AdmiralGinge

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by AdmiralGinge 5y ago
Depends, public transport outside of London is often a complete joke in the UK. I switched to cycling after getting pissed off at a bus that came once every hour and a half, was often 30-40 minutes late and occasionally didn't bother t
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by AdmiralGinge 5y ago
Yeah, I think I'd be utterly "half a bottle of gin a night" miserable working in the average corporate environment. It's hard to put my finger on the precise reason, but that kind of environment just has absolutely zero
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by AdmiralGinge 5y ago
It's even worse in the other direction; I used to go from Oxford to Aberystwyth quite often and Arriva Wales were truly appalling. They only ever ran two carriages for part of the route despite Aberystwyth being a university town so ev
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by AdmiralGinge 5y ago
> http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogog ... Welsh place names can be brilliantly literal, Aberystwyth for example is "mouth of the river Ystwyth". Llanfairpwllgwyngyll... means "St Mary&#x2
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by AdmiralGinge 5y ago
I've been realising this recently, while I'm a professional programmer I only ever really learned the maths I needed for my degree and even then most of that got forgotten after I graduated beyond what's necessary for my day-
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by AdmiralGinge 5y ago
Obviously this isn't going to be affecting a huge number of people in 2021, but if you listen to AM radio (I'm a bit of an anorak for Radio Caroline so I've been trying to pick that up) it's amazing how much interference
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by AdmiralGinge 5y ago
This is something that never seems to come up in discussions on Scottish independence interestingly enough. I guess it'd be like Ireland and Northern Ireland where both jurisdictions use a common electricity market, unless politicians
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by AdmiralGinge 5y ago
I love this!
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by AdmiralGinge 5y ago
Cheers for the heads up about OFDM, I hadn't heard of that before! I wonder if that 18 kHz I've heard is per channel ie the sum and difference channels are both 18 kHz?
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Ask HN: How much digital data could fit on a standard vinyl LP?
10 points by AdmiralGinge 5y ago|7 comments
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by AdmiralGinge 5y ago
They don't need to be internet-connected though, there's many "smart" LED bulbs that run off a traditional remote control.
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by AdmiralGinge 5y ago
Sounds like exactly the same problem British farmers are having post-Brexit with things like fruit-picking, they're scratching their heads wondering why British workers aren't keen on having half their wages taken for "rent&q
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by AdmiralGinge 5y ago
I think Twitter in general is such a harmful thing. There's very little worth saying that can be compressed into 280 characters beyond "I'm right, you're wrong, anyone who disagrees with my subjective opinion is scum&quo
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by AdmiralGinge 5y ago
That's very succinctly summed up something I often struggle to articulate.
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Ask HN: Can we objectively measure conformism? If so, how? If not, why?
1 points by AdmiralGinge 6y ago|1 comments
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
My main sound system is a Leak Delta 70 from the early 1970s. It was an absolute joy to work on and bring back to life, especially the turntable which is a rebadged Lenco with a wonderful drive system I'd never seen before. It uses an
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I didn't have a TV for a long time out of spite towards the TV licencing system in the UK and the heavy-handed way it's enforced. I'd love someone with a background in RF engineering to explain how those TV detector vans are
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I think anonymity or pseudonymity is the differentiator here. Things like Facebook have never been authentic because they're so welded to your personal identity, if your colleagues and family can find you then I think you're alway
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
>Sir John Cockcroft, leading the project team, was sufficiently alarmed to order the filters. They could not be installed at the base as construction of the chimneys had already begun, and were constructed on the ground then winched into
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
Yeah it might be true, but it's extremely counterproductive to point this out when you're trying to convince someone of something. People like to feel like they have agency, even if it's mostly an illusion.
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
>We have to start reminding people that they are in control of their decisions, and that they can take steps to reduce their social media usage to healthy levels. I know the common refrain is "Delete Facebook!" but that's
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
There is one very niche area that Prime is quite good and it's their VR app. I have Prime on my Oculus Quest and they've really nailed the player itself, it's like being in an actual cinema. Netflix also have a very good VR a
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I used to live in Ceredigion in Wales which despite being a mere county now almost perfectly maps to the 5^th century post-Roman kingdom. There's parts of Ceredigion which look pretty much the same as they've done for millennia, t
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
>Why would I let someone else dictate what I listen to when there's plenty of on-demand content available 24/7? To be fair there's still good radio out there and not even just on the internet. The really commercial stuff o
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
To be fair nothing is really "necessary" beyond a 8' x 6' cell, potable water, and a crate full of Huel or something but no sane person outside of those who actively seek an ascetic lifestyle would actually want to live
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
As trishmapow2 correctly guessed, I have visual snow syndrome. Whether it's a quirk of vision or an outright disability really tends to depend on the intensity, for some people it doesn't affect their lives at all but for others i
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
This could really be a game-changer for me when we're allowed to travel again. I have a rare condition where a problem with brain metabolism screws up the signal to noise ratio in multiple senses, by day I'm quite photophobic and
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I swear half of these SEO'd pages hawking tangentially-related rubbish at us read like they were written by a GAN bot or something.
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I used to use that years ago! I had to stop when everyone moved over to Facebook Chat (what became Messenger) and eventually made a breaking change Adium couldn't support.
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I find the sort of 18-25 internet culture that exists on other platforms is full of "look at how depressed I am lol just kidding" kinds of posts. It's like an amplifier for dragging people down, and this year social media in

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