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I haven't got round to publicising it yet, but I made a web application for designing small pixel fonts: https://microfonts.com/ The smallest legible one I've come up with is 4x6 (…

In the video at 2:31 the presenter says it has two dust catchers.

That's not usually true. A large proportion of pet rats die from tumours. Furthermore although e.g. in mice, there's Oncomouse, bred with a susceptibility to cancer, rats have been…

The problem is that VR performance is tightly coupled to GPU performance. Currently, adding more pixels requires an equivalent increase in GPU performance to maintain quality. I'm …

It's true that Bitcoin can't be used legally in fractional-reserve banking, but given the behaviour of exchanges to continue trading despite a proportion of their holdings having b…

I wouldn't say that that allowing fringe voices has been occasional. Nigel Farage has had a very disproportionate number of appearances on Question Time alone. More recently the BB…

This is not a valid argument for the BBC being an objective broadcasting organisation. One side can rightfully claim bias and then the other side can over-sensitively claim bias th…

Next.js ( https://nextjs.org/ ) lets you render pages on the server but have your React app behave normally after that. It's potentially useful for SEO and reducing latency for fin…

To be fair, some English speakers will say baby to mean a particular unnamed infant. For example, a midwife or childcare adviser will talk about what to do "when baby gets home" or…

One use is tagged pointers, using the top unused address bits for e.g. type information ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_pointer )

The late Pieter Hintjens had some thoughtful criticisms of CoCs: http://hintjens.com/blog:108 From my understanding, he's concerned about harmful assumptions sometimes made in them…

I won't say governments are perfect, but at least buying votes values each individual equally (in theory, there's various issues of how democracy is actually implemented).

Perceived excessive reparations for World War 1 were one of the grievances used by the Nazi party to gain power. It was possibly a good idea not to repeat those circumstances.

One of the further absurdities is that the tax applies to state schools but not private fee-paying schools.

High resolution screens have lots of pixels and high DPI screens have many pixels per inch. If you look at an Ultra HD (3840x2180) 40" TV close up versus a 5" phone screen (say 133…

There's a bit of irony between the title and the wording in the EU cookie warning: "We use cookies to personalise content and ads [..]. We also share information about your use of …

I think it should be named "UBoatyMcUBoatface"

I'm imagining a self-aware AI doing good all day then retiring to it's private realm to watch videos of paper-clip manufacturing.

The Danes were quite rowdy tourists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasions_of_the_British_Isles

Java only allows signed 32-bit integers as array indices. It 's a compile time error to access an array with a long index ( http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-10.…

Ugh, the clumsy/non-standard naming of the 64-bit variant irritates me. AMD64, x86_64, x64, EM64, "Intel 64" (not Intel Architecture 64, although x86 is Intel Architecture 32), etc…

Unemployment?

I was once voted class representative because I happened to fall asleep at the front while it was being decided.

He didn't report it, he gave an estimate. And as for "wouldn't trust a Brit", I'd trust anyone directly involved in it, regardless of nationality.

This is really nice. I like the lighting model but also the attention to detail, e.g. scratches on the Chrome material. One thing, that might be specific to my renderer implementat…