pony_sheared

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by pony_sheared 2y ago
I think the oddness is the LLM content generator conflating information about the 2 types of batteries.
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by pony_sheared 2y ago
I have one of the originals too, I only use it in an emergency (e.g. maintaining a Raspberry Pi) because the trackpad is so awful - I can't type on it because the cursor jumps all over the place. That basically shattered my dream of le
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by pony_sheared 2y ago
You reminded me of one of the first Mac games I got as a kid: Shufflepuck Cafe, I don't think it had spin but the sideways speed of your mouse was imparted on the puck
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by pony_sheared 3y ago
My in-laws had a Dualit toaster. I am convinced this brand only survives in the market because people think they want one to signify that they've "made it", like getting an Aga. The incredibly loud mechanical timer drove us a
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by pony_sheared 3y ago
Duck duck go is worth trying, it's like Google from the old days
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by pony_sheared 3y ago
I started with Droidcam during the pandemic and switched to Iriun. Currently using it with an old iPhone SE over USB, but also used with Huawei P20 Pro. Not many features, but just works. https://iriun.com/
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by pony_sheared 3y ago
I don't know if there are many cricket fans here, but I wondered if this is why - when watching the Ashes highlights of the cricket on BBC iPlayer or YouTube - the ball seems transparent as it runs over the grass.
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by pony_sheared 3y ago
You can refer to this list before naming that -copter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC_numerical_multiplier If enough of us are saying Tetracopter, it will stick.
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by pony_sheared 3y ago
Interesting article, I was initially very confused as I assumed Nautilus was the seabed mining company, which I bid some work to about 15 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_Minerals?wprov=sfla1
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by pony_sheared 3y ago
It's the toilet cubicles. Americans have renormalised having a communal poo like the Romans.
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by pony_sheared 3y ago
Sounds great, but I feel we'll be wading through ads and product placement
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by pony_sheared 3y ago
Beat me to it...
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by pony_sheared 3y ago
Thanks ChatGPT, your land border fact is wrong. Here are some longer borders. Canada - United States 8,893km Kazakhstan - Russia 7,644km Argentina - Chile 6,691km https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103985/border
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by pony_sheared 4y ago
We use todoist for our home shopping (grocery) list. Connecting this to Alexa has been one of the better quality of life improvements for us. After a bit of trial and error we figured out that you don't have to say "Alexa, add mil
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by pony_sheared 4y ago
In London, in an apartment block, I tried BT broadband (60Mbps max), then Virgin cable (100Mbps for £55 / month, prices go up for more speed), then EE 4G (£30 / month for 200Mbps +/-50Mbps, unlimited d/l upload is also o
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by pony_sheared 4y ago
Thanks for this this comment, at least on Huawei's version of Android UI it's not at all obvious that the year is a button.
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by pony_sheared 4y ago
Give AFE a whirl, you can format and comment formulas https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/advanced-for...
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by pony_sheared 4y ago
I loved Calca, paid and used it for years, but it seems to have stopped development and I switched OS... So I ended up falling back to Excel
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by pony_sheared 5y ago
Developers, rhymes with interlopers
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by pony_sheared 5y ago
We're currently crossing seas, not just the channel. Nice little map with stats here: https://www.nationalgrid.com/our-businesses/national-grid-ve... A few years ago I saw a talk by an industrial chemist, long dis
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by pony_sheared 5y ago
I work in the sector (offshore renewables and O&G), here are a couple of interesting ones: 1. Short installation window: they can only install this machine when the tides are changing (i.e. not much flow), so they only have a couple of
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by pony_sheared 6y ago
The new Let() function gives you multi row formulas, with local variables. https://insider.office.com/en-us/blog/let-names-in-formulas-... And it's a hack, but you can put text comments inside an N() function
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by pony_sheared 6y ago
A Kent Braeburn in season is pure joy. Your description of the remaining months, primarily imported, is spot on.
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by pony_sheared 6y ago
I'm a su-dougher, because "pseudo" reminds me I can be someone else.
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by pony_sheared 6y ago
Sorry to horrify anyone but we actually do this at work (mechanical engineering company) - JavaScript calculated component dimensions as form fields based on user input (e.g. pressure or load rating) overlaid on technical drawings. Reason i