adam-a · HackerTrans

There seems to be a weird popular misconception about Paw Patrol being some sort of police recruitment propaganda for toddlers. I've (unfortunately) had to sit through hundreds of episodes and it really isn't. The police dog is not particularly treated as a main character as all of them are given pretty equal screen time and storylines (out side the recent film, which does focus on him). And even when the episodes do focus on Chase it's barely police work, certainly he doesn't go around pointing his gun at immigrants. His main ability as a police officer seems to be that he has a megaphone.

adam-a

3 年前議論

Check out Luma it's an iPhone app that makes it really easy to create Nerfs and render out videos from them. Although I don't think it handles long paths like this method yet.

https://lumalabs.ai/

adam-a

3 年前議論

Yeah it seems like such a strange mindset to me too. I feel like some people find it hard to think of things outside of a monetary system. We live in such a financialised world. You can't just read a book and enjoy it, you have to add it to your balance sheet, ammortise the costs, fill out a psychological tax return at the end of the year.

adam-a

3 年前議論

While I think maths was one subject that held out as male-dominated, and it still probably is at university level and beyond, recently girls started to out-perform boys at school level. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/aug/13/girls-over...

adam-a

3 年前議論

If you kill yourself while cycling then you were almost certainly hit by a car, which is probably more likely if you are drunk cycling. But this is also the fault of bad cycling infrastructure and arguably the driver who cannot avoid another road user.

adam-a

3 年前議論

If only there was some way every member of the public could have a say in political decisions. Hopefully one of those clever startups figures it out.

adam-a

3 年前議論

The article discusses this. Egypt are apparently starting to produce a lot of green hydrogen for export to Europe.

adam-a

3 年前議論

> “The anti-fentanyl antibodies were specific to fentanyl and a fentanyl derivative and did not cross-react with other opioids, such as morphine. That means a vaccinated person would still be able to be treated for pain relief with other opioids,” said Haile.

Not really clear if it prevents ODing but the article says:

> Our vaccine is able to generate anti-fentanyl antibodies that bind to the consumed fentanyl and prevent it from entering the brain, allowing it to be eliminated out of the body via the kidneys.

adam-a

4 年前議論

I stopped using the iOS version for 2 reasons. It had started to be very slow, hitting the address bar to enter a url would result in a multi-second freeze. Also it doesn't support the screen-time limits on iOS, so I was using it to browse HN when I shouldn't have been. I would like to return to it though, maybe if Apple open up their browser engine policy it would improve.

adam-a

4 年前議論

Yeah I use F2 constantly for rename, not just in explorer but very useful in lots of apps. In Unity (the game engine) it's invaluable. Also F3 is generally "Find next" when you have a search box open. F12 and Shift-F12 do code navigation in VS and F10 and F11 are useful in the debugger. There are lots of nice things you can do with the F keys which this tip spoils.

adam-a

4 年前議論

That homepage is straight outta 2002! Oh my

adam-a

4 年前議論

I was expecting it to be artist residences on cargo ships like http://www.containerartistresidency01.org/about/

This is way more dystopian though. Cool.

adam-a

4 年前議論

They can be very painful, in my experience. I would not opt for one without sedation again.

adam-a

4 年前議論

It is a dialect of course, basically RP. They are both middle-upper class Londoners and the accent still survives to some degree. You can tell when the one lady sings the "cockney" song, she imitates the working class accent of the area which also you still hear a bit in East London.

adam-a

4 年前議論

As an employee earning £50k a year I would pay £12224 tax and NI, as a self employed person I would pay £11303 tax and NI. If I'm working for my own ltd I will pay £10871 as a combination of personal tax and corporation tax. The difference is not enormous. I think the IR35 stuff was to stop employers avoiding their NI contributions which is an extra £6155 tax on the £50k salary.

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