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by forinti 5mo ago
If only it would fit on a floppy.
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by forinti 5mo ago
Don't get me started on Access...
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by forinti 5mo ago
I had a little crisis at 12 when I went from BASIC to Pascal: how was that supposed to work without line numbers? The statements were just floating around without structure!
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by forinti 5mo ago
The thing that surprised me the last time I was in Uruguay (2022) was riding an ICE BYD. I had only ever seen electric BYDs. Wikipedia informs me that they stopped making ICE vehicles in 2022.
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by forinti 5mo ago
More code means more support and more maintenance. If your team is already overloaded or if it's going to be reduced because of AI, things are going to get tough.
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by forinti 5mo ago
I went through a decade-long battle to get the veterans to use ANSI syntax with Oracle and we only really managed to change the culture because most of them retired.
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by forinti 5mo ago
I've heard mechanics can send their kids to college servicing Land Rovers.
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by forinti 6mo ago
I really enjoyed Better Call Saul and thought it was much much better than Breaking Bad. Walter White was such an irritating character. Saul was a brilliant hustler.
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by forinti 6mo ago
I'm guessing that at 40 thousand quid you can have some disposable income, but that at 1200 bucks you spend it all on basics.
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by forinti 6mo ago
They are way too expensive. Tanzania's per capita GDP is about US$1200.00.
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by forinti 6mo ago
There's no doubt that it's a dictatorship, but Belarusian citizens are not slaves. Furthermore, when have sanctions achieved anything other than suffering for the people? Plus, I'm pretty sure that some sanctions are very con
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by forinti 6mo ago
Belarus makes tractors. I bet people could have had these kinds of tractors long ago if not for the sanctions.
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by forinti 6mo ago
Will this market be significant? This would surely affect a very small percentage of visitors.
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by forinti 6mo ago
How does it compare to a Markov chain generator I wonder.
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by forinti 6mo ago
If I can install alternative firmware, I will definitely consider buying one.
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by forinti 6mo ago
Unfortunately, the pain that Windows has become has yet to prevail over the fear of change for many users.
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by forinti 6mo ago
I bought one of these. In those days, I could keep the JDK in a box of floppies or it could fit in one Zip. Unfortunately, you had to carry your drive with you, because few people had one. So it only really made sense as backup media for me
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by forinti 6mo ago
I already had the impression that auto-complete was bad for programmers, since I've many times seen coders brute-force it until they found something that looked like it would do. With AI I've also witnessed people go crazy going b
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by forinti 6mo ago
Such are the times that he feels he must say that he only attended the protest "for all of five minutes" and that he was protesting "what we saw as genocide". He is almost ashamed of his views because of the current clim
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by forinti 6mo ago
Jokes aside, the guy made an impressive amount of money with this. I should have charged him a percentage. Even if I had charged 0.5%, I would have made more money.
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by forinti 6mo ago
A calendar for cutting your hair according to the phases of the moon.
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by forinti 6mo ago
Many eons ago I wrote a small sales web application in Perl. I couldn't install anything on the ISP's machine, so I used file-backed hashes: one for users, one for orders, another for something else. As the years went by, I expect
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by forinti 6mo ago
Usually austerity means cuts to social programs and the consequences depend on the country's starting position.
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by forinti 6mo ago
My personal hero is Shannon. He is underrated even in IT; the general public has never heard of him. But he had an enormous impact in the twentieth century.
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by forinti 6mo ago
I saw a doctor use AI to do some maths recently. I checked it and it was right, but trusting LLMs to do statistics is not a good idea.
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by forinti 6mo ago
Lots of African countries have market economies and also poverty and hunger.
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by forinti 6mo ago
Doesn't the US already have an above average incarceration rate and private prisons? Maybe, just maybe, there's some relation?
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by forinti 6mo ago
Yes, liberty comes at a cost. It seems that convenience is no longer the main motivator for many people.
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by forinti 6mo ago
I was trying to get a grasp on what would be pratical. Even 4MB would take you hours to load from floppies with a 6502. Terabytes with a 68000 would also be impractical.
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by forinti 6mo ago
I was thinking lately about how much memory you could handle on a 6502. The BBC Micro had a 16KB block of RAM paged between up to 16 ROMs/RAM but if you could have 256 banks you could do 4MB. One problem is that that would require a ve

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