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811.
by dcminter 2y ago
I used to live in the City of London at the top end of Chancery Lane. I could therefore be in a different city (City of Westminster) by crossing the street to the west and leave the city entirely by crossing to the north (London Borough of
812.
by dcminter 2y ago
Uh ... do you have a link for this? Just (mostly) joking...
813.
by dcminter 2y ago
I've always enjoyed the student bloopers¹ from Richard Lederer² where one of them takes a similar literal minded attitude and declares: "The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun
814.
by dcminter 2y ago
I had trouble with it, but when Ubuntu Wayland support appeared it pretty much solved the problem. Curious as to whether the parent post tried before or after that switch over. Prior to Ubuntu+Wayland it really was unusably bad with mixed s
815.
by dcminter 2y ago
The author declares that... "All a company needs to do is provide a homogenous/coherent user experience, smooth the rough edges, and not be as scummy as Google, Apple, or Microsoft and they will win." ... but as far as I can
816.
by dcminter 2y ago
I think if I were feeling adversarial I'd go for poisoning rather than blocking. Set up something (heh, maybe even an AI model) to generate plausible but broken fake source code when you're scraped by AI bots. GIGO
817.
by dcminter 2y ago
Given that they specifically say they don't do that, what concrete evidence do you have? I don't see anything in their prohibited activities list that would require them to do so (e.g. recipient complaints would suffice) https:&#
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by dcminter 2y ago
I've been using a custom domain for a long time - I have forwarding via improvmx.com that I'm very satisfied with. I've had no problems. It's good knowing that if I do have any issue with the underlying mail host that I
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by dcminter 2y ago
That's hilarious! When I mentioned the joy of messing with those strips of holes from the paper I was thinking of a specific occasion in a very dull lecture (business studies?) when I built a small paper boat out of them and you and Ph
820.
by dcminter 2y ago
Also known as "Continuous Stationery" (one of my Father's customers companies was even called that) because each page was joined via a perforated line or "fanfold" as it was folded into the box with alternating left
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by dcminter 2y ago
On a similar note, the Vax bar: http://toyvax.glendale.ca.us/~vance/vaxbar.html It pains me a little to see nice old pieces of equipment turned into something... lesser... but it's harmless fun and in the moment w
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by dcminter 2y ago
How about homomorphic encryption? There was a nice write-up & discussion of it the other week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262626
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by dcminter 2y ago
Also on bitsavers: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/_Books/Bell-ComputerEnginee...
824.
by dcminter 2y ago
As someone who attends a lot of meetings at the moment I smarted a bit reading that. I don't think any of them are "sewing circles" but still...
825.
by dcminter 2y ago
> the developer of a non-open source project The first line of the article says "We're building a new open-source CAD program"
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by dcminter 2y ago
> As one of the Solvespace maintainers I'm so grateful there's a tool like this out there - thanks for your efforts, they really are appreciated.
827.
Gordon Bell has died(arstechnica.com)
1257 points by dcminter 2y ago|70 comments
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by dcminter 3y ago
It's not just you, but perhaps there aren't enough of us to make this commercially viable?
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by dcminter 3y ago
My dad used to write custom accounting software for small businesses to run on the Wang 2200 office minicomputer system. He picked up a Sinclair ZX81 to see if it was something he could use professionally and quickly concluded that it was t
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by dcminter 3y ago
Thinkpads used to (?) sound an obnoxiously aggressive beep if you hit this limit. It was a nasty square wave at maximum volume and always made me jump. In later models you could disable it in the BIOS. I'm not sure if that's still
831.
by dcminter 3y ago
This sounds hellish to me. Sacrifice family/social life for a decade merely so that you can be relatively well off in the EU... assuming that inflation or international cataclysm doesn't eat the value of your savings? Versus... ju
832.
by dcminter 3y ago
Copenhagen airport is my favourite too - note however that Arlanda T5 is being expanded at the moment and it seems like it will be a lot nicer when they're finished. The security stuff is already much better: no need to unpack laptops
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by dcminter 3y ago
When I was thinking about getting a 3D printer I asked a few friends what they used theirs for. Vague answers. When I asked what they last printed they almost all seemed to be printing a new part for their printer... I swore I wouldn't
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by dcminter 3y ago
On the one hand this idea is brilliant - on the other hand if it caught on, there are some obvious opportunities for malware intrinsic to the approach :'( I think I'd be too chicken to subscribe.
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by dcminter 3y ago
I was mesmerised by the trailers but never watched it for some reason. I know it can never live up to my imagined version! I daren't even watch that trailer :)
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by dcminter 3y ago
For context this is a weekend-edition light entertainment article for a "Life Unplugged" section. This author mostly writes semi-humorous self-deprecating stuff for the "Life & Style" section of the paper, so don&#x2
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by dcminter 3y ago
> Three Body Problem isn't good enough Look, I personally hate it, but it comes up here as a top recommendation constantly.
838.
by dcminter 3y ago
As I recall - and my distaste for the work laptop is such that I'll defer checking until Monday - that leaves all the window decorations in place and generally wastes screen real-estate. I get that this is the way of Mac - I just don&#
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by dcminter 3y ago
Being a work machine it's pretty locked down (compliance reasons); I don't have the option of installing much non-standard stuff. I don't want to be unduly unfair - on the one hand, it's faintly annoying that Mac people
840.
by dcminter 3y ago
The maximised window behaviour is the thing that bugs me the most as a primarily Linux user lumbered with a work-Mac. It's so weird to treat that as being on a different virtual desktop. Better than the Lion days when your second mon

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