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by sambeau 3y ago
I’d love to see this idea but with 360° environments for Apple Vision. Choose your desk, your view, your ambience. If anyone would like to fund me, I’d be happy to lug a desk and a 360° camera to remote locations: a rain forest, beaches, al
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by sambeau 3y ago
There’s really not a lot of point these days. Batteries can be used for load balancing and pump-storage is very inefficient.
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by sambeau 3y ago
Pump-storage hydro is for load balancing as it can’t store anything on a grid scale and is very inefficient. Sadly, it could never replace gas — the U.K. alone would need thousands.
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by sambeau 3y ago
I've always assumed that's the version of toss being used here
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by sambeau 3y ago
Yes. I should have said that.
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by sambeau 3y ago
I'm from the UK. Maybe I'm older, but I know these phrases as American imports.
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by sambeau 3y ago
It's absolutely perfect. Thanks for posting this. I'd seen it before and was looking for it recently, so it's now safely bookmarked.
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by sambeau 3y ago
It's not surprising. English has a load of this weirdness. We can, especially in American English, shit on something (normally an idea or plan for some reason) with the same meaning. "I don't mean to shit on your idea out of
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by sambeau 3y ago
Here's an interesting discussion on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/2rgl7i/how_did_i... Further down is the suggestion that "give" in the phrase, means "care".
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by sambeau 3y ago
It's one of those interesting phrases that, I believe, came about from its opposite. "I could not give a shit about that," literally, "I wouldn't even pay one shit to buy that," or similar (no doubt with some m
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by sambeau 3y ago
There are some open source technologies keeping the internet-as-we-know-it alive. Surely the might of Github and Microsoft could support them or, even better, a consortia of the Big Tech companies could get together a comittee, like they of
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by sambeau 3y ago
Swiping killed dating apps for me. It feels too final, too brutal, too spur-of-the-moment. Maybe these people are lovely, maybe they will change their profile and I will change my mind. What if they swipe yes for me and I miss out on meetin
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by sambeau 3y ago
It's amazing to think that Charles Rennie Mackintosh's late 19th Century chairs made it all the way through to the late 24th Century.
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by sambeau 3y ago
> there are barely any speed cameras in the UK (compared to other European countries) and yet almost everyone drives under the limit As a UK resident who spends a lot of time in France and Italy this statement really surprised me, and
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by sambeau 3y ago
Modern humans didn't invent cooking or discover the use of fire, an earlier Homonid did, probably Homo Erectus. If we're going to trade Wikipedia articles, the one on control of fire by early humans starts: "Claims for the ea
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by sambeau 3y ago
By which I mean, the Mediterranean coast has loads of colourful seaside towns The Amalfi coast (see Vernazza for an amazing example, or the other four Cinque Terre, or Pixar's Luca for a well-observed only slightly exaggerated version)
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by sambeau 3y ago
The romans, I suspect.
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by sambeau 3y ago
And Brighton, especially Hanover, Devon, Cornwall, Norwich, Lavenham, even Notting Hill in London. Scotland has Portree and Tobermory. Ireland has loads of painted rows like this.
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by sambeau 3y ago
That was certainly my top theory. Cooking saving many more babies than woodsmoke killed.
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by sambeau 3y ago
I recently did a deep dive into woodsmoke as I couldn't understand how ~2 million years of evolution with woodsmoke hadn't rendered us completely immune to its effects. I couldn't at that time find a paper that showed that it
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by sambeau 3y ago
Stallman, though not someone I’d want to deal with on a daily basis, is, I believe, a force for good in this world. We need terriers and geese honking and nipping the ankles of power.
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by sambeau 3y ago
Wouldn’t the rising sea levels more than counter any salt being returned to the sea, as long as it’s dumped far out enough? Won’t climate change cause the concentration of salt in seawater to go down?
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by sambeau 3y ago
For those of you, like myself, who only know about antimatter from science fiction and space opera, here's the key statement: Here we show that antihydrogen atoms, released from magnetic confinement in the ALPHA-g apparatus, behave in
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How to Remove Personal Information from the Internet [for Free](blog.incogni.com)
1 points by sambeau 3y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 3y ago
The most surprising thing I read here was that 'homicide' was a word in 1390, so older than English itself.
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by sambeau 3y ago
Thanks. Just what I was looking for.
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by sambeau 3y ago
It's completely understandable. This is a significant and interesting upgrade to MongoDB that naturally gets people interested in a, "Hmmm… maybe I should take another look at MongoDB" way. Before wasting time, it seems sensi
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by sambeau 3y ago
Isn’t this just qwik? Or have I missed something important?
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by sambeau 3y ago
Isn’t this just Qwik? Or am I missing something important?
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by sambeau 3y ago
I once worked on a banking terminal for a large bank. My first attempt was sent back as there wasn't 'enough zeros on the buy button'. It could do £999,999,999

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