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by Tor3 3y ago
All of that is fine, the problem is that most places with shared space will have people not working on the same project in that room. Instead everybody is working on different projects, and they may be in Teams meetings and talking and ta
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by Tor3 3y ago
Well, yes. I used to have my own office, for most of my career. Then when we had to move offices there wasn't enough room for that, so now we have smaller or larger rooms with from a few to many people. In general I'm much less ef
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by Tor3 3y ago
I did a 'git log' of my emulator project.. the first entry is from December 1998, so 25 years by now.. (I used CVS back then, thus the early timestamp. It was converted to Git some years later). I still fiddle with it now and then
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by Tor3 3y ago
This. Not related to the main story here - I'm the first programmer in my family - but my great-grandfather was born in 1865 and lived a long life, he was blind for his last 30 or 40 years but had a phenomenal memory. A neighbor had th
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by Tor3 3y ago
There's a Motorola document about this: https://ia904706.us.archive.org/5/items/Motorola-Seminarsand... In there they suggest that "another bus master must perform this action" and that this one cou
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by Tor3 3y ago
"What killed Pascal?" Where I worked, it was nothing in particular about the language (or at least the variant we used) itself. What happened was exactly what another comment said, quote: " And then Unix happened. Every Unix
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It wasn't about building houses or anything like that. From the article: " [..] the logs may have formed part of a walkway or the foundation of a platform built over wetlands. "
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by Tor3 3y ago
Well, not here it isn't. These establishments have been fined several times. They still don't buckle. As for the reason they do it - it's because it's more expensive handling cash than handling cards, and much more hassl
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"Sellers hate credit cards ..." That's news to me. The truth is that sellers hate cash . So much so that around here several establishments display "card only" at the entrance, even though cash is legal tender - i
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by Tor3 3y ago
None of the various Android phones and tablets I've used over the years (many!) have ever downloaded anything by itself, with the sole exception of Samsung's "Upday" news thingy which updates by itself. Oh, and Google Pl
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by Tor3 3y ago
I'm changing the wheels by myself, spring and fall. Changing the tires isn't an option, even for those who don't change by themselves. Around here there are "wheel hotels" where people keep their winter/summer
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It looks interesting. But how do you change wheels? From the video there's no obvious way, and I'll assume the wheels must be very expensive - if all we see in the video is built in. Where I live I change wheels twice a year, f
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That highly depends on the story. There are some stories which rely on surprising the reader in a delightful way. If that's revealed in the description it'll take away something really important. I've seen that many times.
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Agreed. That goes for a lot of things. Around here there's a huge film festival once a year, thousands of visitors plus the town's population will fill the streets and watch movies all day and late night. What I've found is
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by Tor3 3y ago
Things like that is why I too always tried to avoid reading back covers or jackets. Way too often they reveal crucial parts about the story. Spoiling Ender's Game makes reading the book 90% pointless. I also avoid film trailers like th
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by Tor3 3y ago
That wasn't exactly mass deception. It was basically group think inside a certain administration, supported by an at that time must-keep-in-sync-with-them UK prime IIRC. Most of Europe had access to more information and knew it to be i
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by Tor3 3y ago
The kind of conspiracies that happen all the time are tiny ones, and typically (and that's how the word is most often defined in text) about a small group planning to do something illegal. The term "conspiracy theory" is inst
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by Tor3 3y ago
That was the original claim, these days it's not (from wikipedia: " Current excavators interpret Göbekli Tepe as a settlement, based on recent findings such as domestic structures and features, water supply installations, and Neol
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by Tor3 3y ago
That's not why that stuff is labelled "conspiracy theory". What's labelled like that are theories about conspiracies, e.g. that all 400000 who worked on the Apollo program was in it together to fake a moon landing, or th
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by Tor3 3y ago
It's only people like Graham Hancock who thinks that hunter gatherers are primitive and unable to do anything organized. The reality is that they were perfectly capable, and they even have quite a bit more time on their hands than an
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by Tor3 3y ago
That's what they used, yes.
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Here's another Scandinavian.. those "lemming years" as we called them used to be fairly common in the past, much more then than these days. They used to happen regularly every four years or so. I remember the summer of 1974 (
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by Tor3 3y ago
My 5.25" ones from the mid-eighties are still readable. As far as I can tell the 8" ones are as well, though I haven't tested many of them. But their density is low, which helps a lot. And that's also why none of my 3.5&
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by Tor3 3y ago
From what I've understood from one particular (very early) experiment of living on just potatoes for a year is that it worked because (for some reason) the participants had, or developed, a particular gut microbiome which could transfo
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by Tor3 3y ago
It's an acquired taste - in other words, you acquire it by exposure. For me, seaweed was something I just accepted but didn't particularly care about when I was first exposed to Japanese food (I will eat everything edible served
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by Tor3 3y ago
Well.. common style bread making uses yeast, and no bacteria are involved, for the most part. And yeast also likes sugar and flour. The salt doesn't make any difference at all in my experience, as far as growth is concerned, it's
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I'd never thought about the water.. my wife started making sourdough bread a year ago, and now she's making them all the time.. extremely tasty. Her starter always seems to grow to nearly triple size. She uses mostly rye for that,
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by Tor3 3y ago
Was about to say that. The M24 was the one I much preferred using during that period, before AT (286) PCs started arriving (or made affordable). There were other 8086 PCs around as well - I had a low-cost British one at home (IIRC it was ca
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by Tor3 3y ago
If the day comes when it's impossible to watch Youtube without ads I'll have to leave, despite how important youtube is for me currently. I just can't watch ads. It's impossible. I don't watch a single TV channel wi
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by Tor3 3y ago
My tinnitus gets worse afterwards if I'm subjected to noise (as in an airplane). Noice-cancelling headphones is a must for me at this point if I'm to experience prolonged increased sound levels.

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