Borborygymus

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1. 31.▲
   by Borborygymus 3y ago

   And I did cringe, and then I thought it looked kinda fun. It would literally never have occurred to me in a million years to try to start a shell script half way though - so trapped am I in the paradigm of the familiar. As for the script th
2. 32.▲
   by Borborygymus 3y ago

   Our problems are as much cultural as political. There's a deep cynicism in the British psyche which consumes creative industry.
3. 33.▲
   by Borborygymus 3y ago

   There are some specialized industries left - aerospace & pharmaceuticals are fairly prominent, but the days of the UK being a manufacturing power are long gone.
4. 34.▲
   by Borborygymus 5y ago

   "A lathe operator forges parts...". Anyone else cringe at this?
5. 35.▲
   by Borborygymus 5y ago

   "A lathe operator forges parts". Anyone else cringe at this?
6. 36.▲
   by Borborygymus 6y ago

   I wrote a sizeable chunk of documentation for astronomical software with LyX about 15 years ago. The concept is excellent and in general I like it. There were some rough edges - especially with table & image handling, but in general it&
7. 37.▲
   by Borborygymus 6y ago

   Flawless.... or /almost/ flawless... At 5m 20s, the house of cards is clearly glued together.
8. 38.▲
   by Borborygymus 6y ago

   Look neat. I wonder that the system requirements / license for software will be? There's a real network effect with things like codecs - unless some significant proportion of calls can use it, it'll remain a cool but obscure
9. 39.▲
   by Borborygymus 7y ago

   I thought it would be neat to have polarized windscreens, polarized in the opposite sense to the lights. The majority of the direct light would get cut out, cutting down dazzle enormously. I figured light reflected off of stuff would scramb
10. 40.▲
    by Borborygymus 11y ago

    For the love of all that is holy, why do their sample code fragments have `smart' quotes in them?
11. 41.▲
    by Borborygymus 11y ago

    I thought before Oracle acquired Sun, Java was released under the GPLv2. Can't Google (or anyone else) simply use Java under the GPL, or is the "infringing" code not part of that GPL'd release of Java?