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by Jedd 5y ago
Recent sibling comment has added to the overwhelming tone of HN comments on TFA - that C++ is a poor language. Has Ken Thompson ever retracted those comments? I can't find anything to suggest he had a different assessment. The phrasi
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by Jedd 5y ago
My point was that if there's a CTRL key on each side of the keyboard, then anything involving a ctrl+something is one-handed-able. Whether it's good typing practice to use one hand for both the ctrl and the C, say, in a ctrl-c con
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by Jedd 5y ago
"[C++] certainly has its good points. But by and large I think it's a bad language. It does a lot of things half well and it’s just a garbage heap of ideas that are mutually exclusive. Everybody I know, whether it’s personal or co
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by Jedd 5y ago
That is one-handed in precisely the same way that ctrl-[ is one-handed.
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by Jedd 5y ago
> Right, and the headline surely isn’t designed to make you think it’s from COVID... Is that an attempt at sarcasm, or are you pointing out that the headline doesn't make you think it's 'from COVID'? Because to my eye
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by Jedd 5y ago
Depressingly few organisations I've worked in or with have a clearly defined set of RPOs and RTOs for their essential systems, and similarly few have regular processes to test their backups and archives to either confirm the process wo
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by Jedd 5y ago
Ah, thanks - I'd missed that.
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by Jedd 5y ago
Hi Bruce - great to have you here : ) I'm a big fan of these larger constructions with ply, LVL, and similar. I'd guess local timber varieties and production quality plays a big part? I'm in AU - 33S 135E, 150km from the co
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by Jedd 5y ago
> For large projects, Facit will actually deliver a mini-fabrication workshop (complete with a CNC mill) directly to the site inside a shipping container, and build components right there. I am reminded of the cornucopia machines describ
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by Jedd 5y ago
The commented out function - if a verbatim copy of deployed code was in fact presented - seems to not include function name and opening brace, but does comment out the function proper and closing brace, which, and it's been a while sin
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by Jedd 5y ago
> I've also slowly shifted to cast iron and stainless steel cooking ware, but they are objectively more effort to clean and maintain properly than anything with "teflon" or other similar coating. I do not believe this is t
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by Jedd 5y ago
> There are a myriad of operating systems it supports, such as Windows 10, MAC OS, Android, Linux. For a site all about reading, mistaking myriad as a synonym for 'number' rather than 'many' is disappointing. Counti
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by Jedd 5y ago
Is Starfield (only recently saw an announcement from Bethesda about this) going to bite into the massive-universe and do-all-the-things market? I played Elite (the original) on the C64, and loved it. I've been 'meaning to play ED
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by Jedd 5y ago
I don't think that's the (main) reason that religions focuses on virtue and sin, but that's kind of to one side. Free will does suggest that all prophets are making educated guesses, rather than receiving divine insight int
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by Jedd 5y ago
> Free will (fundamental to religion) ... That's quite the stretch. Most of the largest pseudo-monotheistic mythologise effectively preclude free will by virtue of their various predestination fables.
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by Jedd 5y ago
Oh, no, I actually took it to mean that time-consuming research was required before turning up to the polling station -- but acknowledging that 4 pages of ballots could be onerous, especially as one of the votes is clearly way more momentou
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by Jedd 5y ago
> In Maryland this last election the ballot was like 4 pages long and took me many hours of prep work to determine who I wanted to vote for board of education ... The what?! That sounds absolutely awful. We have partisan people outside
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by Jedd 5y ago
The poverty of expectations implicit in that concern is profoundly depressing. That sufficient number of people (to warrant passing such legislation) would be swayed on the topic of who to vote for, to disregard their experience and opinion
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by Jedd 5y ago
In some states in the USA recently there's been legislation passed that makes it illegal to provide even water to people waiting to vote. For us Australians, I suspect that invites a huge range of questions, including how long are peop
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by Jedd 5y ago
> A segment which comprises, by simple math, a full 15% of retail, customer service, and hospitality workers, who in turn make up a very large portion of the working poor, one of the least-well-represented interest groups in the US. Ques
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by Jedd 5y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful list. At the risk of sounding churlish, the last three can be done on earlier versions of Microsoft Windows, for varying degrees of downloading 'sketchy tools'. Notepad.exe upgrade occurred last year I
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by Jedd 5y ago
This is great, thank you. WRT 20GB - I'd just assumed it had a microSD slot. Your comment led me down a spiral, to find a guy who pulled the v1 device apart and soldered in socket for one. That's extra frustrating then that the
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by Jedd 5y ago
Can I ask two questions please? First, what don't you like about it now that you've used it for a while? Second, are you sharing data to and fro with a GNU/Linux desktop/laptop (if to is the workflow comfortable) or
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by Jedd 5y ago
I bought a Pocketbook 912 [0] soon after it came out, around 2012. It wasn't cheap - I think around £400. It had a 9.7" screen with a resolution of 1200×825. But the CPU & memory were what you'd expect a decade ago, so
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by Jedd 5y ago
Have you looked at: https://github.com/Evidlo/remarkable_syncthing I don't have a remarkable, and have therefore not experimented with this software. But it's the approach I'd prefer if / when I ge
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by Jedd 5y ago
It's an interesting experiment to ask the average Microsoft Windows user to identify - let's say 5 things - in their current workflows, that they couldn't do in Microsoft Windows XP (or 7, etc - pick the subject's age-ap
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by Jedd 5y ago
I'm in the same boat. Chromium developers tend to exhibit a certain arrogance about knowing best for other people's workflows - this is certainly not the first time there's been a regrettable UI change without a configuration
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by Jedd 5y ago
There was a post ~ 4 months ago about this experimental change, but recent updates to Chrome on the Google Store now make it clear this is no longer user configurable, with the developer settings to disable this (via chrome://flag
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Chrome on Android now forces tab grid and groups(bugs.chromium.org)
4 points by Jedd 5y ago|3 comments
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by Jedd 5y ago
> Becoming more religious has helped me identify religious tendencies in the secular world. Do you believe that becoming religious made you smarter / more aware, or that it made you more eager to seek reassuring comparisons outside

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