tengwar2

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by tengwar2 1y ago
Picking up on your acre of potatoes: no, you don't need oxen for this. In fact one reason for the importance of potatoes historically is that you can grow them on marginal land with only hand labour. There are various techniques such a
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Revelations is problematic if you attempt to take it literally rather than understanding that it makes heavy use of symbolism and other literary devices. That literalism is largely specific to American society - and I don't just mean A
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by tengwar2 1y ago
That story is only tracked back to the 1400's, so not credible. The currently favoured theory is that this was a translation error. Apparently in Aramaic (the language of Judaea and Galilee), the word for "camel" is very clos
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by tengwar2 1y ago
The low-pressure version from Evrin is not plausible. It's fairly easy to calculate the stored energy in a given volume of compressed air, and it just doesn't give you enough to be useful even assuming 100% efficiency. Theres a lo
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by tengwar2 1y ago
It's not abstract: that would imply that it was not based on any real form. But it is not intended to be realistic. We know a lot about Celtic art ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_art ) and it often shows very
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by tengwar2 1y ago
<Four Yorkshiremen accent> You were lucky! We had to design and build the computer out of Z80-family components first before we could play around in binary. There was actually a reason - this was back in '83/84 in a physics
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by tengwar2 1y ago
For that to work, you need to know that the market will recover. One short bout of playing with tariffs might be recoverable, but he's reaching the stage of long-term damage on tariffs such that companies are avoiding import/expor
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by tengwar2 1y ago
> The organ is, together with the clock, the most complex of all mechanical instruments developed before the Industrial Revolution Or to put it more strongly: the most complex machines on the planet for roughly 2000 years. The starting p
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by tengwar2 2y ago
No, that's the distinction I am drawing. That match was on the basis of the information recorded for computer comparison. Basically it records certain features such as the ends of lines. It does not record the whole fingerprint. It is
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by tengwar2 2y ago
PostScript: this is how I solve the biggest problem I see. I don't care about linking to other pages. I don't care about reflowing. I care very much that if you use man in the terminal, the output is really hard to read other than
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by tengwar2 2y ago
I stopped going when they introduced fingerprinting. This is not just a point of principle. While it is not known whether fingerprints are unique (as is often claimed), it is known that the information that is stored about fingerprints and
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by tengwar2 2y ago
"expectation of privacy" is one of those slippery terms where lawyers use it differently from the public, and this isn't immediately obvious. Historically, we have expected that people can see us in public. However we have no
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by tengwar2 2y ago
You're thinking of a PC. This project doesn't address that type of computer at all. 8-bit computers programmed in Forth suggests very strongly that this is aimed at control engineering, and area where having a few computers makes
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by tengwar2 2y ago
I'm not really sure why "Excel hates CSV". I import into Excel all the time. I'm sure the functionality could be expanded, but it seems to work fine. The bit of the process I would like improved is nothing to do with CSV
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by tengwar2 2y ago
There are a couple of use cases I have come across. One is supply chain, using what is now called an NFT (the application predates that term). The case mentioned in the article is based on assuring that a physical item (a bottle of wine) is
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by tengwar2 2y ago
It would, but that's partly a matter of size, and a large house will cost a lot to heat or cool as well. I'm in the UK (cool climate), and there are a lot of smaller chapels which have been converted to use as houses quite success
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by tengwar2 2y ago
I'm guessing that you meant "iPad" not MacBook, and you are referring to purchase of apps from the App Store, not online shopping?
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by tengwar2 2y ago
This is an over-simplification at best. Some features of English grammar and spelling were planned changes - yes, based on other languages, but with particular agenda in mind. Generally grammatical changes were to conform English to Latin g
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by tengwar2 2y ago
> Markdown is far better suited for human authoring A lot of people are assuming that you would edit RTF manually. There's no earthly reason to do that.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Speaking, not producing slides. This is stuff I read aloud, and the formatting conventions such as red text are ones which fit that environment. And yes, a rendering pass is a drawback.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
> Markdown ... is for content, not style A drawback of markup languages, including TeX, is that they intermingle content and style instructions. > RTF ... is a Microsoft proprietary format RTF originated with Microsoft, but it's
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Which is why you use one of the many editors that understand RTF, not edit it directly. The only time you would need to touch the underlying format is if RTF becomes unsupported, which is unlikely.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
And again, my requirement includes colours - also bold, underline, some font support, left indent etc. It's not sufficient that a file format be long-lived - it also has to encode the information that I need. MD is poor at that, plain
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by tengwar2 2y ago
HTML would be a third alternative, yes. However historically it has been less stable in its definition, and also less stable in round-trip editing by a WYSIWYG editor - it has never been been an aim for HTML to be friendly to editing at tha
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by tengwar2 2y ago
I bought a (new) 15C recently. I have a fair few calculators, but it's the 15C that I reach for normally.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Maybe the HP15C would suit? That's back in production.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
The other major alternative to consider is RTF. I standardised on that about 10y ago, planning for a 30y horizon. It is a more complex format than Markdown, still text-based, but biased towards WYSIWYG presentation and editing, while Markdo
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by tengwar2 2y ago
I have a vague memory of using EDLIN, and finding it much more usable than ED on CP/M. I didn't use ED much - as you say, Wordstar did the job, and that applied on CP/M as well.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Depends on whether you have a suitable problem, and the problem domains have shrunk greatly over the last 40 years. I've used it for bit-twiddling in real-time data acquisition; for implementing a GUI (on OS/2 1.0, which didn&#x27
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by tengwar2 2y ago
:%s/essential/moderately desirable/g

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