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901.
by gerdesj 2y ago
Why? Why do you put a weird computer model between you and a computer and errr Your Faith? Do bear in mind that hallucinations might correspond to something demonic (just saying) I'm a bit of a rubbish Christian but I know a synoptic
902.
by gerdesj 2y ago
I don't remember "global cooling" but to be fair, I was only 10 by 1980. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling - OK but do bear in mind that fags (cigarettes) were still being advertised as good f
903.
by gerdesj 2y ago
Isn't the Eurasian plate moving widdershins? The Wiltshire Downs and Salisbury Plain is mostly chalk/limestone. That is a porous rock which will expand and contract on water ingress/egress and be affected by atmospheric humi
904.
by gerdesj 2y ago
"70s energy policy was a result of the oil crisis, not environment concerns." Quite - the environment was not much of a concern. Bear in mind that lead in petrol was your anti-knock agent and the catalytic convertor didn't ex
905.
by gerdesj 2y ago
The internet but not the www existed when I started out. Cover letters were handwritten, the CV was typed and the lot was posted or delivered by hand.
906.
by gerdesj 2y ago
The only think we can be certain of is that the Summer Solstice occurs when the mid summer sun shines through a trillithon at Stonehenge and strikes a certain point. From there we can work outwards. The logical thing to do is to precisely
907.
by gerdesj 2y ago
"Don't forget that not equals is ~=, the horror." I get you are taking the piss but ~= is just as logical as != being the symbols for: "not equals", if you've been exposed to some math(s) as well as ... well, !
908.
by gerdesj 2y ago
Some of the lakes will look like seas. Water is relatively easy to cross, provided you avoid storms or can cope with them. A storm on land isn't too much fun for a traveller either. Until fairly recently, water was generally the quic
909.
by gerdesj 2y ago
Thankfully our hero is made of sterner stuff than either you or me: "On other occasions, however, he almost packed it in. In Uganda, his one-man support crew resigned, leaving him without a support vehicle or help at a time when his fu
910.
by gerdesj 2y ago
IT is growing up gradually. It's only had a few decades to worry about security and I've seen most of them. One day, IT will become time served but not today.
911.
by gerdesj 2y ago
It's in the UK somewhere: https://bgp.he.net/AS13037
912.
by gerdesj 2y ago
Perhaps the real issue is that learning takes time and that there may not be a shortcut. I'll grant you that argument's analogue was complete wank when comparing say the horse and cart to a modern car. However, we are not compari
913.
by gerdesj 2y ago
"Anyway, my point is that accounting does not depend on IT related metaphors."
914.
by gerdesj 2y ago
I don't think that is really fair and not restricted to Ireland either. I have visited the Emerald Isle a couple of times, North and South, from the UK. I found a culture that is definitely different in some ways but just as familiar
915.
by gerdesj 2y ago
My Mum's typewriters had a tab key too! You used to start a paragraph off with a tab. Personally I prefer not to. 30 odd years ago I used to teach IT skills - UK govt funded qualifications. For example the RSA Computing level 1 and
916.
by gerdesj 2y ago
So why bother posting on HN if it was inevitable?
917.
by gerdesj 2y ago
Blimey, DV'd within seconds!
918.
by gerdesj 2y ago
"Android development at Meta has been Kotlin-first since 2020, and developers have been saying they prefer Kotlin as a language for even longer." Not one link to an opinion piece or two regarding: "kotlin vs java". The
919.
by gerdesj 2y ago
I have four Home Assistants pinned in the browser on my laptop. I look after several more. Thanks for the heads up about Digital Alchemy, now I have to go and evaluate it 8) I already have upgrades to my 3D printer sat waiting, and a massi
920.
by gerdesj 2y ago
"interesting how the same metaphor lead to 2 very different types of accounting software." The tablets are tabulated lists which is how anyone might do a shopping list or list of income and expenditure. Double entry book keeping i
921.
by gerdesj 2y ago
"Relational databases define schemas with fixed length fields" What is a varchar or a blob? Even a .csv allows for a variable length field (by default). I think you missed out the word: "can". Fixed field width is an o
922.
by gerdesj 2y ago
"While we had spreadsheets since the 90s" I was using SuperCalc in the '80s.
923.
by gerdesj 2y ago
Install the Node-RED add on. I use that to do the tricky stuff. Install the whole thing on top of stock Debian "supervised" then you get a full OS to use. You get a fully integrated MQTT broker with full provisioning - you don&#
924.
by gerdesj 2y ago
It's called "saying your goodbyes". In the UK and elsewhere it can take a while ...
925.
by gerdesj 2y ago
It is pretty awful. I have to turn right out of that weird ramp to return home. My mental rule of thumb is to only start the manoeuvre if there are no cars on the up hill lane - they are leaving a roundabout and also crossing over an unma
926.
by gerdesj 2y ago
"Midsomer Murders" is actually a documentary series.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
My company is situated across a main road from a college. There are a couple of permissive rights of way across our land to the road and quite a few students walk that way and also up the road. This horror of a link is what Google Maps sho
928.
by gerdesj 2y ago
"You'll also want the exhaust port pointed away from the house." Chimney in my case.
929.
by gerdesj 2y ago
Bizarrely, Germans call themselves Deutsche and the Dutch call themselves all sorts of crazy things. Swiss, Spanish, oh the whole of Europe. As for Japanese, Chinese, Russia ... errm most of the rest of the world 8) In English we don'
930.
by gerdesj 2y ago
"The Navajo are speakers of a Na-Dené Southern Athabaskan language which they call Diné bizaad (lit. 'People's language'). The term Navajo comes from Spanish missionaries and historians who referred to the Pueblo Indians

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