a kid. In theory spellcheckers should be great for me. But in reality I seem to make spelling mistakes that leave some checkers unable to make useful sugges
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by noneeeed 6y ago
Ah, but that's the best thing about being given food, you can share it with other people in a way you can't with other presents. In fact I often find the person who gave me the food will be really up for trying whatever it was wit
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by noneeeed 6y ago
I too hate being bought stuff that I don't need or want. Honestly I have too much stuff as it is, and nothing I already own needs replacing. The idea of yet more stuff entering my life, creating needless waste is actually a little di
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by noneeeed 6y ago
Can anyone give a TLDR of what is significant about Ethereum 2.0 for those of us who don't follow this stuff much? As blockchain tech goes, Ethereum always seemed the most interesting.
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by noneeeed 6y ago
The first. Long lingering after effects. For some they are fairly minor, but for many they seem to be quite tough, with significant problems doing any kind of physical activity. At the moment it's all quite nebulous, with a lot of anec
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by noneeeed 6y ago
I love his observations about the nature of magic and power. Terry is top of my list of people I wish I'd met while they were alive, he had a tremendously humane view of people and what makes for a good world.
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by noneeeed 6y ago
That's one of my low-key worries in life. People go through life apparantly happy and healthy, and then bam some event unlocks or triggers something and they spend the rest of their life with crippling, life changing mental illness.
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by noneeeed 6y ago
The concept of the apprentice has come back into vogue here in the UK. It doesn't work eveywhere, but I know a couple of firms who bring in cohorts of apprentices in the same way they do with graduates. They use a local company to do t
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by noneeeed 6y ago
Indeed. I understand why some of this is necessary, but a lot of it seems to be a kind of process bleed, where "how we do things" in on part of the system just gets copied across without any real thought as to whether it's re
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by noneeeed 6y ago
Something to consider in these kinds of cases is that you're not just paying for a more complex physical product, but the the cost of actually designing and certifying the device. The market for the basic stick is massive, so the cost
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by noneeeed 6y ago
I keep reading the description but I'm really struggling to come up with a common use case for this. A number of ISPs in the UK (I think both BT and Sky) used to do something similar (possibly still do), where you would add a special n
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by noneeeed 6y ago
Yeah, the fact that this doesn't even need a freezer is great news. The fact that we have three highly effective vaccines in such a short period is amazing and between them we might stand a chance of making and distributing them at the
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by noneeeed 6y ago
If we're talking magpies, then I have to drop a link to this wonderfully eerie setting of the old magpie rhyme ("one for sorrow, two for joy... etc") by the Unthank sisters https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fPbWE
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by noneeeed 6y ago
Indeed. I've heard that frustration a number of times where they try to increase the font size and the layout becomes unusable. Invariably it's because the designer has tried to be way too clever.
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by noneeeed 6y ago
Thanks, that makes sense.
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by noneeeed 6y ago
Accessibility is not something I know much about (I mostly work backend). What's the issue with this type of approach? I was tempted to use it as a starting point for a little side project, but Id rather not start with something with i
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by noneeeed 6y ago
This is specifically design to improve legibility for people with vision problems . It's designed by the Braille Institute who I assume know what they are doing. The relative legibility between fonts for people with good vision is pro
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by noneeeed 6y ago
Cool, thanks for the recommendation, those look great.
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by noneeeed 6y ago
Ouch. I feel you. My girlfriend of 5 years broke up with me when I was considering proposing. It totally knocked me off the rails for some time. Suddenly all my ideas for what the future held turned to dust. I can't imagine how much mo

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