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by forinti 5d ago
I used a machine that had 8MB of RAM and a huge b&w monitor. One day I found out it would crash if your process forked more than 127 times. These things were so cool at the time but are nothing compared to a Raspberry Pi.
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by forinti 5d ago
I tried this with my kids, but I required them to also produce a one page essay on each book. They ignored the deal. One of them actually reads and likes reading, but he won't be bothered to write about what he has read (unless it&#x27
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by forinti 11d ago
There's a book called Kuru by an Australian doctor who worked in PNG and studied the disease. IIRC, it's by Michael Alpers. It's a fascinating book, and it's a mixture of adventure, medicine, and anthropology. I highly r
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by forinti 12d ago
Neither the West nor the USSR grew coffee, though. The West wouldn't trade (or let developing countries under its influence do it) and I bet the USSR couldn't procure enough for itself and the DDR.
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by forinti 15d ago
AI told him to use an alternative function which was similar but didn't have the same bug.
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by forinti 15d ago
This week I helped a colleague with a bug. He used an LLM to sort it out before telling me about it. I'm old fashioned, so I looked at the code, saw that it used an old lib and then I searched online for a newer version. Lo and behold,
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by forinti 18d ago
This sort of thing should be labelled. Just as food has warnings (too much sugar, too much salt, etc), so electronics should be labelled: "requires online registration" and "captures conversations" and "scans your n
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by forinti 21d ago
This is not a case of maths giving you the Blues.
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by forinti 24d ago
Someone at work said something along the lines of "so AI is going to write the documents and then people will use AI to summarise them". I think this is a good opportunity to rationalise bureaucracy but I fear we will only mindles
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by forinti 25d ago
When I first found out about Tcl/Tk, it was used to give a GUI to programs written in C. I've used Tk with Tcl and many times with Perl too.
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by forinti 26d ago
It's not only that it was text based, but that it failed in all sorts of ways. I had a particularly bad afternoon in early 2000s when I tried to install Linux on various machines (4 or 5, each one with different hardware) and failed wi
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by forinti 27d ago
Sure, but somebody has to be home if the gas company wants to look at it.
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by forinti 27d ago
That is weird. Why is it inside your apartment? Does someone have to check the meter regularly? Anyway, great job.
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by forinti 27d ago
You've got the nostalgia and the technical limitations which are always an interesting challenge. It's no wonder some people who grew on these things and went on to have IT careers want to play with them.
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by forinti 27d ago
The thing that really worries me is if harvests start failing.
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by forinti 29d ago
I reckon Apple buyers are more interested in the OS than in the hardware, in general.
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by forinti 1mo ago
I recently found a letter written by a great-aunt of mine hidden inside a book. It is written in German, which I know a little, but her handwriting was too difficult for me. So I searched around and found this site: https:/&#x2F
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by forinti 1mo ago
I tried to warn them that they were hosting a phishing site once and they weren't very receptive. Otherwise, I hosted a site with them for years and all went well.
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by forinti 1mo ago
Cheap RAM in 500 yards. ->
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by forinti 1mo ago
The UN sustainability index once listed Cuba as the only sustainable economy. Another year it was Ecuador. Cuba might be eligible again because of the embargo. My point is that you can't convince folks in rich countries to be truly sus
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by forinti 1mo ago
But I have to say that if you have a very cheap solution for 25% of your use cases you should definitely use it. What you can't do is neglect the other 75%.
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by forinti 1mo ago
I used one these things in Portugal a few years ago. They are definitely not thought for women.
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by forinti 1mo ago
Unfortunately, "Lectronz now generates roughly the equivalent of one modest salary."
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by forinti 1mo ago
These things are going to be sent by mail. You could just have the postal service charge a few extra cents.
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by forinti 1mo ago
In the case of the US, 1929 and WWII bought significant changes. Then Reagan started the path back to the XIX century.
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by forinti 1mo ago
That would be securities fraud.
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by forinti 1mo ago
> “A relevant opportunity” with part-time remote work and a great hourly compensation That is so suspicious at the moment.
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by forinti 1mo ago
That's one (very serious issue) but there are many others. Pornhub is a company, has an address, pays taxes, and has a history of problems.
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by forinti 1mo ago
Which site would you qualify as a "good" actor? It's an honest question. Is there such a thing as ethical porn or are there only sites that pay taxes and those that don't?
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by forinti 1mo ago
There's a mall near my house that has a food hall that has become an informal co-working space. At one point, the coffee shop had a coffee day pass. Before my team got a back to office order we had weekly meetings there. Considering ho

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