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Leave would probably never have won if the ballot paper specified leaving the single market, either.

It might also not have won if the ballot paper had said "leaving will provide no extra money for the NHS, actually probably less money because the pound will be devalued and much of the NHS workforce comes from Europe, and also various prominent Leave campaigners are actually eager to dismantle the NHS and privatise healthcare bit by bit".

But, oh well, we are where we are, I suppose.

Didn't know that - thanks!

You can get answers on so many topics on HN...

Interesting. Thanks for the links.

I have indeed had some pound coins which were tatty round the edges and had to be pushed through a self-service checkout several times or wouldn't even go through at all. I still hadn't realised they might be fake, though.

I have noticed that a lot of old 10p coins are noticeably a lot thinner (presumably worn down rather than starting out thinner) than new ones. Is this as it should be or should I start looking at these with suspicion too?

"it was clear that remaining in the single market would not have delivered the majority of leavers wishes"

Well, with a 52:48 majority for leave and with almost all Remain voters probably preferring "soft" to "hard" Brexit, it would only need to satisfy a tiny % of leavers for it to have more a mandate than the "hard", no-deal Brexit cliff edge the government seem determined to steer us all over without any debate.

I'll take the mangled words over the new version, where Google shows you a variety of photos and you have to pick which ones belong to a category.

Does a sweet pastry count as a cake? Is this stretch of water a river, a lake or the sea? Are those trees I see in the distance on this photo of a mountain? Does the front of a restaurant or a veterinary surgery count as a "storefront"? As a British English speaker I had to guess at that last one, and some of the others seem culturally dependent too.

Or, my personal nemesis, the ones which ask you to select the squares containing road signs, and there's always a couple of squares containing a 3-pixel strip of the very edge of the road sign, and you don't know whether you're supposed to count those or not.

No accidental source code as far as I know, but if they're collecting magazine CDs in general I have a bunch of mid-90s cover CDs which I'd be happy to rip. (Sadly not the one coverdisc I'd really love to be reunited with, though it must be in my parents' attic somewhere...)

Is there a guide to the best way to rip the disc image, preferred formats for inlay scans, etc?

And do I need to do anything regarding copyright? I would definitely not want to cause any legal trouble for archive.org as it is a v valuable resource.

I'm very interested to see what comes next too! Please do post about any future uploads to HN.

I used to go through all the folders on my magazine cover CDs looking for interesting stuff - mostly game assets in formats I knew how to play with outside the game, like MOD files, sound files, images, but I found a file of emails to/from one of the contributors one time. (Sorry to that person for reading their private email! I was a very bored 15y/o and it was buried treasure to me.)

Also I loved to load executable files into a hex editor and look for readable symbols among the stuff that was beyond my understanding.

There was a bug in my hex viewer, though, where you could scroll off the end of the file and it would hexdump the next block on disk or memory locations beyond the loaded file instead. So I got very confused/paranoid viewing what I thought was the file from one game and seeing messages from another game or some of my own personal information.

An interesting read. I was just wondering what Moriarty had done since Loom, something the article doesn't mention (presumably saved for the future article it hints will feature his exit from the industry), so thanks for a peek into his more recent career.

I had that book. Very weird and trippy to my pre-teen mind.

After many, many readings, both legitimate play-throughs and cheating flip-throughs, I don't think I realised what the article points out.

Are these standard keys for some other piece of music software?

I keep getting confused because I'm so used to the old-style tracker keys (I keep hitting J for Bb and getting B, which isn't helping my C minor improv). Also one octave isn't great, lag is killing the rhythm, and it keeps not waiting for me to finish.

Neat idea though.

(I'm curious to know whether the training set for the version shown in the demo is the same as for the live web version, as the demo sounded way better than anything I'm getting out of it - though obviously they would have cherrypicked the results for the video.)

While also convincing the parents that all their and their children's worries can be fixed by doing whatever the 0.1% wants and that they should call anyone who disagrees an out-of-touch metropolitan elite, even/especially those never-going-to-own-houses kids

(Disclaimer: I have been guilty of anti-boomer rhetoric elsewhere lately, but I read your post and you are probably right.

It is still frustrating, though, to hear older people, comfortably retired mortgage-free in houses with 3+ spare bedrooms, tell us that if only we worked harder and didn't eat out occasionally we could surely save up for a house)

I was wondering that too. For something like this maximum room for future expansion seems good. In the past I've used mITX to build low-power, low-noise machines, rather than building a high-powered processing beast.

On the other hand, it made the article more interesting for me. I can't really justify a home machine learning rig, but I was thinking I might soon replace that old mITX machine.

(edit - just reached the pics - really not sure why you'd go with a mini form factor and then add a 6" heatsink/fan!)

Is there a way to add the recommendations for an artist/track to the stream playlist?

i.e. if I search for an artist and press play on one of their tracks and let the stream keep playing it goes onto other tracks by that artist, but is there a way to get it to add related tracks too? Like the old last.fm artist radios.

edit: it's now doing that for me so maybe there was just something weird about the recommendations set earlier. Unfortunately I searched for some chilled out electronic stuff and the recommendations are all aggressive hip hop but that's not your fault I guess...

The Dictabelt also became available in 1947, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictabelt

An interesting article about archiving of Dictabelt and other audio format recordings: http://thequietus.com/articles/18004-sound-library-british-l...

What sounds are the Bose good and bad at filtering out? In my office I am driven mad by things like one guy's thunderous typing and another guy who slams his mouse around his desk and generally rattles and clonks things around a lot.

