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by zabzonk 1y ago
> In big cities and small, all intersections have a roundabout. As someone that has lived in London for nearly 30 years, I can safely say - no they don't. Most intersections have traffic lights.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Perhaps measuring how well people perform on IQ tests?
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by zabzonk 1y ago
My (very sad) inkjet story: I bought one of the first consumer HP Thinkjets - the ones with the font cartridges. I plugged it all in, but could not get get it to work. Phoned the supplier, who were useless (of course) and then just sat look
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by zabzonk 1y ago
what about: f(x) = x * 2 not assignment, and it looks like maths to me
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by zabzonk 1y ago
In the early 80s, a lot of the floppy disks and drives I had to use could have been crafted by cavemen out of a Far Side cartoon.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Perhaps switch languages/paradigms for a few days. If you are used to using "text-based" languages such as golang, python, c++ or java, try something like Smalltalk to freshen you up. Pharo https://pharo.org/
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by zabzonk 1y ago
I bought a Trinitron tv a little later. It was an amazing display, and the weird thing was that I bought it (at a good discount) from the UK firm "Boots the Chemist" which used to sell all sorts of hardware. Alas, it has gone thro
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by zabzonk 1y ago
> In many ways, the tuple (BBC Micro, Acorn Computers, arm) is analogous to (IBM PC, Intel, x86) Except the BBC micro didn't use an ARM processor - it used a 6502. Whereas the IBM PC did use the Intel processor.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Anyone know when this all changed? At the age of 5 I used to walk to school alone without me or my parents worrying. That would have been about 1958/9.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
But of course the British did create one of the greatest transport projects - the country-wide railway system, only to have it destroyed by the Conservatives. I used to live in North London, and it made me so sad that each branch-line I wal
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by zabzonk 1y ago
As far as I can see from the books, what comes next after death is mostly determined by what has gone on before. So, a bit like life, really.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
What does "OSS repo acquisition" even mean?
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by zabzonk 1y ago
I loved Mercurial (still do), and despite all the bad news, Google Code. And despite even more bad-mouthing, BitBucket.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Utter nonsense on X. Some people should not be allowed out of their house alone, or be able to access anything like modern technology. For example "I've seen 12 people hospitalised after using a toaster"
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by zabzonk 1y ago
> leading parenthesis to begin every expression well, that's not really what it is doing - it is saying apply this function to these parameters.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
In my experience, people simply go "Doh, of course!" or don't write the wrong code in the first place. It has never caused me any real problems. For those of you that may be curious, or not know C++, in C++ this: Obj x
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by zabzonk 1y ago
I don't think many people would start to use a language unless the found the syntax at least a little simpatico - but I guess they could be drawn by the semantics it provides.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
In my experience, everyone finds the syntax of their favourite language lovely - I love (mostly) C++.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Microsoft unwrote a lot of the code that IBM needlessly wrote. I worked as a trainer at a commercial training company that used the Glockenspiel C++ compiler that required OS/2. It made me sad. NT made me happy.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
For those interested in Eliot, the BBC has a lot of stuff (criticism, recordings, etc.) in various places. Just search for "bbc ts eliot".
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by zabzonk 1y ago
several uk islands are accessible by bridges.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
For my xray stuff (broken ankle/leg and earlier badly broken arm) they all seem to love it compared with photographic plates. I like seeing it too, but of course they could do that with photos, but only after some time. Good to have it
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Oh God, my back door is open - aai Cthulu fhatang! [slurping noises]
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by zabzonk 1y ago
> fnord Hey, I saw that!
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by zabzonk 1y ago
I flew in a Comet 4 from Athens to Nicosia in Cyprus a couple of times when I was a kid, back in the 1960s. I must admit it felt to me a bit like getting into a Victorian railway carriage after getting off the then very modern Trident from
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by zabzonk 1y ago
do read the link. don't be like that (assuming it is real)
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by zabzonk 1y ago
jesus, that is great satire!
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Well, all code once written is legacy code. But at least if written by a human you can talk sensibly to someone about it.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Hardly PKD's greatest work. But it is fun to see how many famous pulp authors are represented in this edition of the mag!
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Why buy a domain at all these days? Can't you simply use github?

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