gramie

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by gramie 6mo ago
I was in Lesotho, a small country completely surrounded by South Africa (when the White farmers were expanding and taking all the Africans' farmland, they left Lesotho because it was all mountains, but with no minerals).
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by gramie 6mo ago
From 1988-91, I was a volunteer teacher in Africa. I lived in a hut without running water or electricity, and I had a subscription to Byte. There was also almost nothing to read, so when my monthly issue of Byte appeared (2-3 months later t
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by gramie 6mo ago
If you click on a city's name, you can see a list of all flights arriving and departing. Some of the arriving ones will be in flight, and you can click on the flight number to view it, then "Cockpit" view to see (roughly) wha
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by gramie 6mo ago
That sounds wonderful. Our experience with an Ioniq 6 has been less spectacular. First of all, in winter the range drops from 520km to about 350km, and charging takes about 50% longer. Then when we took a long trip we only found one or two
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by gramie 6mo ago
There was a Toronto Commodore magazine called The Transactor that was my absolute favourite. It covered everything from the CBM 4032 and 8032 through the various Amigas. The magazine was very much programmer oriented, from assembly to BASIC
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by gramie 6mo ago
Lots of people have bad feelings about things. If it all turns out okay, they generally forget about the premonitions. If it goes bad, then they believe that their gut instinct is reliably correct. When I was small, I used to have bad feeli
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by gramie 7mo ago
For a different method of learning Arabic (or several other languages), check out https://www.languagetransfer.org . It teaches Egyptian Arabic, explaining that the entire region knows this dialect because Egypt is the TV and mov
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by gramie 7mo ago
The annual consumption of ice cream in Japan was 6.7 litres per person in 2021 (compared to 10 litres/person in Canada and 20 litres/person in the U.S.). For all dairy, Japanese people each ate 94 kg in 2022. They eat less dairy,
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by gramie 8mo ago
> doesn't have that problem by construction Well no, but it does have other significant construction problems! https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/japans-20b-kansai-airport...
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by gramie 8mo ago
I don't believe that there is a single case in world history where increased family income did NOT reduce the number of children per family. Likewise with improvements in child mortality.
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by gramie 8mo ago
Are you saying that something about this product is suspect? But it has "Beautiful Craftsamnship"! https://img-va.myshopline.com/image/store/1731468034215/1dd4...
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by gramie 8mo ago
What fraction of Americans are capable of reading a book (i.e. not functionally illiterate)?
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by gramie 8mo ago
We learned to use them in high school (in Canada) in the mid-late '70s. Electronic calculators were just becoming widespread, and not everyone had them. I think I can do basic calculations with them, although I really haven't touc
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by gramie 9mo ago
I'm sorry, but this comes across to me (obviously, from my first two words, also a Canadian) as saying, "I don't want the inconvenience of doing anything, but I'll pay some money to assuage my guilt". You may not be
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by gramie 9mo ago
We Canadians have seen how much value the US administration places on treaties.
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by gramie 9mo ago
The BBC said ( https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4478wnjdpo ) that in 30 years, private water and sewerage companies in England and Wales have extracted over 86 billion pounds (~USD $115 billion), while investing
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by gramie 9mo ago
I recall hearing that Google had a term similar to this: A "shit umbrella" was a manager who protected the development team from all the politics, blame, and mismanagement coming from above. A "shit funnel" was a manager
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by gramie 9mo ago
> used to be the fastest speed you could get at home My 1200 baud from 1987 would beg to differ. Granted, that was for bulletin boards, not the WWW (which hadn't been invented yet).
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by gramie 9mo ago
I believe that this only exists for colour printers. The official reasoning was to trace people counterfeiting money.
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by gramie 9mo ago
The incremental cost of a musician giving away MP3 files of his/her music is also "nothing at all", but the vast majority of musicians would prefer it if they could afford to eat! Just like with software developers, we want t
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by gramie 9mo ago
The issue comes when there are multiple people using the kitchen. Sometimes my wife runs the dishwasher when I'm not around, or vice versa. We usually rinse our dishes, so there is not always a lot of visible evidence. The problem is w
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by gramie 10mo ago
Without government interference, someone who is stronger/more brutal than you can kill you and take your property, partner, and anything else they like. It is in the top 10 in the world for homicides. Haiti is a horrifying place to liv
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by gramie 10mo ago
I believe that the frequency hopping technique is still used everywhere today, for things like wi-fi and Bluetooth.
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by gramie 11mo ago
I also have hearing loss in one ear. I have a hearing aid for that ear, and it dramatically improves my higher-frequency hearing on that side. My wife certainly appreciates it. If I start speaking loudly, she will often say, "Do you ha
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by gramie 11mo ago
I travelled from Australia to Malaysia to Canada (with a stopover in Dubai), and all the time I had 2 1/2 bottles of water (probably 1.5 litres) in my carry-on bag that I had forgotten. Something about a 46-hour journey, perhaps. I wen
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by gramie 1y ago
The Canadian government recently announced automated tax filing. I assume that you still file your exemptions because there is no way (I hope) they know what charities I am donating to!
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by gramie 1y ago
I recall rebuilding an application with about 200,000 lines of Delphi Pascal code in about 2005. Took 2-3 seconds to compile and link, I think.
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by gramie 1y ago
The oldest version I heard of was in Japan in the 1990s. Scammers would call elderly people, claiming to be grandchildren, and demand money or they would be arrested/scandalized. It was called the "ore ore" (pronounced "
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by gramie 1y ago
Not a good sign when the website (granted it's the blog website, not the main one) for a commercial development tool is unreachable. Sad, because I still have a soft spot in my heart for Delphi.
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by gramie 1y ago
Brian Kernighan wrote: Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? — The Elements of Programming Style, 2nd

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