dcminter

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by dcminter 3y ago
That is not what that says. You're conflating ad-free with no ads based on tracking.
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by dcminter 3y ago
So what particular banking customer data management software do you have in mind that's adversely affected by the halting problem? (Edit: Ha, didn't notice you were the author!)
903.
by dcminter 3y ago
"No system will ever be able to answer all interesting questions about a user; that is formally undecidable in computer science." What? Are they talking about the halting problem? This seems like a stretch without defining what co
904.
by dcminter 3y ago
No, generally not (at least for British English).
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by dcminter 3y ago
Or in the UK it's the telephone number for the emergency services, so suggesting "I'll call the police on you!" to unwelcome traffic. More likely they just used it because it's one end of the 3 digit range and a &qu
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by dcminter 3y ago
No discussion that time, sadly. I see you've posted some other interesting links that didn't get traction either - perhaps try submitting some of them again? There's a lot of luck in what does and doesn't make it onto th
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A new view of the Manchester Computer(rylandscollections.com)
96 points by dcminter 3y ago|13 comments
908.
by dcminter 3y ago
> we only have one Actually there's another in Hemel.
909.
by dcminter 3y ago
The "lab book" form might be of interest. Here's an example guide to keeping one: https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/tools/notebook/notebook.h... When I first did a chemistry class in high scho
910.
by dcminter 3y ago
"Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes" by Rob Wilkins really is excellent. If you enjoyed Pratchett's novels and are interested in his life then you will get a lot out of it. It's much better written than I expected of
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by dcminter 3y ago
I too enjoyed this a lot and my wife did too. It's YA material, but well written and well plotted both internally and across the three volume arc. Her protagonist is given an amusing voice so it's not too heavy despite the mayhem.
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by dcminter 3y ago
I found it genuinely bizarre that my old UK bank's international money transfer system could not handle such wildly obscure international letters as ä and ö in my new address outside the UK. This was perhaps five years ago so absolut
913.
by dcminter 3y ago
Strong agree. Competition around personal banking is notoriously weak. If it were stronger the banks would have a strong incentive to offer a good customer experience, but without it they'll stick with an old system that is "good
914.
by dcminter 3y ago
Similar in nature: 3, 3, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, ...
915.
by dcminter 3y ago
Well, I know my Dad would have gone for this - though only to increase his chances of being around to look after my mother. As it turned out, however, his cancer was too far progressed by the time an operation could be scheduled. For anyone
916.
by dcminter 3y ago
Same on a 7490. My favourite thing about it is that I was able to cheaply upgrade it to 64G memory! Plus it's fairly sturdy and cheap to replace if it ever does die on me. Very happy with it. I have had a couple of minor Linux specific
917.
by dcminter 3y ago
For anyone headline skimming, this was the original Raspberry Pi and that's £15 not 15lb!
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A 15 pound computer to inspire young programmers (2011)(bbc.co.uk)
95 points by dcminter 3y ago|68 comments
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by dcminter 3y ago
I enjoy his "voice" (in the sense of presentation style) a lot. I originally watched for a few tech videos on the Pi but last night watched him paint his office and I'm not even sure why I did that, but I enjoyed it! Looking
920.
by dcminter 3y ago
They missed an opportunity with the eggs, which went egg -> egg laying chicken -> baby chicken but could clearly have then included baby chicken -> egg ...
921.
by dcminter 3y ago
I used to live in a New Road that ended in a gate onto a farm. Then the farmer sold the land for development and a furtherance of the road was built with access from the opposite direction. The gate remained and is firmly locked. So it beca
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by dcminter 3y ago
If we must have rage bait on this topic let's at least go with the classic film; it's hardly a new phenomenon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_Thieves
923.
by dcminter 3y ago
This would be more viable if I wasn't learning Swedish already. Also I'm kinda lazy and it would take years to get to the level of enjoyment of reading fluently. With my luck they'd go bust in the interim. If there's a g
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by dcminter 3y ago
I didn't know about HackSpace, so thanks for that; I've ordered a copy. We shall see.
925.
by dcminter 3y ago
> extra-US extra-EU I mean.
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by dcminter 3y ago
A friend of mine refers to that as "shiterature" :D
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by dcminter 3y ago
Thanks for the tip. I'm sort of background-aware of it, but as I don't read or speak German and online translation lacks a certain flavour, it's not really an option for me. Good to note that there are a few hanging on in oth
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by dcminter 3y ago
Byte and PCW are the two magazines I really miss. I know we have a wealth of information available to us now that we didn't back then so I shouldn't be sad... and yet :'( If someone put out a physical general computing magazi
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by dcminter 3y ago
> Also probably illegal. Pretty clearly so. It seems weird to me that so many companies put up a cookie banner in order to avoid breaking the law, and then break the law in order to make it less effective. I suppose the win here is that
930.
by dcminter 3y ago
Off-topic out of the gate, I'll recall that on my very first attempt to write a program in Modula II on our university's Vax, I accidentally inserted a # character at the top of the file. The compiler output wasn't very user

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