albinoloverats | 3 years ago | on: Emoji Kitchen
Neither did trying to put my pen the the trash can. And combining the party emoji with itself didn't create a more excited party emoji. I imagine it's still a work in progress.
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albinoloverats | 3 years ago | on: How normal am I?
Apparently I'm a sad 5 year old girl living in the US :-/
Who knew? Because I certainly didn't.
albinoloverats | 9 years ago | on: A London Subway Experiment: Please Don’t Walk Up the Escalator
You occasionally see signs around for them (though not so much in town, more often a little further out); where the path takes pedestrians under the road ;-)
albinoloverats | 9 years ago | on: World's longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland
This is what I noticed most too; then I wondered how it compares with Crossrail. (Obviously I imagine tunneling under London is vastly different than under a mountain.)
albinoloverats | 9 years ago | on: Exploring the Elizabeth line, one of the world’s largest construction projects
> a special ticket isn't required.
Excellent, I've been trying to figure this out; whether I will be able to just jump on/off using my debit (or Oyster) card as I currently do on the over/underground.
Any idea how far out of town this ticketing system will be usable? Will someone in Reading be able to use a contactless card without having to buy a paper ticket?
albinoloverats | 10 years ago | on: The Increasing Scarcity of Helium
Sounds like it's time to found the Jupiter Mining Corporation...
albinoloverats | 10 years ago | on: A Tale of Two File Names: deconstructing the checksum in Windows 8.3 file names
Can FAT support that many files in a single directory?
albinoloverats | 11 years ago | on: Ccat – syntax highlighting cat
I've been using source-highlight[1] to achieve the same result.
[edit]: alias ccat="source-highlight --out-format=esc --style-file=/usr/share/source-highlight/esc.style --failsafe -i "
I'll have to see how this compares.
albinoloverats | 11 years ago | on: CEO cuts his pay by almost $1M to give his employees big raises
> They're not going to quit on you, and they're not going to kill the golden goose.
Especially if by going somewhere else they have to take a significant cut.
albinoloverats | 11 years ago | on: Passport Index – World's passports in one place
It doesn't say exactly where the data comes from but:
"Passports are ranked based on their Visa Free Score. The higher the Visa Free Score, the better the Passport Power Rank."
Edit: I presume this is the number of countries which a holder of a certain passport can visit without needing a visa.
albinoloverats | 11 years ago | on: Sir Terry Pratchett has died
I only just finished reading The Long Mars a couple of weeks ago - I wonder whether Stephen Baxter will continue solo with the final book (as number 4 is due out later this year[1]).
[1]: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/the-long-utopia-the-lo...
albinoloverats | 11 years ago | on: Sir Terry Pratchett has died
+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++
(Hogfather)
albinoloverats | 11 years ago | on: Sir Terry Pratchett has died
I started with Pyramids half my life ago, back in my early teens. It's the only novel not to have started its own mini series, which I have always felt is a bit of a shame. But it did hook me and made me want to read all of the others. I think by the time of Pyramids TP was really getting in to his stride, so when I went back to The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic and found them less polished I wasn't put off as I knew there was better to come.
albinoloverats | 11 years ago | on: The Cost of Getting My Stolen Computer Back
He could have done just that, but the police would have held on to it until they'd finished their investigation and the court case was over. I suppose it's a question of waiting or paying for speedy delivery.
albinoloverats | 11 years ago | on: The Loma Prieta Earthquake 1989 + 2014 Mashup
16-17 years ago when I lived in Menlo Park we were taught (in middle school at the time) to get under our desks - and obviously (if London suffered from earthquakes) I'd do pretty much the same at work now.
But what's the general advice if you're out and about? Say at a museum, restaurant or stadium (or even walking down the street)?
albinoloverats | 11 years ago | on: New Tube for London
I believe that was the Circle, District, Hammersmith/City and Met lines.
albinoloverats | 11 years ago | on: How Memorizing “$19.05” Can Help You Outsmart the MTA
It's basically the same here in London; although if you're a local you're more likely to have an annual (or monthly) pass or possibly automatic top-up if you pay as you go.
albinoloverats | 11 years ago | on: Gentoo Linux Releases LiveDVD Iron Penguin Edition
My experience was largely similar, although I suffered along with using lynx to read the documentation in e second virtual console as I was learning about partitions and compiler flags.
And after spending hours watching/waiting for gcc, bash and some of the other core utilities (and of course Linux) to compile my then limited experience also witnessed a panic on first boot :( so I switched to Lunar and had that on my laptop until I replaced it.
I too became lazy, but went for Arch instead of Ubuntu (which I did use before attempting Gentoo).
Might fire-up a VM and give this a whirl...
albinoloverats | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: I'm building a game for the Nintendo GameBoy
I ended up falling endlessly through a blank void :-\
albinoloverats | 11 years ago | on: A framework for making 2D DOS games in Lua
"If you're not using DOS as your operating system then DOSbox can be used to emulate a DOS computer."
That made me laugh.
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