mcswell

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by mcswell 11mo ago
Such a polite response! So seldom seen in comment forums. I congratulate you.
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by mcswell 11mo ago
No word on being able to turn off "transparency" (really translucent), as opposed to muting it. Until then, I'm staying on 18.
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by mcswell 11mo ago
All depends on what you're doing. When I worked in computational linguistics of languages that don't use ASCII (or European "accented" characters), I was very concerned with the display of non-ASCII Unicode scripts: Ara
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by mcswell 1y ago
If that was in the Jurassic, I guess I went to high school in the Cambrian. But hey, I like trilobites!
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by mcswell 1y ago
Yeap, and get shot at we did--but by artillery, not missiles. The North Vietnamese were rumored to have Russian Styx missile boats, but if they did they never left port.
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by mcswell 1y ago
Steam turbine generators (this was back in the 1970s, the ship was decommissioned in 2003). No motor to start turning the turbines, just apply steam. The main engines were also steam turbines, and likewise started just by opening the thro
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by mcswell 1y ago
(Almost) irrelevant question. You wrote "...a bigger generator, which you spin up to start the turbine spinning until the steam takes up load..." I once served on a steam powered US Navy guided missile destroyer. In addition to
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by mcswell 1y ago
Radioactive fallout?
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by mcswell 1y ago
None of those rockets attained anything like orbital speed.
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by mcswell 1y ago
Oops...
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by mcswell 1y ago
What else? LaTeX Beamer, for one; Libre Office Impress for another.
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by mcswell 1y ago
WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU! (must be my hearing aids)
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by mcswell 1y ago
Oops...you got me!
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by mcswell 1y ago
No, I do NOT want "reduce[d] transparency", I want OPACITY.
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by mcswell 1y ago
> Then they complain a few years later when the UI they complained about and ultimately adopted gets changed again. 1) A few years later and you (or at least I) can't remember what the previous UI looked like. So if I don't co
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by mcswell 1y ago
We're talking about a phone, not an art gallery.
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by mcswell 1y ago
Reminds me of when Google brought out a revised Maps app some years ago. Everyone hated it; there was a website for comments, with literally 10,000 comments, and everyone I read except for one was negative--and that one was a parody. Did
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by mcswell 1y ago
"Apple says that the new toggle was added because during the beta testing period over the summer, user feedback suggested that some people would prefer to have a more opaque option for Liquid Glass." I'd like to have a COMPL
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by mcswell 1y ago
I have two uses for 'cat': 1) Piping the contents of some file into a process. 2) Showing the contents of some short file. Now (1) is better done with redirection (< or >). The only time I use cat is when I'm testing s
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by mcswell 1y ago
THAT looks like something worthwhile; I'll be looking into it. I was going to top-post that the Unix/Linux command line tools were designed back in the day when data was pretty much line-oriented, e.g. one database record per line
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by mcswell 1y ago
Not a comment on these particular tools, but I keep non-standard utilities that I use in my ~/bin/ directory, and they go with me when I move to a different system. The tools mentioned here could be handled the same way, making t
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by mcswell 1y ago
Sure, Wine when it works. It doesn't always, and it looks like this WinBoat will work when Wine doesn't. I'm currently using it for SIL's Fieldworks Language Explorer, which did not run under Wine.
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by mcswell 1y ago
Until that day, there unfortunately ARE niche applications. Fieldworks Language Explorer (aka FLEx) is software developed by SIL Inc for doing linguistic fieldwork (dictionaries, text, grammars, parsing...) in minority languages. There&#x
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by mcswell 1y ago
thanks, that is the most understandable explanation I've seen!
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by mcswell 1y ago
But what IS it?
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by mcswell 1y ago
What's that 26 year difference have to do with it? The part I quoted was talking about 2027 vs. 2025, a two year difference.
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by mcswell 1y ago
The article says the light elements hydrogen, carbon and sulfur (and oxygen?) were only able to condense on the outer planets (and their moons). And the original article specifically says "the inner Solar System planets Venus and Merc
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by mcswell 1y ago
Can you say "non sequitur"? I knew you could! Worrying about s.t. at X% does not mean spending X% to fix it. You might need to spend more, or you might need to spend less. Seat belts are a good example: a cheap (if partial) sol
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by mcswell 1y ago
"...all the best compute in 2025 will be lacklustre in 2027": How does the compute (I assume you mean on PCs) of 2025 compare with the compute of 2023? Oh wait, the computer I'm typing this on was manufactured in 2020...
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by mcswell 1y ago
Be glad you don't have to deal with non-ASCII characters: acute/grave/tilde/umlaut/diaresis/etc. accented characters, dotted vs. dotless 'i' (Turkish), barred i (an 'i' with a sort of dash t

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