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‘Not much zoology apart from the rabbit!’ Desmond Morris on his surrealist film(theguardian.com)
3 points by zabzonk 1y ago|0 comments
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Gates (who I admire) did not invent the computer terminal, the word processor or the spreadsheet.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Yes, they WERE elected, by the community (i.e. those asking and answering questions) and did a good job. Then those elected were dumped by the new owners and replaced by a bunch of yes-men. The people voting on closing submissions were not
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Only place I've ever come across one was Napier College, Edinburgh in the mid 1970s. I found it quite scary, and actually preferred to take the stairs. I seem to remember it was actually shut down, for undisclosed reasons.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
As I said, I don't know what the exact situation is today, but they certainly did. Would you want us to be sitting on a bus, contaminated with pathogens?
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by zabzonk 1y ago
I don't know about today, but when I worked in microbiology in the 70s & 80s all our lab coats and similar clothing were washed in central facilities - in most hospitals, the central laundry was (and still is) one of the biggest fa
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by zabzonk 1y ago
another sf story by cordwainer smith: https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/smithcordwainer-whenthepeoplefel...
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Ohmigod - the nadir of British industry (or was that the Sinclair QL). I used occasionally see one of these scuttling around the North Circular in London UK, and I guess I admired the owner for his suicidal bravery, given that the NC is one
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I honestly think that writing an adventure can be best done by first creating an adventure-writing DSL (in C, if you like). A few observations on the C code (I didn't read all of it): - please, no strtok - a little more concentration o
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> with its immense continent-spanning logistics capabilities. So, a bit like Amazon? Ave Jeff! Must see if they have a lion at good price. This is an attempt at a joke, BTW.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Seems a bit weird to ship lions all the way to York, in the north of England, when local predators such as bears (wolves? killer beavers?) would have been more easily (?) available.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Doesn't everyone customise their editor(s), to a lesser or greater extent?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> The last thing I want to see is what random people I don't know are posting Most of us right here?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I recommend gerbils - they don't piss all over the place.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Let's go the whole way - TempleOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
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by zabzonk 2y ago
do you think that the russians an ukrainians, and just about everyone else, are not not manufacturing this shit in increasing volume? do you think this is good?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Well, I don't know about you but everything I have written for money has been new (novel), interesting to me, and of value for the organisations I worked for. I would not want it to be otherwise, and I never saw it as a Mac job.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> 75% of all casualties Russian military doctors see stem from drones How can the doctors tell? And a drone does not carry much AP armament. But one smacking into a Ukrainian residential block...
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Anyone recommend a good, ideally free QBASIC-like for modern Windows? Want native Windows, no DOSBox or similar. My little brother (60+yr old) wants to get back into programming after many years of business analysis, project management, ya
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Just my opinion, but I think that folks realised it was not much use for initial design, but could work reasonably well for documentation of existing systems.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Going back to the old days, CP/M had at least or actually one size - the number of blocks allocated to the file - managing the actual useful storage was the job of the application using the file. Though I must admit that CP/M was
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by zabzonk 2y ago
"I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before"
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Favourite uses: Terry Gilliam's Monty Python animations? Or Dungeon Keeper, where you got to swat your underlings with the floating hand.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Yeah, I was meaning commercial, not home. Home, just sit down and manipulate your dong so it can't miss! Well, mostly.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Put a grill drain in the floor under the porcelain as the Victorians did.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
All those wires! Far more than my laptop (basically none, or one if I am charging). And what is the total weight and volume of all this stuff?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Well, only because tube trains are a bit slow?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Yes, yes - there any number of these silly reports. There are probably a similar number claiming that drinking is good for you.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
My point is that one drink a day is in no way "heavy drinking" - that would be one bottle of wine a day, or more. But I don't care. Nobody lives forever. If you enjoy drinking, and don't harm anyone but yourself doing so
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by zabzonk 2y ago
If I have a glass of wine with a meal I'm a drunk. Thanks. But it is my life.

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