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Yes, although charity is problematic: it means priorities are set by those donating (and more by those donating more), rather than by need. All private schools in the UK operate as charities, for exam…

This is an extremely opinionated article: > People will always support charging more taxes, as long as it isn’t them paying. I would happily pay more taxes, personally, in exchange for better socia…

It depends on how noisy the surroundings are. In an office block with potentially many other iPhones and sources of interference, probably not far at all. Out in a suburban or rural setting probably m…

Would pay for this if you could customise the links on each platform rather than only have the robot suggestions. While it works fine for 'popular' music, like almost all music platforms and…

MP3 to text? Why does it ask me to upload a video?

This is the kind of content I've only ever seen previously in TDWTF (which is entirely this sort of content...) https://thedailywtf.com/ …

Pay for quality, but understand the tilt. If you really want to, pay for two services with opposing tilts, but equal (high) quality.

[Disclosure: Citymapper employee] We’ve been working on improving walking, cycling and scooting recently, so it’s good to hear people are finding it useful! We recently added turn-by-turn and voice in…

Cheaper to make a small investment, take everything you want and let the company fail. Simple economics.

There isn't really such a thing as 'idgaf' centrism though, centrism is about balance and carefully treading a path that meets some of the desires of all sides, while at the same time n…

Not being routed to Spam is largely a two-step process, which is of moderate complexity in SES, but if you're browsing GitHub you can probably handle it: * Setting up DKIM and SPF - Amazon makes …

I actually love the slightly 'off' aesthetic on the simpsons video, and I think there's some interesting creative space where this algorithm is deliberately de-tuned for interesting res…

He will probably (according to mortality rates) survive, and prove himself right that he could shrug it off. If he doesn't, it doesn't matter that he was wrong, because he won't be in a…

> We employ algorithms from different families of mathematics Did they roll their own?

I can hear the sound when the hourglass appears. You know the one I mean (if you're old enough).

Do modern systems encode a degree of variability? Either by way of slightly varying the parameters of the underlying vectors (beziers?) to mimic the slight variability in speed and curvature of a true…

There are machines that just do this process for you that work well, I have one similar to this[0] and it's very easy to use. 0: https://www.amazon.co.uk/VonShef-Digital-Yoghurt-M…

It is an anaesthetic, used particularly for children (at least in the UK).

Hey, cut them some slack, at least they weren't trying to destabilise the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#The_Unite... …

I would love to know what the bug was, sadly we'll probably never know. I imagine the engineer responsible for `NEVER 349` made a mistake that ended up flipping a single bit, to the `ALWAYS 349` …

Sadly while this is true for weirdos, it's also true for fascists, racists, conspiracy theorists etc.

How on earth do you create a puzzle like that? Coming up with the rules it's presumably simple to generate solutions with a computer program, but how do you then work out the cells which need to …

Here in the UK at least it's very popular with the running community, although I remember a few years ago it was definitely cycling-first. Would be interesting to know what the breakdown is by ac…