stevesimmons

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by stevesimmons 9d ago
I got the X4 just before my summer holiday and put "War and Peace" from Project Gutenberg on it as my only ebook. Five weeks later, I'd finished it, all 360 chapters, 1400 pages. Apart from finding War and Peace a totally eng
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by stevesimmons 17d ago
When we did a full renovation, we had the cabinet maker install an Ikea kitchen, with a custom non-Ikea worktop and a small amount of his expertise to adapt it for our non-Ikea dishwasher etc. This was a massive cost saving on a fully custo
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by stevesimmons 28d ago
For sunbathing in particular, do what Australia does: - large scale public health campaigns on dangers of skin cancer. With a catchy song and slogan ("slip, slop, slap... Slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a hat") - schoo
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by stevesimmons 29d ago
"Not illegal" doesn't mean we should passively accept it whether we encounter it professionally at work or personally as a customer.
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by stevesimmons 29d ago
Excluding people from services because you can't be bothered to handle their perfectly correct and validated email address is actually a form of discrimination. My pet hate is my bank refusing to email me bank statement notifications t
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by stevesimmons 1mo ago
> it is "spend considerable amount of time thinking about and planning your eating". Nonsense. It doesn't take any more time. Just buy unprocessed, basic food, fruit and veg. When you open your cupboard, cook something tas
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by stevesimmons 1mo ago
To your point 4, we have lots of good reasons why people are gaining weight: they eat more. It's not exactly rocket science. Obvious reasons include: a) food is very cheap, especially processed food b) portion sizes are comically large
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by stevesimmons 1mo ago
> The right to bear arms is critical... The governmental structure of the US is so good... Not sure many outside the US would agree with these statements. > People should own a gun for self defense and a car to get where they need to
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by stevesimmons 1mo ago
This Red Blob Games blog post would be accessible to a wider group of readers if it spent just a few sentences up front on motivation and terminology. If you don't already know exactly what the heuristic function is and that L is somet
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by stevesimmons 1mo ago
Speaking as a European, current foreign policy is not "reducing trust in America as a reliable and stable partner". It has already reduced trust to rock bottom. It's hard to see how much worse it could get, short of outright
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by stevesimmons 1mo ago
why do you want your watch to manage a grocery list? seriously
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by stevesimmons 1mo ago
Lots of fossil fuel infrastructure was built in formerly nice places that now you'd never go to voluntarily...
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by stevesimmons 1mo ago
Maybe that's a fair price for the externalities of fossil fuels.
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by stevesimmons 2mo ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists
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by stevesimmons 2mo ago
"3x the price" means 3x the Chinese price. Crucial missing context from the truncated headline!
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by stevesimmons 2mo ago
By the way, I'm in the UK. I bought it on eBay UK from a guy named "Reliable Trove" who imports them and reflashes them with CrossPoint. I know it's not hard to do, but I needed it to work first time before my summer hol
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by stevesimmons 2mo ago
I got an Xteink X4 a month ago. It's perfect: none of the distractions of a phone, battery life measured in weeks, small enough to carry everywhere, cheap enough that I don't worry about anything happening to it. So far I have onl
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by stevesimmons 3mo ago
"retaining lineage"
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by stevesimmons 3mo ago
I'm not sure that follows. I stopped making open source contributions when I switched from mature companies to startups. Now all my "non-work" time is spent on startup work. And none of that is visible via GitHub.
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by stevesimmons 3mo ago
I don't buy into this critique at all... I live in two cities in Europe. I like our size of houses. I like not needing to own a car. I like that in both of the cities I live in there are 8 supermarkets within ten minutes walk. I like t
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by stevesimmons 3mo ago
... 20 years of not remembering that I only ever want to see distances in km
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by stevesimmons 3mo ago
Which is why NTSC was often said to mean Never Twice the Same Color!
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by stevesimmons 4mo ago
And mine is a Commodore Vic-20 circa 1981, with 3583 bytes of free RAM. Programmed in 6502 assembler. Can't get much closer to the CPU than that.
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by stevesimmons 4mo ago
What would your alternative look like?
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by stevesimmons 4mo ago
There's a great article on the Ptolemaic dynasty in the latest issue of the London Review of Books. Tons of fascinating detail. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n09/robert-cioffi/pharao... For in
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by stevesimmons 4mo ago
I'd never heard of it either. A comment further down suggests it is Japanese. Digging deeper, the kyu -- or Q for quarter millimeter -- is apparently a foundational distance measurement in Japanese typesetting, which is metric and oper
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by stevesimmons 4mo ago
- KeePass files synced between laptop and phone on OneDrive, DropBox, etc - KeePassXC on Windows and Mac - Keepass2Android mobile client - Browser integration on mobile. - On laptop, I prefer no browser integration; Copy usern
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by stevesimmons 4mo ago
It is if your country isn't in the US and (a) GDPR requires data residency in UK/EU; (b) you're concerned about capricious actions by the US govt cutting off access to US-controlled services (cloud, payments systems, etc).
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by stevesimmons 4mo ago
There was an article in the FT back in March [1] with the headline "NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform while also advising company". Amusingly, the person concerned has the surname "Swindells"..
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by stevesimmons 4mo ago
As opposed to premature deaths from fossil fuel emissions, deaths of rooftop solar installers (surprisingly common), wars in the Middle East involving oil interests, drowning and environmental damage from dam failures, etc, etc.

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