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by softgrow 2y ago
The article is about internal defibrillators. External ones are still the same as (good grief) 35 years ago (well maybe down from 300J to 200J). The only change I've noticed is moving from a gel for the pads to a gel pad (which feel li
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by softgrow 2y ago
I'm a long way from Lebanon, but carry two pagers for Emergency Services (one per service). One used to be an Apollo Gold but now it isn't. From what I've read these were modified pagers, but I still rang one manager for reas
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by softgrow 2y ago
Given a navy ship is a collection of conductive metal boxes bolted together , would there be an issue with radiation hazards from (introduced consumer grade) RF bouncing around each container? Equally, probably also not nice to have fuel or
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by softgrow 2y ago
Do we love Lazarus itself or is it the warm glow we see through it from Turbo Pascal, VAX Pascal, Stony Brook Pascal etc? Ah memories.
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by softgrow 2y ago
https://tuxpaint.org TuxPaint is an app that is very similar from 2002 onwards to current. I have been installing on many computers for small children since. Stamps and noises are the most loved features.
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by softgrow 2y ago
And in Japan it seems that every time you drive somewhere after 10pm there are roadworks everywhere (on the non-toll roads). Very pretty with kaleidoscopic lights but it takes just as long late at night to move around as earlier on.
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by softgrow 2y ago
Probably should have made this comment 20-25 years ago but anyway. Always was impressed that with each new release that my application ran that bit faster on the same code, so thank you backend people (SPARC). Lots of fun to bootstrap too a
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by softgrow 2y ago
I am I the only person who scrolled to the end? I was somewhat intrigued by the subscription model Developer (person) as a service subscription.
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by softgrow 2y ago
I have a web form on my website which is used mainly by spammers and my Dad. So when he can't seem to email me, there is always a backup that works. Parents demand highly redundant systems of their techno offspring.
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by softgrow 3y ago
Both of my great-grandmothers died by the time by 12 months old. A message to my children - hurry up, make my living parents great-grandparents!
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by softgrow 3y ago
Its in the NHK World app and turned on by default. I'm not in Japan but my phone went crazy with all the earthquake and tsunami warnings. Remarkable how slow all the non-Japanese media were in covering the earthquake. Remarkable still
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by softgrow 3y ago
A least one Japanese railway company has set up business https://www.stationwork.jp with closets for rent in stations. I've never used one, but perhaps they have the formula for a closet office that might be useful. Looking
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by softgrow 3y ago
This could be more of a symptom of Excel (and spreadsheets) being too darn hard to get right. I've switched to Sqlite and Jupyter from what was a useful but hard to debug spreadsheet with really long repeated formulas that were just da
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by softgrow 3y ago
Its about bringing externalaties to account, ie if you cost someone else money be it through particulate pollution, noise pollution, road maintenance, road provision you should pay that. So you can choose, but you must pay the full cost o
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by softgrow 3y ago
There is a longer article https://www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/jrtr15/pdf/f38_tec.pdf from a series on Railway Technology from the Japan Rail and Technology Review https://www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/te
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by softgrow 3y ago
The other thing GnuCash doesn't do is be a multiuser web app. It's an executable, remember them? There is https://github.com/joshuabach/gnucash-web 0.1.0 but that is just an access to the register you might (
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by softgrow 3y ago
I named computers in a church after biblical characters for a while and moved back to asset tags. You can never be sure how to spell Nebuchadnezzar and asset tags are sooo much easier.
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by softgrow 3y ago
COBOL at least for me, is quite readable. I've worked with code (not in a bank) that processes binary records in a quite readable way allowed porting the functionality to C++. Comments from the people who wrote it that it wasn't t
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by softgrow 3y ago
Half of the article is about the disparity between pricing of print and e-books. Universities have been moving to ebooks for ease of access, and also to avoid building structurally expensive libraries that cope with the weight of the books.
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by softgrow 3y ago
Just got an email from Geoscience Australia. "SouthPAN services in Australia and New Zealand are back online and available to users, as the service outage affecting SouthPAN users via Inmarsat I-4F1 Satellite has now been rectified.&qu
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by softgrow 3y ago
Article mentions Japanese trains. Once a slightly fast train exists that can do the distance in less than four hours, it will kill the airlines and change the market entirely. (Experience of JR East in expanding services to new markets, 4-5
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by softgrow 4y ago
In Australia I keep seeing "Chip Shortage" signs on windows of restaurants, but its a shortage of potatoes leading to higher prices or more defects on your hot chips. Relief is expected in a month or so https://www.abc.
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by softgrow 4y ago
It probably was hard to hire in the mid 2000s. I applied for a job as fraud/engineer/technical investigator and didn't get it. The rejection phone call was we noticed you have "Pascal" on your resume, can you please
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by softgrow 4y ago
The company https://hinodesuido.co.jp makes a whole bunch of cast iron things, e.g. bridge panels, bridge expansion joints. The fire hydrants (manhole covers) are quite nice with a much more ergonomic removal tool than I've
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by softgrow 4y ago
Well its a bit better than Adelaide. We were like Sydney and then the stickers disappeared and with it the "auto introduction" of the pedestrian cycle. However the times that buttons need to be pressed is a closely guarded secret.
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by softgrow 4y ago
Thankfully for me, you can literally learn how to read and write on a long haul plane there. Had a great time despite being functionally illiterate. Just learned numbers, please/thankyou and was fine. This only fell over with the pecul
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Bootstrapple Builds(bootstrappable.org)
2 points by softgrow 4y ago|1 comments
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by softgrow 4y ago
I used to many years ago bootstrap Kermit onto various assorted machines to get a working kermit and then import/export binary files via a serial cable. This takes the game to a whole new (and worthwhile) level and looks so much fun.
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by softgrow 4y ago
Australia tried to introduce a similar thing with reporting of cash transactions of AUD10,000 except buying a car. https://treasury.gov.au/policy-topics/economy/black-economy The proposal died, I'm not sure w
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by softgrow 4y ago
I really would have loved doing this as a child. I'm left wondering though if actually working on a railroad would have negatively affected my love of trains I still have now as an adult. Any readers lucky enough to have worked on thes

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