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by forinti 1y ago
There's a very important distinction to be made between the Beeb and the Apple II (or most other 8 bit micros). The Beeb was a very well engineered machine, including the BASIC (which allowed in-line assembly and also allowed its funct
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by forinti 1y ago
Kinda surprising that you can do video when 500kbps was the read speed of some floppy drives of old. An 8 bit micro didn't have bandwidth for more than 256kbps, and hence you only saw them use SD or DD floppies.
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by forinti 1y ago
The apartment is small; the missus wants you out of it so that she can clean it; you have a deadline; there's a café nearby; bingo.
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by forinti 1y ago
A food court near my house has slowly turned into an improvised coworking space. It's relatively quiet (as food courts go). For a while, the café even offered a whole day's worth of coffee for a reasonable price. What I don't
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by forinti 1y ago
Yes, I lived in the UK for about 5 years.
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by forinti 1y ago
Both these countries have really high population densities. Japan's is around 330/km2 and South Korea's is about 530/km2. Just like the UK, they would probably be better off with less people, geopolitical considerations
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by forinti 1y ago
The one poem that I know by heart: Fazenda O mandacaru espiou a mijada da moça Oswald and Mario de Andrade were geniuses. The Anthropophagic movement was way ahead of its time.
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by forinti 1y ago
For the applications that were really important then (spreadsheets and word processing) even 64KB would be reasonable for most people. With 640KB you could run a medium-sized business.
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by forinti 1y ago
I have piles of old, but still functioning HDs now. I was looking at them yesterday and thought about how cheap these things have become. I had to save up to buy floppies in the 80s!
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by forinti 1y ago
I get that people have this fascination for what happened at Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but was it really worse than the incendiary bombing of other cities? These were all horrific events only meant to harm civilians. The whole bombing campaig
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by forinti 1y ago
I suppose you would use this to do low level stuff because it's much harder to do in TCL, but it just doesn't feel right. It makes more sense to me to embed Tk into a C program.
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by forinti 1y ago
But are they any good? I suppose they must be, as they seem to retain their jobs, but how do they rank overall? Also, I tend to think that maintaining these interactions going might be a way to let more information into Naughty Korea and mi
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by forinti 1y ago
But Perl has list-in-list-out functions, just like Lisp. Sure, they don't look alike, but they have this important characteristic in common. I'd say Perl is the fruit of the marriage between shell and Lisp.
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by forinti 1y ago
Once Gaza and the West Bank are taken care of, will Lebanon, Jordan, or Syria be next? Israel very much depends on being the dominant power in the region. If they lose US support, things could get ugly indeed. And they are losing support ra
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by forinti 1y ago
I've recently read up on the Pirahã tribe and their unique language: apparently it doesn't have recursion. They also don't have words for colours or numbers. A missionary called Daniel Everett tried to convert them to Christi
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by forinti 1y ago
Some Brazilian tribes had fertility festivals with dances meant to arouse the males, because simple nudity wasn't enough to get them interested in sex. So maybe making nudity less common or accessible only makes it more valuable as a s
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by forinti 1y ago
I started using Pix, because it's the best way to do business with Chinese ecommerce sites. You don't have to give your credit card details and refunds go straight back to your account. In fact, it really impressed me that Aliexpr
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by forinti 1y ago
It's totally unfair that they don't get a cut from other people's business. /s
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by forinti 1y ago
I use it a lot for ETL. In comparison with Logstash, for example, it is much more flexible and the scripts are simpler and shorter.
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by forinti 1y ago
Exactly! If you can't properly assess the output of the AI, you are really only shooting into the dark.
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by forinti 1y ago
Data processing by itself was a major leap in productivity. My city ran its payroll on a single computer with 64KB of RAM. This would have required weeks of work from a whole team of bureaucrats.
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by forinti 1y ago
Nope. I follow channels in English, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish. YouTube seems to randomly translate the titles and it's irritating.
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by forinti 1y ago
It's not, but they complement each other nicely.
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by forinti 1y ago
That's less than 0.2% of the total population (340 million) and about 0.3% of the workforce (163 million).
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by forinti 1y ago
I can't understand why a financial institution would underpay someone who has such responsability. The recent hacking of BMP shows the risk this creates (poorly paid employee with debts sold his password to hackers).
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by forinti 1y ago
They aren't really into tech outside of work.
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by forinti 1y ago
I know some COBOL devs. They work in a bank. They wouldn't hang around here though.
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by forinti 1y ago
They should be freed as soon as they aren't being sold by the creator.
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by forinti 1y ago
You also have to document alternative worlflows for your business while you don't get everything back to normal. Lots of things can keep going with pen and paper or some cloud software. At the very least, you have to communicate with y
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by forinti 1y ago
That's interesting. I read a lot about this case, but I don't recall anything along these lines. This does explain why the leadership was so stubborn.

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