colloydi

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by colloydi 2y ago
>New Earplugs Won’t Amplify the Sound of Your Own Voice I think part of it is that most of us speak more loudly to others when we can't hear them very well, e.g. when wearing headphones or on a mobile in a train
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by colloydi 2y ago
Tangential to the topic but regarding the supposed Snowball Effect there is in real life no such thing. I have pushed large 'snowballs' down slopes --in reality they are snow cylinders as shown in the photo-- and they invariably
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by colloydi 2y ago
I agree swores. Your comment did say 'traditional' and my comment was facetious. There's been an historical transition from small chains owned by individuals (e.g. the Victorian Mr John Sainsbury) to big brands (e.g. Superdru
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by colloydi 2y ago
Thank you, I'll remember that next time I pay a visit to Sainbury's's!
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by colloydi 2y ago
The '666' portion doesn't inspire confidence either. We love apostrophes so much we have them on our supermarkets. If they're not there we add them. e.g. I'm going to Sainbury's e.g. I'm going to Tesco&#x2
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by colloydi 2y ago
Beautiful: humans, flowers, orchids, bumble bees, butterflies, ladybirds, birds of paradise, big cats... Ugly: most other insects, maggots, spiders, deep sea fish, proboscis monkeys, lampreys... Thinking that some ugly creatures aren&
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by colloydi 2y ago
I think it's because when we get to know other people IRL what they say is of secondary importance to how we perceive their intentions and motives. These determine how we feel about a person. They're subjective and hard to ascerta
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by colloydi 2y ago
OK I'm playing it now and it's brilliant. This is the way The Sentinel was meant to be!
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by colloydi 2y ago
Pardon my ignorance...is it safe to install on Windows? It wants to bypass defender. Would very much like to try it.
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by colloydi 2y ago
...and so is Selection Bias.
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by colloydi 2y ago
I think it's vasopressin deficiency that is claimed to drive those symptoms.
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by colloydi 2y ago
And very occasionally it's a serendipitous name!
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by colloydi 2y ago
>Fully elucidating these economic and cultural factors is a major future project of this blog One rule of thumb seems to be that a new technology needs to be not merely better but ten times better than the alternative(s) for it to go v
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by colloydi 3y ago
More than a few middle-aged westerners would find it impossible to sleep with bent knees owing to a high prevalance of artherosclerosis (I think). Also one of the great pleasures of life is turning over in bed repeatedly during a lie-in. Do
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by colloydi 3y ago
I think this speaks to an important factor which is that most of us have little awareness of our posture and typical sofa designs reflect this. We want sofas to 'collapse' on rather than to sit comfortably. I became aware of this