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- Comment on Slightly less than two drinks = positive effect on programming ability. Who's joining? 18 hours ago:
The centre is .1337
- Comment on How would you decorate this room? 2 days ago:
Add a bit of a Dazzle paint scheme…
- Comment on "What The Heck Is That": Dune 2's Black & White Planet Initially Scared Warner Bros. 1 week ago:
Not just “black and white”, wasn’t it infrared film?
- Comment on Scanner Sombre: Analysis of a Flawed but Underappreciated Game 3 weeks ago:
Introversion themselves talked about it at the time
- Comment on How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement) 3 weeks ago:
They are on stilts - you can walk underneath the first floor!
- Comment on What would happen if every atom on earth was to simultaneously double in size? 3 weeks ago:
Mercury would be solid at room temperature - …wikipedia.org/…/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry
- Comment on How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement) 3 weeks ago:
Red has first floor = ground floor. Blue has first floor above ground floor.
- Comment on Anon launches a space program 4 weeks ago:
Channel 4 managed to convince a group of people that they had gone to space! They just had to find some very special people who would believe the ‘gravity compensator’ story.
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
Same with The End of Eternity - they can travel to different times at which the machine existed.
In fact, isn’t it a bit similar with the only ‘real’ possibility of time travel - you create a wormhole and age one end by moving it faster than the other end, but the only possible travel is between the two ends that you have created.
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 4 weeks ago:
Also the peak of contracting (before IR35) - there were plenty of tech workers on insane “salaries” just doing normal jobs.
- Comment on RAF fighter jets deployed to shoot down Iran drones, MoD says 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, not sure we want to send the message that bombing embassies is okay.
- Comment on United Scams of Assholes 5 weeks ago:
That is how it works - gov.uk/deposit-protection-schemes-and-landlords
- Comment on Movies that “go from 0-100” in the last 15 or so minutes? 5 weeks ago:
Only The Brave.
If you go in without knowing the story, it starts off like the plot arc of a typical sports movie:
- An outsider struggles to fit in with a close-knit team
- The team is trying for a promotion
- Teaching of the team’s methods
- Victory at a small event
- Outsider is accepted as part of the team
- Long period of training for the big event
- Comment on A Breakthrough in Plastic Recycling Is Coming Up Short 1 month ago:
Both Wendover and Climate Town have talked about how plastic recycling is faked - if the economics haven’t changed since then (e.g. tax on new plastic) I’d be surprised if any recycling is real.
- Comment on Why don't passanger airplanes come with parachutes for people? 1 month ago:
I don’t think you can parachute from the front door (which would also put you in front of the engines) - the only airliner stairs to open in flight were at the back.
- Comment on Warning after people fined because they used Royal Mail stamps 1 month ago:
It’s such a stupid system too - you receive a note saying “pay us £5 to deliver your post” with no way of knowing what they were trying to deliver - it could be something important, it could be someone sending a blank envelope just to annoy you and waste your money.
- Comment on Why don't passanger airplanes come with parachutes for people? 1 month ago:
So another reason is that first class passengers would be at the back of the queue?
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 1 month ago:
Saw in the news recently that it was possible to radio an exploit to semi trucks in a way that could spread every time two trucks pass each other (default passwords, natch.) - and it’s just utterly unsurprising.
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 1 month ago:
e.g. “More than 500,000 under-35s in UK out of work due to long-term illness” - obviously, the government response is to reduce the help available.
- Comment on Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Seeks Bond in $454 Million Judgment 1 month ago:
“his net worth is derived largely from the value of his real estate, which bond companies rarely accept as collateral”
Well yes, especially after being caught lying about its value…!
- Comment on Government's heat pump strategy well behind 600k a year by 2028 target 1 month ago:
Technology Connections has also been trying to educate installers about these, especially around appropriate sizing and when to use backup heat (from a US perspective).
- Comment on RimWorld - Anomaly (DLC) Store page is up 2 months ago:
Having played the Call of Cthulu set of mods, it will be fun to have this in the ‘main’ game.
- Comment on Drax: UK power station burns wood from rare forests 2 months ago:
Private Eye has been reporting on this for years - burning old-growth forests and calling it renewable.
- Comment on Why Does The U.K. Want To Ban Disposable Vapes? 3 months ago:
Single use lithium, too
- Comment on When people setup two factor authentication on an account on sites that allow it and insert a phone number, does that site assume by default that it's their own number or do they see it as "a" number? 3 months ago:
not even the first time - this is such a stupid situation!
- Comment on Boeing Made a Change to Its Corporate Culture Decades Ago. Now It’s Paying the Price. 3 months ago:
“The gaping hole in the fuselage terrified passengers, but the pilots calmly landed the aircraft” is an oddly positive way to describe the situation.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 4 months ago:
War hospital puts you in charge of a WW1 medical camp trying to allocate limited surgeons, nurses, medical supplies as people come in injured from the front line.
- Comment on What's the best way to read a book in a dark room? 4 months ago:
Book of Eli