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by jussij 5y ago
Back in the late 80s and early 90s many people learned to code from a book. You would just study the code samples found in those books.
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And that then helped to kill OS/2 only because it delayed the release of OS/2 2.0 as that version needed a 386 to run. OS/2 2.0 used features found in the 386 to greatly improve the MS-DOS experience. IBM instead kept pushing
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by jussij 5y ago
IBM also hindered the roll out of
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Couldn't that 'hidden variable' be just another dimension? So while those particles might have been separated in space by a large distance, on that fifth dimension they haven't moved and are still sitting side by side.
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For me these 'More people die of .....' articles always seem to miss the point. My take on the 'media obsession' with heat-deaths is not that they are obsessed, but rather they are reporting something that appears to be
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by jussij 5y ago
> Market forces don't work when pricing is opaque. Since the service is a monopoly there are no market forces at play. That monopoly means it's a 'take it or leave it' situation.
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This does seem to happen far too many times than it should and it can get frustrating. Over the period of several years this happened to me on at least half a dozen occasions and recently in a two week period it happened three times. Fortun
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by jussij 5y ago
This page lists the highest temperatures from around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records The nice thing about that page is when you scroll down to the continent/country table data ther
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by jussij 5y ago
Except when these "freak heat waves" start becoming common place. In recent years many places around the would appear to be setting new temperature records on a rather regular basis.
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The raids are just the tip of the iceberg, as the Australia judicial system now shares characteristics of those found in secret states like Russia. Who would have thought in Australia someone could be prosecuted and jailed by a secret court
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by jussij 5y ago
ICAC needs to start investigating Barilaro's involvement in the demise of the Marco Polo Social Club. That whole saga stinks to high heaven. EDIT: Here is some context: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/labo
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by jussij 5y ago
We know flying is 'not safe' yet we still fly, we know cars are 'not safe' we still drive. In raw numbers, the vaccines are many times safer than flying or driving, yet there still remains this irrational response to the
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While Cambodia did suffer from this, Laos by comparison was hit much harder: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tap/7977573.0003.107?view=text;...
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by jussij 5y ago
Some people inside Google's where certainly trying to kill off IE: Former Google engineer reveals the secret YouTube plot to kill Internet Explorer 6 https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/4/18529381/goog
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by jussij 5y ago
Not all software development houses use Agile. So can't you actively look for jobs that advertise as not being Agile? You could also ask that exact question at the interview stage of the process. From my experience, job adverts demandi
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by jussij 5y ago
Australia is currently run by a conservative government and when it comes to energy generation, they are very much pro-coal and anti-renewable. They are so pro-coal they actively argue aging coal fired plants can't be decommissioned an
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by jussij 5y ago
I'm not so vain to say I'm in my late 50's. My sadness is the outright denial of the problem at hand. Why I'm depressed for the future is I live in a country where for the last 15 years we've been debating if climat
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by jussij 5y ago
The death nail for non-green energy going forward is two fold. 1. Green energy is getting cheaper year on year and in some cases it's now cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives. 2. At some point in time the younger generation will revol
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by jussij 5y ago
The facts remain; Israel did bomb the offices of Al Jazeera and The Associated Press. That action looks a lot like Israel targeting news agencies and the two news agencies involved have both raised their concerns about that unprecedented ac
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by jussij 5y ago
Israel can get all the detailed imagery it needs by just launching a reconnaissance aircraft or drone. So on that basis I would say it only stops the Palestinians from getting imagery of the area. Now considering the fact Palestine only has
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by jussij 5y ago
This will depend on the editor used. In the editor I use, for any line containing whitespace the backspace takes me back to the previous indent point and the backspace only works as a single backspace for lines that contain visible text.
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by jussij 5y ago
> Tange, 46, says his business model is an attempt to remove inefficiencies in Japan’s software industry, where layers of subcontractors take cuts on orders before passing the work to another company below. This reminds me of a role I on
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by jussij 5y ago
That 0.4% difference in death rate is measuring survivability as it records the chance of dying from the virus. That 0.4% difference suggests Finland's health system was better than Sweden's at handling the virus, as your chance
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by jussij 5y ago
Here are the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for these two countries: Sweden: https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/gdp-growth-annual Finland: https://tradingeconomics.com/finland/gdp-growth
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by jussij 5y ago
> I actually think Apple's, "only our payment system can be used," system is reasonable. .... But I also don't think Apple should be able to prevent an app from advertising their own payment system out of the ap
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The OP's point is focusing on that absolute number is not a good measure, only because when compared to the world population it gives the 0.1-0.2% of population effected result, which is obviously way off.
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by jussij 5y ago
Sweden's early success with their 'herd immunity' experiment was short lived. They failed to actually achieve 'herd immunity' and did not avoid the eventual virus death toll: https://www.news.com.au/
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They should have used the "Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich" model like Google.
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If this is the case, then paying the ransom will turn out to be a stupid idea. If the threat was to release sensitive information, surely the firm would be asking the attackers for details of the sensitive information they claim to have. If
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by jussij 5y ago
> Oh, right, they're not regulated. Wasn't that one of the big selling points of BTC?

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