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by dm319 5y ago
I think they were quite efficient designs. I grew up using a lot of paradigms, from 3.1, 95, RiscOS, Workbench and dabble of Mac 9/10 later on. I gave gnome 3 a good go, but while I really enjoyed the visual appeal of it, I found I w
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by dm319 5y ago
I remember when Win 7 came out - even then it was so easy to click through the veneer of the Win 7 style. I think it was the 'display' dialogue, which looked almost identical to the Win98 version, complete with the CRT-style moni
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by dm319 5y ago
People talking about dark patterns here - but the dark patterns to persuade you that you need a microsoft account to install Win10 is awful! And to add salt to the wound, the way microsoft accounts are managed on Win10 especially with MS T
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by dm319 5y ago
Wow, this is reminding me of Microsoft's videos on how to throw a launch party to celebrate a new version of Windows. https://youtu.be/1cX4t5-YpHQ
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by dm319 5y ago
Well I work day to day as a doctor and I know for myself what the job entails, and I don't know where to start with a comment like this. I've just finished a clinic this morning. Interestingly there was a relevant case to this di
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by dm319 5y ago
Empathy is hard to find around here, maybe someone needs to study it. Is it a feature of people in tech? Don't remember much being on slashdot either.
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by dm319 5y ago
| Docs want to keep their feeling of autonomy despite much medical knowledge being rote memorization and rule-based. There is so much arrogance and ignorance in this thread.
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by dm319 5y ago
I've just been in an MDT meeting that was meant to have a radiologist in it, but due to annual leave we didn't have anyone. I think people in tech don't have much of an idea of what radiologists do - the conclusion from a sc
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by dm319 5y ago
It's not surprising that people are suspected based on their IP address - most of the criminals involved in these kinds of crimes are unlikely to be tech-savvy enough to gain access to someone else's wifi router. The problem with
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by dm319 5y ago
Fascinating. It is quite shocking to read about our world not so long ago. I did dissection at university from a cadavar donated for education. We attended a service afterwards, prior to the cremation. I was very grateful to have the ch
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by dm319 5y ago
Did anyone see the linked article at the end which described very large writes to the SSD in short time frames? I think Marcan had joined in on the twitter conversation. Lots of terabytes in just a fee months. Any ideas why this might be
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by dm319 5y ago
This is just money - it gets worse: https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
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by dm319 5y ago
Do any emulators parallelise and emulate the individual custon chips? One thing about the Amiga was how smooth the double buffering was.
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by dm319 5y ago
I just looked this up for the UK, and noticed that there is still a single national paging network. I use pager at work, but, as you say, the network is limited to the site.
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by dm319 5y ago
I would love for a modern low-power LCD/e-ink palmtop, but sadly I haven't seen the likes of it since the old Psions.
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by dm319 5y ago
I do feel if canonical were to attempt another crowd-funding attempt at an Ubuntu phone, they might well be successful this time. That phone was a terrific concept. I feel the market has changed since then, with carriers accepting less co
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by dm319 6y ago
From the UK, and not everyone is aware of this. But it has been tried in the courts, and I'm aware of one person (friend of a friend) who is in jail as a result if having an accident after driving for 4 hours. I have a friend who wor
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by dm319 6y ago
It's really the infrastructure rather than the range that needs to change (for most people). If high speed charging became ubiquitous, then you would only be stopping for 20 min every 2 hours with current technology. Driving any more
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by dm319 6y ago
Yes, I don't know whether it was the Windows community or the unhelpful error messages that resulted in the "10 ways you can try to fix x, but probably fail". For me it was an early update that was causing hanging on Win10 m
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by dm319 6y ago
I think that is a sensible way to deal with this problem. The linux community is based on trust (as are a lot of other very successful communities), and ideally we trust until we have reason not to. But at that point we do need to record
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by dm319 6y ago
The world works better without everyone being untrusting of everyone else, and this is especially true of large collaborative projects. The same goes in science - it has been shown over and over again that if researchers submit deliberatel
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by dm319 6y ago
Yes, and that was my assessment at the time. XP wasn't bad, but it got so bloated with, I think, SP2. I got frustrated that things would go wrong with it, and I could never find a definitive explanation online to fix it. There were
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by dm319 6y ago
When I discovered Linux, I bought a few Linux magazines - and realised that Linux Format (a monthly in the UK) seemed to carry over much of the same staff from Amiga Format. I had a weird sense of losing the party for a while and somehow c
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by dm319 6y ago
Darn I wish I'd come across Linux before. I was starting university and my Amiga A1200 was just too incompatible with everything. I spent ages weighing up a powerbook with the shiny new OSX or a Thinkpad T40 with XP. In the end I wa
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by dm319 6y ago
Yes that's probably a good analogy. I think the problem is the current systems require being able to take over the controls immediately. If this is required more than an insignificant number of occasions, with potentially fatal outom
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by dm319 6y ago
Oh sure, if that's true, then this case doesn't really show anything. But, I was talking more generally about the term 'autopilot' and its benefits. My example used a 2018 crash where the autopilot half took a slip roa
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by dm319 6y ago
Let's say your car has a problem with a slip road in a particular bit of road you are about to hit in about 30 mins. If on autopilot, it will start to take the slip road, but confuse the hard shoulder with a lane, crashing into the ba
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by dm319 6y ago
A time unit can only be divided by a time unit (or integer converted to a time unit)? That doesn't make sense to an engineer or mathematician.
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by dm319 6y ago
When automation does a 95% job, sometimes it isn't worthwhile using it because of the overrides required for the extra 5%. If you require full concentration while using driving assist, it might actually be easier to just drive the car
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by dm319 6y ago
I agree. People here will cite the aviation term not refering to autonomous flying, but if you ask a regular person in the street, they think that Tesla's are self-driving. This is a dangerous belief that is held by a lot of people a

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