I'm curious as to whether Bose would help as I gather noise-cancelling works better for steadyish background noise than sudden transient noises.

I had the opposite problem recently: how can they know that things are not malware?

My dad complained that his laptop would pop up "strange pictures" and ask if he "liked what he saw" and that they kept coming up even though he always said no.

I thought he'd acquired some sort of malware popping up fake dating site ads, but it turned out that he had upgraded to Windows 10 and was referring to the scenic photos it now shows at the login prompt/unlock screen...

Looks like Apple's "Chalkduster": http://www.identifont.com/find?font=Chalkduster&q=Go

I grew up with these books! And 80s computer magazines too (UK Spectrum mags in my case though, but also C&VG). Thanks for the links.

I loved to get Usborne books as presents or go to the library every week to see if they had any new ones. Still have a few, including one which I couldn't see on the website. Maybe I'll check and email them about it.

I was at the computer museum in Swindon (UK) last week. It's a small museum but they have among other things a couple of Sinclair machines and a C64 set up for people to play with (type in BASIC or load games from tape/disk/cartridge). I attempted to type in a simple program to draw a coloured pattern onscreen from one of the books provided, but I'd forgotten how to type some of the Spectrum's more obscure shift-keyword combinations and after 30 years of progressively nicer IDEs the 48k BASIC editing interface was quite frustrating. Still, good for nostalgia.

Would recommend to micro nostalgists if you're in the area, although it's possible to look at everything they've got within an hour so probably not worth driving much more than that for.

(I suppose I could donate my Usborne books and magazines - if I could bear to part with them...)

Inspired by other Oracle-bought products, perhaps they can make it so you can only update your DNS if you use their proprietary Java client, which uses an out-of-support version of Java even though Oracle own Java, and which tries to install adware every time you install/update it.

(An out-of-date Java being a requirement of a recentish version of Oracle Financials, and Java on Windows defaults to installing browser toolbars every time. Because Oracle need those extra few cents from tricking users.)

I like the last paragraph of the review, presumably quoted from the conclusion of the book, which I'll look out for.

I think if shyness does not cure itself with age it can harden into "being anti-social", as with the quotes from Alfred Wainwright in this review/book. However, I disagree with the reviewer that this is necessarily a distinct condition from shyness; IME it can be a shyness that has become so resigned to avoiding social discomfort that the owner no longer recognises wanting to connect, or no longer believes that meaningful connection is a possible result of social interaction anyway so why try.

(Too personal admission: at least, to some extent I see this happening to me, and perhaps I should try to fight it, with the author's conclusion in mind)

Aha, sorry, not the same calculator then (the slimline one with the power pulsing was the Executive). Great writeup, thanks.

If this old favourite from my Win3.x days runs, I'll be delighted: http://telcontar.net/Misc/LavaLamp/

(will try some of the suggestions in this comments thread too - thanks!)

Yes. I grew up with a ZX Spectrum which I loved dearly, so it pains me to say it, but Sinclair didn't really deserve to be "titans". Their machines were kludges with corners cut, pre-order money taken from the public when they didn't even have a working prototype, and Sir Clive was disdainful of the gaming market which made his machine successful and tried to move away from that instead of embracing it.

Some of the corner-cutting was ingenious (the calculator where the power pulses just often enough for the screen and memory to stay on, allowing a watch battery to be used for a more slimline design) and some of it less so (iirc the same calculator displays 8 digits but is only accurate to 3 significant figures...)

I'm not sure ducking out of fishing regulation is good for any marine ecosystems.

If British fishermen weren't getting the best deal out of EU fishing quotas, then it can't have helped that the British representative on the EU Fisheries Committee was one Nigel Farage, who never turned up to represent them, but was still happy to use them for Brexit propaganda.

I feel your pain. We have a lot of ID values with leading zeroes, which Excel loves to strip, and data with numbers in parentheses, which Excel's CSV loader thinks should be negative numbers (this is apparently common in book-keeping).

I keep getting sent spreadsheets which were made from CSV data by people who didn't know how to set the columns to text - to be fair, if the file extension is .csv then Excel won't even let them set the column formats - and having this latter category turn up as -ve numbers not only looks weird but ruins the sorting. Even 1, 11, 2 is better than sorting "backwards".

I've thought that before but every time I've named important ranges I've come to regret it.

Someone at some time will decide to nuke an entire worksheet and paste it back in without the named ranges, and then everything will look the same but various lookups and macros will break. (And they will somehow be able to do this even though you've password-protected everything in sight, too. Not sure how that happened.)

Or someone will insert a row somewhere and the named ranges will be missing the last row of the data and any named ranges beneath them won't shift down. That kind of thing.

Maybe I'm just missing some named range best practices.

I had no idea SVG filters were powerful enough to do things like that cool blobbing-together effect... in 3 lines of actual filter! (lines 8-10 of the html)

(I haven't actually followed along with building my own, nor do I know SVG, so apologies and let me know if that is not the bit which is doing the blobbing together)

Interesting. I'm currently reading Oliver Sacks' "The Mind's Eye", which includes a few cases of alexia. A good read if you'd like more stories about this and you like Sacks' style.

And if you want to edit them or look at the pattern/sample data, I recommend Schism Tracker, a modern open-source clone (with new features) of Impulse Tracker.

http://schismtracker.org/

I too have fond memories of going through all the directories for games and demos looking for cool stuff (graphics and sound files). Nostalgic shout-out to "Jonas' Mega Ripper", a tool which would go through data files and executables looking for image/sound chunks and save them to separate files.