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by noneeeed 8y ago
Yeah, I got really into the whole auto-stereo effect when I was a kid, started drawing them when I was bored in class, so being able to play a computer game like that was pretty cool at the time.
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by noneeeed 8y ago
I wish more people online were like this. I've basically given up on Reddit because the discussions in many of the major subs devolve very rapidly to a "you are an X, therefore your argument is junk because you are stupid/evi
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by noneeeed 8y ago
A quick suggestion that would help people to "lock-on" to the effect, add two small coloured dots the distance of the stereo separation. It makes it easier to work out if you've managed to uncross your eyes the right amount.
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Hah, came here to make that comment. Love that game. If I remember right there were a couple of of other modes, including a red/blue glasses version.
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Yeah, that's always been my issue too. There seems to be something about the elasticity of the human face, and the interactions of all the small muscles, that seems to be especially difficult to model. This demo does at least seem to d
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Thanks, that was really helpful. I find it interesting how differently countries around the world do essentially the same thing. I quite like the idea of having someone find houses for me, although with most houses in the UK being on either
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by noneeeed 8y ago
TIL! I've only ever seen it used in the generic sense online, a bit like the way we talk about "a hoover" when we mean "a vacuum cleaner".
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Is there a significant difference between what an "estate agent" (UK) and a "realtor" (US) do? Are they more involved in the actual legal side of things (the sort of thing a conveyancing solicitor would do in the UK), o
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by noneeeed 8y ago
The one advantage of living a reasonable distance from our families is that we get to use "we have to get it in the car" as an excuse for people buying us less. It at least tends to keep the size to a reasonable level.
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Definitely. Mine are 2 and 4 at the moment, but I think I can probably start working on the older one, getting him to donate some of his to charity. I'll probably use the excuse that it's his birthday in August and we need to star
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by noneeeed 8y ago
I'm so glad you wrote that, because you put down what I was thinking much more succinctly than I could.
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by noneeeed 8y ago
We had a party recently where they explicitly asked everyone not to bring a present, and it was just fine. None of the kids minded and the birthday girl certainly didn't seem to care. I've also noticed a push-back against party ba
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by noneeeed 8y ago
That's extremely well put, and pretty much matches how I felt this christmas. My son was visibly tired of all the presents, he practically had to be made to open some of the later ones. For a kid who doesn't really like any kind o
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Yup, sounds familiar :) I often think that many of life's problems come down to an issue of asymmetry. From the giver's perspective it's just a couple of presents, but from the receiver's (or their parents) its an avalan
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by noneeeed 8y ago
I really wish we had more of that culture. Unfortunately we've sort of bought (excuse the pun) into the idea that you have to give loads of presents as some sign of affection. In our case it isn't like the presents are all really
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by noneeeed 8y ago
I've been trying to push back on the number of presents my kids get, both from us and from our parents/family, but it's really an uphill struggle. At Christmas my son hit a point where each successive wave of toys stopped hav
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Hah, yeah, we get the same sort of thing occasionally. Our 4.5 and (almost) 2yo are in a bunk bed. Sometimes my son (4) will just repeatedly come up with dumb reasons why he shouldn't be in bed. You can handle each on of these, but at
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by noneeeed 8y ago
The bit about punctuality is really important. My eldest is 4.5yo, he only has a rough idea of time, and is only just understanding the idea of needing to be somewhere at a set time. So me getting frustrated with him because he's dawdl
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by noneeeed 8y ago
So I've come to realised a few of things that have made things easier for me. First up, just accepting that I'm not not going to be perfect and there are going to be times when I take the easy way out (like this morning when I jus
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Yeah, I've been frustrated so many times over my career when people get fixated over the sticker price of some SaaS/PaaS and instead insist on wasting rediculous hours building something or gaffa-taping some open-source solution t
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by noneeeed 8y ago
This is what lead me to switch to using their website on mobile, rather than the app. The same goes for LinkedIn, which I had the app for perhaps a week before I got fed up with its bullshit. I still have messenger for the tiny number of pe
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Likewise. I've always been curious as to just how significant an impact all this behavioural ad-serving actually has on the impact of their marketing budget. We assume that things like AdSense must provide better ROI than simple dumb p
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by noneeeed 8y ago
That's good to know. Something I found interesting was the problem of many rural people not really having a formal address. It's so easy to take for granted that everyone has a house number and street with some kind of postal code
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Aah, right, that makes a lot of sense.
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Can anyone explain to me why these flights end up being cheaper in the first place? I know that airline pricing can be quite odd, but charging less for two flights than for one just seems to defy logic. What am I missing?
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Wish I could find it, but I read an article recently about all the work Amazon is putting into India, working with small traders to handle ordering, payment and delivery in person etc when you can't rely on things like the postal servi
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by noneeeed 8y ago
In my case it was the online subscription, not the paper one. Which I think makes the lack of easy cancellation even worse :/
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Not negating what you wrote, but I think the parent comment was referring more to reading "to" children being a good thing in an of itself. I believe there are a number of theorised factors: encouraging an interest in books before
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Don't feel guilty. The other thing you can do is donate those books forward (assuming they've not completely fallen apart), to a community library, or a local school. Children's books, especially for younger kids, can take a
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by noneeeed 8y ago
Pretty much this. In the past I've signed up to NowTV (UK streaming service) solely to get Game of Thrones for about two months of the year. They make it really easy to stop and start your packages. If it was hard to leave I'm not

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