nicholassmith

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by nicholassmith 2mo ago
> Buying islands and making bunkers? It was reported a few years back he'd built a bunker in New Zealand.
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by nicholassmith 10mo ago
Quite a few actually, regular 911s often end up being daily drivers and given Porsche build them to last there's plenty of high milers out there.
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by nicholassmith 10mo ago
The World Endurance Championship has been using synthetic fuels since 2022 from TotalEnergies ( https://competition.totalenergies.com/en/auto/endurance/wec/... ), there's also Sustain ( https:/&#
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by nicholassmith 1y ago
Bigger equals better consumer perception, I imagine driven in part by the top-tier phones being larger to fit additional battery capacity in for the higher performance processors making all larger devices carry some premium cachet.
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by nicholassmith 1y ago
Renault at least are keeping the small car flame alive with the 5 and a new version of the Twingo. Audi's product strategy at the moment seems to be "try everything and pivot" so they might even end up relauching the A2 by ac
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by nicholassmith 1y ago
In the UK the toy chains The Entertainer and Smyths both expanded to fill the market, both usually seem to have a decent amount of footfall. Toys are an interesting product as the target market is, for the most part, not an online shopper.
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by nicholassmith 2y ago
Net profit was €1.14bn for 2024, which feels like a reasonable amount of money.
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by nicholassmith 2y ago
When I forget where I've stashed a specific symbol or similar I just check the Via QMK configuration tool, similar to when you're trying to learn the shortcut keys for a piece of software. Eventually it's muscle-memory, but i
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by nicholassmith 2y ago
That probably wasn't such a bad price when it was released: "In the fall of 1998 the WristPC wearable keyboard was introduced."
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by nicholassmith 2y ago
I do the same thing (Motorola Razr rather than Samsung), and I've found that working on the smaller screen means I don't get sucked into things as it's useful for quickly checking on a limited set of apps but doesn't len
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by nicholassmith 2y ago
I actually see quite a lot of elaborate rigs that go for the trusty Logitech/Thrustmaster belt drive wheels, I guess if you've got it and it's working fine for you then build around what you've got. I on the other hand a
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by nicholassmith 2y ago
I'm sure that this won't end up going the way of Fordlandia.
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by nicholassmith 2y ago
I suspect you're right, but I think it'll follow the COBOL engineer salary cycle, engineers that have a deeper understanding of the whole widget will be in demand when companies remember they need them.
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by nicholassmith 2y ago
I use different accounts for my work GitHub and my personal GitHub, so this approach would be great if I shared a machine for both of them to keep separation.
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by nicholassmith 2y ago
I've seen plenty of comments here that read like they've been generated by an LLM, if this is a gated community we need a better gate.
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by nicholassmith 2y ago
Almost 40 as well, also tired of social media but I do miss social networks. This seems to hew more closely to the social network concept than being a media outlet which is lovely to see coming back.
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by nicholassmith 2y ago
Whilst watching the Olympics I've seen an eToro ad a few times that is very clearly AI generated, it wasn't exactly a confidence builder in a financial platform.
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by nicholassmith 2y ago
Another take on this point, the race to the bottoming of shirts has been a disaster ecologically and has fostered a throwaway culture where people don't take care or pride in an item of clothing. There's benefits on reducing the b
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by nicholassmith 2y ago
I did some research on this recently and it's a bit tricky to pin down as some of the information is out of date or doesn't include certain services, but the three that appear to be the best on payouts are: Tidal, Quobuz and Napst
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
I actually quite like it as a reminder of the gentle chaos of the early web before the vibe shift to homogenous design.
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
You don't have to, but it does often feel like when you use Spotify that isn't what the app would like you to do. The initial load in heavily steers you towards using a playlist instead and whilst it will occasionally list albums
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
The Uni Kuru Toga is probably the best mechanical pencil (in my opinion), but that's driven in part because it's wonderfully engineered and I'm a dork for that.
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
Similar experience for me, I was active answering questions about Qt (and asking plenty as well) and got approached through to go work at a startup building 3D printers with bespoke software. Took it, had a great time, learnt a huge amount
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
Out of curiosity I had a quick look to see if any of the pieces had made the market, one sold with Sothebys for $22.5k. There's a certain novelty to it that's quite appealing to me, but I'm surprised it went for that much as
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
A wise move to stop the UK becoming accidentally Turing complete.
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
Simulating Red Bulls next set of upgrades no doubt.
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
I use paper notebooks as the first point for very quick rough notes which I then build on in Notion, for me it works really well as I can quickly write the point down without really needing to look which is better for focus in meetings etc.
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
I've got very similar thoughts, I have some ACG & Acronym trousers which I rotate through and I don't have any concerns about delicacy. The biggest problem is I wear the ACG trousers so often the black dye has started to fade,
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
> Do you see any practical consumer hydrogen infrastructure going up? Has it even been invented yet? It has been invented, the majority are in China and Japan if I remember rightly.
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
Given they were bought by an investment firm for quite a frothy amount of money I'd assume it was at least partially debt leveraged and they're suffering from interest payments.

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