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751.
by dmd 2y ago
Ooh, this is the thread to ask my question in. A few years ago I ran across a ... I think a video game walkthrough? maybe? which was written to be read in monospace font, and it was full justified perfectly all the way through (thousands
752.
by dmd 2y ago
Er, no? A program designed mostly to enrich automakers that had little or even negative environmental effect? Why would I love that?
753.
by dmd 2y ago
That's right. It's definitely those darn environmental regulations. Nothing at all to do with short-term profits and MBA-syndrome.
754.
by dmd 2y ago
Ah - I have probably listened to maybe 8-10 audiobooks and all ones that have been recommended to me as excellent. I guess I just assumed that that’s what audiobooks are like, which I guess doesn’t make sense.
755.
by dmd 2y ago
You must be listening to some reaaaaly bad readings.
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by dmd 2y ago
We don’t let people carry around lethal weapons just because some people think it’s a “way of life”, so why should it be diff…… oh wait
757.
by dmd 2y ago
lol yeah that’s not a thing here.
758.
by dmd 2y ago
And did you update it again a few days later when they changed their opening hours? Google - a real person - calls every week to update.
759.
by dmd 2y ago
There definitely appears to be no website. Just “TOO MANY REDIRECTS”.
760.
by dmd 2y ago
If I had the information I wouldn’t be looking it up.
761.
by dmd 2y ago
But... they are? What are you saying here?
762.
by dmd 2y ago
https://chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/review-of-galois-knot-the... is probably the best review.
763.
by dmd 2y ago
That's utterly insane. 32 million horsepower is ~24 gigawatts. That's roughly the same power as ALL OF CALIFORNIA.
764.
by dmd 2y ago
Er, what? Without even trying hard I get (according to the typing.com 1 minute test) 58 wpm on my phone - and that's without using swiping or autocompletion.
765.
by dmd 2y ago
(self-reply) This is basically the Microsoft Word bloat problem. NOBODY needs all the features, but everyone has 10 niche features they want, and nobody wants the same 10. So to get 10 niche features, you accept bloat.
766.
by dmd 2y ago
Reread my comment.
767.
by dmd 2y ago
The one thing that keeps me on iTerm2 is Edit->Selection Respects Soft Boundaries. "When enabled, vertical lines of pipe characters | will be interpreted as pane dividers (as in vim or emacs) and selection will wrap at them."
768.
by dmd 2y ago
What would that have to do with anything? Isn't that a problem for the person doing the transcribing?
769.
by dmd 2y ago
I don't understand what the issue is. You don't know how to type the different diacritical marks? Or the textbox isn't accepting them? (Which seems like it would be a browser issue, not an issue with the site.)
770.
by dmd 2y ago
I did this with shoes. Bought 4 pairs of the shoes I liked. Right on schedule, they discontinued them, and I was so happy I'd done so! And then when after about 5 years I said "hey, these shoes are getting pretty worn, time to m
771.
by dmd 2y ago
Instructions and hertz have not been equivalent for almost a quarter of a century now, though.
772.
by dmd 2y ago
> way slower than your phone For the young'uns... I think you're underselling this a bit. A really powerful late 70s mainframe, generously would have been somewhere around 1 to 2 million instructions per second. Your phone is p
773.
by dmd 2y ago
When we're talking about evolution (of something like a human, not a bacterium or fruit fly) you can basically ignore anything that's happened in the last 25,000 years as an irrelevant blink-of-the-eye, timescale-wise. Last 100 ye
774.
by dmd 2y ago
https://www.meetcarrot.com/weather/ is kinda famous for that feature.
775.
by dmd 2y ago
Ha - we did that too at BMS. We were paying Oracle by the column or something like that, so people would shove entire CSV rows into a single value (because corporate said everything HAD to be in Oracle) and then parse them application-side.
776.
by dmd 2y ago
Certainly better than they could when it was 12000.
777.
by dmd 2y ago
Probably some of the worst code I ever worked on was a 12k+ line single file Perl script for dealing with Human Genome Project data, at Bristol-Myers Squibb, in the late 1990s. The primary author of it didn't know about arrays. I'
778.
by dmd 2y ago
I'm not entirely sure, but I suspect my Hole In My Eye[0] came from being 30 years old (I'm 46 now) and saying "look, this laser pointer is so low power, I can shine it in my eye to no ill effect!". [0] https:/&#
779.
by dmd 2y ago
Logitech's *mouse driver* now has AI in it[0]. [0] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/software/logi-options-plus.ht...
780.
by dmd 2y ago
That was probably true in homebrew’s first year. At this point I would be shocked if more than a fraction of a percent of homebrew users have ever even heard of macports or fink.

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