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by robert_tweed 9y ago
This would also solve the other problem that stopped me drying things outside in Scotland: the garden tended to attract a lot of birds. I won't go into details, suffice to say the results were less spectacular than I had been led to be
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
Some random facts I learned about Horlicks recently, totally unrelated to the article: - Horlicks is a form of gruel, but they don't use the term in their marketing because of the negative connotations from Dickens. - Horlicks was supp
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
Maybe because of captive portals? Anyone connected to hotel wifi for example will just get an unresponsive application if it doesn't try to connect over http before switching to tls. Not sure Spotify should trust that connection as muc
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
Interestingly, taking inflation into account, the value of 3 pence in 1949 is exactly equivalent to £1 in 2017. Unfortunately it doesn't work as well for the commemorative coin dated 1937, which is worth closer to £2.
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
If you read the reviews, it's clear that some are. Others probably are not. My point is more that I personally don't feel like I can make a judgement yet based on what I've seen/read and I've been following this gam
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
There's a reviews megathread on Reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/5x2lph/the_legend_of... Many, many perfect scores. Even acounting for hype, it's doing surprisingly well. Ha
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
Kinda disappointed about the lack of historical data given about the sort of supercomputers used for weather modelling over the years. Mainly because I want to know which era of weather forecasting could conceivably run on my PC, my phone,
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
EA never really kept up the PC version for some reason. I actually used it until around 2001 for all my web artwork (along with a DOS file conversion tool whose name escapes me). I have a friend who's a very oldschool pixel-artist. He
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
Have you tried melatonin? I have tried a lot of things to help get to sleep at a specific time and melatonin isn't great for that. What I do find is that it causes me to sleep very deeply, often making it harder than usual to get up th
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
This is true, but the problem I have with bundling is that it creates a distorted market. If I like, say, Firefly, I want to essentially vote with my wallet and encourage the creation of more like that. If I'm paying for a bundle, the
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
This assumes the top 40 holds the same relevance that it did in the 80s. Regardless, you no longer see the kind of chart-dominating power that say, U2 or Michael Jackson had in those days. And while the record labels continue to pull in pro
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
Is it only clickbait if factually incorrect? Wouldn't that make the term redundant given that such a title would also be misleading? Note that we're currently engaged in an unhelpful meta-discussion about whether or not the title
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
This particular title reeks of clickbait though. Have to strongly disagree with your defence of it, especially in the light of a good alternative being suggested.
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
TBH, a lot of what I currently listen to on Spotify is relatively unknown Synthwave bands/producers who generally self-publish on Bandcamp, maybe have Patreon etc. I do not think Spotify should be trying to actually produce their own c
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
If you mean the general principle of this kind of pseudo-GUI in text mode, look into codepage 437 [1]. It's possible to do more advanced stuff with custom glyphs [3], but it doesn't look like this does anything like that - it gene
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
At first glance this seems like a horribly flawed study. It seems misleading to call this a placebo effect when it is clearly the result of selection bias. The paper makes it clear that this is intentional, but I'm not sure they'v
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
Interesting. Does it actually work though, or does it tend to depend on Windows-specific assemblies to do any useful work? The main use-case I have for Powershell is remotely administering Exchange. If I could do that from OSX or Linux, the
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
This is wrong. Both terms are used in exactly the same way in the UK but the expectations are different. In the US, a resume is expected. In the UK, a CV is expected. People who use the terms interchangeably are wrong in either case, but th
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
At least one high-profile project is using it: https://trello.com/b/gHooNW9I/ue4-roadmap I know a lot of smaller dev teams use it for lowercase-a agile projects and I currently use it for all my personal projects.
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
Not forgetting the classic "magic / more magic" switch: http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
Personally, I'm wary of ideas like software engineers facing unlimited personal liability like hardware engineers, because computer science just hasn't advanced to a point where we can say with confidence that any non-trivial piec
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
Can't see the full paper, just the abstract, but another thing I wondered if they took into account is the effect of strobing. They didn't include a control that doesn't strobe (such as halogen), since CFLs strobe in the kHz
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
This is a very old exploit. The earliest references I could find were from 2010. As other comments have noted, it isn't trivial to fix completely, so I believe most browsers just haven't bothered at all, but have implemented som
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
It's not actually published on npmjs.org. Author probably just ran npm init out of force of habit. It's actually quite nice that they have their standard metadata & licence where it's easy to find. They should probably ha
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
This seems like a nice idea on the face of it, but it's a lot less simple (who decides what's major and what isn't) and plus, when you introduce a "small" breaking change you have no idea what impact that's goi
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
Strangely, the words "spawn" and "satan" do not appear anywhere in this document.
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
IMO, a book every developer should read is "The Non-Designers Design Book" by Robin Williams (no, not that Robin Williams). It's short and to the point, so it won't take long to read, yet it covers all the basics of de
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
On an iPad here. There's an unvote link. Same as on desktop. I always pinch to zoom in on HN because the interface is fiddly and it's impossible to tell if you hit up or down. Your finger normally covers them both. Much prefer the
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
I was going to say the same thing. The general name for these is attenuating ear plugs. A lot of musicians, especially drummers, wear them on stage so they can hear their own instrument over everything else, at a sensible volume. They vary
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by robert_tweed 10y ago
Perhaps C's biggest mistake (at least in terms of syntax) is allowing fewer braces than it could have. Specifically the fact that statements like if and for which allow blocks, they aren't required, so you can end up with code l

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