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by swombat 9y ago
I learned to program with Turbo Pascal on my PC back in the early 90s. Language lite is fun. And yet, when I clicked on this part of me was really just hoping this was referring to nvidia's Pascal architecture, a hint that maybe they w
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by swombat 9y ago
What's the one brand you buy?
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by swombat 9y ago
It's not, actually. Minor scrapes could lead to death doesn't mean they always did. Same is true today. Most scrapes won't lead you to need antibiotics, but if you start to get very ill after your scrape, you will get treat
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by swombat 9y ago
If you ever come to the UK, Three offers plans that have free roaming in about 60 countries including the US. Works with PAYG too.
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by swombat 9y ago
There's millions of people relying on food banks in the UK thanks to the last 7 years of Tory austerity.
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by swombat 9y ago
I'd recommend trying out the Apple Smart Keyboard case. You can always return it in 2 weeks if you don't like it. It is currently, imho, the best keyboard Apple makes.
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by swombat 9y ago
I did consider that. It didn't seem like a valid upgrade path from a functioning 2012 MBP. I don't want to be having to use two laptops, and the MB lacks ports and power to be the fallback machine I think. I also don't like t
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by swombat 9y ago
I got a max-specced iPad Pro after returning my top spec 2016 MBP... It's now become my main work machine. I still need my 2012 MBP at home for tasks that can't be done on iPad, but those are rare and quite specialised (music prod
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by swombat 9y ago
If you want to put on fat, a diet rich in sugary drinks will do you wonders. Doesn't have to be expensive fruit juice either. Just drink lots of soft drinks every day, like, 3 litres or more, and you're setting yourself on a solid
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by swombat 9y ago
To me, this seems mostly a very justified criticism of many startup advice articles, and the reason why I wrote https://danieltenner.com/2017/03/16/how-to-write-good-startu... a good long while ago...
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by swombat 9y ago
My understanding from Astrophysics class back at uni was that sun-like stars spent 5-10b years on the main sequence, so I thought we may well have another 5b years of quality sunshine to enjoy. Or not.
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by swombat 10y ago
Wow, that book seems like a load of bollocks and a half. Makes Truthers look like the picture of sanity by contrast...
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by swombat 10y ago
Just type "aptitude increase" in your brain-keyboard. You may have to read a number of books and live a number of years before the keyboard shows up though.
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by swombat 10y ago
You implicitly assume such a measure is theoretically possible. Perhaps it is, but just asserting this as fact is not enough to make your argument valid. I believe that product development is creative, collaborative work and that there is n
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by swombat 10y ago
I don't, sorry - my dad is the journalist and he studied this a number of decades ago.
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by swombat 10y ago
Even violent authoritarian dictatorships need some foreign income from time to time...
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by swombat 10y ago
Journalism classes in Romania a few decades ago included exercises like: "Take this footage of snow in Bucharest and use it to tell a variety of different stories, e.g. 'Bucharest is paralysed by snow' or 'Bucharest enjo
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by swombat 10y ago
You can eat a very unhealthy strict vegan diet, made of pasta and canned tomatoes and lots of fizzy drinks and fries and tacos...
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by swombat 10y ago
Embrace the desire to make money. Don't let it dominate your life, of course, but you are unlikely to make money unless you actually want to, and you are unlikely to build a successful business without actually making money somewhere a
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by swombat 10y ago
How do you measure a great car? There are three factors I've observed: great cars can accelerate, great cars are fun to drive, and great cars have steering wheels. Sorry, but leadership cannot be reduced to these three factors. There a
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by swombat 10y ago
> My point is just because initial sales of the 2016 models is high, doesn't mean that it will stay that way. Once they get into people's hands and people find out "Oh the battery life is terrible and I really don't l
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by swombat 10y ago
> In contrast, desktop computers for general-purpose needs are already adequate. This falls down on the word "general purpose". What is general purpose? And what is general purpose today vs tomorrow? I put it to you that high
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by swombat 10y ago
> Amazes me that people will take the scientific highroad to global warming, but a witchcraft based approach with GMOs. Doesn't seem that amazing when you consider that in both cases people are trying to protect themselves against
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by swombat 10y ago
> Given the quality of "mainstream" press recently, I don't really see how they corrupted it, unless you mean the corruption then spread onto everyone. Ad revenue in general, on the other hand, is something I'd blame
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by swombat 10y ago
> Since fake news is nearly by definition opinion I don't think this statement is true. I googled "example of fake news" and the first article gave a good counter-argument: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ent
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by swombat 10y ago
You have to trust someone to establish basic facts about things you didn't personally witness, if you want to live in society with other humans and be able to make decisions about how to live together. And as TeMPOral points out, I&#x2
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by swombat 10y ago
I trust the German government's ability to declare an objective truth that we can all use to make decisions a lot more than I trust Mark Zuckerberg, at this point. Only one of these entities is accountable to anyone. Voting may be flaw
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by swombat 10y ago
Very much loved The Windup Girl and would recommend it too. Powerful book.
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by swombat 10y ago
It will make sense to you some day - hopefully :-) Logic is just one of the ways humans think. And often enough not the most powerful, because it is based on abstractions that are arbitrary artefacts of our minds.
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by swombat 10y ago
Worth sharing: "What is love?" "The total absence of fear." "What is it that we fear?" "Love." (De Mello)

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