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by forinti 3y ago
VW enjoyed a monopoly in Brazil (along with Fiat, GM, and Ford) for decades. And they obliged by selling the worst cars they could get away with. The last beetle sold in Brazil (1986) was worse than German beetles from the 1950s. Plus, they
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by forinti 3y ago
In Portuguese "bergamota" by itself is tangerine.
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by forinti 3y ago
Limão Capeta must be what we call Limão Galego or Limão Bergamota or Limão Cravo in the south. It has more names than tangerines and makes a great caipirinha.
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by forinti 3y ago
I'm surprised someone hasn't written a jails-like wrapper for starting containers in Linux.
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by forinti 3y ago
I had to give up on this goal. There are simply no dumb TVs in my country. I even considered getting a monitor, but you can't get one as big as a TV.
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by forinti 3y ago
Would she consider learning Apex? You can get a job developing apps in Apex. If she only wants to use SQL, I just can't see many options.
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by forinti 3y ago
80 columns were also important. Some 8-bitters couldn't even produce 40 columns. The Beeb could handle 80 columns and so was used in all sorts of areas. But I'd argue that PCs had unequivocal advantage when 386s came out.
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by forinti 3y ago
Boot RISC-OS on a Raspberry Pi. That was a nice fast graphical OS even before the 90s.
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by forinti 3y ago
Actually, the first PC in 1981 had only 16KB of RAM. And it cost something like US$1500. It really wasn't an obvious choice.
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by forinti 3y ago
Cassettes were perfect for 8 bit micros. They were a bit slow, but cheap and somewhat reliable. Ten year old me bought a metre of stereo cable and two male audio jacks so I could copy tapes using my dad's 3-in-1 and my tape player. You
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by forinti 3y ago
Montevideo in the 80s and 90s had really old Leyland diesel buses that polluted like hell. The buildings on 18 de Julio were black with soot. It is much much better now.
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by forinti 3y ago
I made a picture frame that I can send photos to with Telegram. I've been using it for years and have made a couple for family members too. But, I soon realised that it wasn't cheap enough or reliable enough to be a product. That
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by forinti 3y ago
I doubt it. Barter economies didn't have cellphones, PayPal, M-Pesa, Pix, etc.
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by forinti 3y ago
I've just started a book by a brilliant Cuban author: Leonardo Padura. I would recommend his "The Man Who Loved Dogs", it's about the man who killed Trotsky.
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by forinti 3y ago
Real freedom would be to not have to deal with the burdens of car ownership. Ideally, I would much rather not have a car for my daily trips, and rent one when the need arises.
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by forinti 3y ago
A colleague once said that if you sacrifice yourself to make up for the firm's inefficiencies, they will never get fixed. Which is basically what you've written. This concept should be discussed more often.
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by forinti 3y ago
That's a tough one because, strictly speaking, I don't need a physical programming book. There's all the reference material I need on the Internet. But, I would probably choose the Camel Book or Perl Cookbook.
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by forinti 3y ago
There's this myth that IT people can't communicate. Maybe it's because I'm in IT that I think it's quite the opposite: we communicate very well and precisely. The real issue is that middle management has a ton of po
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by forinti 3y ago
I once worked with this awful third-party software that caused tons of trouble for our clients. We had an in-house solution on the works, but some people wanted to renew the contract and keep using the same buggy software. Sometimes I would
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by forinti 3y ago
And I thought I was on the metal for programming in assembly.
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by forinti 3y ago
It seems to me that FTX was just doomed to fail because of the way they operated. This would only have given them the time to do more damage.
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by forinti 3y ago
At the cinema everyone goes out through the door the first person went through. A line even forms while all the other doors are ignored.
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by forinti 3y ago
We produce huge amounts of artifacts in plastic, metal, ceramics, etc, that will last a very long time. Archeologists will have tons of garbage to go through, lots of it with dates and place of origin molded into them.
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by forinti 3y ago
Oh c'mon, Swedes are the tall blond dudes and the Swiss wear funny german clothes and yodle all the time.
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by forinti 3y ago
I studied Structured Analysis at university and still have a couple of books on the subject, but I never used it professionally. I had a lot more experience with UML, but that too has gone out of fashion. Nobody models anything anymore, not
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by forinti 3y ago
I read his books as fiction or quasi-journalism and enjoy them thoroughly. I like Gay Talese too; he seems to write closer to the truth, but I wouldn't mind if it were just fiction, because it is so well written.
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by forinti 3y ago
Have you ever seen the ads for Barbarian? https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/21626/Barbarian-II-T... In later years they started to think they were a bit too much and painted over the girl in a rudimentary ma
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by forinti 3y ago
Only once did I encounter a machine with 2.88 drives. It was a DEC machine. But I don't think anybody had the appropriate media.
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by forinti 3y ago
I recently got a Latitude for work. Linux works fine, but I could not get the wifi to work on FreeBSD.
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by forinti 3y ago
I think you can say that, much like the BBC Micro, the Raspberry Pi succeeded in many areas, not just inspiring and educating kids. Of course it was never going to be as prevalent as any 8 bit micro, because the technology landscape nowaday

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