NeoTar

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by NeoTar 2y ago
Oh, I completely agree - everything important should be accessible and intuitive - typically that does mean a well-placed physical control. But there are so many settings on a contemporary car that it would be impractical to have a switch f
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Discoverability is also an issue touch screens can help with - I enjoy that in the settings app on iPhone (I believe android is the same) one can search for a setting, rather than try to guess where a given setting has been placed.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
At least in the gay community there are still hundreds of DVDs available from physical stores. I did wonder how long that will last though. Of course the relevant stores will not be very common.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Allegedly primitive tech is at least partially fake - they use heavy equipment off screen to build their projects.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Excel can be really great — it’s been said that a huge amount of the world‘s programming is actually done in excel (summing a column of numbers is, after all, a very primitive programme). I wish there were better tools to help excel users m
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by NeoTar 2y ago
An advertising supported YouTube creator would be delighted! No, literally a lot of creators target this market now — for instance by making a mega mix of their existing content which runs for two to three hours. Or releasing a video „xxx h
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by NeoTar 2y ago
> „reserve the bedroom for sleep“ That’s unfortunately a luxury many people can’t afford. I’m literally sitting in my in—laws apartment in Poland right now. About 40sqm total, and for forty years they’ve slept on a fold—out—sofa bed.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
You are correct, the 7 x 7 x 7 is the minimum where a perfect cube of cubes is impossible. The Wikipedia article shows the issue with the corner cubes. Apparently the 7-cube bulges slightly which helps to hide that the larger sized edges &#
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Each corner piece needs to make contact with the core. Consider when the top layer is rotated 45 degrees relative to the layer below. The corner is now about 0.707 units from the centre of the face, but the layer below only extends 0.5 unit
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by NeoTar 2y ago
> I'm a boomer millenial, or whatever we're called now, and never took to online gaming, so I'm part of this segment. And you are not alone - apparently 53% of gamers (total) prefer single-player games, [although this fall
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by NeoTar 2y ago
I have spent most of my life in the UK, which has no national ID card and does not typically require one to prove/verify identify on a regular basis. Prior to the introduction of voter ID laws in 2023, typically one would simply need t
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Does auto-code generation count as AI?
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by NeoTar 2y ago
I generally go to low cost events (<20 USD) and sometimes buy tickets speculatively (eg at a date/time when I’m not sure I’ll be able to make it). It’s surprisingly hard to let many venues know you won’t attend and the tickets can b
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Voter ID should only be introduced where you have a cheap (ideally free), universal way of proving ID, and multiple ways of establishing identity (what if I’ve just been mugged on the way to the polling station?) It’s also solving a problem
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Possibly joking about the .iso file-type for optical disc images? Or maybe that 'most' ISO standards that are encountered by engineers are defining file-types. I'm also a big fan of ISO-3166 though !
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by NeoTar 2y ago
The average person doesn't pay capital gains tax - at least in the UK; there is a 12 3000 GBP allowance per year of gains which means that you need to have significant assets (think top 10% of the country) before it becomes an issue.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Weirdly Nintendo released an alarm clock this month: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/nintendo-sound-cl... Seems a strange thing to do in 2024.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
This is why the law says : “in the opinion of the Secretary of State, consists of or includes computer code.” - I believe a prompt could theoretically be interpreted as code. Some (human) judgement is needed.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Expense tracking software has always been a trash fire in my experience, and I’ve never come across one with an associated credit cards (maybe that’s harder to in Europe? Or just less incentivised since transactions fees are much lower) I a
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by NeoTar 2y ago
-ough notoriously has anywhere between four and twelve different pronunciations (if you count strange example with a limited number of words, like hiccough for hiccup). The point I believe the parent post is making is that you cannot assume
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by NeoTar 2y ago
2014
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by NeoTar 2y ago
It’s not. The traditional proof that there are an infinite number of primes relies on unique prime factorisation- i.e for any number, n, there is a unique set of primes p1, p2, p3, … etc. where p1 * p2 * p3 * … = n For instance 88 = 2 * 2 *
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by NeoTar 2y ago
SG = Singapore, TDM = Text Data Mining?
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Another fun idea which has been proposed is that it’s an ironic nickname - so rather than ‘Baldy’ (which is you see busts of Caesar is certainly plausible) people called him or his ancestors ‘hairy’.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Apparently in the UK, the largest four banks control 75% of all current accounts (en-us: checking account ). Admittedly a smaller market, but even more centralised.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
It is said that Julius Caesar borrowed so much money to become elected pontifex maximus that he essentially forced his creditors to support his political ambitions in the hope of seeing some payment on the debts. So, essentially, ‘twas ever
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Please don’t impose your solely political definition on others; anarchy meaning disorder (i.e. chaos) is a well attested meaning of the term. > anarchy: absence of order : DISORDER https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictiona
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by NeoTar 2y ago
We do for 2D though - Circle and disc. And in 4D plus we have the 3-sphere and 4-ball, etc. And for 3D shapes have Torus, and, well, ‘solid-torus’.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
And, indeed, it’s probably in topology where the distinction between sphere and ball is most important.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Using an apostrophe to mark a plural is often called a grocer’s apostrophe - https://www.grammar-monster.com/punctuation/using_apostrophe... In English I’m actually ok with it for single letters or abbreviations- “your

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