rasur

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by rasur 8y ago
I only have a copy of the CD with the VRML worlds on it, sadly. I had a copy of the CH4 thing we did the year after (and it was put up on YouTube a few years ago too, maybe it's still there (I'd have to check).
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by rasur 8y ago
Mildly disappointed that there's no listing of "The Net" in there. I help created some shared virtual worlds for the series circa '96 which involved the participation of members of the public in the 6 spaces we created.
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by rasur 8y ago
Swiss-German sign language is.. interesting. It has Cantonal dialects (I wish I was joking!). I'd really prefer everyone switched to German sign-language for simplicity's sake - in the same way most Swiss-German speakers write Hig
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by rasur 9y ago
Been there, done that at a UK Telco Research Lab back in the mid 90's. Now those _were_ the good old days. I miss my Amigas (I had 4 over the years, now all gone. sob ).
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by rasur 9y ago
This is heartening news - I bought the e-book of PAIP a while ago, and the OCR in it is horrible, with many errors (although perhaps they were deliberate, to keep readers on their toes?).
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by rasur 9y ago
+1 yes please
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by rasur 9y ago
So, I googled quickly but couldn't see anything obvious.. this does or doesn't affect Linux running on IBM Z Series mainframes then? I haven't seen much about if Power CPUs are affected by the same flaws
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by rasur 9y ago
"Who Owns the Future?" is IMHO very much worth a read, as it points out some of the issues we face as a society dealing with the the big social-data-silos in terms of 'us' being the product for sale, what that means, and
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by rasur 9y ago
Seconded on the + raw vegetables front. You can prise my Champion 2000 juicer from my cold dead hands...
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by rasur 10y ago
Thanks for the offer, but actually have access to plenty of CI-wearers (son at deaf school, lots have CIs.. go figure ;) )
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by rasur 10y ago
> and some patience. Yeah, well that would be one way of handling it, but unfortunately the real world has terrible issues with not impeding my progress on that front. Not that I'm anti-learning, at all, but - personally - I'm
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by rasur 10y ago
This is something I do wonder about, in this context. I don't have a CI myself, but my 6 year old son does, and I am somewhat concerned that he is-or-might be experiencing partial sound "blindness" (meaning: sure speech proce
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by rasur 10y ago
For pens, I am enjoying the Pilot 'Frixion' pens. Biro, but can be erased. Now with different colours and even a highlighter. Only for note taking though, I'm not happy about erasable ink on official forms.
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by rasur 10y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the comment (and your intentions), however working in a Swiss company with a _lot_ of German speakers (plus actual Germans, too ;) ) I can assure you that if the occasional 'quack' was the issue something woul
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by rasur 10y ago
Personally: Sheer Bloody-mindedness & a 'Well Fuck This!' attitude.
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by rasur 10y ago
If it helps you, I find myself performing the role of the yellow rubber duck at work with reasonable regularity. Person or inanimate bath-time toy, neither devalues the seriousness of a technical problem that needs solving - the other perso
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by rasur 10y ago
It's not unknown for the ingestion of chemicals to "help" with this, especially on the 'making cross-connections' front.
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by rasur 10y ago
I work in/with a mixed Swiss German/German/French/Spanish/Others office department. I don't suppose it will come as much of a shock to hear that English is used in general, with smaller localised dialect outbre
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by rasur 10y ago
I can't remember the exact language he used but in his last talk at OC/3 he implied he liked it, but they were using something else (JS or JS-like). Shame really, it would have been neat to use something scheme based.
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by rasur 10y ago
Poul-Henning Kamp had this proposal on the subject back in 2011: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2030258 I think it's a good idea.
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by rasur 10y ago
LOL. I work in the same building as Urban. I'll be sure to point it out to him on Monday, I'm sure he'll be amused (or annoyed at my position in the queue of people that have already informed him of this). :D
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by rasur 10y ago
I cannot up-vote you enough for your response. Thanks for filling in the gaps.
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by rasur 10y ago
Swiss Democracy is Direct Democracy, not Representative Democracy. EDIT: Meaning similar but not the same, and the power ultimately rests with the people to make the decisions, thus providing some requirement for them to understand the issu
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by rasur 10y ago
Apparently so.
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by rasur 10y ago
I think it really boils down to not enough people understanding the issues and the problems. I had seen (once or twice) people out on the streets campaigning against it to raise awareness on the weekends, but honestly, it was not enough. On
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by rasur 10y ago
My issue is latency from _idea in head_ to adequately captured somewhere. A book is usually open in front of me with a pen at the ready. An application.. well it depends, but best-case scenario is that it's in a easy-to-switch-to windo
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by rasur 10y ago
The Bullet Journal looks interesting, but to me it feels much more like it should be a tablet app, than in a physical notebook (mainly due to migration of items, but this is of course achievable with an erasable pen or pencil). I say this
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by rasur 10y ago
I remember being taken on a tour of one of my companies data centers in 1987 (I was a newly inducted Ops Staff on MVS systems, back then) and when walking past an ICL mainframe, the guy showing us around pointed out a knob at the top of the
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by rasur 10y ago
I don't remember my Zaurus -ever- acting like a phone (it would have been cool if it had!). Everything else you write, I completely agree with.
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by rasur 10y ago
This is an awesome idea and I have just signed up & contributed already.

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