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by zabzonk 1y ago
Well, it is not so much of a problem as just strange. I have had my brother, who knows a bit about power circuits, do some testing on my current house, and it seems OK. But sometimes, and only sometimes, metal shell things plugged into the
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by zabzonk 1y ago
> The story about the family losing their money to a bitcoin scammer just reinforces the perception that bitcoin is tool of and for criminals, scammers, and general low-lifes to use to launder money in the hopes that they won't be c
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by zabzonk 1y ago
> unbalanced neutral So, what's that? And how to know, in the UK, if I have it, or don't want it. Because I have had the same throbbing experience with several metal shell laptops plugged in to power in at least three houses
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by zabzonk 1y ago
It's all very accessible in that sense, for example https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
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by zabzonk 1y ago
I get this sometimes, but not all of the time on my newish (6 month) Asus 14 laptop with a UK 3-pin to mains power supply. And I've had it with other laptops in the UK. It's mysterious, but don't think it is going to kill yo
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by zabzonk 1y ago
> the docs are inaccessible The GNU make documentation is excellent - some of the best technical writing I've come across.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Those of a more light-hearted temperament might prefer Ellman's book on Oscar Wilde. But Joyce is himself very adequately described and amusingly so.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
The polytechnic I worked for in the mid 80s ran a little competition to see whether we should get green or amber phosphors on a new set of terminals. Most people seemed to prefer amber, but we bought green because they were somewhat cheaper
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by zabzonk 1y ago
did nullptr exist in c++ back in 1995 - i can't remember
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Back in the day I used to prefer amber-on-black terminals over green-on-black. But not now, it seems.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Journeyman, perhaps? I duno.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Precisely why I said the applications should access the data via a server process - they never know the underlying database schema.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
> you probably want to have the bulk of your business logic written in C# Perhaps, if the C# applications are the only ones accessing the database. But suppose multiple applications written in different languages (and for different purpo
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by zabzonk 1y ago
A brief, simplified explanation of why the -l option order matters - the linker is only going to look for unresolved symbols in libraries after it has linked the object files and found that there actually _are_ unresolved symbols (hopefully
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by zabzonk 1y ago
If you feel the need say "C/C++" you probably want to think twice.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
I would say that systems programming is writing software to support users of a system - those using the operating system. The same users might also be using application software - say an accounting package. Maybe the application software in
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by zabzonk 1y ago
buy their books - everything i have learned has been by well-written, informative books
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by zabzonk 1y ago
have you read any pre-20th C writers? Or any novels or plays at all?
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by zabzonk 1y ago
> breadth and depth of understanding about psychology have improved dramatically Provide one tiny bit of evidence for this. Do you seriously think that Shakespeare (for e.g.) did not have a profound understanding of human psychology?
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Probably yes - according to some estimates the average person may only read one, or less.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Of the four big ones, Callisto at 0.01 rem/day is probably the least deadly. Io is the worst, not only for radiation but being basically one huge volcano, powered by tidal stresses.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Kind of hard for SF stories featuring organic life (i.e. humans) to be based around Jupiter because of the planet's incredibly strong magnetic field and hence killing radiation belts - like the Van Allen belts around Earth, but much wo
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Yeah, I forgot about that. But I suppose you didn't need to replug them very often, and it wasn't much worse than plugging into an IBM PC before USB came along. And at least the Atari had lots of useful ports.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
I had a 520ST back in the mid 80s. I would have killed for a Mega ST, but I couldn't afford one and realistically needed an IBM-compatible PC, which I eventually got. Things I remember about about the 520ST: - Those horrible diagonal f
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Of course you have ADHD, of course you use some dubious drugs, of course you come up with self-centred nonsense like this. I haven't read anything that made me so cross recently, and I don't see why it should be posted here, thoug
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by zabzonk 1y ago
You know this, but it just shows that geniuses like Aristotle can be completely wrong - most of our body is trying to cool the brain!
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by zabzonk 1y ago
My ex-wife (long ago) made me a set of chess pieces in resin as a birthday present, in a kind of Norse style, which were quite nice. And my dad had a set of plastic ones in a sort of Gothic style. Bothe were good, but I still think Staunton
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Yes, and other ones, such as "The Great Wall of Mars" - it's the same shared universe, all of which feature the Conjoiners and their brains and starship drives.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
I kind of skipped through this article, but one thing occurs to me about big brains is - cooling. In Alastair Reynolds Conjoiner novels, the Conjoiners have to have heat-sinks built into their heads, and are on the verge of not really being
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by zabzonk 1y ago
I know what you mean, but that's not it - this was a short story.

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