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robga commented on Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget kagi.com/changelog... · Posted by u/mroche

spiffotron · 2 years ago

As a UK user I find Kagi returns results from Australia far too often which is a super weird issue DDG used to have as well

robga · 2 years ago

I'm a UK Kagi user and do not have this issue.

Perhaps it is your IP range? Do you have the same problem on mobile and broadband?

robga commented on Innovative wireless light switch could cut house wiring costs in half ualberta.ca/folio/2023/11... · Posted by u/thunderbong

3guk · 2 years ago

Don't think it's particularly innovative really - a lot of electricians in the UK are now installing the Quinetic - https://www.quinetic.co.uk/ - system and it works really well in terms of wireless switches.

Mostly it's not to save the cost of the actual cable - but to save the install cost on an old brick building, where installing a new switch requires fairly extensive work to the house and brickwork.

robga · 2 years ago

What sort of force is required to activate them, is touch enough? Do they make noise to click?

robga commented on Ask HN: What ING Domains did you get? · Posted by u/prakhar897

robga · 2 years ago

I have too many domains. I see amus.ing available on the lower side of prices.

robga commented on Remote work could cut the value of office buildings by $800B by 2030 businessinsider.com/remot... · Posted by u/cratermoon

robga · 2 years ago

Remote work to save organisations $800B in office expenses by 2030.

robga commented on Tyrian purple: Ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/borissk

yuppiepuppie · 2 years ago

There is a podcast too which I listen to on the go.

I’m also American and living in Europe for the past decade, and having dived into history such as Roman, Carthage, the Celts, … has really made me appreciate the vast history of our species. I can drive down the ride and see a huge castle the was attacked by Hannibal on his quest for Rome.

And my native friends where I live couldn’t care less :(

I hope America can preserve its history for a while so others can enjoy it in 1000 years like we do with Rome.

robga · 2 years ago

And out as a book shortly

https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2023/10/16/fall-of-ci...

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robga commented on The Seamless Communication models ai.meta.com/research/seam... · Posted by u/skadamat

esafak · 2 years ago

It is easier to learn multiple languages when you are young.

robga · 2 years ago

There isn't a lot of good evidence behind this popular conception.

If anything, the evidence is that it isn't true, see https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Any apparent causality of age of acquisition seems to be a proxy of hours of exposure. It may well be that it is easier for young people to rack up a lot of exposure to a second language, but not much evidence that age plays much of a factor for people of different ages who had the same degree of exposure.

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robga commented on Ansel ansel.photos/en/... · Posted by u/sts153

macintux · 2 years ago

Somewhere very recently I encountered a quote from Ansel Adams, in which he seemed to anticipate that "electronic" photos would be the next big thing, in (IIRC) 1980. Wish I could find that again. Seemed remarkably prescient.

robga · 2 years ago

It was in Playboy (May 1983)

https://petapixel.com/2022/07/30/ansel-adamss-interview-with...

“There’s no end in sight. Electronic photography will soon be superior to anything we have now. The first advance will be the exploration of existing negatives. I believe the electronic process will enhance them. I could get superior prints from my negatives using electronics.

“Then the time will come when you will be able to make the entire photograph electronically. With the extremely high resolution and enormous control you can get from electronics, the results will be fantastic. I wish I were young again!”

robga commented on Design the UK parking code system takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/... · Posted by u/scotchmi_st

robga · 2 years ago

What user need does encoding area in the number serve? What’s wrong with a random 8-10 digit number?

I can understand the inverse, so that you don’t have similar numbers nearby (as in RingGo).

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