thebrid

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by thebrid 2mo ago
Completely unusable here in Singapore. No response in new chats, unable to list previous chats. Let us spare a thought for those on pager duty right now.
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by thebrid 2mo ago
What an excellent idea. This will surely make the protesters go away.</s>
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by thebrid 3mo ago
I'd echo the gp's thoughts. There are parts of the City and the West End that are basically devoid of trees. My biggest bugbear in London is the number of developments that have a "token tree" with one lonely tree in one
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by thebrid 3mo ago
Why exactly? Isn't the primary reason for having public markets that companies can sell equity to fund growth? The stock market has companies from massive to tiny. Each investor has the right to choose whether or not to invest in any o
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by thebrid 3mo ago
It won't be expedited into S&P.
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by thebrid 6mo ago
I find some joy in historical street naming. It's nice that you can take a 1746 map of London and pretty much still be able to get around.[1] Would certainly make life easier for time travellers. While there are advantages to grid layo
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by thebrid 11mo ago
You could just pay for premium. No ads, you can play content in the background on mobile and the creators get more money out of it. There is so much good stuff on YouTube in pretty much any niche you care to mention. Not to mention that You
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by thebrid 1y ago
You mean the poor who disproportionately take transit into Manhattan rather than drive and/or suffer the adverse consequences of traffic?
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by thebrid 1y ago
If by "screwed" you mean having to pay a modest fee to access one of the most valuable pieces of land on the entire planet, sure.
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by thebrid 1y ago
Businesses may benefit from this move. People driving past in cars are unlikely to stop by a local business in Manhattan. People passing by on foot are much more likely to. The article has evidence of modal shift. Car journeys are down, but
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by thebrid 2y ago
As much as I love the Internet Archive, is it really that crazy? The four factors used for determining fair use are: * the purpose and character of the use * the nature of the copyrighted work; * the amount and substantiality of the
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by thebrid 3y ago
One of my favourite releases of 2023 was a well restored edition of Laurel & Hardy's first year (1927) of films[1]. The copyright holder had neglected them somewhat with them only being released in ancient DVD-era masters. This new
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by thebrid 3y ago
You might be in luck here! In the US, patents last for only 20 years. Since, the Game Boy was released in 1989, any patents are long since expired. Using the Nintendo logo might (NB: Not a Lawyer!) be permissible if it's required for s
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1969: What Is Electronic Music? – Workshop – Radiophonic Workshop – BBC Archive(youtube.com)
1 points by thebrid 3y ago|1 comments
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by thebrid 3y ago
What is electronic music? How is it produced? Desmond Briscoe - the head of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - enlists the help of Daphne Oram, David Cain and John Baker to explain the fundamentals of synthesised sound.
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by thebrid 3y ago
Both Dell and Lenovo will sell you laptops with Ubuntu. The selection is admittedly (significantly) smaller than for Windows laptops, but it certainly removes uncertainty over whether the hardware will be supported. My last two personal lap
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by thebrid 4y ago
There's a lot wrong in that for such a short sentence. The Beatles were not at all renowned for lip syncing. They grew up playing live in Hamburg and played countless live shows, both during and post-Beatles. Many of their most famous
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by thebrid 4y ago
My understanding is whipper is more paranoid than abcde. whipper does a couple things to ensure a perfect rip: * Rips tracks twice and ensures the checksums match (retrying if they do not) * Compares the track checksums against the Accurate
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by thebrid 5y ago
The UK uses hand-counted paper ballots and often has multiple elections on the same day. You just have a separate ballot paper for each election. It's not unusual to have votes for some combination of Member of Parliament, Regional Par
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by thebrid 5y ago
The UK has a similar system. You are required to go to a specific place to vote but these are normally very local and just for your neighbourhood, e.g. in the local school or church hall. My last three polling stations have been 0.1, 0.6
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by thebrid 5y ago
I was searching for a good ARM board for tinkering a while back and settled on the Odroid N2+. That has a pretty good trade-off between performance and price. It retails for less than $100 and has 6 cores total, 4 performance A73 cores cloc
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by thebrid 6y ago
The Raspberry Pi optimises more for lower cost. For not that much more you can get something like the Odroid N2+ which has 6 cores total, 4 Cortex A73 cores @ 2.4 GHz for performance and 2 A55 cores @ 2 GHz for efficiency. https:/&#x2
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by thebrid 6y ago
The official word from TV Licensing is quite misleading (which admittedly is in their interest). You do not require any exemption nor to correspond with them at all. Their "officers" are private individuals employed by a private c
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by thebrid 6y ago
I highly recommend "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing" by Jack Bogle. It's a super short book full of great advice from the inventor of the Index Fund: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Common-Sense-I
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Britain goes one month without coal-fired electricity generation in 'milestone'(inews.co.uk)
2 points by thebrid 6y ago|0 comments
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by thebrid 6y ago
Warren Buffett talks about the profitability of Insurance Companies a lot in his annual letters. A key part of this is the float. Insurance premiums are generally paid up front but losses are paid out after the fact. This means they end up
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by thebrid 9y ago
Harvard's Nutrition Source web site [0] is the best source I've found. It has a wealth of evidence-based information. The accompanying book "Eat Drink and Be Healthy" discusses what features make a study reliable or not.
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by thebrid 9y ago
The advice you've been given so far is sound. Do the Andrew Ng Coursera course. It will give you a great introduction to key areas of machine learning. Andrew Ng is a terrific educator. The level is pitched just right - enough maths to
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Andrew Ng: Launching my new project(twitter.com)
3 points by thebrid 9y ago|0 comments