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by davidhbolton 6y ago
It's more the case that as Carl Sagan said "If you're making an extraordinary claim you should have extraordinary evidence". So where is the extraordinary evidence for Climate Crisis? People have been claiming this or si
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I'd definitely agree. BBC Micro - total sales 1 million. CBM-64 between 10 and 17 million. Meanwhile Raspberry Pis are well over 30 million.
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Not quite a billion dollar mistake (like null in other languages) but the with statement in Pascal was on reflection a big mistake. I have wasted a day trying to untangle some code that was blown up when I removed a with statement. Unfortun
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
I'd argue that Turbo Pascal was that transition point not Delphi. The last incarnation of Turbo Pascal was Borland Pascal and it had much that was in Delphi thoughg OOP was improved on in Delphi. Delphi was just Turbo Pascal for Window
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
I call b*llshit on these claims. Where is the extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims? It isn't there. 20 years ago people were saying it'll be all over by 2010. Kyoto did nothing. Computer models don't tell half the
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
Even older. It's the Windows follow on to Dos Turbo Pascal which existed from 1984.
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
I'm part of a 4 man team that maintains a 1.3 million loc application in the PropTech industry. It's been jazzed u with a WPF front end I can compile all 1.3 million loc in 11 seconds on my work laptop using Delphi Xe7. The rest o
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
The ones with DRM are .azw, basically an encrypted .mobi. Calibre is your friend. https://calibre-ebook.com/
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
Perhaps someone could ask Barack Obama and Al Gore about their opinion on sea level rise. Both seem to have bought expensive sea front properties so perhaps are not as concerned as they have publicly made out to be.
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Nope. It's a social club. Always has been.
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
I bought this (back in 1986 I think) and used it on a Tatung Einstein running CP/M. I absolutely loved it and went on with TP 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 and 7 then switched to Delphi.
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
I do hope this lacks one feature of the original ZX Spectrum. It had a notoriously higher than normal failure rate attributed mainly to components being run a bit hard i.e. nearer their limits than was wise. Everyone I knew who had one had
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
I think the petrochemical industry might disagree with you there. Sure petrol/diesel for transport will decline but pharmaceuticals, plastics and many more items are made that way and they are not going away. This site has a big list.
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
I lived in London until 2015 and took a recent look on Street View where I lived (Search for E10 6QB if you want to see) . It was a typical London street where everyone parks nose to nose. There's about 20 cars for every lamp post. No
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
If you live in a country with mass migration then both house prices and rental prices increase almost constantly. I lived in London from 1996-2015. I bought a house in 2000, it tripled in value by 2015 and I sold up and moved out of London.
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is not the father of the internet. He created the web, and there's a heck of a difference between the two. The web is just one of many protocols on the internet, others include FTP, email and some older ones like Go
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
While not knocking the technical skills of the astrophotographer, is the framing of the ISS not just a little bit deceptive? The image of the ISS in front of the sun makes it look as if it is orbiting the sun, not 93 million odd miles away.
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
It would be nice to put a short concise description of what a blog is about, against each one.
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
Back when I did my GCSE (mid schools exams) in 1977, I programmed a very simple tennis game that I read about in a UK games magazine sometime in 1974. A 2 player game, the court is divided into 12 spaces (6 either side of the net). The serv
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
It makes me so sad that people believe this is a problem without strong scientifically rigorous evidence. Climate crisis should be lumped in as fake news, disinformation until such time as it can either be shown to be real or not. How many
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
It would be interesting to compare compilation speeds with Delphi. On a 2020 laptop I7 9900) with 16 GB of ram, I can compile a 1.3 million LOC Delphi program in 11 seconds. That's the 32-bit XE7, the 64-bit takes typically 25 seconds.
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
Nah. We had 6G in the UK first! Look at the photo. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/truth-seekers-nick-frost-sim...
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
And together with that Chinese found anomaly on the dark side of the moon. Time to start preparing the flight to Saturn...
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
Much as I love Star Trek etc. It does appear that space travel is inherently bad for us planet dwellers what with the havoc it wreaks on the bodies of people who spend long periods in space. I'd love it not be so, but I do wonder if on
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
I've seen no mention of the myriad other uses we make from petroleum other than transport uses. There's 144 (out of 6000) listed here. https://www.ranken-energy.com/index.php/products-made-from-p... It would
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
Why does China get a free pass? It's the worlds largest miner of coal and is building many new coal fired power stations. For instance. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-28/riozim-se... a
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
Uncontrolled mass migration (Thanks Tony Blair) under New Labour added five million people over a ten year period. Guess what, many drive cars. So yes, it has affected transport.
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
I, like 17% of the UK population (approx. 10 million) live in rural areas. I'm six miles from the nearest supermarket and shops and public transport is non-existent. (Once a day type of thing). Prior to lockdown and wfh I was commuting
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I lived in London for 20 years until I escaped five years ago, 15 years in a terrace street where parking occupancy was 85% or higher most of the time (except when Google last scanned it) and almost 100% in the evenings. It was sometimes ha
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
If you use Windows, take a look at Jutoh.com. It's commercial but not very expensive and excellent for creating .mobi and epub books. It's strength include support for images, tables and source code listings and it has excellent

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