tomgp

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by tomgp 6y ago
Doh! You’re right of course
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Every generation gets the million dollar homepage it deserves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
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Yeah, I just feel deeply uneasy about this and I can't really put my finger on why, perhaps it just feels too flippant. My sister died 20 years ago and i feel like if i were to upload her image I would run the risk of overwriting my ow
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by tomgp 6y ago
Re the capital cost: Assuming profit of 10c/day and that an M1 mac is about $1000 it'll be about 274 years before you pay that off.
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FT dictionary of business jargon and corporate nonsense(ig.ft.com)
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When I've played it I've played it with my DnD group and playing it as roleplay can take the sting out of a lot of that. But yeah, it can be tough. Twilight Imperium can have a lot of the same diplomacy fun but feels less edgy --
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by tomgp 6y ago
Agree. It’s amazing how hostile people seem to get about unfavourable articles in the mainstream press. There’s legitimate public interest in this stuff and the problem here is not that the New York Times shouldn’t publish articles about th
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If you only look at European countries then there looks like there’sa lot of variance in outcome. Taking a broader view including the aforementioned Asian (plus Aus and NZ) countries Europe all looks pretty much equally bad in terms of resu
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Absolutely, the appeals to “fairness” have been particularly unedifying to hear whilst there are vast swathes of the world unable to access anything like the quantity of vaccine the EU has a hold on.
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Absolutely. He taps into the same need for narrative coherence that fuels more conventional conspiracy theories. His work is meticulously researched, fantastically edited, entertaining and I feel, especially since the mid-00s, quite problem
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Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty is a great “nonfiction novel” about the problems of (and conceptual/mathematical limits to) central planning in the Soviet Union.
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I recently finished Merlin Sheldrake's "Entangled Life" which I highly recomend to anyone interested in finding out more about these fascinating organisms. Really changed the way I see the world. My family are getting prett
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I’m a pacer too and recently found my daughter seems to have inherited the trait the upshot being that we occasionally collide whilst we pace around the kitchen muttering to ourselves. Hopefully with time we’ll be able to work out collision
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My hunch is that part of the efficacy of pair programming is down to the fact that it legitimises speaking your thoughts out loud as you code, bringing your assumptions and process to your own attention. (As well as the other more oft-relat
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by tomgp 6y ago
In my experience it's generally not that web developers won't stand up for sane usability practices but (in most cases) they lack the political clout within organisations for their standing up for sane usability pracatice to have
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“ it shifts the work to someone else” I don’t think this is specific to graphQL. I’ve seen similar patterns with (to pick a recent example) shared front end component libraries. You make something more general at the expense of increasing c
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by tomgp 6y ago
Frozen embryos will eventually become a vital source of information for future historians. Simply defrost one, wait for it to learn to talk and then you can get first hand information about the historical period from which the embryo hails.
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by tomgp 6y ago
Yes! This! Sooooo much time tweaking extended vs expanded memory (who came up with those names?) and fiddling with sound card IRQ settings to get a new game running.
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Yes, sorry, kB. If I recall correctly our argument was that because after the initial load we only needed to poll occasionally for small data updates users would probably save time/ bandwidth overall (a familiar argument for the presen
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In 2005 I had to fill in a form to request a page size exception for our election results map on the BBC News site. The page weight was going to be just a little under 400kb. At the time the size considered acceptable for the whole page (im
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by tomgp 6y ago
I enjoyed it. It’s long and undoubtedly overstuffed but the set pieces (Stephenson write fantastic action scenes) and the ideas are great fun.
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If you’re looking for something a little more focused I can heartily recommend Andy Oram and Greg Wilson’s “ Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It” it’s a great collection of literature reviews around a lots of common so
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by tomgp 6y ago
It’s nice to see how this simple site has been maintained and improved gradually for like 10 years now. Just doing it’s one thing better each time.
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Agreed, there’s very little discussion of concrete benefits here just vague assertions that this is the best way to do it (except for lighthouse test results which could surely have been fixed much more cheaply by cleaning up the incredibly
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Possibly. I enjoy historical fiction not because I think it can tell me much about the problems of today but more because it can put them in perspective. Reading about Europe in the Middle Ages is great for making me appreciate the quality
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Possibly, though I only know the Mars/Venus guy because Amazon used to recommend those books based on the fact that is bought ‘Straw Dogs’
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Yeah John Gray and Steven Pinker exist at opposite ends of the spectrum on this one (eg https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/13/john-gray-stev... ). I think both perspectives are valuable
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by tomgp 6y ago
You’re thinking of the other John Gray
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Good grief, YES!
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The problem being solved isn’t how to have cleaner teeth, it’s how to sell people more expensive toothbrushes when the existing options do the job perfectly adequately.

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