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by noneeeed 7y ago
One of the unexpectedly adventurous organisations when it comes to playgrounds in the uk is the National Trust. When I was a kid, a visit to an NT property was being dragged around some posh house where you couldn't touch anything. Som
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by noneeeed 7y ago
I'm 41, I frequently have to remind myself of just how far tech has come in just the time I've been alive, especially when dealing with bewildered older people. My first computer, the ZX Spectrum, was simple enough that we assembl
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by noneeeed 7y ago
That's a lovely and succinct way of putting it. I really dislike the way so many companies are pushing ml based systems as some kind of scientific, perfect, measure for difficult human problems like recruitment.
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by noneeeed 7y ago
While I'm not sure how big a force this will be, it's definitely an issue for SaaS products targetting enterprise customers. I've seen this come up first hand. Hard to know how big an effect it will be though.
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by noneeeed 7y ago
I love push to kindle, thank you :) I've been using it for a while and it changed the way I read the web. I subscribe to RSS feeds with Feedly, then use p2k to send the ones I want to read. Then when I'm eating my lunch I can read
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Hah, yes, brain-fart. Although some of the stuff they covered in the classes would have been enough to put many off having kids if they were not already very pregnant :)
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Something I've noticed is that some parents think that you can't be "firm" without being some strict victorian ogre of a parent. Even when they are little (perhaps especially) you can insist on things without being some
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by noneeeed 7y ago
We and most of the parents we know probably spend more time talking about the crappy bits of parenting than how awesome our kids are. The single best part of doing anti-natal classes was meeting a small group of people who were all going th
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Something like that has been tried before, using a timer display. It was pretty disastrous because people accelerated to beat the red. I think this was in China, so perhaps in other countries it might work better if the driving culture was
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by noneeeed 7y ago
I'm not sure if I misunderstand you, but that seems dangerous What if it changes to yellow just before you get to the line, are you supposed to slam on the breaks or risk getting a fine for going through on amber? In the UK the amber m
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Yep. While Faster Payments is brilliant, BACS' overnight processing and the direct debit system is total sufficient for the vast majority of cases, certainly things like bill payments.
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Wow, that is bonkers. I pay our childminder by bank transfer. Its almost instant to do from my phone, free, and I just put the invoice number in the reference field. The idea that banks would print and post cheques is like something from th
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by noneeeed 7y ago
American banking infrastructure is weirdly antiquated. For a long time I was confused by Americans raving about things like venmo or bitcoin talking about it making it cheap and easy to transfer money. Then I learnt more about the US bankin
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by noneeeed 7y ago
So if you were paying an invoice, is there no way to add the invoice number/reference to the transaction? Do people pay everything with cheques?
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by noneeeed 7y ago
As an organiser, I'm genuinly stunned by how poorly thought out this model is. It fundamentally changes the relationship between me and my attendees. Suddenly they are paying to attend. The fact that I get non of that money is irreleva
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by noneeeed 7y ago
I keep seeing lots of meetup alternatives, but meetups network effect was always too strong. It will be fascinating to see if this is what finally puts a chink in that armour. Meetup has been a pretty shoddy product for quite a long time, I
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Yep, I was a chronic insomniac. During the worst period (about 15-18yo) I had a few times where I'd start seeing things, getting paranoid or just generally really disordered thought pattern. If you generally sleep well, then the occasi
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Something that helped me with my insomnia was to fix my waking schedule. I rigged up a low power beside light on a timer, a radio alarm clock and an alarm clock. I set each to come on about 5 minutes after the one before, with the radio tun
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by noneeeed 7y ago
I've often wondered about this. Many of the places I see them, they seem so very out of place in the context of the main content of the page. I would love to know what the percentage of clickthroughs actually is, and how valuable they
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by noneeeed 7y ago
I have the same problem with Alexa. I was trying to get it to play Keith Jarrrets "Köln Concert" album. I doesn't matter how I pronounce "Köln" I cannot get it to understand what I want. I ended up having to create
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by noneeeed 7y ago
I could understand making that an option though, as presumably the distances on signs will be in km. But as usual with this sort of thing, it's developers assuming they know best rather than suggesting and asking.
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Google maps butchers a lot of place names in the UK even when it's set to British English. In fareness, that's because many are simply not spelt phonetically. Driving around Wales or Cornwall are particularly fun, it really can&#x
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by noneeeed 7y ago
I spent a while looking through the registered birth names data for about 5 years while we were naming our kids. Each year was in Excel sheets, which changed format repeatedly. It was really annoying. Moving over to providing everything as
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by noneeeed 7y ago
From my experiences with coffee machines that produce cappacinos, the act of frothing milk seems to be one of those tasks that is much more difficult to automate than I would have thought. I've had a few that were passable, but none th
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Depends on the source of course. McDonalds in the UK claim to fuel about half their fleet of delivery vehicle with the used oil from their own restaurants. If you get the source right, biofuels are great. But as you say, get it wrong (e.g.
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by noneeeed 7y ago
I recommend a podcast from the World Service called "50 Things that Made the modern Economy". They are short (8min) episodes, by Tim Harford (the Undercover Economist). Some of them are the obvious, but there are also many less so
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by noneeeed 7y ago
I'm the same with Prolog. I love the language, but I have only once worked somewhere that used it for an actual problem.
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by noneeeed 7y ago
The last I heard about anechoic chambers, most people can't stay in them for very long, apparently it's incredibly unsettling after a while.
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by noneeeed 7y ago
I like that if you eat a healthier and more varied diet you end up with a more complex password.
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by noneeeed 7y ago
That was my textbook at York Uni back in 2000, it was a great book. I recently got a new copy and quickly realised that I have forgotten most of the maths that I used to know, so first I need to do a refresher on that :) That book taught m

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