robert_tweed

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by robert_tweed 2y ago
This actually happened to me, but fortunately I never actually used the domain. I registered tweed.dev intending to use robert.tweed.dev as a personal blog. It wasn't classed as a "premium" domain and the first year was £5 or
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by robert_tweed 3y ago
Alone in the Dark was notable at the time for using Gouraud shading [1]. You can see the effect on some of the polygons here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsGaVrMr9N8&t=480s The reason I remember this is that it insp
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by robert_tweed 3y ago
I'd be fine with shorts if they didn't disable the normal player controls.
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by robert_tweed 3y ago
It feels like an example of Betteridge's law of headlines, despite not being a question.
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by robert_tweed 3y ago
Ah, I only skimmed the article and missed that. The BBC RSS feed was the main example I referred back to while I was learning XSLT around 2010-ish. AFAIK it's the only major implementation of this technique. Most other big sites that p
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by robert_tweed 3y ago
If anyone is looking for a real-world example, the BBC does it: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml
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by robert_tweed 3y ago
How is it in terms of heat & condensation build-up? Is there a certain amount of time after which it starts getting uncomfortable? Also, is passthrough good enough for things like typing, so you don't get an uncanny valley sense of
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by robert_tweed 3y ago
I'm definitely taking my UV torch to the supermarket next time. However, most good olive oils come in dark glass bottles, so I don't think it will be possible to check those. Might be interesting to look for variation among the ch
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by robert_tweed 3y ago
I don't have a green laser, but I just tried shining a 365nm UV torch on the various bottles of oil in my kitchen. My good EV olive oil in a glass bottle goes a sort of pinkish colour. With the natural colour of the oil & the way t
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by robert_tweed 4y ago
Why not just a scanner app for your phone? They work pretty well. I have a flatbed scanner that I keep stored away most of the time, until I need to scan a bunch of stuff quickly. If I need to scan the odd receipt, I use Tiny Scanner.
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by robert_tweed 4y ago
I always (and only) use named colours for debugging. For example border: 1px solid red; around some element that isn't rendering as expected. This makes it hard to accidentally forget about a rules that just just put in temporarily. Re
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by robert_tweed 4y ago
I'm not sure if there's a list, but a notable example of this is Day of the Tentacle, the sequel to Maniac Mansion. In the game there is a computer, which if you interact with it, allows you to play the entire original Maniac Mans
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by robert_tweed 4y ago
A glass eye filled with tritium would probably give enough light to read with, continuously, with a half-life of 10 years. It might get a bit annoying when you want to go to sleep though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
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by robert_tweed 4y ago
Yes, same here. It's not just "I'm hungry". It's more "I cannot think about anything other than food". I'm not sure it has anything to do with burning fat stores though, because I don't get the s
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by robert_tweed 4y ago
More anecdata, but I find it depends on the type of exercise. An hour of cardio equals several hours of appetite suppression. An hour of heavy weight training equals several hours of unstoppable hunger. What I eat in that state (high carb,
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by robert_tweed 4y ago
I think the conclusion here is back-to-front. Code that never needs to be touched is fine. Although the odds are that such code is either completely trivial or subtly wrong (or both). Code that is touched every day is likely to be fine as w
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by robert_tweed 4y ago
It's also possible that copyright does not apply to this kind of image, because it lacks the creative element required for copyright to apply.
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
The Toshiba HX-10 MSX came with 2 plugs and a screwdriver. This was considered important enough to include a picture on the box, never mind the manual. https://www.msx.org/wiki/Toshiba_HX-10
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
It even claims to parse ls output correctly (see caveat): https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/docs/parsers/ls
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
For a few seconds I thought it was Lite-On, best known for their cheapo CD/DVD drives. Seems to be completely unconnected though.
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
This is a separate problem Amazon needs to sort out. Far too many duplicate products with a different ASIN. They could easily fix that with manual inventory checking, but they don't. The same process would fix the bait-and-switch probl
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
Adversarial reviews. The problem isn't just fake positive reviews. The other problem is fake negative reviews left by competitors, which is already a problem on Amazon. Most 1-star reviews are either stupid & irrelevant (it arrived
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
There is a valid reason, which is custom configuration for each application. How you want a tablet to act in Blender is likely not the same as you would want in Photoshop. A lot of mice do the same thing. Once the user has agreed to that va
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
Some of these could exist if we just start using them. The best one I've found: tootbox toot·box a place where something, especially music, plays "do you need a tootbox in your bedroom?" https://l.this
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
Yes, I am sure. Look at point 2 in the instructions and follow the link. The whole process for putting an Oculus device in developer mode is incredibly fiddly and annoying. You need a verified developer account. You an app running on a phon
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
I'm going to give this a try later. One small fly in the ointment is that if like me you do not have and do not want to ever have a Facebook account, it will not be possible to load this onto the device after 2022. This is because load
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
You've answered my question and explained why I couldn't find that text on TFA or even their entire domain. FWIW, with the context I would say that I'd find that example quite hard to parse without the IDs (or at least a comm
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
I upvoted because I agree with the general sentiment, but I can't find the specific example you're talking about. Have you got a link for context?
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
I think it's a bad analogy. A clock losing a random number of seconds per day is actually correct more often than a stopped one.
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
Surely if there's one thing the HN bubble is capable of, it's rallying a critical mass of contributors around a project like this.

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