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by tengwar2 4mo ago
And if those requirements include the need to supply passport information, that's a reason not to host in Germany.
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by tengwar2 4mo ago
Credit card is a largely fixed risk of financial loss, with some legal safeguards for recovery, and the ability to get a replacement card with a different number. Passport carries an open long-term risk of impersonation and you can't j
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by tengwar2 4mo ago
Or English has only two tenses (present and past perfect) and everything else is done with modifiers.
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by tengwar2 4mo ago
This happened with more than one letter. For instance the Scots language had a letter yogh ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogh ), which was written somewhat like a rounded "3" but lower on the line. Early prin
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by tengwar2 4mo ago
I'd say the last versions of CP/M for the Z80 - particularly on the Amstrad CPC128, PCW256 and PCW256. We had a whole lab using PCWs as standard equipment, including one sitting at a 3000V DC offset in a perspex cage (controlling
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by tengwar2 4mo ago
DR-DOS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS ) was reasonably popular, and was a derivative of CP/M-86. I never saw the original OS in the wild, though.
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by tengwar2 4mo ago
UK: ours usually have a thin serrated metal edge.
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by tengwar2 4mo ago
This doesn't look like anything to do with tax. You would definitely need to cover it in the normal tax return in addition to this.
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by tengwar2 5mo ago
I really wish the ferry over to Norway still ran, but the one I just missed by a couple of years ran from Denmark up to Shetland, then to Faroe and Iceland. I had wanted to ride up to Shetland and then take the bike up further. I think you
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by tengwar2 5mo ago
Well, I certainly didn't make them up. But it was common to follow a reference and find that there was no paper on the other end.
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by tengwar2 5mo ago
In physics, references which just didn't exist. That could be that the author made it up, but often it's because they transcribed the reference from another paper without reading it - we know because a few people have deliberately
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by tengwar2 5mo ago
It's not just AI, though. I did a doctorate in physics about 40 years back, and bad references were a problem back then.
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by tengwar2 5mo ago
Not nasal demons in this case ( https://groups.google.com/g/comp.std.c/c/ycpVKxTZkgw/m/S2hHd... ): thaumasiotes shows that we can expect a numeric answer.
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by tengwar2 5mo ago
I've found that in Italy (at least Milan and Turin), not making eye contact is key.
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by tengwar2 6mo ago
I am still trying to forget setting up sendmail.cf in that era.
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by tengwar2 6mo ago
Just looking back, we were using the hybrid ".uucp" pseudo domain in 1995, e.g. see the contact details for the third author on this papes: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2291331_Beyond_Hack... (no
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by tengwar2 6mo ago
> We could have had a world without spam You might have had an American walled garden, but I don't see this being accepted internationally.
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by tengwar2 6mo ago
Could you explain the bit about "all NaNs are equivalent"? IEEE requires that NaN ≠ NaN, but I suspect that I am just misunderstanding what you mean.
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by tengwar2 6mo ago
An operating system for munitions? An intelligent distribution panel? Seriously, it's not that hard for the maintainer to write one sentence describing what the project does.
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by tengwar2 6mo ago
On the last 64 bits, yes. On mobile phones, the first 64 bits may be fixed. This was something I argued against when I was at Vodafone Group, but didn't get any traction. That was a while back, but I'd assume that this is still th
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by tengwar2 6mo ago
Yes - but that's the gauges you are taking as standard. In fact narrow gauge railways are pretty common, since they are easier and cheaper to put through some landscapes. But as for main line high speed / high load railways, the b
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by tengwar2 6mo ago
The story about "the width of the backsides of two Roman horses" is just a myth. Which should be obvious if you look at the many different railway gauges in use. You can trace it back to 19C standardisation, and argue over whether
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by tengwar2 6mo ago
Does the editor in this environment do automatic capitalisation? I have to say that when I used Modula-2, editors were very simple and banging away on the shift key or caps lock was a real irritation.
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by tengwar2 7mo ago
Yes, there were one or two third party assemblers available. From memory, the issue was with the downstream tools - so for instance on CP/M 3.0, I think you had to use the DR one to be able to build an RSX (equivalent of a TSR under DO
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by tengwar2 7mo ago
I can't say I'm wild about a world where Digital Research won. When they were dominant with CP/M, the tools and documentation were bad to the point where most machines had Z80 processors and DR only provided an 8080 assembler
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by tengwar2 7mo ago
I don't subscribe to iCloud, and have never seen these. Where do you see them?
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by tengwar2 7mo ago
There's a bit of a tradition of introducing engineering ideas through stories. I remember a novella which was used to introduce something like MRP II ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_requirements_planning )
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by tengwar2 7mo ago
One of my jobs is taking funerals in the UK. (It's always useful for a project manager to have access to a number of deep holes). As the article says, things are different in Europe, and even between the constituent countries of the UK
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by tengwar2 7mo ago
Yup. I wondered if it was Communicating Sequential Processes when I followed a link. No, clearly not, but only found a candidate expansion 2/3 of the way through the article.
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by tengwar2 8mo ago
If you want to do that, you can set many keyboards up to do exactly that. They just need to run the standard software - QMK, ZMK or Vial. You'll need to pick a keyboard with enough keys, of course, but there is plenty of choice. Howeve

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