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by forinti 1y ago
At some point you are going to have to show something on the screen for a person to read. No mechanism is going to be impenetrable.
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by forinti 1y ago
From my experience, making it easier to buy books would help. I pay money and I want to get back a PDF, mobi, epub, or whatever. That's the kind of interaction I would appreciate. If you have to have a certain software or a certain har
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by forinti 1y ago
This takes me to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Your physical experience of something has to be analysed in accordance with your mental model of it in order to attain a diagnosis (in the book it was a motorcycle engine). My take
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by forinti 1y ago
That is precisely the point that should be discussed because, from what I've read, UPFs are much worse than plain fatty or sugary food cooked by human hands. The extra stuff in UPFs interacts with your body in ways that you are not pre
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by forinti 1y ago
One rule that's easy to verify is: would you have all the ingredients at home? UPFs usually have ingredients you've never seen for sale.
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by forinti 1y ago
Leaving large portions of the population jobless surely can't be good for business and political stability.
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by forinti 1y ago
What structure could possibly preclude backups? I've never seen anything that couldn't be copied elsewhere. Maybe it was just convenient to have the possibility of losing everything.
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by forinti 1y ago
As well as mixing Assembly into BASIC, BBC BASIC allowed you to use its internal routines from Assembly. You could, for instance, use the floating point routines. So the BASIC ROM was not a lost 16KB of address space if you were only using
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by forinti 1y ago
I think you overestimate the number of people who could actually do something useful with BASIC.
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by forinti 1y ago
"I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face" ― Franz Kafka "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth" -
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by forinti 1y ago
I've noticed some weird English (in the English for Russian speakers course). Sometimes the rhythm of the phrase is very strange and also sometimes the wrong pronunciation is used when there's a heteronym.
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by forinti 1y ago
I was frustrated that the Russian course was so short, so I started doing English as a Russian speaker, but soon the Russian part got thin and it's almost completely English.
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by forinti 1y ago
Looks like a bottle opener to me.
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by forinti 1y ago
Cisco hasn't yet rolled out a version of Webex that runs on Ubuntu 24.
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by forinti 1y ago
My context is that I have seen some colleagues try to make up for not having expertise with a particular technology by using LLMs and ultimately they have managed to waste their time and other people's time. If you want to use LLMs for
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by forinti 1y ago
Oh dear. Using AI for something you don't understand well is surely a recipe for disaster and should not be encouraged.
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by forinti 1y ago
And I thought things were bad in my country where all "sports" shows are about football and you can have 3 different FM stations broadcasting the same game and they'll discuss football even when there is nothing going on. It&
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by forinti 1y ago
Of course. There's a ton of people who want to see their beliefs validated and he offered them this through this false debating. The people who tried to change his mind were blind to the trap he set up. No logic would ever change his m
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by forinti 1y ago
Howard Stern noted once how people who disliked him spent more time listening to him than those who liked him. Kirk seemed to have invested heavily in aggravating people in order to make an audience. It seemed so obvious to me that I don&#x
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by forinti 1y ago
I've seen many times how some people react to a single bus lane or even a tiny bicycle lane as though cars are getting the raw end of the deal when 90%+ of infrastructure is for cars.
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by forinti 1y ago
I learnt Pascal on a Beeb. It had a compiler, an editor, and a runtime in two 16KB ROMS.
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by forinti 1y ago
In 1995 I went to a talk on Image Processing by an Indian professor. I asked him if there were any methods for improving low resolution images, just to make them look better (I think this was in the context of TV transmissions). He said you
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by forinti 1y ago
I would like some sort of pragma that would allow me to ignore all checked exceptions in a file. Something like "use nocheck;" and then all methods would implicitly throw Exception. Sometimes I want to write a small program for a
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by forinti 1y ago
It doesn't do me any good. All I can get from Oracle is the possibility of opening a support ticket and then having to send them tons of log files. If I use max severity, they expect me to be available 24/7, any other severity mea
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by forinti 1y ago
People keep using Oracle because they have a ton of code and migration would be too costly. Oracle is not imune to software issues. In fact, this year I lost two weekends because of a buggy upgrade on the cloud that left my production clust
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by forinti 1y ago
His videos are so interesting. I went out and bought a rice cooker after watching his explanation of its mechanism.
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by forinti 1y ago
If they want to be so protective of their content, they should put up a paywall.
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by forinti 1y ago
> For German publisher Axel Springer, ad blocking solutions are mechanisms that fundamentally undermine the company’s ability to generate revenue. So they want to change the law so that they can impose their business model on people? Tha
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by forinti 1y ago
I can live off 256GB on a notebook (I run Linux), but 4GB of RAM would be ridiculous and I still see notebooks from various makers being offered with 4GB.
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by forinti 1y ago
The 80s were crazy. In 1981 Sinclair had a market with a 1KB machine and in 1985 the Amiga came out. That's 4 years! The 386 came out in 1985 too. I think Acorn did quite well and its legacy still lives on through ARM. Where's IBM

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