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811.
by tom_ 3y ago
I got a downvote. OK, let's upgrade that to 2 pounds ;) (Of course, that was a lot of money when we were both young...)
812.
by tom_ 3y ago
How old are you? I bet you a pound you're 40, or thereabouts. Trust me, your eyesight is becoming worse...
813.
by tom_ 3y ago
I claim your time would be better spent figuring out why it makes you unhappy and working out how to not mind it - this is a somewhat common means of abbreviation, and you'll probably encounter it again.
814.
by tom_ 3y ago
It's a longstanding abbreviation for "accessibility", along the same lines of i18n being an abbreviation for internationalisation. There's the first letter, and the last letter, and between them a count of the number of
815.
by tom_ 3y ago
I've found most macOS software is actually pretty good at respecting the scrollbar visibility preference, not that we should expect anything less given how often we are told that the Mac is where you go for good UX, and that software d
816.
by tom_ 3y ago
They are optimizing, probably. Thanks to the internet, knowledge sharing is substantially simplified compared to the 1990s, and it's massively easier to find people to collaborate with. Hard to understate how difficult it was to find u
817.
by tom_ 3y ago
Their employer should be providing them guidance on the matter. This article is for the rest of us.
818.
by tom_ 3y ago
It all just looks like ordinary black on white to me. Somebody else was was complaining of blurry text, also not obviously in evidence on my PC (Firefox, Windows) or iPad, so perhaps browser-dependent.
819.
by tom_ 3y ago
"Did you just tell me to go fuck myself?" "I believe I did, Bob." I'm being more than a bit mean here, in my attempt to be slightly amusing, because there's actually an obvious workaround: dynamically link with
820.
by tom_ 3y ago
Not necessarily, because it means LGPL libraries are suitable for use with non-free programs. As the library user, this is good, because you potentially get access to free libraries that you'd otherwise be unable to use. (GPL libraries
821.
by tom_ 3y ago
The no-const people will never be satisfied, so just use const as necessary, propagate as required, and ignore them when they complain. If they take it out, put it back in. They'll always get bored first. I've been doing this for
822.
by tom_ 3y ago
You don't.
823.
by tom_ 3y ago
Portrait displays are worth trying, in my view. I've gone through various iterations of multi-display setups, and I've settled on having 2 x 27" portrait displays at 1440p (or scaled 4K equivalent), one directly in front of m
824.
by tom_ 3y ago
Hahah, oh dear, and you claim to be early 60s too? And yet here you are still acting like a teenager on the internet. It's fun to be young, but you have to put it behind you at some point.
825.
by tom_ 3y ago
Probably more like 64 KB, assuming 6502 second processor... (Actual usable space is less! The second processor's onboard OS uses 2 KB. The BASIC interpreter uses 16 KB for its code plus another approx 1.1 KB for workspace.)
826.
by tom_ 3y ago
It's funny that you mention the scrolling, also mentioned here: https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2017/06/04/kicking-off... The Acorn-type CLI is interesting (in my view), and I never realised why un
827.
by tom_ 3y ago
The iPhone 12 Mini could be an option.
828.
by tom_ 3y ago
This sort of thing has long annoyed me too when I see it, so thank you for stepping into the firing line for at least the both of us. See also, "FED" for Federal Reserve. I'm trying to train myself out of this nonsense, but s
829.
by tom_ 3y ago
But the point is, the name is that type, a property enforced at compile time. If you do ``myvar:=10'', you can't then do ``myvar="fred"'', because the value of myvar must be an integer.
830.
by tom_ 3y ago
Well you've got me beat in years and mileage, but I've probably driven, like, 200,000 miles, and my experience has been that people are, by and large, extremely careless when driving cars. They will happily put other people's
831.
by tom_ 3y ago
Once you've passed your driving test, and spent a bit of time driving on the roads, you'll change your tune!
832.
by tom_ 3y ago
The post-COVID supply chain issues is a good point. I'd mercifully blanked the entire tedious experience until now reminded of it, but my car needed an insurance repair in 2022 (not my fault this time!): suspension bits, new wheel and
833.
by tom_ 3y ago
Speeding in a motor vehicle is a criminal offence in the UK. I think the relevant section is clause 89 here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/part/VI
834.
by tom_ 3y ago
> whose only change in circumstance was three points on a licence I had this happen to me about 15 years ago, if by "happen to me" you mean "I committed a criminal offence while in control of a motor vehicle". My insu
835.
by tom_ 3y ago
I could hear the difference between 320 Kbps MP3 and lossless WAV in blind tests in my early 20s - though I needed headphones to do it, and it had to be a track I knew well, and I couldn't tell which was which. They were just different
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by tom_ 3y ago
Things every hacker once knew: esr is a dick . (Something that can easily be true, even while he has done some small number of valuable things. Though I do claim this essay is not one of those things)
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by tom_ 3y ago
It complicates moving stuff around the hierarchy.
838.
by tom_ 3y ago
6 on the left is the same as the the split MS keyboards - for good or for ill. (But at least it's the same!)
839.
by tom_ 3y ago
Unlike the MS Natural 4000, all of these seem to lack one or more of: symmetrical meta keys, F keys, standard navigation cluster, right hand Ctrl and/or Alt, cursor keys away from the main typing area (probably necessary for symmetrica
840.
by tom_ 3y ago
Most binary files that people want to store in a VCS are stuff like .psd, .xlsx, .docx, and the like - data that's created by people by hand, but not stored as text.

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