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by anadem 4y ago
I was a Windows dev (now retired) and from the late '90s that's exactly how I kept a daily log: a Notepad file with .LOG as the first line gets date & time appended every time its opened. Notepad used to have a rather small fi
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by anadem 4y ago
> The only company I know who is doing an affordable paid service ... Bitwarden paid is $10 per YEAR. I'm very happy to pay that. (Off-topic for discussion of Telegram though)
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by anadem 4y ago
That calculator led me into a 40-year programming career! From building it came building a 6502 micro then self-taught assembler, Forth, and contract programming jobs (first one: a multi-user homegrown-networking accounting package in Forth
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by anadem 4y ago
True, but that doesn't imply that TMSC will be taken over by China. In Ukraine, the territory is what Russia wants (minerals, crops) but in Taiwan it's the "human capital" that's desirable, and the latter isn't
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by anadem 5y ago
A new study shows that ants are as effective as dogs at detecting cancer, and can be trained to do so in as little as 30 minutes [0] That doesn't explain dogs' absence, but one day it might. [0] https://www.healthcarepa
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by anadem 5y ago
"Tibet has an estimated population of about 6 million Tibetans and 7.5 million Chinese settlers." [0] This is using the Chinese definition of Tibet, which is less than half of the historical Tibet. Han Chinese are encouraged to mo
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by anadem 5y ago
An issue here may be that the people involved may think it's better to look clever than to be hide-bound
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by anadem 5y ago
There is no appropriate armor or shielding for debris coming at that kind of velocity
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by anadem 5y ago
You can't seriously imagine that "the space force" could enforce something? Space farce.
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by anadem 5y ago
ditto (firefox 92.0.1) and I can't get past 'hello' + 'world' .. there's no Next button, only Previous
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by anadem 5y ago
There are many photos in the linked articles Edit to add: the 'Towie ball' [0] even has a lovely 3D viewer 0 - https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/scotti...
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by anadem 5y ago
I had a Bulova Accutron with tuning fork movement, which I lost. Some months later while napping I hear a quiet hum, and find the watch rolled up in a carpet .. it was a watch with inbuilt locator function!
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by anadem 5y ago
> and YT clears the strike there's the rub .. in the OP's example, the strike wasn't cleared
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by anadem 6y ago
COBOL's a lot simpler in that the words are (should be) more expressive, but as it's less powerful than C it's less terse and there's a lot more reading to do. So the ability to understand a program isn't necessaril
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by anadem 6y ago
THANKS! very cool talk and video!
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by anadem 6y ago
Single party rule would be true only if the Senate was not encumbered by the filibuster.
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by anadem 6y ago
Surely it's because when you've borrowed a lot against a highly-valued property you don't want its perceived value to be reduced (by having low rents) in case that triggers the lender to recall the loans. But I too don't
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by anadem 6y ago
Thank you, I'd missed that and will share it
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by anadem 6y ago
Nice site! How about adding "country" (or region) to "Sort by"?
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by anadem 6y ago
> COBOL even exists on Windows these days "these days"?? COBOL has been available on Windows since Windows 3.1, and was even a commercial success on DOS in pre-Windows days. Yes, it was principally used in finance on mainframe
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by anadem 6y ago
Interesting! I used to have a Morgan car, and the seat was a blow-up to which I'd add or remove air to change my position. It helped avoid discomfort on long-distance trips.
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by anadem 6y ago
not OP but trix.co's Android link goes to Play's "Welcome to the testing program" and that has link "download it on Google Play" which gets "We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server
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by anadem 6y ago
In the video linked by dghughes [0] above Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff outlines the mechanism by which life produces phosphine: bacterial breakdown of plant DNA. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24543575
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by anadem 6y ago
The name does tap into the psyche though, thanks to the ancient TV show - and Indigenous tales, of course, though those are probably less widely known.
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by anadem 6y ago
Teeth seem in the USA to be a class marker, where in the UK class markers are different (used to be accent when I lived there aeons ago).
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by anadem 6y ago
That must be a real buzz. As a kid my biggest thrill was watching the Mallard [0] steam train rush through our small station on the London-Edinburgh main line at about 100 mph. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Cl
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by anadem 6y ago
There's a saying where I'm from: "clogs to clogs in three generations". Man works himself up from clog-wearing poverty to wealth; son seems the dad's journey and values wealth; grandson grows up in wealth and doesn&
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by anadem 6y ago
cat e.bat @echo %~f0 @if %1. == . goto simple @rem explorer /e, %1 explorer /e, %1 @goto done :simple explorer /e,. :done open Explorer from cmd prompt, either where you are or where you want it
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by anadem 7y ago
From that link[0] Firefox reports: "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to archive.md. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your pass
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by anadem 7y ago
> not filling out the census form may cost you something in the long run. On the average each uncounted person loses their district $2,000 per year in federal payments (i.e. tax money returning to the district). Losing $20,000 over the t

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