tomclive

Yep, I've had fun with this service. Simple to use, quick and decent results. I exported the checkpoint and used with colab notebooks.

I lived in London in the 90s and early 2000s. I used to love walking whenever I could and walked the commute from Fulham to Westminster.

Some of my favourite places are unrecognisable now. I remember Shoreditch being slightly edgy and going to art shows there in pop-up galleries.

I spent quite a bit of time in a pub called the Bushranger in Shepherd's Bush. I knew the staff and regulars and could relax there. It was quite dark and had sawdust on the floor. I had heard that it had been turned into a wine bar called the Stinging Nettle and looking at Google Maps now it's a Costa Coffee.

Great idea. I really enjoyed Angry Birds when it first came out and when my children asked about to install it on their devices I said this was fine. I couldn't find the original Angry Birds so installed Angry Birds 2. What an awful convoluted mess it was. Instead of a simple, fun physics-based game it's full of lives, spells, bad level design and in-app purchases.

This is really interesting in that it doesn't use photoplethysmography (PPG) in the same way that the Galaxy Active 2 does(an optical sensor that measures bounced back light.) There's an inflatable cuff within the wristband.

I'm assuming this will be a lot more expensive but calibration shouldn't be as much of an issue and it should be more accurate.

I had a GearVR and it was pretty fun for a while but the battery life, overheating and lack of great apps made me lose interest.

I then got a mixed reality headset and Beat Saber was a game-changer for me. The controls are so simple and are perfectly suited to VR. No motion sickness etc. It's a great game. I've picked up loads of the best selling VR games on Steam and although some have been fun, none quite match up to Beat Saber.

Google Earth with room-scale VR is stunning. Being able to walk around your hometown as if you were a couple of hundred feet tall is an incredible experience.

I'm looking forward to MS Flight Simulator 2020 and it looks like the devs are making VR a priority. This could be a winner for me.

Oh yep. I listened to a full cast reading of The Man of Legends by Kenneth Johnson a couple of months ago and the narration was pretty good on the most part. There was a section that was told from the point of view of a young Hispanic girl and I couldn't understand much of it all. Really annoying.

Yes, we are animals. We are pretty unique within the animal kingdom but we are still animals.

That's interesting. This year, for the first time, I've been working with Rails. It wasn't my choice but I've really enjoyed it. A lot just makes sense and it's been so quick to get things from idea to code.

I really enjoyed that part of the book. If I remember correctly, the soldiers were just representations of the Trisolarans as they were too alien for us to identify with. The actual Trisolarans emitted light to build their living computer.

Annual membership is around £59.99 here if bought at the right time.

I don't like the company but for me Prime is good value. My children get to watch Dora, Paw Patrol and there's some decent grown up TV too. Twitch Prime is also included.

If I need to buy anything I can it delivered Same or Next Day.

Cancelling does involve the typical dark patterns you'd expect from them but it's not difficult to cancel in a minute or two.

I have a Mixed Reality headset and Google Earth is amazing with room-scale VR. It's not something I would have thought would work as well as it does.

Beat Saber is the only VR game I keep coming back to - the controls are spot on. So simple and intuitive. You really need to work to get used to all the buttons and sticks to control most other VR games.

I lost a batch on MtGox but it looks like I might get something back.

I'm quite grateful the trustee sold off a few hundred million dollars worth at around $12k. At least there are some funds available to pay out to creditors.

Just what I was going to say. That's a huge file and slows the site down considerably. It should be easy to switch to a MPEG4/WebM video for animation.

Yep, it's a good book and reads like a thriller. I read it as a fable against 'Fear of missing out' and 'Fake it 'til you make it' culture.

I like the idea of a simple universal test and can see how the executives who bought it into fell for the fantasy.