sambeau

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by sambeau 3mo ago
Here in Scotland, 'ginormous' is normal, possibly more regularly used than 'enormous' or 'giant'.
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by sambeau 10mo ago
I turnips were watches, I'd wear one by my side.
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by sambeau 11mo ago
Thritto.
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by sambeau 11mo ago
This is the main issue. People simply cannot afford to use this extra power. If power was cheap then all kinds of devices would switch to electric, especially heating and cars. The other issue is that the UK has unpredictable weather and no
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Putin's Plot Against 'Great' Britain – and How He Got Away with It(bylinetimes.com)
4 points by sambeau 11mo ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 11mo ago
I like it, but it's too late. It could also do with a datetime datatype, the one thing (apart from comments) that I constantly feel the need for in JSON.
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by sambeau 11mo ago
The Oakham brewery has a rather fine beer named after him: https://www.oakhamales.com/product/jhb/
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by sambeau 1y ago
Wikipedia is a global resource, edited by educated—often academic—people all over the world. Why would anyone expect it to conform to the US idea of what is left and right? For most of Europe the American Democrats are to the right of their
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by sambeau 1y ago
This is face detection, not recognition. Face recognition would have a correct name underneath each face.
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by sambeau 1y ago
The focus for these kind of alternatives should be on aviation—with the most difficult fuel to replace. Maybe we'd need this for classic cars, emergency generators and a few other smaller things, but even classic cars can get electric
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by sambeau 1y ago
These giant datacentres bring nothing to a community; they only take, take, take. Why would anyone want one in their neighbourhood?
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by sambeau 1y ago
What is the advantage here over compressed air?
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by sambeau 1y ago
I can't think of a single example where dropped means added.
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by sambeau 1y ago
"The player was dropped and released from his contract." Dropped == released
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by sambeau 1y ago
Dropped doesn’t mean added: it means released.
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by sambeau 1y ago
This is so depressing. Also, why does the female ninja suddenly grow a penis?
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by sambeau 1y ago
Typescript is not just javascript; Javascript is just Typescript. /pedantry
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by sambeau 1y ago
Can we so CrowdStrike next?
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by sambeau 1y ago
Is that a British vs American thing? I had always thought it was a newspaper vs Novel thing.
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by sambeau 1y ago
Amongst other things, I'm writing children's books. Each one is a labour of love that takes years to produce. It requires detailed thought from word choices, character design, world-building, characters, to fun plot twists. It&#x2
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by sambeau 1y ago
This is ghastly. Children’s books are some of the most wonderful little pieces of art; art that nurtures, entertains, educates and instills both moral compasses and working funny bones. All of our lives have been enriched by them. Some chil
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by sambeau 1y ago
I recently wrote a game in Javascript (2D; Canvas). I was amazed at how simple it was and how performant plain-old-Javascript and Javascript objects were. Despite thousands of animating things moving on screen, and animated stereo audio, I
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by sambeau 1y ago
The really amazing architecture of Coruscant is from the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Arts_and_Sciences In particular, the Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe. https:&
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by sambeau 1y ago
The really uncompetitive behaviour started when Google removed the search string from search links. That killed 3rd party (and home-grown) analytics, which in turn facilitated large scale tracking of users from site with analytics to site w
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by sambeau 1y ago
Incorrect. Here's a large amount of reading matter to explain. Fill your boots. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/faq/europe/#wiki...
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by sambeau 1y ago
Go is a tiny language. I can easily hold it all in my head. I don't think I can say that about any other language I've used. Not even C.
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by sambeau 1y ago
This is almost as shocking: > Republicans were, though, more likely to believe Russian disinformation claims than their Democratic counterparts, with 57.6% falling for at least one Russian disinformation claim, compared with just 17.9% o
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Americans Believe Russian Disinformation 'To Alarming Degree'(forbes.com)
9 points by sambeau 1y ago|3 comments
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by sambeau 1y ago
Maybe they are rounding down from 1.5-bit :)
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by sambeau 1y ago
Here's one that doesn't. (yes it dives me mad, too) https://kermit-font.com

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