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by abraxas 5y ago
Wow, awesome. Thank you. I'll definitely watch a couple of these for the old time's sake.
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by abraxas 5y ago
I'm sure they had something. However, I never heard from any other geek from the socialist bloc mention any show that had the cult following of Sonda among us, Poles.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Yep, fixed
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by abraxas 5y ago
Awesome blast from the past. I wonder if this was ever featured on the legendary Polish TV program called "Sonda" (English title would "The Probe")? "Sonda" was a great pop-science show when those were much mor
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by abraxas 5y ago
>Now I just want to know if the new keyboard has more key travel distance back to the like of MacBook Pro 2015. If it's the same as the 2020 then no. It's better than the butterfly but not as good as the 2015
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by abraxas 5y ago
First they fucked over Netscape to the point where they went out of business by messing with Win32 APIs to the point of making it unusable. Then pimped and pushed Internet Explorer down everyone's throats. Then they tried to embrace an
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by abraxas 5y ago
Yes, but it got wrapped around an axle where he could neither log in nor in any way move his worlds to a different device. Their advice was to uninstall Minecraft and in the process lose all local data. No migration path was offered. And it
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by abraxas 5y ago
If you don't find reasons to dislike them, I and many others can tell you a few stories from the nineties that will change that.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Microsoft makes little children cry. In the endless stream of fuckups with their account management they managed to delete all of the Minecraft worlds my son had built. This was two years ago. He was 8 at the time. His passion for Minecraft
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by abraxas 5y ago
For those who want to take this a bit further I can't recommend cs231n enough. Especially when it was taught by Andrej Karpathy. I believe the lectures may still be up on YouTube. Andrej really has a knack for teaching.
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by abraxas 5y ago
This is plain whataboutism. I have no intention to defend my compatriots' xenophobia. That issue is orthogonal to what's been happening to me in Britain. And for what it's worth I didn't settle in Poland but again that&#
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by abraxas 5y ago
Thanks. I'm in Canada and I'm very happy here. I've not encountered here anywhere near the amount of xenophobia that I did in Britain. Australia was actually an alternative I considered but the tech sector was stronger in Can
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by abraxas 5y ago
I think the British people who voted for Brexit can really go fuck themselves with their visas. I'm happy there is scant uptake. As a Pole who spent in the UK seven years being bullied for the audacity of keeping a job there and being
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by abraxas 5y ago
Brexit means brexit
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by abraxas 5y ago
Absolutely. During a time when most any other computer was an unreachable dream in communist Poland the ZX Spectrum was a gift to the emerging geek community here. I was lucky to have received my own in 1984. I was one of the first in the
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by abraxas 5y ago
Is this more or less what Magic Leap attempted and ultimately failed to deliver?
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by abraxas 5y ago
same situation. My grandparents sold their farm in 1988 with a very nice house (for the era) and a year or two later, by the time they wanted to buy a flat in the city with that money it was barely enough for a used car. Hyperinflation is a
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by abraxas 5y ago
I think Nancy Pi deserves a spot on the solver list? Her channel has some of the best videos in that category for beginners.
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by abraxas 5y ago
he peddles whatever is the fad du jour. Back in 2001/2003 when the RUP was at its peak cycle Fowler made a number of posts and talks praising its virtues.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Rational Unified Process. Let's start right here.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Yes, I once said at work that "the sad testament to the sorry state of our industry is that Fowler can still make good money rather than be chased with pitchforks". It did not go over well with the rest of the architects. I still
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by abraxas 5y ago
> they focus on the needs of developers instead of needs of the customers. Oh this kind of software takes care of the needs of customers alright. Except their true customers are advertisers not users. This adification of every single ite
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by abraxas 5y ago
This would be an amazing language to use with one of those SBC boards like Arduino or STM32.
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by abraxas 5y ago
This is not the case. At least it wasn't the case in the late nineties and early naughts. The web then was full of banner and popup and pop under ads (punch the monkey, remember?). Google was a breath of fresh air then with a clean sit
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by abraxas 5y ago
I don’t have this frame of reference since taxes haven’t changed much since I arrived. And yes I have a tract house with a two car garage and hardwood floors. Nothing exuberant but I’m content. This is more than I could buy in the countries
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by abraxas 5y ago
Yes, I will make a bit of an exception to the rule and say that Southern Europeans are maybe a bit warmer than the rest. Eastern Europe though is just the meaner, cruder version of Western Europe with the xenophobia dialed up from 8 to 11.
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by abraxas 5y ago
As a European who immigrated to Canada I will respectfully disagree. Yes house prices are insane but this is true of much of the world now. However, Canada has a friendly society that is open to newcomers. The Europeans especially in the no
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by abraxas 5y ago
Yes it is ridiculous to claim that this is somehow minor. That said, there are electric cars far better for road trips than the Jaguar mentioned in this story. A long range Tesla Model 3 will easily do about 350km within its 10-80% state of
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by abraxas 5y ago
China is scoring very well and has a population that trounces all of the western world
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by abraxas 5y ago
I guess it depends where you are coming from. In not a gamer and find most screen based games a chore but I adore a bunch of VR games. They are simpler and thus require far less time commitment to get into. And the additional exercise is gr

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