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albinoloverats··on Emoji Kitchen
Neither did trying to put my pen the the trash can. And combining the party emoji with itself didn't create a more excited party emoji. I imagine it's still a work in progress.
albinoloverats··on How normal am I?
Apparently I'm a sad 5 year old girl living in the US :-/

Who knew? Because I certainly didn't.

albinoloverats··on A London Subway Experiment: Please Don’t Walk Up the Escalator
You occasionally see signs around for them (though not so much in town, more often a little further out); where the path takes pedestrians under the road ;-)
albinoloverats··on World's longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland
This is what I noticed most too; then I wondered how it compares with Crossrail. (Obviously I imagine tunneling under London is vastly different than under a mountain.)
albinoloverats··on Exploring the Elizabeth line, one of the world’s largest construction projects
> a special ticket isn't required.

Excellent, I've been trying to figure this out; whether I will be able to just jump on/off using my debit (or Oyster) card as I currently do on the over/underground.

Any idea how far out of town this ticketing system will be usable? Will someone in Reading be able to use a contactless card without having to buy a paper ticket?

albinoloverats··on The Increasing Scarcity of Helium
Sounds like it's time to found the Jupiter Mining Corporation...
albinoloverats··on A Tale of Two File Names: deconstructing the checksum in Windows 8.3 file names
Can FAT support that many files in a single directory?
albinoloverats··on Ccat – syntax highlighting cat
I've been using source-highlight[1] to achieve the same result.

[edit]: alias ccat="source-highlight --out-format=esc --style-file=/usr/share/source-highlight/esc.style --failsafe -i "

I'll have to see how this compares.

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/

albinoloverats··on CEO cuts his pay by almost $1M to give his employees big raises
> They're not going to quit on you, and they're not going to kill the golden goose.

Especially if by going somewhere else they have to take a significant cut.

albinoloverats··on Passport Index – World's passports in one place
It doesn't say exactly where the data comes from but:

"Passports are ranked based on their Visa Free Score. The higher the Visa Free Score, the better the Passport Power Rank."

Edit: I presume this is the number of countries which a holder of a certain passport can visit without needing a visa.

albinoloverats··on Sir Terry Pratchett has died
I only just finished reading The Long Mars a couple of weeks ago - I wonder whether Stephen Baxter will continue solo with the final book (as number 4 is due out later this year[1]).

[1]: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/the-long-utopia-the-lo...

albinoloverats··on Sir Terry Pratchett has died
+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++ (Hogfather)
albinoloverats··on Sir Terry Pratchett has died
I started with Pyramids half my life ago, back in my early teens. It's the only novel not to have started its own mini series, which I have always felt is a bit of a shame. But it did hook me and made me want to read all of the others. I think by the time of Pyramids TP was really getting in to his stride, so when I went back to The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic and found them less polished I wasn't put off as I knew there was better to come.
albinoloverats··on The Cost of Getting My Stolen Computer Back
He could have done just that, but the police would have held on to it until they'd finished their investigation and the court case was over. I suppose it's a question of waiting or paying for speedy delivery.
albinoloverats··on The Loma Prieta Earthquake 1989 + 2014 Mashup
16-17 years ago when I lived in Menlo Park we were taught (in middle school at the time) to get under our desks - and obviously (if London suffered from earthquakes) I'd do pretty much the same at work now.

But what's the general advice if you're out and about? Say at a museum, restaurant or stadium (or even walking down the street)?

albinoloverats··on New Tube for London
I believe that was the Circle, District, Hammersmith/City and Met lines.
albinoloverats··on How Memorizing “$19.05” Can Help You Outsmart the MTA
It's basically the same here in London; although if you're a local you're more likely to have an annual (or monthly) pass or possibly automatic top-up if you pay as you go.
albinoloverats··on Gentoo Linux Releases LiveDVD Iron Penguin Edition
My experience was largely similar, although I suffered along with using lynx to read the documentation in e second virtual console as I was learning about partitions and compiler flags.

And after spending hours watching/waiting for gcc, bash and some of the other core utilities (and of course Linux) to compile my then limited experience also witnessed a panic on first boot :( so I switched to Lunar and had that on my laptop until I replaced it.

I too became lazy, but went for Arch instead of Ubuntu (which I did use before attempting Gentoo).

Might fire-up a VM and give this a whirl...

albinoloverats··on Show HN: I'm building a game for the Nintendo GameBoy
I ended up falling endlessly through a blank void :-\
albinoloverats··on A framework for making 2D DOS games in Lua
"If you're not using DOS as your operating system then DOSbox can be used to emulate a DOS computer."

That made me laugh.

albinoloverats··on 4K for $649: Asus' PB287Q monitor reviewed
But still, at £600 it's much less expensive than most other available 4K displays (that I've seen)
albinoloverats··on EncFS Security Audit
Nice to see this kind of report, even if the conclusion is rather damning.

And it seems to suggest that using it with (something like) Dropbox is a bad idea too:

> EncFS is not safe if the adversary has the opportunity to see two or more snapshots of the ciphertext at different times.

albinoloverats··on Why I Dropped Dropbox and got OwnCloud
True, but signing up with someone like OwnCube are cheaper than Dropbox - and if you really want it you can get SSH access (for sshfs) too ;)
albinoloverats··on Lies on the London Underground [video]
Not if he arrived via train.
albinoloverats··on Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)
Yes, I did - but by pure luck :p