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by kcartlidge 3y ago
> An influencer was also present on the panel It should be clarified that she is also a newsreader and runs a book club. There's nothing wrong with being an influencer, but to not mention the rest is incomplete.
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
"The Cosmic Pulse of Life" by Trevor James Constable has a decent section on Wilhelm Reich with particular emphasis on Orgone Accumulators and Cloudbusters (including diagrams and photos of the author's own devices). An int
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
Mention of Data East always reminds me of one of my favourite 8-bit games, Bruce Lee . Challenging and with excellent music (which I still remember). Both 'facts' relative to the time it was made of course.
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
> Imagine bragging about full vendor lock-In As a dev I agree with you entirely. However for a business this is very definitely a valid stance to take (as covered by some sibling posts). To dismiss it out of hand is a failure to acc
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
> “The existential risks seem to be the current focus, at least in the PM’s office,” a former member of the CDEI’s advisory board told ComputerWeekly.com. “You could say that it’s easy to focus on future ‘existential’ risks as it avoids
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
As this thread has wargamers on it, maybe someone can help me remember a particular book? In around 1985 (which is why I cannot remember it well enough) I borrowed a book from a local UK library specifically on writing (not playing) compute
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
I'm not a vegetarian or vegan. I'm weak-willed in this area and the best I've managed is to choose a non-meat option where the choice is easily available and comparably appetising. I want to do better, but am not in a posit
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
Seconding Gil Fronsdal's audio. He's very clear and reasonably concise.
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A few mentions of Private Eye pushing the story. True, but also worth mentioning The Register and, especially, Computer Weekly who actually broke the story: https://archive.ph/OYJwW
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
If you're looking for a GUI editor for your LaTex content, personally I like Lyx [1]. It's featuresome, easy to use, and also includes outline navigation. [1] https://www.lyx.org/
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
> Microsoft and the absolute bottom tier of enterprise ... we considered dotnet beneath us ... shitty consulting firms ... I cannot imagine the average dotnet programmer is very good Thank you. I very much appreciate you self-se
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
Free Pascal with Lazarus. By career I'm mostly a C# person but (IMHO) everything desktop UI that Microsoft have done since WinForms has proven to be not worth using for the long (or even medium) term.
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
> I actually bought this on DVD Same here. Bought it back when it was released, and still have it. Thoroughly enjoyed it, but I agree with the article in that it was very much all over the place in terms of scripting.
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
I really miss the days of the original Opera. Back when the browser was lean, and they were innovating with their own engine and UI.
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
Back in the 80's I had to learn me some COBOL as part of a college course. Obviously nostalgia (now) and inexperience (then) are involved, but I actually quite enjoyed it. At the time the other stuff I was learning involved Pascal on
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
> I also got tired of how the package manager worked. Whenever I was setting up a new install, I could never remember what combination of packages I needed to install to get everything to work how it used to. This is one of the things
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
Kate renders nicely, performs fluidly, opens fast, and never lets you down. I use Notepad++ on Windows as it's work-approved, but Kate where I can.
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
All the technical and business arguments for or against Chromebooks are a side-show. This is the real answer. Thank you.
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> I fail to see how pointing the finger at chromebooks specifically is more than a distraction. They have a built-in kill switch. After pre-set number of years (from launch and not from purchase) they become useless to schools. Macs a
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
I've read a fair few of her books (purely out of interest; I'm not inclined towards Objectivism). Atlas Shrugged seemed the least worthy. I found The Fountainhead to be both a better book and a saner text.
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DotNet is great for cross-platform. Native builds cross-compiled with a huge standard library and excellent performance. This is just about IDE priorities, and even though I use it I understand that VS Mac was always niche. Linux dotnet de
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
I'm on an M1 Mac and even with that iteration you're totally right. Especially given for that battery life you usually still great performance and a silent machine. But I really miss my ThinkPad (with Mint) whilst I use it. I&#x
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I'm a paid user of Rider, but mostly use VS Mac as it's faster, cleaner, and more intuitive. Plus (and despite also being a paid user of Goland too) there's something about the JetBrains IDE range's font rendering I&#x2
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There's no startup time overhead now for my stuff as all my web servers, apis, and command line tooling (.Net CLI apps) are built (by the standard dotnet tooling) into cross-platform stand-alone binaries. They are native code and gene
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Thank you.
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There are more obvious underrated movies, but one that rarely gets mentioned is Brotherhood of the Wolf with Mark Dacascos and Vincent Cassel. A mix of opinions at the time, a few comments about genre confusion, but personally I'd sa
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I'd also recommend Lemon Jelly. The music station Smooth Chill (UK) plays a fair few Lemon Jelly tracks most days, Ramblin' Man being a highlight.
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This. I use it all the time. Every character is fixed width except 'm', 'w', 'M', and 'W', which are 150%. It mostly looks and behaves like monospace, but with a very nice minor adjustment that mak
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by kcartlidge 3y ago
Never seen the project before, but you're looking at desktop wallpaper. Bottom left, possibly off your screen, is a start menu.
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> Americans love to consume. They think their consumption brings them happiness. One of their most delightful purchases is a new phone. If you replaced "Americans" with "Most people in capitalist countries who are sub

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