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by dcminter 2y ago
These all apply here in Sweden. The information from the equivalent of those W2s is all available to me directly through the tax authority's portal though, so when I filed my taxes the other day I just logged in, checked the numbers lo
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by dcminter 2y ago
I'd be much happier if the rule was: necessary for functionality only, no action required. Anything else must be an active choice. I'd eliminate the "legitimate interest" category as it's so heavily abused. In pract
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by dcminter 2y ago
Whales are the first example that springs to mind.
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by dcminter 2y ago
> "Wider code is harder to read. Period. " That's stated as if it were proven, and I can believe that it has enough basis in fact that one might choose to enforce it, but I don't believe it's universally true. I
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by dcminter 2y ago
Many years later one of my Dad's customers paid me and my college housemates £10 to take away a Wang MVP system with four chonky terminals from their London offices. We drove it all the way to Wales and had it in our shared student hou
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by dcminter 2y ago
My Dad was a software developer in the UK with Honeywell in the 1960s and after a stint with Wang (yes, I know, ha ha) went independent. As a result we had a variety of Wang minis in the house in the mid-70s when I was a toddler, which must
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by dcminter 2y ago
Eh, maybe? But English grammar is consensus based. This is arguably bad grammar because people not knowing the cliché of "there there" had trouble understanding the intent, not because it's "wrong" under some hard c
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by dcminter 2y ago
Not ADHD (as far as I know), but I'm terribly prone to procrastination. I too find white noise helpful - I use and would recommemd an Android app called "A Soft Murmer" which lets you have rain noise and throws in a rumble of
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by dcminter 2y ago
It's a literary conceit: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/there_is_no_there_there
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by dcminter 2y ago
A couple of years ago I woke with a minor headache that I ignored for various reasons all day, then skipped lunch as I had an important meeting later and lots to do ahead of it, and the headache got progressively worse. Just before the meet
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by dcminter 2y ago
Not because of the women, but learning a (different) partner dance boosted my self-confidence to a remarkable extent (so far as one can identify causes with these things). It's actually not a silly idea.
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by dcminter 2y ago
But perhaps corporate peacocking is not why they prefer it? I like a day's worth of face time once a week or so. It's not because I like to show off to my colleagues or minions - most of my direct colleagues are not in the sam
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by dcminter 2y ago
I wonder if those in that category might also have a tendency towards lower empathy with those outside it? "I don't work as well when I'm not in the office, so all those other guys are slacking off" would presumably be t
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by dcminter 2y ago
You and I vehemently agree. But even if the police where you live were perfect, handing them the keys to the internet wouldn't resolve crimes committed outside their jurisdiction. I see why the idea is appealing to politicians, but eve
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by dcminter 2y ago
Are you not aware that the internet is an international artefact? Will you institute a Great Firewall to prevent your citizens from seeing outside your borders? An inconvenient question I often ask about proposed architecture changes is: &q
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by dcminter 2y ago
That's an equivalent demand to expecting the world as a whole to be "governed properly" and thus won't be achieved for exactly the same reasons.
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by dcminter 2y ago
> It's either A) we The People are completely free and nobody can intervene in any way or B) The Government is a tyrannical overlord that controls every packet that dares to enter the internet. Do you mean the various efforts to wea
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by dcminter 2y ago
How is it better to not look into or share such information when we know that a vast army of assholes are doing the same thing for nefarious purposes? Yes, they might not spot it themselves, but we know that in practice they often do an
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by dcminter 2y ago
I find your view bizarre. If I buy a physical product, take it home, and then publish the various issues I find with it then ... nobody has a problem with that I'm as sad as the next guy that the safe and trusting internet of academia
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by dcminter 2y ago
Ok, can confirm that on Ubuntu 24.04.2 it builds (with a handful of deprecation warnings) and runs ok. I didn't do more than a smoke-test on running it though. The README says: On 2021-02-27 a successful build for Linux can be done
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by dcminter 2y ago
Are you sure? It seemed to say that it would manually compile, but that the author hadn't automated it because they didn't know CMake well enough. (I have time to kill at an airport later so I might try it)
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by dcminter 2y ago
I adore it. If you like fantasy and also enjoy Jane Austen (and her kind of humour) then give it a whirl. But get it in paperback so the footnote-flipping doesn't drive you mad!
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by dcminter 2y ago
I thinkbhe's a better writer than speaker, but I suspect if I'd seen him speak first I'd have it the other way around. I love all his Usenix articles and they always cheer me up if I'm having a grumpy day at work.
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by dcminter 2y ago
Susannah Clarke's glorious Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell has some footnotes that exceed the typical page count of some people's short stories. Not as many puns as Pratchett, but suffers the same UI problem on Kindle.
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by dcminter 2y ago
I like IDEA plenty... it's better in some ways than Eclipse, worse in others. I don't get why the Java dev market swept wholesale over to the paid-for tool in preference to the free one. (edit: actually I think the reason may be
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by dcminter 2y ago
I very very reluctantly moved from Eclipse IDE to IntelliJ IDEA. I still feel like the migration was three steps forward two steps back. (edit) IDEA is a perfectly nice IDE, don't get me wrong, I just don't really see why it got
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by dcminter 2y ago
Some time when I have some spare time I must fish out a Pi and try it out - I was deeply envious of the Archimedes owner I knew back in the day!
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by dcminter 2y ago
Someone will be along in a minute to tell you to watch Micro Men, an amusing and fairly accurate BBC dramatization of the Sinclair/Acorn rivalry :) but I'm here to recommend that you watch the Computer History Museum's interv
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by dcminter 2y ago
Yes, definitely spins a bit differently from my version. Thanks for looking it up!
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by dcminter 2y ago
I knew he was behind scientology, so I wasn't too surprised there. Heinlein wasn't completely unexpected (although his gullibility with Hubbard was). I was more thinking of Asimov turning out to be a serial groper. I read a bio of

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