DrBazza

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by DrBazza 5y ago
It just feels like yet another murky chain of property ownership. How can these shops possibly sell enough candy to its target market of kids to pay the rent, when there are no kids on Oxford St.? Something from 'under the counter&#x2
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It's not IDEs in 2022 that use LSP, it's editors. As a grey-beard, M x N wasn't "small". From memory, notepad, notepad++, scite, vim, emacs, netbeans, eclipse, VS studio, IDEA, sublime text, bbedit, plus a number
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Yes. One of the highlights of being a speccy owner. Other than the attic bug. Taught me all about machine code and memory as an enthusiastic 10 yr old.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
POKE 35899,0 From memory, 40 years later...
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Quite a long interesting read. Unless I missed it, I recall that there’s optimal solutions for sorting up to 7?? items. I can’t find the reference, but unsurprisingly I read it a dlang forum post by Andrei Alexandrescu. Anyone have a link t
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I can't recall if it was ever cracked - I think it has been, but largely Verance's claims at the time were true - people tried to record movie audio separate to the video and remix them to remove the signal, but that failed. As i
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by DrBazza 5y ago
That reminds me of this monstrosity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia It largely stopped me knowingly buying anything associated with Sony.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Without more recent bones, we have no reason to believe that they still exist. But you can say that about many mammals that are close to extinction now, we rarely find their bones, and if we do it's because we know about them an
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Log4j joins the conversation.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> We use Rust over Go, not only because of the garbage collection issues, but because it's truly a better language in almost every way (once you learn it!) What about complexity? How does "enterprise Go" code compare to &
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Reminds me of the Lord Howe Island stick insect - or tree lobster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus_australis
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> The encoder was converted circa 2001 by Pete Everett to fixed-point arithmetic for the RISC OS Did this originate on a ye-olde-worlde Acorn Archimedes, or merely get converted to run on that? Anecdote - I remember the first jpeg render
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Interesting article. You're right, I guess, I prefer architecture as (classical) art. My preferred architecture is largely anything Art-Deco or earlier, and most buildings (not necessarily houses) built in the late 80s-90s (oddly, sp
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by DrBazza 5y ago
With the hindsight of history I find Le Corbusier vastly overrated. It just seems that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and that was certainly true in that era. I can appreciate that it was "hey, here's a new m
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Yup. Door to door from south east England to the French Alps is nigh on identical if you take a plane and all then ceremony around that, or just jump on the Eurostar and travel mostly at 140mph or so.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Never you say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> I sort of see nuclear power plants (at least certain designs) as a ticking time bomb But that's just progress, right? Even now we still do stupid things with regular chemicals despite knowing not to. Every chemical process evolve
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Sadly coal miners are exposed to more radioactive material. Nuclear waste is either or. Either we survive as a species and know where it’s buried in that 10,000 year container deep underground where everyone knows. Or we fail as a species
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Nuclear power should be exactly comparable to other types of power. Deaths during construction. Carbon produced in construction. Deaths caused by mining and transporting fuel. Carbon produced by that. Deaths caused by consuming fuels. Car
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> But I teach students both C++ and Rust, and by far Rust is preferred. It’s never even a contest. Why is Rust preferred though? Is it "fearless concurrency" (or whatever the old tag line was), a more modern stdlib, or is it R
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Sure. I omitted a thousand other factors for brevity. What else has changed in human behaviour since, say 1900? Cars? Americans drive everywhere. Europeans, not so much. The rise of offices and people working less laborious jobs? It&#x27
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Obesity is due to the introduction of high fructose corn syrup and decades of the sugar industry making out that "low fat" foods in the shops are better for you, whilst lacing them with sugar to make them taste better.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Wot no Pluto? Damn you Mike Brown :) And no Eris either. This makes me sad. And works fine in Firefox :D
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by DrBazza 5y ago
This is the same as my office in London. There's little point going in, and when I have done, my experience is the same as this article - waste 90mins in each direction getting in, to sit on my own, and reply via email + Teams. But, w
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Is something a button? Should I click it or double-click it? How about long-press on it? How can I know when there's no visual clues? Since Windows 7 (or 8, I can't remember) and the "Metro" style apps, in the Contr
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Also there are only two outcomes - humanity survives, and remembers where we've deeply buried spent fuel, or humanity reverts to the stone age, and loses the technology to dig down to the deeply buried fuel (or goes extinct). Either w
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by DrBazza 5y ago
“If the car crashes while Drive Pilot is operating, that's Mercedes' problem, not yours.” As long-time grey-beard MB owner, and, honestly, it's not just them, the sheer amount of noise and distractions in modern cockpits is
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> Those are some big caveats that mean that you won't be able to use this in most situations It still seems like we need to adapt the roads to autonomous vehicles and not the other way around. In the UK, and there's no indicat
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That's a good point.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
If NATO were genuinely a threat to Russia, I'd expect NATO jets to "stray" into Russian airspace as often as the Russian planes stray into UK airspace north of Scotland, or China flies over Taiwan. NATO doesn't do this.

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