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by shever73 3y ago
It's great to see that spam will drop on the few text-based newsgroups I'm still subscribed to. I detest what Google has done to newsgroups, and I'd love for there to be another credible archive.
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by shever73 3y ago
The comments on this article are even more interesting. The product manager for Apple Pascal has a copy of the poster signed by Niklaus Wirth.
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by shever73 3y ago
* Fewer people in the United States. The World Economic Forum reports that EV sales are still strong in Europe[0] [0] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/11/electric-car-sales-eu...
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by shever73 3y ago
Agreed. I've driven an EV for over 4 years and range anxiety vanished after the first few months. I live in a city with good charging options, but often have to take longer road trips to see aging parents who live in a very rural area
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by shever73 3y ago
Trumpet Winsock in the 90s...it was the only way for me to connect to the Internet. Commander Keen AsEasyAs - the Lotus 123 compatible DOS spreadsheet As a result, I remember getting lots of badly-printed shareware catalogues every month. M
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by shever73 3y ago
For me it was a lack of specific instructions on how to handle overlaps. The edge case that frustrated me for a while was "oneight" at the end of a line. My initial code made it look like this "1ight", when it should hav
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by shever73 3y ago
> No hate on AOC though, I really respect all the hard work that goes into it. 100% with you on this. Last year was the first year I'd had time to complete it, and I always love the challenge.
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by shever73 3y ago
As others have said, part 2 of today's was really difficult. I finally solved it using Python regex `overlapped=true`, but it was very tricky. The irritation of having all of the test cases passing, but it failing for my challenge inpu
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by shever73 3y ago
An example of what Charlie Munger would have called "the power of incentives to cause rationalized, terrible behavior".
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by shever73 3y ago
It often did, particularly on older versions of Windows. I helped uncover a bug in Epson printer drivers ~20 years ago that was caused by a specific graphics card.
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by shever73 3y ago
I use Eternal September too. I wish that there was another archive of Usenet. Google’s “stewardship” of it has been predictably disastrous.
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by shever73 3y ago
I usually have a couple of books on the go at the same time. So, right now I’m reading “A Month By The Sea” by Dervla Murphy. It’s a fascinating account of a month she spent in Gaza. I’m also reading “The Plague” by Camus.
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by shever73 3y ago
I never had a personal Facebook account. I had a developer account about 10 years ago when I was contracted to write an app for a client. I was horrified at the level of information you could scrape using the API and vowed to never have a p
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by shever73 3y ago
That doesn't match my experience in Ireland. I select co-working spaces or meeting rooms, add options and checkout. I've never spoken to a Regus advisor.
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by shever73 3y ago
> there really is such a thing as a person with a lot of book-learning but less common sense than a sea slug I don't even think SBF had the book-learning, just intellectual arrogance. "I don’t want to say no book is ever worth
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by shever73 3y ago
Get Tarn Adams involved and it would!
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by shever73 3y ago
That’s probably wise. I wish I had waited. Since upgrading to Sonoma, I have recurring issues with the system file dialog. Sometimes the dialog will open, but not allow me to save, other times it will just fail to open altogether. Any time
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by shever73 3y ago
Reminiscent of the Activision game, Hacker, which I bought for the ZX Spectrum. It shipped with no instructions, you had accidentally got access to a computer system and needed to work things out from there. For a kid with no modem, it was
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by shever73 3y ago
For me the year is like a ribbon...almost like a an old film reel. It's an interesting study, though. It reminds me of Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man Month: > I have long enjoyed asking candidate programmers, "Where is next No
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by shever73 3y ago
Interestingly, when we were hosting some Ukrainian refugees recently, "sister" or "brother" could refer to a literal sibling or a cousin. I was unaware of different kinship terminologies until today (thanks again, HN), b
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by shever73 3y ago
The CSSCGC has run almost every year since 1996. I haven’t been able to take part this year, but the latest compo is always forwarded from https://csscgc.org
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by shever73 3y ago
Anaerobic conditions preserve the body. After a while, the damp would have contributed to the formation of adipocere.
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by shever73 3y ago
Near where I live in North Dublin, there is a plot like this. It was called the Suicide Plot and is where the bodies of people who had committed suicide or were executed as criminals were buried. They were buried nailed to a plank with a st
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by shever73 3y ago
The point about learning Swift and directly building an app is a good one. I was thinking recently that a general rule of thumb should be "don't learn a programming language unless you have a project in mind". I have learned
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by shever73 3y ago
Yes, me too. I'm no longer in that geographic area (or area of the industry, for that matter), so I don't know. However, I am anxiously awaiting my Spectrum Next...it seems to be inching towards a delivery date.
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by shever73 3y ago
Slight nitpick: the Amiga was released in 1985, so the system dates at least from 1986. Other sources say 1987, which is not the "early 1980s" as the article says. However, it's still cool that it's running. I love seein
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by shever73 3y ago
I have a doc, which is password-protected and shared with my wife. It contains details of bank accounts, how to access shares, who we're insured with and passwords / passcodes for things she might need access to.
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by shever73 3y ago
>It's also a very good idea to write these types of resources when you teach yourself something new because it clarifies your thought process and helps you identify parts that are still unclear even though you initially thought you
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by shever73 3y ago
Straight-to-wok noodles with some chopped mushrooms, a standard sauce mix and then stir in a spoonful of Lao Gan Ma at the end. Takes about 10 minutes to prepare and cook. If I have more time, I'll make my own sauce using stock, curry
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by shever73 3y ago
I've been affected using the desktop app in Ireland. Some messages not sending, others being duplicated and messages from others are not received.

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