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by tengwar2 3y ago
There are a few stack-based languages that you might enjoy. Pop-11 is a typed open stack language roughly at the level of Common Lisp. RPL (originally "reverse Polish Lisp") is an interpretive stack based language on some HP calcu
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by tengwar2 3y ago
No way of avoiding cloud storage though, which is a problem for confidential information. That's why I dropped it when I moved to Mac, and the Windows version later moved to the same restriction. It's a pity: I happily paid for On
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by tengwar2 3y ago
Apple is not a company I would trust with long term product support, at least at the pro end. It has dropped several products. I used to use Aperture, for instance, which was a great pro photography product, but it was dropped with no real
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by tengwar2 3y ago
I tried the second command. I got a load of open files, but all of them system stuff or fonts, nothing suspicious. TextEdit does store old versions of files it is working on, as with Time Machine. I wonder if what you saw was in some way re
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by tengwar2 3y ago
Death penalty happens to be the one thing that usually figures in extradition treaties with the USA: the USA must guarantee that the death penalty will not be applied. Of course there are some other countries which still use the death penal
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by tengwar2 3y ago
The strong point for me is that DEVONthink uses RTF (and RTFD) as the native format. RTF is, along with Markdown, a document format that I expect to be widely supported for the next 40 years, but has the advantage of being WYSIWYG and suppo
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by tengwar2 3y ago
And in small memory. I once had to prepare a church address list on a Psion 3 or 3a with 256kB of memory. That was total memory, used for both execution and battery backed RAM disk. I entered the addresses in to a database, exported to a sp
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by tengwar2 3y ago
Not if you own eight blocks around one public one.
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by tengwar2 3y ago
It's also not that hard to write a simple real bare-metal GUI in assembler. I had to built some lab apparatus under OS/2 1.0, which didn't have a GUI, and most of it was in assembler. It's a while back, but from memory,
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by tengwar2 3y ago
Ecotank ink is water-based and more dilute than the normal stuff, apparently to reduce the liklihood of clogging. It needs a cleaning cycle every few months - that's it.
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by tengwar2 3y ago
I've had an Ecotank (ET4500) for at least 5 years and 17,000 pages. The printer head nozzle is fine.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
To amplify this: a recognised problem with GSM/GPRS was that although the mobile device authenticated itself to the network. This introduced MITM vulnerabilities. As a response, 3G brought in mutual authentication. Do these managed WiF
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by tengwar2 4y ago
The UK government can legally fine any company doing business in the UK. It can probably fine any company anywhere. A financial fiction that "WhatsApp UK" had nothing to do with Meta is not going to affect that. It's just col
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by tengwar2 4y ago
No. It's a common way of communicating, as are email and SMS. Telegram and Signal are less common. There is however a peculiar bubble effect whereby WhatsApp users tend to think that because all their friends use WhatsApp to communicat
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Apple already do have support for specifying the time zone in appointment times, and the Clock application can show the current time in different places. What woudl you want to add to this?
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I'd say that the biggest problem with time zones is that most people confuse them with time offsets (which unfortunately is what you are doing). A time zone is a geographical area. That area can run on different time offsets - "ti
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Multi-user seems to have been something which was dropped when MS/DOS was CP/M inspired by CP/M. CP/M (and I do mean CP/M, not just MP/M) had the concept of user areas. These were a different concept from Unix
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Length of suppport is necessary. It is not sufficient to just hand the source over. As an example, I paid for TiVo lifetime programme guides. This was quite explicitly a lifetime service. They cut it off when they introduced an HD service
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by tengwar2 4y ago
You can't generalise about ancient Greeks like that. Every polis (city state) had its own constitution, and they were more radically different than any we have now. There were some poleis which used sortition, yes, but others had somet
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by tengwar2 4y ago
It does if you are doing a currency conversion. It does not at other times.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
It is telling that there is almost no overlap between your list of why you hate Teams, and my list of why I hate Teams. Burn it with fire. Salt the ground on which it stood.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
IR35. This is a UK-specific problem. I can't speak about the Republic. HMRC (the tax office) has a rule that was intended to stop people gaining the tax advantages of being self-employed while actually being permanently employed on rep
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by tengwar2 4y ago
That is a "when" event rather than an "if" event.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I've had one for many years. It's my least favourite keyboard. As they rent them out, I would suggest trying one before buying, if possible. Part of my dislike might come from the MX Black switches they used at the time, and I gat
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by tengwar2 4y ago
FWIW, rounding off would have cause more problems with 3½" disks, since 3" disks also existed (and were popular in the UK and some parts of Europe).
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by tengwar2 4y ago
The difficulty with that is that your ring finger is not completely independent of your pinkie due to the way the tendons are connected.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I disagree. I can't think of any western country where the military are in a position of authority. It's something we have got rid of over the past 50 years, with the end of the juntas in Greece, Spain, and Argentina; Franco'
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by tengwar2 4y ago
There are loads of British satellites. It's actually a significant industry. However here we are discussing a UK launch of satellite.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero_(spacecraft) .
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by tengwar2 4y ago
People seem to have very different ideas about what constitutes a minimal writing tool. For some, the important thing is that the tool excludes other distractions: perhaps it runs full screen, or on dedicated hardware. For me, it is import

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