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by timbit42 1y ago
C++ killed Modula-2. Modula-2 was never as popular as Pascal had been and I suspect the fact it was descended from Pascal tainted it as a non-serious low-level systems language, although it was all that. Pascal was beaten by C so any descen
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Red is derived from REBOL which is derived from Logo which is derived from Lisp. I think this explains a lot.
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Sometimes he talks about his dog.
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QuiteRSS (Linux, MacOS, Windows, OS/2), Flym (Android)
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They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
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It also does nothing for those with physical or mental ailments. Public healthcare would help those.
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I use my phone instead. Having these apps in the car is like buying a smart TV and having the Netflix and YouTube apps fail after a few years due to changes in the services that the apps can't handle and the manufacturer not providing
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My Prius is also a 2006 but with only 194,000 kms. The first battery module failed 21 months ago. I bought a used one on eBay for $35 and it's been running perfectly fine ever since. I keep it undercoated but the body is going to go be
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by timbit42 1y ago
In 1997 I got a job at a college where only the college administrators had internet and it was via WinProxy and a modem on my desktop PC. They were paying for a number of ISP email addresses. They also had a static website hosted elsewhere
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My first modem was the 300 baud VIC Modem Commodore made for the Commodore VIC-20. It was supposed to be the first modem for under $100 which they achieved by not having those rubber cups for the receiver. Instead, it plugged directly into
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by timbit42 1y ago
A decade after they went off the market I came across one still in the shrink wrap and gag gifted it to a couple of friends. Neither one wanted it for some reason. "Oh, gee, thanks". LOL!
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A friend of mine replaced the twisted pair from where it entered his house, to his modem with a piece of coax. He claimed it helped.
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If a business can't provide a living wage, then whoever is running it is bad at doing so or chose the wrong business model. They should close. Why do you want poor business operators to remain in business?
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A 15 year old DOES need a living wage. How else are they going to save for post-secondary education? Is keeping them out of post-secondary preferable to you? Maybe your parents paid for yours, but not everyone has that.
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You can save many hours by installing uBlock Origin.
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Amiga BASIC was Microsoft's first BASIC with a GUI and first BASIC without line numbers. It's not very good.
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I presume you mean luxury but Mercedes reliability isn't great.
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Jack intended the Commodore 16 to sell for $49 and the Plus/4 for $79. He wanted the Commodore 16 to replace the VIC-20 (both with graphics and sound in one chip to reduce costs) with a faster CPU, higher resolution graphics (could run
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by timbit42 1y ago
A safer option is rebounding. Every time you land, every muscle in your body is exercised. It's also easy on the joints and you can do it inside if the weather is bad. Back in the 1970's, NASA studied rebounding as a way to help a
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by timbit42 1y ago
Another great option is rebounding. Every time you land, every muscle in your body is exercised. It's also easy on the joints and you can do it inside if the weather is bad. Back in the 1970's, NASA studied rebounding as a way to
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by timbit42 1y ago
It started later than the other engines and it seems to have a number of great ideas the other engines haven't adopted yet.
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Question mark, capital i, period.
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It's like how e. e. cummings wrote his name.
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If it is compromised, both your passwords and TOTP are compromised, which kind of negates the point of multiple factor authentication. If they are in separate apps, hopefully both won't be compromised, at least not at the same time.
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I prefer Tubular which is a NewPipe fork with not only an ad blocker, but also with SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.
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CoMaps: another maps app StreetComplete: help update CoMaps and OpenStreetMap Catima: for loyalty cards
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Some people don't like to keep passwords and TOTP in the same place.
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Oh great. Now you've restarted the Windows, Mac, Linux wars.
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That type of money can be printed at will causing devaluation.
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How would you do online banking and shopping without crypto?

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