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by dm319 6y ago
Cases. Yes, deaths still seem high. I find that a little strange, as it doesn't fit the rate at all. It might be that the incidence has only just dropped after a delay compared to the continent. Or maybe that these are assummed COV
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by dm319 6y ago
As the search experts, I'm always surprised how poor and unreliable search in gmail is. I also use mutt with my gmail account via mbsync. At least you get to use gmail webmail. I have to use Outlook at work.
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by dm319 6y ago
Yes, and this is still usually quicker than firing up a full-fat email client (as I often have a web browser open anyway).
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by dm319 6y ago
Me too, but sometimes no need to make things more complicated. It's also a feature of mutt - that I can fire several instances almost instantaneously and use them for different purposes. I have to use outlook at work, and there'
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by dm319 6y ago
Same here, I was at university, and we used Pine too. I also wish the same. Often my colleagues find it strange I use a text-based program for email - as if 99% of communication online isn't using language.
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by dm319 6y ago
It isn't hard. I don't often come across emails that won't show up in text, but if I do I hit 'v' and 'enter' and it opens up in my web browser.
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by dm319 6y ago
Same here, though I moved to mbsync a few years ago and I need to check out postfix. It is such a great email client that I feel lost and walking through treacle using anything else. I don't work in the tech field, but I have a lot of
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by dm319 6y ago
Here in the UK the cases are going back up again. We're currently lower than France, Spain (which seems to be really taking off), Belgium, Luxembourg and Sweden, but have higher rates than Germany and the other Nordic countries. We&#
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by dm319 6y ago
Yes, there's definitely a bit of survivorship bias going on here. The lesson isn't to compete with yourself, or ignore all of your advisors, or trying to pivot your business model after a crash etc etc. There are plenty of busin
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by dm319 6y ago
Thanks - I like it.
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by dm319 6y ago
| If you don’t know the motives, judge by the results. I like this phrase - can you expand on what it means?
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by dm319 6y ago
It would be nice if the intro had a brief explanation of why a disk needs to be divided into blocks. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this read from the perspective of a lay person.
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by dm319 6y ago
Big fan of worms from my Amiga days - thanks for keeping it alive! Have you played liero? Do you like it?
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by dm319 6y ago
Be wary of anything that claims a 100% sensitivity and specificity. It usually indicates the wrong gold standard or poor methods.
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by dm319 6y ago
I'm a medical professional that had a post- viral syndrome following the flu. In retrospect, even though I didn't realise it at the time, it may have lasted for over a year. It easily fit the definition of depression, but less s
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by dm319 6y ago
Ah ok, I was discriminating between a true multidimensional array and array-of-array (which can be ragged).
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by dm319 6y ago
Yes, that's a jagged/ragged/array-of-array, and most languages support them. There isn't a requirement for the arrays to be the same length. There are many arguments about the pros and cons of each, and how different t
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by dm319 6y ago
Is that more of a jagged / ragged array, or array of arrays? Sometimes these are called multidimensional arrays, but these are not the same thing. Dimensions and lengths of the dimensions should be a property of the multidimensional
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by dm319 6y ago
That's an interesting point, but there was certainly an increase in CPU usage with the switch from gnome 2 to unity and gnome 3, even though they were GPU accelerated. I guess CPU is still needed.
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by dm319 6y ago
fortran - one of only a handful of languages that natively supports multidimensional arrays, maybe the only low level one?
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by dm319 6y ago
Yes, that would be great. Something with the simplicity of markdown that saved .md files, but allowed you to edit tables in a typical gui fashion.
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by dm319 6y ago
I'm like you - that the Windows era was a low point in computing for me. I used Workbench 3.1 before, and Linux afterwards, and both of those kindled my interest in computers far more than Win 3.1 - XP ever could. On the otherhand I
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by dm319 6y ago
I always thought the briefcase came in with Windows Me. As others have mentioned, it was buggy and I lost files on it, so while I liked the idea, I had to stop using them.
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by dm319 6y ago
Just to clarify - the motivation for this was a partially read-only government document that had checkboxes and text input fields. There are occasions when you need maximum compatibility, but for other times I much prefer (xe)tex with my f
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by dm319 6y ago
Eughh. You want to strip away the politics, but all your reporting is political. The spectator uses it's arguments to hold a specific political position, using emotive terms like "The coronavirus doomsayers could not even wait u
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by dm319 6y ago
A lot was got right back them. I use the MATE desktop, which is a very similar paradigm. When I saw this posted, I posted my attempt at running as many version of MS Word. It was fun playing with all the versions of word and seeing their
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by dm319 6y ago
The same trend can be seen with linux distributions. A lot is surely down to composited window management. There's also things that we didn't run as services back in Windows 98 days - network capabilities, bluetooth, low power s
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Which version of Microsoft Word runs best on Linux in 2020?(reddit.com)
30 points by dm319 6y ago|7 comments
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by dm319 6y ago
This makes no sense! Storage and RAM requirements have steadily increased, and costs have gone down dramatically. On the other hand, keyboard technology has not improved massively, and CPU speeds aren't significantly different.
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by dm319 6y ago
Your point about strings being pulled on the anti-SJW side is something I find really interesting. In fact, the strings are being pulled on 'division' itself. People without much of a side in the matter stoking the divide. The m

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