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by gramie 4y ago
From 1988-1991 I lived in a hut in a small African mountain village. No running water or electricity, but I wrote programs on paper and waited with bated breath for every issue of Byte (several months delayed of course). I would read them f
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by gramie 4y ago
Air Transat Flight 236 would beg to differ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
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by gramie 4y ago
Ashamed? You can be pretty sure that the founders and early investors knew exactly what would happen in the (likely) event that it would crash and burn, and they safely extracted their salaries, bonuses, etc. at the peak. And they are very
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by gramie 4y ago
Note that this is a library for the FreePascal language.
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by gramie 4y ago
I'm on about episode 108 of the podcast "The History of English" https://historyofenglishpodcast.com , which taught me about ampersand's origins. I highly recommend the podcast!
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by gramie 4y ago
I certainly didn't see any of this when I was a volunteer in Lesotho (1988-91)! Then again, I was in the mountains where the nearest paved road was 3 hours away by 4WD. It used to take a month for letters to go to Canada, and another m
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by gramie 4y ago
I was happy to sell my house and trade the loss of equity (and the last 10 years has been outrageously exceptional to the usual appreciation of property) for the freedom that living in an apartment gave me. Leaving for a month? Ask your nei
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by gramie 4y ago
I learned about the book after several famous SF authors said that it contained their favourite last line.
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by gramie 4y ago
Well that was a spew of verbal diarrhea. Stream of consciousness about nothing important from someone I don't know. Maybe it's art.
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by gramie 4y ago
You might want to check into ultralight flight training. Much cheaper than a "real" private pilot's license (in Canada, a minimum 10 hours of flight time, including 2 solo, although it's sensible to budget for double tha
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by gramie 4y ago
I devoured every issue of The Transactor when it arrived in my (snail) mailbox. It would be 15 years before I made the jump from hobbyist programmer to professional, but I loved learning so much about my computer (back when it was actually
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by gramie 4y ago
I would never wear a watch that had to be charged every day. My Amazfit Bip (stupid name, I know) is good for about 6 weeks if I don't use the GPS and heart monitor, and 2 weeks if I do.
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by gramie 4y ago
I work on a Macbook, play games on a Windows machine, carry around a Chromebook, and use Linux in various places (web hosting, WSL, etc.). I agree that the Mac is a nice machine but not everything is intuitive. When I had a PowerMac, every
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by gramie 4y ago
I am partway through the calculus text, and it really is good. 25 years after finishing my engineering degree, I finally understand why the derivative of 5x^2 -6x +2 is 10x -6. Amazing!
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by gramie 4y ago
Yes, and cable TV originally ran without ads (because why else would you pay for TV?), but once they had a subscriber base they started playing them. Bottom line: if they think it will improve the bottom line, they will do it.
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by gramie 4y ago
Surprise, the physical layers in your DVDs and CDs is also decaying, so a CD from the 1980s may well be unplayable now. I've found that with many of my old commercial disks, let alone the ones I've burned myself.
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by gramie 5y ago
$3/month. Maybe it changed recently? Edit: we're kind of both right. $3/month, or $24/year.
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by gramie 5y ago
And in 2001 I bought a 32-inch CRT television for about $1,600. That was normal then.
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by gramie 5y ago
My parents are in their 90s and have been using Linux Mint since I replaced their previous desktop about five years ago. Only for email and web browsing, and a little writing (Libre Office), but they have had few complaints. (I have had a h
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by gramie 5y ago
In Canada, when I file my taxes electronically, all my income (salary, interest, etc.) is pre-filled. I basically enter my deductions and hit "Submit".
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by gramie 5y ago
I'm guessing that's the entire time, including getting the cooker up to the desired pressure, and possibly a slow release. Maybe only 5 minutes of that is full-pressure cooking.
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by gramie 5y ago
I could at one time. I have lived in Germany, Lesotho and Japan after growing up in Canada. German and Sesotho are rusty because I haven't been exposed to them in decades. I still sometimes find myself occasionally coming up with Sesot
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by gramie 5y ago
I grew up in Ontario, with French at school from grade 4-13. What really made the difference was going to two six-week French immersion courses ( https://englishfrench.ca/explore/ ) in Quebec at the end of grades 12 and
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by gramie 5y ago
Soon after I arrived in Japan, I dated a Japanese co-worker who spoke very little English. You can bet that we carried our dictionaries around with us! We later got married (another, less cheerful story). One drawback was that I mainly lear
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by gramie 5y ago
My Japanese improved significantly by reading the Crayon Shin-chan comics. The advantage of comics aimed at young people is that they have phonetic characters (hiragana) written above the Chinese characters (kanji), so you don't have t
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by gramie 5y ago
One resource you may not be aware of is https://languagetransfer.org . It is easily the best language acquisition system I've ever used (I did the Spanish course). I've previously learned French, German, Sesotho and Jap
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by gramie 5y ago
"laissez-faire"* "à la carte"* "so much joi de vivre"* "je ne sais quoi"* "déjà vu"* But well done for so densely packing French loan words (loan phrases?) into a single paragraph!
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by gramie 5y ago
My parents, both 90, use Linux Mint as their only OS (aside from occasionally using an iPad), and have for more than 5 years. They only surf the web and send email, and it (almost always) works perfectly for them. I visit every month or two
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by gramie 5y ago
Nowhere on your pricing page does it say that the prices are per month. My first assumption was that you had to keep paying as you ran tests, and would have looked elsewhere had I not read the correct information in this HN discussion.
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by gramie 5y ago
Ah yes, Rocksmith+ that requires a subscription to use, and will not work if you are not connected to the internet (i.e. if your subscription lapses, your purchase is worthless). It's now been delayed until 2022, I wonder if the feedba

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