gideonparanoid | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
First time I've encountered a site blocked by the work firewall, funnily enough.
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gideonparanoid | 1 year ago | on: The rectangular cows of Art UK (2018)
The author of the post is wrong to say there's no famous cows, see the Craven Heifer [0] for example.
gideonparanoid | 2 years ago | on: We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters
Without convection or conduction?
gideonparanoid | 5 years ago | on: I lost my boyfriend to cancer 'conspiracy theories’
Coronation Street - a popular TV soap in the UK had a storyline about this last year [0]. As the storyline played out, the character chose alternative therapies before finally trying conventional medicine, but it was too late & she lost her life.
I think it was quite brave of a soap to tackle that, & hopefully it's made people think if they were considering alternative 'solutions'.
[0] https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/06/coronation-street-spoilers-si...
gideonparanoid | 6 years ago | on: Visa Buys Plaid
Also would make cancelling your cards harder if they were lost along with your phone?
gideonparanoid | 6 years ago | on: Dry Stone Walls – Principles of structurally sound construction (2018)
Some of these are beautiful. Spent a lot of time looking at them & the trees while riding up the south side of Coll de Sóller.
gideonparanoid | 7 years ago | on: UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
The electoral register is relatively open. You can view it in most public libraries, town hall etc. [0]. You can even buy it in some cases [1].
[0] https://www.gov.uk/electoral-register/view-electoral-registe... [1] https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_fil...
gideonparanoid | 7 years ago | on: The cassette returns on a wave of nostalgia
Ha, not too dissimilar to a floppy disc really.
gideonparanoid | 7 years ago | on: Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
> over 100 people die every day in traditional vehicle accidents.
Which isn't acceptable either. To some degree, people look towards autonomous vehicles as a way of reducing the number of fatalities/injuries on the road. If they're not better than humans & the other benefits don't add up, they won't be accepted.
gideonparanoid | 7 years ago | on: A Giant Speaker in Taiwan Is About to Switch on Again (2018)
I'm reminded of Dougal Adam's fictional band, Disaster Area [0].
>Disaster Area was a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones and was generally regarded as not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but also as being the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert goers judged that the best sound balance was usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles away from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves played their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stayed in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.
>Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason.
>Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system contravenes local strategic arms limitations treaties.
gideonparanoid | 7 years ago | on: LG Releases Gram 17 Laptop: An Ultra-Thin Notebook with a 17.3in Display
Yeah, it's probably a function of it being a larger laptop. & it's, of course, subjective. I saw this typing on my 2016 MacBook Pro, & I personally love the giant trackpad.
gideonparanoid | 7 years ago | on: LG Releases Gram 17 Laptop: An Ultra-Thin Notebook with a 17.3in Display
Looking at the Macbook in front of me & back to this laptop on my screen & the trackpad looks absolutely tiny. Large trackpads are good! Seems odd that it's so small.
gideonparanoid | 7 years ago | on: China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls
I agree, two completely different types of suppression, each quite scary.
gideonparanoid | 7 years ago | on: Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
Your experience does not necessarily reflect the reality of it [0].
[0] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/03/study-cyclists-dont-b...
gideonparanoid | 7 years ago | on: Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews
A good local bike shop is invaluable, especially if they have a good workshop.
gideonparanoid | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?
This is a good analysis of the situation.
>(no idea who the other bloke is) Jonathan Bartley [0].
gideonparanoid | 7 years ago | on: Why I Bid $700 for a Stolen PSN Account
Reminds me of this blog post [0] about a guy who lost his Twitter @N.
[0] https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...
gideonparanoid | 8 years ago | on: Autonomous braking: 'The most significant development since the safety belt'
Also, surely that needs to be more accurately described as 'safest car ever tested /for its occupants/'.
gideonparanoid | 8 years ago | on: Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting Them Down Themselves
I've found that with blocking every account I see a promoted tweet from, I barely see any any more.
gideonparanoid | 8 years ago | on: Chinese police don high-tech glasses to nab suspects
We have ANPR[0] in the UK. Makes it very easy to follow vehicles around the country on main roads.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recogni...
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