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by dcminter 2y ago
"Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life f
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by dcminter 2y ago
At one point they supported the 'define:' query prefix, but that seems to be broken these days. It will be interesting to see what steals the crown - even with monopoly power your product needs to meet a certain quality baseline t
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by dcminter 2y ago
PTerry wrote so many that everyone has a different favourite ;)
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by dcminter 2y ago
I remember reading The Selfish Gene as a teenager and being struck by how it made evolution seem almost obvious. Wodehouse is an embarrassment of riches of course. Good recommendations!
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by dcminter 2y ago
If you never listened before, can I recommend (to both of you) the lovely BBC radio dramatization of it? The cast is excellent and it plays out over multiple hours so they didn't have to chop it about too much. https://en.m.
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by dcminter 2y ago
It's a bit too bleak for me, but it's certainly beautifully written.
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by dcminter 2y ago
PS my New Year resolution was to "do" more (reading counted) and doom-scroll less. Not 100% on track, but where I managed it I've been much more cheerful for it. I hope you find some nice bedtime reading - I see a lot of othe
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by dcminter 2y ago
"Best" is always too hard - here are a handful that I love. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susannah Clarke The Crow Road - Iain Banks Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett Three Men in a Boat - Jer
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by dcminter 2y ago
The rumours saying that a muslim immigrant had committed the stabbing were not in any sense "true" My great grandfather came from what is now Czechia. If I commit a crime would one blame immigration? Would rumours that an Eastern
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by dcminter 2y ago
One person, a British national born in Britain, not muslim. The riots were driven by rumours conflicting with these facts rapidly spreading on social media.
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RocksDB: Not a Good Choice for a High-Performance Streaming Platform(feldera.com)
8 points by dcminter 2y ago|3 comments
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by dcminter 2y ago
As so often, Daedalus (David E H Jones) got there first with one of his semi-humorous articles in New Scientist in 1969 - one of those collected in "The Inventions of Daedalus" in 1982.
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Polaris Dawn crew completes final series of EVA spacesuit testing(polarisprogram.com)
1 points by dcminter 2y ago|0 comments
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The Camelot of collaboration (2001) [pdf](thoughtsofanidlemind.com)
3 points by dcminter 2y ago|0 comments
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by dcminter 2y ago
The decimal currency in the UK is essentially the same age as me - and I have never heard this claim that an interpunct is somehow more official. So the claim stood out to me as being outlandish; not impossible, just super unlikely. To sh
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by dcminter 2y ago
I think the two interpretations are compatible?
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by dcminter 2y ago
My rule of thumb for what's meant by these terms in business has always been: Strategy - how do we get what we want in the long term? Tactics - how do we get what we want in the short term? If your tactics conflict with your strategy t
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by dcminter 2y ago
I encountered the same mpcie card whitelist nuisance on the Lenovo m73 Tiny. Turns out there that you can just update the serial and model number to "INVALID" and it will then let you boot with a non-whitelisted device, albeit wit
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by dcminter 2y ago
What's the use case for them needing a subdomain of yours where they control the DNS though? If you have the slightest doubt (the use of aggregators to get job postings sure sounds iffy to me) you're probably better off continuing
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by dcminter 2y ago
Interpersonal communication consists, by definition, of at least two parties. Do you never find it difficult to understand, to be persuaded, to accept feedback, to take on a proposal, to be encouraged, or motivated by someone? If you'r
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by dcminter 2y ago
Can I commend "Effective Java" (3rd edition seems to be the latest) by Joshua Bloch ? I thought it was one of the pithier books & it gives both good advice and explanations of why it's good advice in each case.
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by dcminter 2y ago
I prefer this Douglas Adams quote to the Boris Johnson one, but it has much the same thought behind it: "One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretend
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by dcminter 2y ago
The discoverability on those things is definitely lacking. I think it took us five or so broken touch-screens before my wife noticed that you could use that to select menu options instead! I guess once you know it's fine though? Feels
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by dcminter 2y ago
It was a quarter century ago (!) but... as far as I can remember I never voted in that election and I'm not sure if I was eligible. Perhaps I was but didn't know it? I do remember that my Council Tax was ridiculously cheap!
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by dcminter 2y ago
Yeah, I have a Swedish layout Dell as well and it's better but not much. I'm confused now, though, as I took the parent as telling me that non-Swedish Macs also have the horrible symbol placement for the various braces. (rsynnott
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by dcminter 2y ago
Be warned I'm mostly going for the "other interesting stuff" copout here: ○ The Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine ○ The Cuckoo's Egg (Cli
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by dcminter 2y ago
Oh, I'd assumed this was specific to Swedish Mac keyboards and not a more general Mac thing! How vile!
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by dcminter 2y ago
Coding in Swedish keyboard mode in a Mac with (){}[] all on the same two keys with various vulcan neck pinching modifiers is definitely not one of my favourite things!
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by dcminter 2y ago
I lived in Chancery Lane in around 1998/1999. Weekends were eerily quiet and getting groceries was a nuisance. Also I remember loafing around my flat watching the news about some May Day protests in London and when I turned the TV off
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by dcminter 2y ago
It takes a lot of skill on the part of the author - I don't think I'd risk it personally. But I like the way it's handled on fasterthanli.me enormously - the author there successfully anticipates a lot of my "wait, but..

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