gramie

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by gramie 1y ago
I would kill just for the [Reveal Codes] functionality on any word processor.
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by gramie 1y ago
This was happening to people I knew when I lived in Japan 30 years ago. Many people were using wa-puro (word processors that let you type in the phonetic form and choose from the appropriate kanji). I imagine the effect is far more common n
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by gramie 1y ago
Loopop's guide looks interesting, but to unlock the book I had to join (for free) the Patreon channel. Then it immediately tells me that to unlock the book I have to become a paid member. It turns out that the free tier only gets you n
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by gramie 1y ago
Sorry, I couldn't finish reading because the entire article is in capitals.
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by gramie 1y ago
Is Thomas Middledich (the central character in the TV show Silicon Valley) really the Chief Creative Officer? Jeri Ellsworth as Technical Advisor is also a solid member of the C64 community.
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by gramie 1y ago
I'm not a very critical reader*. When I read something, I don't have conversations with myself about "this could be better if..." or "the writer shouldn't have..." Instead, I accept what has been proffered
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by gramie 1y ago
That was a fascinating article. I have no doubt that Putnam's work is far beyond me -- considering that it is beyond leading academics in the field -- but I appreciate the description of a man who tried his best to find the right path
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by gramie 1y ago
Radiooooo has the most annoying popup "Sign up now!" dialog ever. It literally appears every time I click on the web page. Hard pass for me.
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by gramie 1y ago
That reminds me of using Twister, that optimized the position of sectors on the floppy disk to minimize seek times and speed loading dramatically (and I think they squeezed a few more sectors onto the disk so that it could hold more -- mayb
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by gramie 1y ago
I think that I used the Megamax C compiler back in 1987-8. I was just messing around and experimenting, not programming professionally, but it worked well for me.
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by gramie 1y ago
I find it irritating that you can toggle to dark mode, but in dark mode the toggle switch is invisible, because it doesn't have a dark mode. You can click where you know the toggle to be, but that doesn't seem optimal.
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by gramie 1y ago
In Quebec, I'm paying $0.069/kWh or USD $0.05/kWh (hydroelectric, so already green), so it's hard to make a case for solar.
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by gramie 1y ago
I used it for Spanish too, and it really gave me confidence. I went through the course once and was able to travel through rural Panama for two weeks. I plan to redo the entire course (total about 15 hours) soon, to freshen things up after
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by gramie 1y ago
I learned French, German, Sesotho, Japanese, with a mixture of classroom teaching and full immersion. I decided to learn Spanish with Language Transfer. It is by far the best system I have ever used (short of immersion; the absolute best wa
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by gramie 1y ago
I checked the article just to see if the IEEE actually spelled "tariffs" wrong (they didn't).
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by gramie 2y ago
It's interesting that in the photo of three girls, they are smiling broadly. I had thought that traditional Japanese culture (and still, often, today) women tended to cover their mouths, and displaying teeth was considered somewhat vul
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by gramie 2y ago
I think you mean "Impossible Mission"!
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by gramie 2y ago
When the Irish crossed the Atlantic, looking for a better life, they travelled on what became known as "coffin ships". It was common for 20-30% of the passengers to die during transit, and sometimes reportedly up to 50%.
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by gramie 2y ago
A doctor I know worked in the US and then returned to Canada. In his US clinic, each doctor had 2-3 employees devoted to billing (patient-paid and insurance). In his Canadian clinic, they had 1 employee doing the billing for 4 doctors.
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by gramie 2y ago
Well, the $1 million signing bonus they gave Anders (back in 1996 when that meant something, slightly over $2 million today) probably didn't hurt.
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by gramie 2y ago
All of them are available to download, and many to play in a browser. A Google search will do the trick.
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by gramie 2y ago
Or even better, they can be brought back as contractors with vital skills and knowledge, at much higher cost!
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by gramie 2y ago
To cite a close-to-home example, chicken farms in Canada typically have about 25,000 chickens, whereas ones in the U.S. often have millions. So an infection that requires the entire flock to be slaughtered has a much bigger effect on the su
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by gramie 2y ago
The AI narration is annoying, with awkward pauses and occasional mispronunciations. For example, it described the motto "urbi et orbi" as "urb-eye e.t. orbee". Movement is very jerky (maybe because of my old computer?) a
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by gramie 2y ago
My eldest brother hated learning French in school. Hated it. He even made a deal with the French teacher that he would pass Grade 12 French if he promised not to take it in Grade 13. Then, in his late 20s, he was travelling the world and
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by gramie 2y ago
A dev tool with a monthly subscription? That's enough to stop me right there. An alternative is B4J, a free (as in beer) BASIC that compiles to Java, so should run just about anywhere. It also has * B4A - a free version for Android * B
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by gramie 2y ago
Aside from the function keys, which were angled to make it as easy as possible to hit the wrong one! I loved my monochrome 520ST. First C programming (Megamax C, IIRC), first online communications (BBS). How did I afford it when I was an en
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by gramie 2y ago
Hergé's depiction of the Chinese was still quite stereotypical, although more benign than his previous treatment of non-Europeans. His depiction of the Japanese wasn't so nuanced (although fairly typical for the times). He may hav
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by gramie 2y ago
The system could never be protected well enough. It is flawed by design, and now (or however long it has been) those flaws have been exploited by others.
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by gramie 2y ago
This is nice. I use https://mynoise.net , which does kind of the same thing, but has dozens (hundreds?) of recorded sound clips and about a trillion settings to tweak!

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