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by blippage 5y ago
I've used Dillo. It's amazing how snappy a browser can be. Alas, it's an impractical browser to use, as most sites require JavaScript. The real problem is websites, ever-increasing the capabilities of browsers. If that went a
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You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
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UK Brit here. Countries like the UK and the US certainly have their flaws, but I'd take them before nearly everything else that's on offer. China's system seems terrible. The whole of Africa seems like a corrupt system. The E
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Neso Academy(youtube.com)
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I found a YouTube channel that I thought was really worthy of promotion. I am not affiliated with them in any way. It's an education channel covering Computer Science, Electronics, "Electrical" and Instrumentation. I'm f
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I started a masters course in mathematics in 1992. It was a joint course between two universities. We had Unix machines at one of them. We were being prepared for stuff like learning Fortran. We were told to copy files from a source directo
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I had a play around with Logo the other day. In the end I decided to dive too deeply into it, but I came away thinking that there is basically nothing wrong with the language. It was invented in 1967. 1965! Yet it has everything "there
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I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. -- Emo Philips
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The author needs to make up his mind: in one place he says that there is no "parent leaf, or child leaf", and then two sentences later says "The ID on each leaf refers to it position on a branch of a tree." He's jus
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Prof Allen Downey published a book called Think DSP: https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-dsp/ It can be bought, but is available for free. Code is also available via GitHub. It uses Python and Jupyter. "The pr
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Back in the day, I has initially assumed that Yggdrasil was named after the Cthulhu mythos, not realising it was a tree. Still, if ever I create an OS, I'm going to give a Lovecraftian name.
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I was thinking this morning about how the Raspberry Pi never really quite got it right in bringing the legacy of the early 80's computers into the 21st century. The Pi Foundation bring out new models, but I think this just complicates
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I was talking to a maths prof a year ago or so. It seemed that there was some Fortran stuff, although C++ seems the favourite. Personally, back in the days, I never really got into the NAG libraries. I found it easy enough to roll my own. M
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A piece of writing advice I heard: never use the word "very". There's always a better way of expressing it. To take your example, don't say "he was very happy", but say something like "he was ecstatic&quot
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Keep it short for pithy's sake.
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Folks might also like to get hold of PDFs of the now-defunct Everyday Electronics. https://worldradiohistory.com/Everyday_Electronics.htm Just looking at the Aug 1976 edition, they have a touch sensitive door alarm, an elec
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Brit here, in my 50's. Everyone should - or ought - to receive a good general level of education at GCSEs (i.e. 14/15 year old). Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, English, etc.. You'll know a fair bit about these subjects if y
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Hopefully it's just a current trend.
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With respect, there have been many attempts in the past to create utopian cities. They have invariably failed. https://archive.curbed.com/2019/7/18/20695051/curbed-nice-tr... I'm sure there are plen
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That is some next-level stuff. How could he possibly do it? There's a guy over on YouTube that is making a marble music machine: https://www.youtube.com/user/wintergatan2000 He is very dedicated, is quite smart, b
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Shops in general have been struggling. It is unrelated to COVID. Rent and rates are too high. Simple as that. My dad was talking to our local hairdresser, and she explained the huge costs involved for such a simple business. Water rates wer
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> I've heard managers say crap like "but if we train them then they'll leave us when they finish the training and go somewhere else - we'll have paid for their training and get no benefit". The clever response to
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> Countering climate change with cool pavements "Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics" -- Homer Simpson
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> I've had to take training sessions that left me feeling ...hateful, to be honest. And that, right there, is how the history books end up filled with horrors like the gassing of Jews. Couldn't happen again? Well, that's t
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Bat 1: What'ya doing? Bat 2: Just hanging. Sorry. Couldn't resist.
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> But the stateless form of man is that of small networks of aligned people, and therein lies the check and balance. I don't think that will work, either. A company like Intel couldn't exist based on small networks. It requires
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The older I get the louder I shout at clouds. "Engineers are hired to create business value, not to program things" FFS. True enough, but it's still claptrap. One quote from George Orwell really struck for me: "speaking
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"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." -- Friedrich Hayek But who wants to listen to that, right?
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That's how Palpatine became Emperor. "It is with great reluctance that I have agreed to this calling. I love democracy. I love the Republic. Once this crisis has abated, I will lay down the powers you have given me!" -- Emper
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What a wise man does in the beginning, a fool does in the end. I graduated in the 80's in UK, and it was the best time of my life. I had no debt. Fantastic! If I was asked to make the same decision again, I'd probably decline. The

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