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by detritus 4y ago
Why would that 'terrify' you, out of interest? - ed : are you thinking that microbes and germs and whatnot might lie there dormant until they're dug up again, unleashing some plague on unsuspecting descendants? If so, I imagi
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What you're saying here sounds, to me, like the sort of thing someone who's only worked in a very narrow and constrained corporate environment would think. Of course, if that sort of environment is all that one's interested i
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by detritus 4y ago
'MMOD'?
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by detritus 4y ago
Such as this? https://getfreewrite.com/
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*misrepresenting :) But yes, you're otherwise entirely correct. Our country has been lied to for decades in this regard particularly. Well done them, I guess?
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I wish I'd appreciated the Archimedes at the time. I didn't. It was a nerdy computer in the IT department at school. A stupid shame for me to realise how wrong I was, so belatedly, given my first computer was an Acorn Electron (th
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by detritus 4y ago
Yes, and Commodore is absolutely an American company. I wish the Amiga had been British! :)
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My memory is that games-wise, one vary rarely touched Workbench for playing games. Most of them booted straight from disk, using the kickstart ROM.
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As someone who lived in Spain for a decade or so and now spends a couple or months a year in Italy.. I'm not sure how you have arrived that opinion. Perhaps your taste is a little more expensive than what I see on supermarket shelves t
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I had to check to see if you were kidding. You're not. That's hilarious. Petty, and hilarious.
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It is... although I regularly hit performance problems when email chains get a bit long - even not extraordinarily-busy ones less than a month or so long.
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Interesting to see how many here use the web interface, as I do :)
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I doubt it's A/B testing - news organisations often amend, update or edit headlines as stories develop. I know that we used to change headlines and body content through the day back in the late 90s when I worked for an online news
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by detritus 4y ago
I think long-term, yes. If you include the whole multimediosphere of 2D inputs and the wealth of 3D engine magickry, yes. How long? Could be decades. But ultimately, yes.
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Colour me stupid, but in a simple white vs. black comparison, wouldn't a VantaBlack-clad solar sail absorb more energy, so be more useful? - ed I'm misunderestimating 'equal and opposite' photon reflections here, aren&#x
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by detritus 4y ago
We know they are lying. They know they are lying. They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.
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One reason I could imagine Russia herself would do this is because they might assume Nordstream is now an essentially obsolete asset, so has more value in their ability to demonstrate the fragility of OTHER gas pipelines, including the one
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How does one 'enjoy' a computational currency system?
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Just wait 'til you see all the nested tables!
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"For a fact"? Only if you presume to know what I do and how I work, I suppose. I'd not be so bold, personally. - ed: I wondered perhaps if Smart Guides were newer than I remembered, but nup, having checked - they were there i
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by detritus 4y ago
Or "Don't want to pay for", which includes me. The feature set that I use in my daily driver - Illustrator - has pretty much remained constant since CS2 or thereabouts, but I have to maintain a subscription solely to ensure t
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by detritus 4y ago
But they're a British company! British companies NEVER sell out to forei... oh.
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Well, for a start, you can't set a stroke width less than 0.1mm, which may sound like a useless edge-case, but makes it useless as a single-point tool for designs to be sent to Lasers or CNC machines that run off a print driver. Also,
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by detritus 4y ago
> Same will happen for graphic designers. I'm not so sure about that, I know quite a few graphic designers who've either reverted to the pirating ways of their youthful years, many years ago - or have moved over to Affinity&#x2
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by detritus 4y ago
Crikey, the Beeching review really did change Britain's rail infrastructure... .
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More opaque than every nth HN title referring to some cutely-monikered code framework that presses all the wrong mental buttons in those oblivious to its nature? Surely not.
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I'm unclear as to how to interpret this response. Did you mean 'Kyiv' and that I'm somehow anti-neologistic, or something? - ed: damnit, I shoulda gone with 'anti neo-legoistic'. - ed - ed: I genuinely meant my
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As much of a fan of SpaceX's vision as I am, the only ballistic point to point passengers I can envisage any time soon would be military operatives in a dire emergency. I just can't see the likelihood of ballistic weapo..er.. proj
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In addition to this, it's a belief of mine that we need to make shipping quieter too, so that we don't bother large sea creatures so much. If there's one use-case for civilian small-scale nuclear reactors in trasport, it&#x27
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I know you're joking, but that would just result in a pretty-much black screen, no matter how much white was thrown at it :)

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