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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Did we not see the same effect last year (probably for the reasons you mentioned)? Numbers declined in summer, but then massively rose again in Oct-Nov. I think this Autumn will reveal whether the vaccinations are giving us the protection n
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>So what should I expect about the integrity of justice here? You could maybe ask the other 26 nations how they might see things? Remember the EU is not just 1 lady who had a bad daddy. And her tenure is not forever. The same is also tru
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Coming out of the 1st and then 2nd World wars the US seemed to be the voice of reason and alongside Britain (and possibly France) had a strong desire to make the world a better place and not repeat the mistakes of the past - which were all
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Oh I used to love leaky HANDLE hunts. These things could bring windows 3.n (and maybe NT 4.v too?) to its knees pretty quickly so I was always really careful about diligently freeing them. And, like many commenters below constantly surprise
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Well, Taskbar only existed since Windows 95 and onwards, so you're at least forgiven for the previous versions :) But as far as I remember, even since '95 you could move the taskbar to whichever edge you wanted.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
I always place the taskbar at the top of the screen, and make sure that Outlook is the first icon in the taskbar, on the left (dragging & dropping it if I have to), so it's always in the same place. Would not be happy if that no
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Ironically enough I remember seeing the Chrome style tabs and thinking, hey, they really look like the NeXT tabs - cool! But I could be wrong.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>people were struggling just to get Smalltalk to perform at reasonable speeds on microcomputer class hardware I've heard this before, but it confuses me as apparently the majority of the systems at Xerox Parc (Window manager, word p
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
The expectation of this legislation passing might also make it easier for Intel to raise cash to fund the acquisition if they need to borrow.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Let's start with teeth please :)
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
This is the first I've ever heard of this, I normally give my kids Weleda cough mixture and always pretty much saw the whole movement as basically a slightly better commercialized version of homeopathy. Not going to mention any of this
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
MY understanding (at least in the UK) was that hospitals and universities also do a lot of research (often cutting-edge), and are often the source of innovation. These entities are largely publicly funded.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Well thank you Mr. Curious at least for ninja - fastest build system in the West :) I hope your new job lets you build fun but useful stuff there too.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Yep, and that's what I basically meant by 'hooking it up'. I guess you would need a pump to bring the seawater to the device, something to pump it elsewhere (for storage, or irrigation), and also some mechanism to dump the br
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
"Tests on an MIT building rooftop showed that a simple proof-of-concept desalination device could produce..." So doesn't look like they've even hooked it up to the sea yet, so still a bit to go for a real implementation,
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Yes, good going - I think somebody just gave Woz a idea there ...
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
I also remember wiggling the mouse to get installation programs to progress. Sometimes it would be stuck at 100% for ages, as usually you're not interacting with the machine during an install, and then somebody would wiggle the mouse a
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
So quite a short list so far. For a technology that occupies such a big presence in people's minds, and has billions of peoples' money invested in, and hundreds of companies chasing their tails trying to find practical uses for
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Well if it can paint my ceiling in an hour or two, I don't really mind how loud it is (up to a a point). I have very high ceilings. It might also be quite useful for examining the outside of high skyscrapers for maintenance, if you nee
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Ironically enough, had swapping not been so fast then runaway RAM usage bugs probably would've been found a lot sooner as they crippled the machine.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Would have to agree, common data structures like linked lists and maps can't really be easily composed into this sort of sequential layout as required, and the main advantages only come about when you're searching through the data
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
There is a video on youtube of a Monsanto lobbyist being challenged to do exactly that, quite funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw6YjqSfM
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
OSX does care, but classic Mac OS didn't used to. It had a separate resource fork that described what the file was, and after that you could name it anything you liked.
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by bigbizisverywyz 6y ago
Ooof, never seen it that bad, but that would be really annoying and you shouldn't tolerate it. My rule is if the help I need isn't so urgent that it requires chat, then I'll send an email. Also if I'm doing something in
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by bigbizisverywyz 6y ago
When I read that Slim had hitched 200 miles just to be with him and snuggle up in his be I knew he wouldn't appreciate it and he'd let her down. I wasn't wrong.
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by bigbizisverywyz 6y ago
On the other hand I really quite like programming in Postgres's version of PL/SQL which I find to be pleasantly consistent and quite easy to understand.
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by bigbizisverywyz 6y ago
>and it's choice to build on top of a proprietary API. Had they gone with some HTML/js morass, >it would have been easily dogged down and ground to dust on the interoperability battlefield. Actually, initially Apple expected
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by bigbizisverywyz 6y ago
>Passing plain text between programs in 2020 goes against everything we've learned in the last 50 years. I would have to say the opposite is true. It's text based interfaces that have stood the test of time, and now even flouri
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by bigbizisverywyz 6y ago
Still got the original boxed cd at home. Looking back it was actually a really brave, but fresh UI look. Pinstripes, semi-transparency and those big Aqua themed buttons and scrollbars everywhere. Hats off to the designers who came up with i
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by bigbizisverywyz 6y ago
I think Tom Duff of Duff's device fame is also there, 3rd from left at the back.

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