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by Tor3 1y ago
I read all the Byte magazines until I stopped near the end of the eighties.. and the reason was as you indicated. The articles went from being about programming techniques, new languages, interesting hardware, CPUs, to instead be reviews of
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by Tor3 1y ago
"I cannot help but read this whole experience as: “We forced an engineer to take sales calls and we found out that the issue was that our PMs are doing a terrible job communicating between customer and engineering, and our DevOp
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by Tor3 1y ago
I usually printed my listings etc. with "condensed" fonts. They looked very nice. Even so, I can't remember that the non-condensed fonts should look that wide, when looking at the web page.. I remember something kind of lik
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by Tor3 1y ago
It doesn't make sense to define something as a "hobby" just because there's some enjoyable or, in the quote you made, "meditation" and "mind shift" parts in it. What's a "hobby" anyway?
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by Tor3 1y ago
I have a browser extension called "Enable Right Click" installed, and that fixed the right-click issue, but not the text selection issue. I'll have to start looking. Of course the real fix is to send the one(s) responsible f
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by Tor3 1y ago
I'll say that's inaccurate. The dimensions of all the documents I've written over the years depend on the document class I use, and as our company keeps changing document layout standards every few years, the document class c
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by Tor3 1y ago
If I do that in a Chrome-based browser, the text looks like it's selected, but it isn't. Same if I just mark the text using the left button. It won't paste when I click the middle button. I have to click again, then double cl
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by Tor3 1y ago
A Toshiba Rupo word processor (found in both links) is safely stored in the backyard shed, together with some floppies and documentation. That'll be my winter project next year.
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by Tor3 1y ago
We still have it, it's just that we don't have it everywhere anymore. Which truly breaks up the workflow, or how I do things.
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by Tor3 1y ago
The problem with this (and to me it's a super annoying problem - marking and pasting with left and middle button is super fast and efficient) is that some browsers (or maybe it's the toolkits behind them) start to either ignore th
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by Tor3 1y ago
My muscle memory automatically uses Emacs keybindings for this, in editors like Pluma.. and the whole buffer is gone. Fortunately there's an "undo" option. But I really want Emacs keybindings to work everywhere. I have my va
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by Tor3 1y ago
We already had a universal copy/paste in Linux: Mark with left mouse button, paste with middle button. This used to work for just about everything. However, lately browsers started to ignore this when I mark the URL and try to paste it
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by Tor3 1y ago
As I wrote elsewhere: You're seeing this from inside the USA. USA is not the world. What's translated as "Legal tender" when wanting to write in English is just the closest term. That doesn't mean that your local d
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by Tor3 1y ago
The USA is not all the world. The US rules don't apply in other countries. Rules differ. In many countries _businesses_ have to accept legal tender. Including in my own. That's why it's such a big deal when businesses actuall
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by Tor3 1y ago
Well.. just a quick search (as I won't be talking a walk and photograph all the "cards only" signs I now see in so many places): https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/mar/16/uk-high-street
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by Tor3 1y ago
That depends on the country. There are many countries (including my own) where any business must accept certain parts of the cash payment system (around here a taxi doesn't have to accept the highest-value bank note, but the rest canno
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by Tor3 1y ago
The argument doesn't hold - if cards were only about getting sales which they otherwise wouldn't get - and the part about "getting sales which they otherwise wouldn't get", is true enough - then there's no reas
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by Tor3 1y ago
_Handling_ cash is expensive. I never thought of that until my SO started working in a shop. To and from the bank, with stacks of coins and notes.. and there's presumably much more than that for larger firms. In general I rely my state
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by Tor3 1y ago
It isn't - using cards, with fees, is cheaper than cash. I realized that when shops started to refuse cash (even if cash is legal tender and they, by law, _have_ to accept cash). The argument? Cash is too expensive.
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by Tor3 1y ago
The incentive for merchants to accept cards for payment is that it'll increase number of sales. And it does. In principle this should even out over all sales.. but cards do make it easier for consumers do purchase stuff, and I'm a
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by Tor3 1y ago
Microwave ovens have a different issue, which I found when I upgraded my breaker board to a modern one in my house. The startup pulse gives a type of load which trips a standard A-type 10A breaker (230V). Had to get those changed to a &quot
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by Tor3 1y ago
I should look at the label (or check with a meter..), but when I run my SGI Octane with its additional XIO SCSI board in active use, the little "office" room gets very hot indeed.
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by Tor3 1y ago
In the Nordics (I'm assuming you mean Nordic countries) 10A is _not_ standard. Used to be, some forty years ago. Since then 16A is standard. My house has a few 10A leftovers from when the house was built, and after the change to TN whi
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by Tor3 1y ago
You may have meant it like you say but in fact you did write "..Even people who move to another country as adults and spend 100% of their time speaking that country’s language almost never learn to speak it with native-level intuition
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by Tor3 1y ago
Well.. with AI, or whatever good statistical translation tool you use, it's possible to have a one-to-one conversation, kind of. A Japanese friend (not young, speaks only Japanese) stayed for quite a while in northern Europe and commun
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by Tor3 1y ago
"there are an enormous number of loan words (mostly from English)." Actually, no. Most of the loan words are from Chinese, if you look at the full vocabulary of Japanese. Old Chinese. It's a huge part of the Japanese vocabu
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by Tor3 1y ago
But you also implied that it's a question of being and adult or not, as if it's a cut-off. It isn't. If you watch people and you know when they started to learn a new language you can see a pretty strong statistical trend (w
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by Tor3 1y ago
Well.. I didn't really get proficient in English until I was in my thirties. I learned another language around that time as well, though not to full fluency (only because the option of continuing went away). And absorbing and understan
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The term "octet" is still widely used in protocol descriptions and some other fields (source: All those interface specifications I have to read through my job)
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by Tor3 1y ago
What you say is correct except for the very last part which is inaccurate. C works with word-addressed CPUs (I can see one from here, and it has a C compiler. And was, incidentally, sold into the early nineties). What C needs is a way to wo

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