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by kar1181 6y ago
I think as a starter concerned (UK) citizens should write to their MP. I wrote when the first news broke and got a pretty prompt reply it was being looked at. Then Facebook announced it's pause and the issue went silent. Now it's
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by kar1181 6y ago
As others have commented, the original book was one of those little gems that once you read, you realise how blind you were before, and it is extremely accessible. Often material is either too abstract or far too detailed, ECS managed to fi
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by kar1181 6y ago
Logged in to say exactly this. I thought I understand computation after my degree, and this book, while far from perfect, did an incredible job of bringing fundamental computation to life in the readers mind. I'm looking forward to div
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by kar1181 6y ago
Children luckily are much more flexible and chop and change with the wind. It's the older folks once something is established it ends up becoming bedrock and super hard to change. Parents/Adults are busy if something 'works&#
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by kar1181 6y ago
This is precisely the dilemma in a nutshell. You have a choice but it's a bit like voluntary solitary confinement. Especially during a lockdown.
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by kar1181 6y ago
It's harder for US folks to understand just how much of a monopoly WhatsApp has in Europe and the UK. Pretty much all of our school and local community communication happens via WhatsApp. I'd change to Signal or Telegram in a hear
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by kar1181 6y ago
The archive dvds thank goodness have been preserved which will cover you up until 2008. https://archive.org/details/DDJDVD6
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by kar1181 6y ago
I forgot to add, Michael did a post-mortem at GDC a year or so after shipping and you can access it online still (requires Flash though?!) https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014236/Quake-A-Post-Mortem-an...
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by kar1181 6y ago
Oh man - of all my 'nerd crushes' Michael is at the absolute top. I feel like he hasn't been risen up to the stature of John Carmack but if you look at the things he's shipped in his career (no less than Quake AND Window
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by kar1181 6y ago
No - the only implication is that the UK wouldn't use so many (costly) resources for something as minor as a few stitches on a 3 year old. But as a parent, it is YOUR 3 year old so you want the absolute best for them. The end result, I
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by kar1181 6y ago
It would have been fine in the UK, the difference would have been waiting time (we'd definitely not be in and out in 90 minutes here). Also we'd have had a junior doctor or nurse do the stitches. End result would be roughly the sa
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by kar1181 6y ago
When we lived in the US my daughter tripped and opened up her chin on the kerb. My wife having no idea what to do (go to Urgent care) went to the ER... She had 5 stitches and was in and out in about 90 minutes. A plastic surgeon did the sti
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by kar1181 6y ago
The one thing that gives me hope is the pendulum of open->closed->open has swung back and forth so many times now that even as depressing as current trends may be, I'm confident things will swing back again. Not sure when, but I&
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by kar1181 6y ago
Enlightenment is what got my to try linux (Redhat hurricane I think it was) way back when. It was very pretty and _very_ broken then, but e-term, which required a tonne of E libs, was the terminal everyone used to show off their desktop so
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by kar1181 6y ago
But can it run Crysis?!
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by kar1181 6y ago
Did not know that, and indeed the pentium m / core / core 2 series microarches have done incredibly well. I've become something of CPU collector in recent years, and I have a nice line of p6 cpus from thePentium Pro -> Pen
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by kar1181 6y ago
The linux desktop experience is still quite in a state. I will likely do the same and suffer Linux, but I think many will go back to windows as WSL continues to improve. Apple is going to lose developers.
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by kar1181 6y ago
We had a very permissive culture around the PC equipment, pretty much if a computer was free you could use it. There was no authentication or use policies. That did change towards the end of my schooling when networking and internet access
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by kar1181 6y ago
That whole period of the PC industry where 'multimedia' became mainstream was pretty magical. I know the Amiga was well ahead of the PC ecosystem for a long time in capability but it never hit schools (at least where I grew up in
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by kar1181 6y ago
Slight opposite take on the state of linux vs windows is here - https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-year-of-dissatisfa... . I unfortunately agree with a lot of what he says (this after using linux either a primary
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by kar1181 6y ago
My last AMD processor was the Athlon 64 x2 circa 2005, it's going to be nice going back.
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by kar1181 6y ago
Really depends which supermarket and which location. The large supermarkets have a large choice (though you are right, not on par with the French, Dutch and Germans!). We do have a lot of local bakeries though which fill in the gap left ove
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by kar1181 6y ago
I was really shocked moving from Europe to the US how all but very select bread tasted like cake/brioch. First thing I always did getting back to England was buy a loaf of Hovis seeded multigrain and make a decent ham sandwich.
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by kar1181 6y ago
Microsoft now own Doom, Quake, Wolf, etc IP. They own id software. 2020, I'm done.
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by kar1181 6y ago
Computerphile, for me, is one of the gems of youtube. That such incredible, well produced content like this is 'free' and so easily accessible is mind boggling compared to the efforts I had to go through in the late 80s learning c
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by kar1181 6y ago
They want developers. OSX gave us Unix AND a sane desktop. Ultimately MS over between 2010-2020 lost developer mindshare and they weren't going to get it back. So pivot time and now we have Linux all the things. Once they have develope
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by kar1181 6y ago
I've spent surely coming up on years watching and reading all the content you've either created or helped produce. Indeed some things may have improved, but I sure enjoy the heck reading and watching all your exploits with 'l
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by kar1181 6y ago
I've been doing some network programming lately, specifically low level raw socket work. Sitting there with wireshark running the sheer volume of traffic with applications dialing home was kind of shocking. I mean, I know it's hap
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by kar1181 6y ago
I completely understand why things are going the way they are as our computing environment has become ever more hostile. But I am very nostalgic for the time where I would power up a Vic-20 and within seconds be able to get to work. Teachi
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by kar1181 6y ago
This is by far the most Australian thing I've seen in years (expat :)). This is legit 'Straya. As an aside, Capsicum (peppers / bell peppers), I struggled for years overseas with the terminology until I finally broke the habi

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