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by ralferoo 4y ago
In the UK, we use the term subtitles only for the words spoken and Audio Description (often abbreviated to AD) for what you described. Subtitles are sometimes in different colours if there are multiple speakers, and a character will then us
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by ralferoo 4y ago
I lived in London and took my car with me, because as it was an EV, I could get a free parking permit for it and I was exempt from the emissions tax. Honestly, the driving experience in London is terrible. When I did a few back-and-forth tr
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by ralferoo 4y ago
Somehow I'd never heard of Bobby McFerrin before. Watching that video (which is amazing), led me to the full performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WodODxpTbpA
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by ralferoo 4y ago
The best indicator for how angry I am at work is the force I hit the enter key with, and the loudness of the resulting clack.
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by ralferoo 4y ago
Not a size optimisation, but a performance optimisation... INT 21 RET can be replaced with JP 5
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by ralferoo 4y ago
Randomly? This author does it consistently. Some people prefer with spaces, some prefer without, most people follow the coding standards for the company / project they're working on.
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by ralferoo 4y ago
I'd never even heard of a house centipede, so I googled it. I've never seen one before and I live in the UK. Apparently they occasionally sneak into the UK in imported food packaging, but they're not native or common here.
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by ralferoo 4y ago
My first-gen M1 MacBook Air with 16GB takes just under 4 minutes per image. Running top while it's generating shows memory usage fluctuating between 10GB and 13GB, so if you're running on 8GB it's probably swapping a lot.
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by ralferoo 4y ago
I shifted from text-files for todo lists to using an adapted Bullet Journal 3 or 4 years back. Some times I neglect it for a few weeks at a time, but I've found it really useful on the times when I have used it extensively. In many way
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by ralferoo 4y ago
> 30 minutes later when on a mountain road, I expect the soccer mom and the cycling enthusiasts to do the same. I have a feeling that you'll end up killing someone on one of these mountain roads with that attitude. You wait behind t
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by ralferoo 4y ago
All the replies here seem very strange for me as in the UK at least, the highway code says that we are entitled to be in the middle of the lane if we need to be, and actually turning right (read as left turn for US / EU people), we&#x2
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by ralferoo 4y ago
The github repo from the slides as it's not a link in the article: https://github.com/ganelson/inform
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by ralferoo 4y ago
Sounds to me like one of the Three Body Problem trilogy by Liu Cixin... It's been a while, but maybe that's in Death's End.
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by ralferoo 4y ago
I ended up adopting vcpkg because I started using restinio and the examples all used vcpkg to fetch their dependencies. It was pretty painless to set up on multiple Linux machines, but both times I've tried on Windows, it's been i
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by ralferoo 4y ago
Performance wasn't the only reason for switching, but doing sqlite through dart is quite slow even using the batch API due to the copying to the isolate, and in any case I'd be limited to a single thread using dart which I expect
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by ralferoo 4y ago
Sure, but my dart implementation was much slower to start than I'd like for iterative development and also was consuming a chunk of memory. My current version (admittedly still very early in development) starts in under a second and oc
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by ralferoo 4y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear. The live-replication work has been abandoned and the author is working on this instead: https://github.com/superfly/litefs
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by ralferoo 4y ago
I've started using C++ for the REST backend for a mobile app recently. I'm using restinio for the REST layer (sadly deprecated a couple of months ago, but it still seemed like the best option in terms of clean interface) and sqlit
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by ralferoo 4y ago
The irony is that Starling is consistently the better bank, from my perspective. I started off getting Monzo when it advertised itself as a pre-paid debit card and it's big selling point was free foreign ATM transactions. I never actua
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by ralferoo 4y ago
Classic understatement: "This is of course bad."
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by ralferoo 4y ago
a86[1] was definitely one that did. It was sold under a shareware model, and if you used it commercially you were supposed to buy the licence. I guess they randomly sampled other people's software to see if it looked like it was built
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by ralferoo 4y ago
And just in case you're really really short of GPIO, you can use a 74595 shift register to feed the column and row selection, so you'd just need clock and data outputs. You could also use 74251 8-to-1 multiplexer as that has a
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by ralferoo 4y ago
Forgot to note, if you're really short of GPIO, you could also use two 8-line to 1-line data selector chip, e.g. 74151, so you'd have a 74138 to select one of 8 rows, and two 74138 which select a column each, and two further inp
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by ralferoo 4y ago
The obvious way to use fewer pins is to have a decode IC, e.g. 74238 which would take 3-bit input and pull one of 8 outputs high or 74138 which does the same with active low. With your 112 key matrix, you can then use 14 input lines to make
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by ralferoo 4y ago
Oh good find. I know nothing about the history of the fireworks factory, but assumed it was still in use if it's labelled on Google Maps. It seemed likely that with such a use, this area would in fact be at higher risk than the surroun
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by ralferoo 4y ago
I saw the second video yesterday, but I found it interesting when watching it, because I also was looking at Google Maps to see where it was. https://youtu.be/TjBV4R18ICY?t=255 (4m15 on your [1]) shows a lot of destroyed bu
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by ralferoo 4y ago
> People have been putting stupid stuff into text-to-speech since the late 90s with iMacs G3. People have been putting stupid stuff into text-to-speech since the early 80s after it was popularised by the SP0256 chip.
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by ralferoo 4y ago
I'm British and I have always considered NI to be one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom. They are all countries in their own right, and the UK is also considered a country for most purposes. Although I think it&#x27
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by ralferoo 4y ago
The main reason is that the backing file is random access, and transactional correctness is ensured using various locking mechanisms. Sqlite generally relies on fsync() ensuring that data is flushed to disk at certain points, so conceptuall
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by ralferoo 5y ago
This is how most programmers in the UK refer to it too.

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