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by sherr 1y ago
"Hardware support for Linux PCs is poor and lacks the manageable of Windows PCs with Active Directory and GPO, or JAMF for Macs. Enterprise software usually doesn't support Linux. Linux PCs are uncommon for personal use and corpor
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This article in The Economist recently would tend to agree : "Why all Indians are rule-breakers [1] "IF YOU HAVE ever relaxed with a cold Kingfisher beer at the end of a long, sweaty day in Mumbai, the party capital of India, you
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I get a "badware" risk on that link from uBlock Origin (Firefox). "uBlock filters – Badware risks"
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This was interesting and I was waiting for H.G. Wells to show up, which he did. For anyone interested in the far reaches of science-fiction literature, and much else, see "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". It is used to be a t
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There is a darker side to Samuel Pepys unfortunately. Either unknown, glossed over or ignored. Pepys had many admirable qualities but these have to be placed against his extremely bad behaviour towards women. Today he would be called a &quo
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by sherr 1y ago
If you like this sort of thing, a novel I would heartily recommend is "Kolymsky Heights" by a much neglected (and long dead) author Lionel Davidson. The Guardian has a short piece from 2014 that describes the plot. Great setup and
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To give proper credit, it would be fair to say here that the actual machine was designed by Poles. From the same source : "The British bombe was developed from a device known as the "bomba" (Polish: bomba kryptologiczna), whi
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I don't worry about things like games or 3D. The big advantage to me about Intel is the open-source graphics drivers. As a long time user of Linux (on everything), I don't need to worry about graphics driver issues after kernel up
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Yes, bad laws that are open to interpretation, perhaps as designed. But the police have a lot of discretion and it's much easier to go after someone for an obnoxious tweet or supposed offense than it is to go after real crimes. We alwa
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It was the rootkit on a CDROM that did it for me. Ever since then, I avoid Sony. As you say: reputation.
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Today I read a couple of book reviews in the Economist with Sam Altman as the subject. The books are : The Optimist. By Keach Hagey Empire of AI. By Karen Hao The reviews are positive for both books. The column itself is titled "Sam Al
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I haven't visited the site in years but remember reading it every week back in the 90's, early 2000's. What I recall thinking was how it put th USA "freedoms" into sharp perspective compared to most of the rest of t
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Also, a decade or so ago, a woman noticed a change in smell of her husband when he got Parkinson's [1]. She can smell the disease on people. I believe some dog's can also smell disease such as cancer. This sort of thing is a &quot
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by sherr 2y ago
Thanks. This looks like a good book and probably one I'll buy. I have many books on the "Celts" and their history, plus many more on the Iron Age in general. It's a fascinating period unfortunately let down by the lack o
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by sherr 2y ago
Great piece about a singular man and artist. It is Gorey's centenary this year (born 1925) and by a strange coincidence I just wrote a small blog post about a tribute exhibition I went to last week [1]. He seems to be a soul mate to Ch
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by sherr 2y ago
Yes, I believe it left quite a bad taste in the mouths of many a small software house. At least those trying to compete against them with a "software" paint brush,
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Great story. Halcyon days. Was Garcia playing on the kit for a purpose or just fun? Did he create anything that was seen anywhere?
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by sherr 2y ago
You think the C.S. Forester Hornblower's are juvenile? I assume you jest a little. I haven't read the O'Brian novels but have read the first two Hornblower books. I thought they were excellent, and exceeded my expectation. Be
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by sherr 2y ago
Radio Garden's great. But I just found out that it no longer allows a UK listener to listen to overseas stations, so that means it is now much less attractive ("licensing reasons"). What a shame.
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An amazing site, a real treasure. The covers are something else: lurid, sometimes very amateurish, but still wonderful. Plenty of pulp but also some very good stories, well written, by great writers. I feel we've lost something over th
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There's also archives of New Worlds and Amazing Stories (and no doubt much more) on archive.org. If you like older SF, worth a look. Modern and contemporary SF often just re-treads, only worse, some great stories from the past. https:
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Has some similarity to Tipler's "omega point" hypothesis iin his 1994 book "The Physics of Immortality" [1]. I read this years ago but have recently bought it again to have another look at. It seems to be a PDF on t
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by sherr 2y ago
Trustworthy in what way?
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by sherr 2y ago
That seems to be a great tip. Thanks.
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In my experience, how you like reading a book is hugely influenced by your state of mind and situation when you read it. You might love a book this month but have found it boring six months ago. It's just something you need to bear in
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I think this is an important realisation and it brought to mind John Von Neumann, who said to Felix Smith: "Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." I think I have sabotaged by own ed
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I saw the "Bring Up the Bodies" stage show with Miles in London in 2014. Miles was very good, as was the show. I agree that Rylance was a bad choice for the part on the BBC. He doesn't look the part at all, plus I tend to fin
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Well done and thank you to everyone putting out Perl releases and working on this still great language. Way back in the 90's I had the misfortune to use C to process large amounts of textual information (addresses), cleaning it up befo
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I agree. I stopped reading on the kindle years ago because I got so fed up with the terrible mistakes in the text. Not just spelling but also formatting. I love paper books. Having said that, Standard EBooks are very good.
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Lots of good suggestions here but I have a comment. My 90 year old uncle lives near me so I can pop round and help with problems. Trouble is mostly bad UI on web sites. - finding the login button - cookie/consent popups blocking page a

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