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Oh, I completely agree - everything important should be accessible and intuitive - typically that does mean a well-placed physical control. But there are so many settings on a cont…

Discoverability is also an issue touch screens can help with - I enjoy that in the settings app on iPhone (I believe android is the same) one can search for a setting, rather than …

At least in the gay community there are still hundreds of DVDs available from physical stores. I did wonder how long that will last though. Of course the relevant stores will not b…

Allegedly primitive tech is at least partially fake - they use heavy equipment off screen to build their projects.

Excel can be really great — it’s been said that a huge amount of the world‘s programming is actually done in excel (summing a column of numbers is, after all, a very primitive prog…

An advertising supported YouTube creator would be delighted! No, literally a lot of creators target this market now — for instance by making a mega mix of their existing content wh…

> „reserve the bedroom for sleep“ That’s unfortunately a luxury many people can’t afford. I’m literally sitting in my in—laws apartment in Poland right now. About 40sqm total, and …

You are correct, the 7 x 7 x 7 is the minimum where a perfect cube of cubes is impossible. The Wikipedia article shows the issue with the corner cubes. Apparently the 7-cube bulges…

Each corner piece needs to make contact with the core. Consider when the top layer is rotated 45 degrees relative to the layer below. The corner is now about 0.707 units from the c…

> I'm a boomer millenial, or whatever we're called now, and never took to online gaming, so I'm part of this segment. And you are not alone - apparently 53% of gamers (total) prefe…

I have spent most of my life in the UK, which has no national ID card and does not typically require one to prove/verify identify on a regular basis. Prior to the introduction of v…

Does auto-code generation count as AI?

I generally go to low cost events ( It’s surprisingly hard to let many venues know you won’t attend and the tickets can be reallocated, even if you don’t expect / want and refund!

Voter ID should only be introduced where you have a cheap (ideally free), universal way of proving ID, and multiple ways of establishing identity (what if I’ve just been mugged on …

Possibly joking about the .iso file-type for optical disc images? Or maybe that 'most' ISO standards that are encountered by engineers are defining file-types. I'm also a big fan o…

The average person doesn't pay capital gains tax - at least in the UK; there is a 12 3000 GBP allowance per year of gains which means that you need to have significant assets (thin…

Weirdly Nintendo released an alarm clock this month: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/nintendo-sound-cl... Seems a strange thing to do in 2024.

This is why the law says : “in the opinion of the Secretary of State, consists of or includes computer code.” - I believe a prompt could theoretically be interpreted as code. Some …

Expense tracking software has always been a trash fire in my experience, and I’ve never come across one with an associated credit cards (maybe that’s harder to in Europe? Or just l…

-ough notoriously has anywhere between four and twelve different pronunciations (if you count strange example with a limited number of words, like hiccough for hiccup). The point I…

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It’s not. The traditional proof that there are an infinite number of primes relies on unique prime factorisation- i.e for any number, n, there is a unique set of primes p1, p2, p3,…

SG = Singapore, TDM = Text Data Mining?

Another fun idea which has been proposed is that it’s an ironic nickname - so rather than ‘Baldy’ (which is you see busts of Caesar is certainly plausible) people called him or his…

Apparently in the UK, the largest four banks control 75% of all current accounts (en-us: checking account ). Admittedly a smaller market, but even more centralised.