zabzonk

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721.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Can you imagine what a boring existence they must have? Live forever, and do almost nothing.
722.
by zabzonk 2y ago
why tenured? (I can't be sacked?). why startup? (well, why at all, but also cannot easily be sacked, should the startup actually work). just my opinion, and not to badmouth, but this sounds like a somewhat insecure person.
723.
by zabzonk 2y ago
> Growing up, I had two major life ambitions: to become a tenured university professor, and to found a successful startup company. why the hell those two? I eventually - into my thirties- worked out that i wanted to be a good computer p
724.
by zabzonk 2y ago
that would be a sorbet?
725.
by zabzonk 2y ago
After using a keyboard for circa 50 years, I can't read my own handwriting. I can't even give a reproduceable signature.
726.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Complicated template types, where you have a general idea of the type but you don't want or need to spell it all out (it might be very long) when the compiler can easily do it for you.
727.
by zabzonk 2y ago
That is certainly true - associative arrays in c++ (std::map) for example, are implemented as red-black trees.
728.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Don't miss out on "The History Man", by Malcolm Bradbury, another campus novel that is as dark as it is funny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_Man
729.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Oh really? It takes a few more seconds to add a can of beans to your cart - who cares? The thing that really winds me up is forcing you to use a mobile for 2FA, when it would be easy to support a landline as well, which thankfully my bank
730.
by zabzonk 2y ago
The Sinclair Spectrum Z80-based home computer had a keyboard that had all its BASIC keywords on the keyboard. I can't say I liked it, particularly as the keyboard was a very horrible rubber affair.
731.
by zabzonk 2y ago
But look at how hard it is to build a factory or a fab here on Earth...
732.
by zabzonk 2y ago
My history with networking: - late 70s, rs232 terminals. well, it kind of worked. i spent a lot of time under the desk - early 80s, frozen hose ethernet - i remember not being able to get a sun workstation to sit on the desk because the cab
733.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Pretty much. But they may have other IDs like driving licences. And they are introducing electronic visas for immigrants.
734.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Well, not in the UK. Here you need a passport to partake in any significant financial activity - I had to get one to sell my flat, and you need one to open a bank account. Neither of these were needed 20 or so years ago. It's basical
735.
by zabzonk 2y ago
yeah, i never really liked their first album - or their later ones much. just me i guess. i thought 2 was the real high point.
736.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Led Zep 2?
737.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Sad that NY didn't seem to know what they had - in London, UK, just about all old victorian stations are preserved, though there are some modern horrors such as Euston. Last time I worked in the US (a while back now) I made a special t
738.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Apparently they are being controlled quite well in the UK at the moment. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/13/rapid-sp...
739.
by zabzonk 2y ago
well, if we are on a wb yeats kick: I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And
740.
by zabzonk 2y ago
well, by writing, I would say. For example, try writing short stories (anyone can write haiku). Also, writing technical documentation is a good discipline, though many people don't like doing it.
741.
by zabzonk 2y ago
i have no "slavish loyalty" to anything - i just like the taste, as presumably your gf did as well. i do not like the smith's stout. and i think i have drunk enough beers in my 70-odd years to know what i like!
742.
by zabzonk 2y ago
> And no visitors to the city have ever felt disappointed in an English pub if taken to the Louise Well, I have, because you can't get proper Guinness there, only Smith's inferior substitute. But it is a nice pub, despite that.
743.
by zabzonk 2y ago
the standard library certainly has a few problems, if you haven't read the docs, but that does not mean that i do.
744.
by zabzonk 2y ago
I have been using null terminated strings since the mid 1970s - before using C, and have never had any problems with them.I have never seen an explanation from someone that has that makes any sense.
745.
by zabzonk 2y ago
So long as it is not Dunwich.
746.
by zabzonk 2y ago
ah well, the wonder of science fiction - not to be disparaging! and thanks for reminding me about clement.
747.
by zabzonk 2y ago
William Gibson, Idoru. Heroine Chia Pet ends up (after some adventures, in cyberspace and meat) with place in the walled city. It's a good book.
748.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Well, of course. But primarily, you have to be able to write code. And to do that, reading books is the primary resource (and for a lot of the other things you mention).
749.
by zabzonk 2y ago
nanotech? some things are very weird, for example when the physical (or are the human astronauts the same as they were on Earth? no they are not - see Gene for example) Gaby dies and is transported to the hub. what is going on there? and wh
750.
by zabzonk 2y ago
It's the way I roll, I guess. Everything technical with regards to computing I have learned in life I've done so from books/manuals. It is kind of all of human history to do so. And are you suggesting that you can't get

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