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by dcminter 1y ago
> the b in debt English speaking Swedes often transform this silent b into a spoken p which is about as awkward a result as you're imagining.
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by dcminter 1y ago
'zactly :D I don't want to be too harsh though; I definitely think the attitude of rolling out something simple that works is a solid approach when compared with the gold-plated second-system-syndrome thinking that's terrib
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by dcminter 1y ago
> I entered the workforce about 9 months ago Right or wrong, it takes a certain amount of chutzpah to put forth such a definite opinion after less than a year in the workforce. What OP probably misses is the "there ain't nothin
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by dcminter 1y ago
Location: Stockholm (remote or hybrid) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, AWS, Linux, technical writing Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcminter/ Email: dave@paperst
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by dcminter 1y ago
This is just a by the by, but in British English "feeling poorly" mostly means that you are ill. Amusingly it's become slightly euphemistic, so if someone is "a bit poorly" they probably have sniffles or a minor fev
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by dcminter 1y ago
> Using its influence for political power, that gave it short term power but destroyed it long term. I'm no fan of organised religion, but this is a pretty wild take to me. "The church" has been around for the best part of
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by dcminter 1y ago
VT220 terminals used to have an explicit "compose character" key - afaik it was handled in the terminal firmware, so not necessarily an OS thing at all if we're being picky. Upvoted for positive pedantry though :)
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by dcminter 1y ago
The data has to be decrypted at some point in order to display it... unless we're envisioning FHME hardware in the monitor as well - honestly I think we're well across the threshold into fantasy already though.
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by dcminter 1y ago
That's a big stretch for the premise, but... There's no value to it in circumstances where you control all the hardware processing data, so "everyday work in an OS" - only if that OS is hosted on someone else's hard
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by dcminter 1y ago
Ah, I stand corrected. I couldn't listen to the examples last night so I have egg on my face this morning :)
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by dcminter 1y ago
That link (like the Wikipedia article) is talking about the mechanism by which the bell is rung, not what is rung out on them i.e. they are not ringing the changes.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Interesting, but the wikipedia article states that " they play slowly moving tunes, not the continuous change ringing of the English tradition " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronese_bell_ringing So unless
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by dcminter 1y ago
Not bell ringing - change ringing. Most places they play a tune on them; our ringers work out mathematical permutations instead. Edit: ...and I should add: Sayers was quite reactionary, preternaturally English, and writing in the 1930s, s
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by dcminter 1y ago
Sayers, mentioned here in passing, wrote probably the only detective story explicitly called out (as an introduction to change ringing) in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (a mighty 20 volume encyclopaedia). So if you like ol
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Linux Compose Key Sequences (2007)(math.dartmouth.edu)
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by dcminter 1y ago
Ok, but the equivalent for me was in the very early 1980s and I lived in an English village outside a small market town. Their library certainly didn't have any current in-depth book on the computing topics I was interested in. I recal
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by dcminter 1y ago
I'm not sure, were you contradicting me in the first place? I just thought your point was a bit cynical and I'm giving you my more positive spin on it.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Sure, but most people just want to go to the pub and watch TV. It's still exciting that for the ones who want to do something the horizon has expanded.
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by dcminter 1y ago
I agree entirely; just because VC focused startups are eager to "rub some AI on" their products doesn't mean that AI itself is boring; it's incredibly cool! Some of the applications are ghastly, but LLMs and diffusion mo
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by dcminter 1y ago
> I enjoy the camaraderie of being around others who feel that way too. But... they're still there. They're a little diluted, but I've not yet worked somewhere where I had no like-minded tinkerers amongst my colleagues. I
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by dcminter 1y ago
Sure, but the volume of information was tiny compared to what was available in printed form - whereas it's the reverse now.
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by dcminter 1y ago
The biggest gap was information - though I think you have to go back a bit further really. Until the late 90s if you wanted to know about a topic you generally depended upon printed material or direct transfer of knowledge. I'm rather
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by dcminter 1y ago
I'm very skeptical of the article - it sounds to me like classic "good old days" thinking¹. It's certainly true that IT has grown vastly since those good old days, but there has always been a proportion of people who&#x2
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by dcminter 1y ago
Not sure what you mean specifically, but generally the organisations doing screen-scraping¹ would prefer to use compliant APIs as they don't require anything like as much maintenance (bank adds a button to the login flow? Kaboom! Integ
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by dcminter 1y ago
Where a bank doesn't offer compliant APIs, screen-scraping integrations are explicitly allowed. Not sure how common that is at this point.
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by dcminter 1y ago
It's a strange rule. I'd be interested if any more serious grammarians can explain where this irregularity comes from.
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by dcminter 1y ago
The one that people get wrong all the time is "its" vs "it's" for exactly this reason. By the usual use of posessive apostrophe you would expect "it's" and yet that's only ever correct if you&#
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by dcminter 1y ago
Further off-topic: You're not wrong, but maybe you should be. It's one of the most pointless irregular grammar rules in English. Nobody is ever confused by the wrong usage of the apostrophe here (when spoken there's no voicin
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by dcminter 1y ago
Ah, I missed that bit, thanks. My dad had (and died) of pancreatic cancer and it was too far gone for Whipple to be on the table. However I think he too might not have chosen to go ahead with it even if it had been an option. My dad lived f
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by dcminter 1y ago
Pancreatic cancer can be curable in some cases - see the Whipple procedure: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreaticoduodenectomy That said, it would depend on several other factors, not least catching the tumour ear

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