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   by tompagenet2 6y ago

   I think number of people killed by a sometimes fatal illness is not an unreasonable thing to track and use as a metric of success. And many more than 1/1000 of UK citizens have had it already (where did you get that number from) - that
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   by tompagenet2 6y ago

   Thanks very much. I'd not appreciated the flexibility of what is possible in terms of code display. Thanks for explaining and letting me understand a bit more!
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   by tompagenet2 6y ago

   This is lovely. Really simple - this is a good thing. I think I'm showing my ignorance as I didn't get why code blocks are surrounded by four back ticks (I thought Markdown used just one), but that's just me asking and certai
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   by tompagenet2 6y ago

   I get that Jimmy Wales acted questionably towards Larry Sanger, but I'm always a little saddened that Sanger has become a rent-a-quote to criticise something truly amazing that he helped to create. Wikipedia is for all its flaws a rema
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   by tompagenet2 6y ago

   Thanks for writing! I'm impressed by your dedication and effort, but also a thanks for your writing style, which was really easy to follow. I've read a lot about the SNES and Mega Drive before, but you've given me the best un
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   by tompagenet2 6y ago

   I thought the same, but this book [0] absolutely staggered me by the creative ways people made 8 by 8 fonts [0]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arcade-Game-Typography-Pixel-Type/d...
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   by tompagenet2 7y ago

   I use my face and my arm to engage with people, and prepare and eat food. I don't generally use my arse for these activities.
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   by tompagenet2 7y ago

   Thanks, I've found it hard to understand the French study. Do you have a good link to an (English, sorry) summary or critique?
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   Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days(bbc.co.uk)

   953 points by tompagenet2 7y ago|744 comments
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    by tompagenet2 7y ago

    Here's the official announcement, perhaps should switch link to this https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2020/march/...
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    by tompagenet2 7y ago

    I like tripit. You forward emails to it so you don't have to give it access to your inbox. Their app is a bit janky, and the website more so, but I've found it really useful.
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    by tompagenet2 8y ago

    This doesn't seem to be true: see pages 83 and 84 of the link below, suggesting around 20% of UK PM2.5 emissions come from road transport - this is not negligible. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government&#x2
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    by tompagenet2 8y ago

    Pure speculation: HNs perhaps more likely to have a personality type that values personal time and extreme concentration, which open plan might be less useful for. Also HNs perhaps have tendency towards being contrary or iconoclastic, so as
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    by tompagenet2 8y ago

    See discussion from when this was posted (the original article) three days before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17457000
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    by tompagenet2 9y ago

    I understand what you're saying, but a huge number of people commute by rail or bus (perhaps more so outside of the US, I don't know). Watching video on the Tube (London Underground) is fairly common, as it is on commuter rail int
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    by tompagenet2 9y ago

    I enjoy using http://www.stealmylogin.com as it seems apt (and works)
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    by tompagenet2 9y ago

    Ars covered this particular story and were deeply skeptical, attributing the findings to selective use of p values: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/a-critical-analysis-...
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    by tompagenet2 9y ago

    Google has every right morally and legally to not wish to provide a platform for hate speech.
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    by tompagenet2 11y ago

    I don't have the contacts to know if my opinions with Android are even vaguely representative. I'm interested in what your network think is wrong with Android Lollipop, and without any sarcasm or snideness can I please ask who you
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    by tompagenet2 12y ago

    Really impressed by this, especially the 3:2 ratio screen which will be great for writing and for browsing, and amazing for photos. The pen looks great. I've recently been given an iPad by work as part of a trial. It's great for q
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    by tompagenet2 12y ago

    I think this unduly conflates his displeasure at the automated scanning of emails to target advertising and the NSA etc. bulk access to data. The former doesn't make the latter any more likely. All webmail services must hold their cust
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    by tompagenet2 13y ago

    I like the ability to have different glyphs for lower case L, capital I and numeral 1. Many fonts achieve that with a tail on the lower case L, but this seems a valid alternative. By the way, I believe this is the default Firefox Android f
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    by tompagenet2 13y ago

    This is the lump of labour fallacy. It's largely regarded as fallacious now; there's a decent Wikipedia article on the topic if you're interested.
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    by tompagenet2 14y ago

    The typeface 'Transport' used in the UK seems to have solved most of the problems identified in this article. The article notes how good Transport is, but says it is too wide. I wonder if just reducing the spacing on Transport a little woul
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    by tompagenet2 15y ago

    I fear I may be a different kind of chap than Mr. Gundotra, but if my friends were posting on Google+ then I don't think they'd be sharing tips on the best microwave to buy. I don't really understand why Google+ is so stagnant. I know I'm n
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    by tompagenet2 15y ago

    I don't think I understand how it could sound different to my ear. My understanding is that my ear doesn't have the sensory equipment to detect signals above ~20kHz - this is what I was told at university, and a decent trawl of the web sugg
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    by tompagenet2 15y ago

    There will always be people with slightly wider sensory perception than others, but are you honestly saying that you can easily hear sounds "well above" 20kHz? Have you tested this in a double blind test? I know that sounds like a lot of ef
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    by tompagenet2 15y ago

    Hey cmer, thanks for posting I don't think I understand quite what you're saying and wondered if you could explain more. You and the article both say that humans can't hear above about 20kHz. If there are higher frequencies that create a ha
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    by tompagenet2 15y ago

    Off topic, but why does the text on this website look so awful in Chrome 15 in Win7 64? There are actually gaps in the letters. It looks awful in a different way in Firefox 8 - clumpy letters with awkwardly variable line width. Update to c
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    by tompagenet2 15y ago

    I'm surprised you see the issue in such black and white terms. Certainly some of Mr Assange's comments might lead some to suspect he sees conspiracy where there is none [1] and that his judgement is not impeccable. Wikileaks and Assange ha