Circle Line rogue train
How the Circle Line rogue train was caught with data
A mystery, data cleansing, charts, pattern recognition, Python, and trains. This one’s got it all!
Dishonoured 2
What’s the point in buying a game on physical media, only to be asked to download over 9GB of software before even playing it once? This is Dishonoured 2 on PS4, and I’d like to give a shout-out to Arkane Studios for doing a piss-poor job. Asking players to download such an enormous amount of data is careless, and there will be a significant number of players even in well-developed areas of the globe who cannot even consider a download of this size.
The question on everyone’s lips
Thunderbolt 3, USB-C
From TidBITS:
Thunderbolt 3 relies on the USB-C physical connector and, with the appropriate adapters, supports nearly all common peripheral-connection and networking protocols, including USB 2, USB 3, FireWire, Thunderbolt 2, Ethernet, and DisplayPort, and by extension, HDMI, DVI, and VGA.
The reason confusion afflicts this space is that a USB-C port on another computer may support just USB, USB plus display and networking protocols, or all of that plus Thunderbolt 3.
This confused me when I was looking for accessories for my recently-purchased Dell XPS 13. Goodness knows how average consumers manage to traverse this hot mess.
Hamilton Gardens
To quote a colleague, much nicer than they need to be. Well worth a visit if you find yourself in the middle of New Zealand’s north island.