Theodores

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by Theodores 7d ago
What we have going on here is a false dichotomy, with one car-dependent tribe wanting one type of car whilst another car-dependent tribe wants another type of car. Across Europe they have 2030 targets to get half the journeys in urban areas
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by Theodores 11d ago
In the olden days we read because there was nothing better to do, with no TV until evening. If all you have is books, you read. It is as simple as that. Some people came from houses that had books in them and others did not. Accessibility t
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by Theodores 17d ago
Can anyone recall how well Matrox performed with early implementations of OpenGL, from the days before DirectX was taken seriously? At the time I worked in broadcasting and we had a lot of respect for Matrox, however, I can't recall ex
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by Theodores 20d ago
Now you tell me... After drowning my last laptop in tea I needed a PC urgently and bought ASUS. Had I known that a refund was possible, would I have applied, to get what amounts to £10 refund on a £2K machine? I am not sure! The Windows ins
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by Theodores 1mo ago
Thank goodness that God hasn't entered the AI chat in a cult-following type of way, however, I now have images of AI at the altar, in American mega-churches, with people seeing the 'second coming' in the machine. The Scientol
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by Theodores 1mo ago
It is conspicuous leisure and a game of status in a time-poor world. Or, as we used to call it, 'keeping up with the Joneses'. The odd thing is that most people that go to the overly-touristy places have very little to say. Sure t
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by Theodores 1mo ago
You can over ride lib-jpeg-turbo with the moz-jpeg 'update' if you want much nicer jpeg things going on. Mozilla wringed out more from JPEG for Meta/Instagram about a decade or so ago, and their library would be noteworthy in
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by Theodores 1mo ago
Phew. I thought we were just about to leave it, albeit not quite getting to space, just dissolving the financial system so our AI overlords can make some more harvester drones.
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by Theodores 1mo ago
In twenty years time, will there be a secondary market in random USB sticks? I have a vast quantity of random USB sticks from clearing out my father's house, keeping them just in case something needed, nothing was. Rather than take the
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by Theodores 1mo ago
TB? Trigger me, thought you meant Tony Blair for a minute!
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by Theodores 1mo ago
They sold six million copies and made a big profit from Myst, which they presumably invested in the company, to make the next game, with the profits from that (and the diminishing returns from Myst) topping up their coffers. At some stage o
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by Theodores 1mo ago
I can remember the Thatcher years when redundancies for hundreds of thousands was routine, with the unemployment figures going stratospheric. The miners, auto-workers, ship workers, BT (phone) workers and other swathes ended up leaving the
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by Theodores 1mo ago
In the UK a typical Gateway 2000 desktop PC came with a Trinitron screen, made by Sony in South Wales. Their business model for the UK was the same tax scam as Apple, Dell and others. Everything was mail order, operating out of Dublin. Thei
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by Theodores 1mo ago
To complement the treat rewards, can you get the cat wheel to power a small pump to provide a water fountain for the cat? Assuming the treats are dispensed after a variable amount of distance is travelled on the cat wheel (to turn your cat
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by Theodores 1mo ago
Erotica != porn... What is the difference between erotica and porn? I am no expert, however, the former requires and stimulates the imagination, whereas the latter doesn't do that, everything is shown and nothing is left to the imagina
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by Theodores 1mo ago
Ruby first became known to me as a vegan contestant on the BBC Great British Bake Off. I think she is fab, however... (I write this for the American reader.) The essay didn't mention the lore regarding Margaret Thatcher in her food sci
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by Theodores 1mo ago
Wool thief! That industry was ours, in Gloucestershire and in Devon. All that red cloth that native peoples the world over wanted, and clothed every soldier, that was our broad cloth. You meanies undercut us and put us out of business. We h
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by Theodores 1mo ago
Carlton Reid, the guy who started the trade website BikeBiz, is my source for this, and his is a name to look out for, his writing is consistently good and his advocacy based on a knowledge of history. I am just paraphrasing what I have lea
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by Theodores 1mo ago
Transport museums in the UK are fascinating because they are full of machines that didn't solve any problem satisfactorily. My local museum has the bicycle well represented along with much else of the times, early lawn mowers, sewing m
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by Theodores 1mo ago
It wasn't so much tarmac, it was just anything passable between towns. When the trains came along (to replace the canals), people just took the magic teleportal that was the train, same for goods traffic. This led to there being nobody
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by Theodores 1mo ago
I hate to burst your bubble, but... The Wright Brothers started in a bicycle workshop, as did practically every auto maker, in Europe, in the early days. The bicycle workshop was the cradle for many things. The Wright Brothers were not good
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by Theodores 1mo ago
What has yet to be mentioned is why Hollywood, in the first place? Out of the many reasons, one is quite simple: daylight. This used to be really important with film. Historically, this was why efforts to move filming to somewhere like &#x2
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by Theodores 2mo ago
Paul Graham writes about this in an essay on procrastination. Procrastination doesn't have to mean time on the couch, the person that keeps their house 'unreasonably tidy' is also procrastinating, albeit in their own special
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by Theodores 2mo ago
https://epson.com/company-history It started with the watch making, EPSON was the spin off technology, developed for the 1964 Olympics, when printers were needed, along with precision timekeeping. The watch engineering mean
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by Theodores 2mo ago
If you work in the West End and want to go to the pub with your workmates, you soon find that one lives in Greenwich, another in Twickenham, another in St Albans, another in Brighton and everyone 'blows you out' because of their f
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by Theodores 2mo ago
Wasn't there a Microsoft idea to build data centres in shipping containers a few years ago, again using the ocean for cooling? What happened to that? Given the expense of the latest AI chips, or just the RAM for them, the price of land
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by Theodores 2mo ago
It could be just a filter, along with dietary requirements. In this way the one webpage can be made to work for everyone. Honestly, although fast food is normalised in America, there are lots of people that would never be seen dead, chompi
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by Theodores 2mo ago
This might be the better application. Some of us from outside the US do not want to eat ANY American food unless it has come from the actual ground or a tree, seen actual daylight and not been processed in special American ways. So all that
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by Theodores 2mo ago
If I was their mischievous uncle, I would get them a full feature drum set, maybe with extra percussion instruments. Hopefully the kids will show the same enthusiasm for it, before the parents let them play the drums in the bath or the rain
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by Theodores 2mo ago
As one miracle is solved, another is opened. I had the guy rocking up in his truck to spend a day doing carpentry for our AI overlords, and could not see the magic wand. So now we have him solving the world's problems by killing everyo

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