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841.
by rusk 6y ago
You could argue that his legacy is still alive and kicking, interfaced in Northern Ireland. Also: * Hitler fixed the roads * Communist Russia got the first Satellite into space
842.
by rusk 6y ago
You would think it would be easy to implement ... technically ... but one has to remember that as well as being businesses many Telcos are large hulking great slow moving monsters draped with red tape and politics - anything that changes th
843.
by rusk 6y ago
Thing to be mindful of with Cromwell, is that to some he’s a hero and to others he was a monster. A dichotomy heretofore yet unresolved after centuries.
844.
by rusk 6y ago
I think you vastly overestimate how progressive telcos are with this kind of thing ...
845.
by rusk 6y ago
They are trying to use the prevalence of organised crime in one nation to justify corruption in another. It’s called “comparing yourself downwards”. Kind of like the drunken neglectful husband who pats himself on the back for not beating h
846.
by rusk 6y ago
I’m just telling you what I was told. I didn’t take the job in the end because some of the clauses in the contract - apparently normal by US standards - were simply astounding.
847.
by rusk 6y ago
Nope. No mention of microwave in there. To save you the hassle of reading the piece ... Orwell advocates heating your dry porcelain over a naked flame before pouring actual rolling boiling water in. I haven’t actually tried this because I’m
848.
by rusk 6y ago
Well based on my recent discussions with a prospective American employer the main reason they pay their staff more is the yawning disparity in healthcare costs ...
849.
by rusk 6y ago
Isn’t Orwell on Tea some sort of troll? I like some elements but the bit where you heat the porcelain before putting the water in it is a recipe for disaster surely!
850.
by rusk 6y ago
Just curious where we are we at in terms of the environmental aspects of mass scale heavy duty battery production?
851.
by rusk 6y ago
It was a fine machine, and though it was weaker than its competitors it was ahead of the curve. You say “repackaged Amiga 1200” like that’s a bad thing. The Amiga was the premium home personal computer of the early 90s and only ever died ou
852.
by rusk 6y ago
You remember well. Here’s the thing though. In that transitory phase between DOS and Windows one often has to “drop to DOS” to run some software, and even assemble “Boot Disks” to provide a customised stripped down environment, especially f
853.
by rusk 6y ago
You could do deriv properly in C if you have support for “blocks”; otherwise you’ll have to store your state in a struct. I really wouldn’t have got this stuff 5 years ago but functions returning functions is a super sweet tool and I’m glad
854.
by rusk 6y ago
dwcfgmg.sys had my heart broke
855.
by rusk 6y ago
Maybe it was blitter etc Nope not CDTV, CD32 was a later project and really quite good but C= couldn’t sustain it. The story I think I heard was that the similarity in the controllers was some sort of homage. Maybe it was PS1 rather than PS
856.
by rusk 6y ago
I ran across an interesting factoid a while back where a line was drawn between the Amiga CD32 and PS2 - that somehow Sony picked up where Commodore left off but I’ve been unable to find a reference since and I’m certain at this stage I’ve
857.
by rusk 6y ago
Sounds like Douglas Adams’ copy protection did it’s job so! He typically published literature along with his games that if you didn’t have made the games frustratingly difficult or even impossible (see bureaucracy). From the description of
858.
by rusk 6y ago
Preach Brother
859.
by rusk 6y ago
Dunno if anyone missed it but there’s a really sweet playlist down the bottom. The opener. What a tune https://open.spotify.com/track/6uDF1hOBaZmVNRGZm1NE7g?si=RQz...
860.
by rusk 6y ago
Both of which I was aware of but I heard that some kind of suspension design would work. The tunnel is infeasible because there’s a very deep trench there, and that as you mentioned is filled with all sorts of nasty stuff.
861.
by rusk 6y ago
Blank cheques
862.
by rusk 6y ago
and heavy redaction I’ve also seen fees being used which is technically legal and is supposed to be a reasonable administrative charge but can be multiplied by the number of subjects involved for instance.
863.
by rusk 6y ago
What’s feesible? The tunnel or the bridge? I’d heard the tunnel wasn’t possible due to the particular geography of the channel. But a bridge? Now that I’d be interesting I seeing. There used to be a giants causeway across there in mythical
864.
by rusk 6y ago
Depends who you ask.
865.
by rusk 6y ago
Works well for China!
866.
by rusk 6y ago
Nationalise them so
867.
by rusk 6y ago
That’s a good thing. You can listen to what you want to without that nagging feeling you might be neglecting your kids!
868.
by rusk 6y ago
I do this all the time. I understand from context. I’m relying on the position, some annotation and previous experiences to know what’s going on. This is good design and an illiterate person could be walked through this a few times and coul
869.
by rusk 6y ago
> is a nice goal It is the goal, if you’re designing any kind of graphical app.
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by rusk 6y ago
Oligopoly so

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