@0xabad1dea Last time we were in Amsterdam, we took the train over to Leiden, but we didn't get further than the café outside the station where we were meeting friends during their lunch break. Time to return and revisit the rest of the city
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Good morning to the older British lady on holiday who breathlessly asked us if we really live here in Amsterdam (yes, but not in those canal manors) and if we, too, own bikes (yes) -
@jackwilliambell A whole hell of a lot of people never mentally age past 14!@cstross @jackwilliambell For me, lack of influencers totally is a feature
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Tell me some thing blasphemous and/or sacrilegious@AccordionBruce @catsalad On the other hand, a Samurai could have seen a fax image of one
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In our collection of clippits and whatnot my husband prefers the little bulldog clips to close bread bags, crisps etc. Annoying as these are my favourites for clamping my nipples when he fucks off to be a golfwanker with his boring mates.@fesshole Lose them, and buy a multi pack of replacements
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It has taken me six years of experiments but I've managed to make a Marmite glaze that looks like milk chocolate.@ephemeromorph @fesshole nom nom nom
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A colleague continually drones on about how he has no energy without drinking at least five cups of caffeinated coffee a day.@fesshole The placebo effect is strong in this one
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There is an art (and a science) to numerical precision that seems lost in software, writing and conversation.@mrotteveel @kevlin Indeed. That 09:50 figure being to the nearest 5 minutes is not, of itself, a problem. It will be calculated on the basis of the courier leaving the depot at time x, and having a number of journey segments of predictable length. So it's the earliest time that it might arrive. The 2 hour, or 5 hour, finger-in-the-air value? Yeah, it's adding that on and keeping the precision that's the problem
The expected arrival curve is nothing like a Bell curve
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Physical security and cryptography can learn from each other, part 11367:@mfdeakin @mattblaze It's easy enough to decide. Are hotels interested in security or in cost? If the room number was on the key, it's extra cost to manufacture, it's extra cost because you'd need twice as many to allow for losses, it's extra cost because you'd need racks to store them, it's extra cost because reception would have to sort returned keys
So instead of having the room number on the key, it's quickly handwritten on the card folder, and you'd never lose that with the key