zimpenfish

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by zimpenfish 8d ago
> mechanical keys, I don't really see how that adds anything of value on a phone these days When you get old, your ability to type reliably on a phone's touchscreen keyboard starts to go down the pan. Having actual tactile &qu
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by zimpenfish 9d ago
Also I think if you're rich enough to be able to coat the inside of a cardboard box with Vantablack, you've probably much easier ways to get misinformation out to the public than photographing a monitor in a cardboard box...
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by zimpenfish 9d ago
> I can’t think of a single scenario where people have been tricked by a staged photo Let me introduce you to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Cottingley Fairies[0]. "Doyle was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them
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by zimpenfish 11d ago
> I discovered the myths of Procrustes and his infamous bed Strangely, the ZX81 BASIC manual mentions him in the context of "Procrustean strings"[0] - "To make sure this happens, the string that is being assigned to it is
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by zimpenfish 12d ago
According to [0], for icons at least, "no, not quite", because "Apple's exact icon outline is not a pure superellipse — it is built from carefully tuned Bézier curves that closely approximate one." [0] https:/
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by zimpenfish 12d ago
This kind of thing was available (although more difficult to find) well before the EU started on their Apple quest - e.g. I had the dimensional drawings for whatever phone I had in late 2015 (6 or 6S, I forget) because I was making graphica
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by zimpenfish 14d ago
No, and we don't really have a culture of cancelling things for people they say now, either, when it comes down to it because if that were true, Trump would not be president given his long history of [waves hands], a large number of Re
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by zimpenfish 14d ago
> The second-most prolific self references were blovating across all and any groups I felt like. Nothing has changed. I can take the moral high ground here because my bloviating was at least in relevant groups. But still, bloody hell, y
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by zimpenfish 14d ago
Alas, https://newsgrouper.org is not available from the UK (another casualty of the stupid OSA.)
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by zimpenfish 15d ago
> Once you get laid you are now you're in a pile of 100 other applicants equally qualified I'm assuming there should be an "off" after "laid"...
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by zimpenfish 15d ago
I use wraparound cable labels[0] which seem to work ok (although do end up sliding up and down the cable to some extent.) [0] e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FQTX4MPL
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by zimpenfish 15d ago
The Treedix[0] can query e-marker chips. [0] https://treedix.com/products/treedix-usb-cable-tester-usb-c-...
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by zimpenfish 15d ago
I've got a Treedix[0] which does A, C to Lightning, mini-B, C, MicroB3.0, and Micro. Super handy for identifying the nonsense C-C cables you can chuck. [0] https://treedix.com/products/treedix-usb-cable-tester-usb
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by zimpenfish 15d ago
I went for a colour label system - one colour for type of cable (C-C, A-C, etc.) and one colour for capabilities (power, usb2, usb3, usb4+, etc.) Makes it super easy to find, say, a data microUSB (blue, orange) for the Audiomoth) or a simpl
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by zimpenfish 16d ago
My (simple, naive, etc.) solution is to ban young males from driving until they're 25. Immediate drop in the accident rate plus a clamour for better public transport / bike infrastructure that even the dumbest government couldn&#
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by zimpenfish 16d ago
> "cyclists don't follow the rules of the road" Boy, have I got news for him about car drivers...
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by zimpenfish 17d ago
Yeah, I'm interested but I'll definitely give it a year or two for other people to discover any durability problems before committing (plus it's missing a lens option compared to the 18 Pro but that's a minor quibble.)
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by zimpenfish 27d ago
> The country has a population of 349,000,000 people. There will be crazy incidents. By that logic, any country with a similar (or larger) population should have similar (or larger) gun deaths per capita as the USA, right? Take India - p
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by zimpenfish 27d ago
> I’ve lived in a bunch of European countries and in none would you be charged with murder in that situation. Presumably not the UK? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer) "Anthony Edward Martin was
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by zimpenfish 27d ago
> If someone comes through your home door guns akimbo in the US, blasting back is fine Unless that someone is a cop, of course.
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
And whose solution to "Is cyclospora a problem?" was to remove the monitoring and presumably stick their fingers in their ears.[0] [0] https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cdc-food-net-monitorin...
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
To be fair, if I'm reading that right, the difference is "a small light patch on the middle spike"?[0] I can see people missing that easily enough! [0] Absent contextual cues about height, location, etc., which aren't o
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
No.
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
Yeah, Go people were always been perfectly capable of creating abominational messes before generics arrived. Once you've looked at an interface referencing an interface referencing an interface referencing an interface which is only e
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
I've missed something - what were you expecting from that code? Would anyone expect the `Burrow` inside the `Habitat` to be initialised instead of the top-level `Burrow`?
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
I've seen those complaints going around but, to add a picoGladwell of data, I've not had any problems with fulfilling orders or anything like that.
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
> The real hack to me is that anything which simply has Lock() and Unlock() methods is considered uncopyable. It's a shame they made them generic, taking no arguments and returning nothing; if they'd gone for `Lock(sync.LockTyp
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
https://archive.ph/2VtHz
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
> Even good human writers would probably struggle with this constraint. But that would be a fun writing exercise, I think. Thoroughly in the oulipo wheelhouse. Maybe generate a Markov chain table over all of Project Gutenberg and then s
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by zimpenfish 2mo ago
Blackberry got a whole bunch of things right but, alas, almost everything else was a bag of rusty spanners. I do still miss mine, though, slightly.

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