zabzonk

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by zabzonk 2y ago
VB6 made writing Windows GUI applications very easy (on screen form designer), particularly when interfacing with COM libraries written in languages such as C++. No-one would use it if performance was an issue. Better was Borland's Del
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Everyone has their own best omlette recipe - Elizabeth David :) mine is hers, except i whisk the eggs more before putting them in the pan
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Not at all that I want to get into this, but I do think things have calmed down a lot in NI and will probably lead to peaceful reunification eventually. Just my uninformed opinion.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
For what it is worth, the British army was deployed in the streets of Northern Ireland and killed not a few people. They probably had the support of the majority of the rest of the UK. And of course, in the USA the National Guard killed sev
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Go to the loo, coffee machine/water cooler, talk to someone in another part of the business, lunch, etc?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
so you would not eat home-made mayonnaise? or a sunny-side-up egg? classic French omelet (raw egg in the middle)? custard is always cooked, just slowly.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
starch has no place in home-made ice cream, though it is there in various forms in commercial ones. cream cheese might be a good idea though. i once made smoked salmon ice cream (intended as a starter) which i could imagine being improved
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Yeah, the secret of a good ice cream is the egg and cream custard, and churning while it freezes. Which does make it a bit of a pain, but well worth it.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> lepra, also caused by a mycobacterium yup, and also due to those pesky immigrants! oh, but wait! it is actually endemic among native armadillos (USA) and native red squirrels (UK) - you almost never see a red squirrel in the UK, so don
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> I don’t think you want to close all sea- and airports, built and maintain a continuous line of watch towers and minefields, enforce shoot to kill orders and pay for it all right? It wouldn’t just be immoral and stupid, but also more ex
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by zabzonk 2y ago
TB is difficult to diagnose - the bacteria grow slowly, and thus do severity of symptoms. And it is difficult to treat - the bacteria wrap themselves in a waxy sheath, which stops the drugs getting through so they have to be taken over a lo
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Some (many?) years ago i wrote a FOSS tool for messing with CSV called CSVfix. People used to mail me CSV files and ask how to parse them. Also, in my general consulting/contracting work I came across all sorts of weird stuff, a lot of
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by zabzonk 2y ago
ctrl-letters are used for other things
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I have seen no end of CSV data that embeds CSV data in a field. I'm sure this will happen for whatever character format you pick.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> but harder to read for humans harder to write too - very easy to get the length wrong, and tiresome to have to count the length
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> no easy way to type them on a keyboard or probably to see them in the screen in any sensible form. Also, what to do if you want to embed those ctrl characters in a field? you are likely back to the way that CSV does it with quotes, com
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by zabzonk 2y ago
How about house spiders? And all the garden spiders that come into our houses in the autumn? Note I am all in favour of spiders, particularly if they eat roaches!
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by zabzonk 2y ago
We (at the BBC) had the later 286 versions which claimed compatibility, and could run Windows 2.0 - they were still crap, and in fact so unreliable that we trashed them all and replaced them with Compaq, as doing so was so much cheaper in s
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by zabzonk 2y ago
For those of you that might be interested, the Rainbow was an attempt by DEC to make an IBM-compatible AND a CP/M compatible in one box - it was a very nice box, and made a great VT200 terminal, but the compatibility was just not the
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Monkeys Will Never Type Shakespeare(bbc.co.uk)
8 points by zabzonk 2y ago|2 comments
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by zabzonk 2y ago
i think you mean void pointers. the callee will then cast those pointers to an actual type it knows about (and then possibly go horribly wrong)
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> take into account 100’s of datapoints, such as customer and payment metadata as well as internal classifiers of error codes and messages and your customers are happy with you using 100s of this data?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
A Brief History Of Time?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Some of the things I learned from implementing a FORTH on a CP/M box back in the early 1980s were - writing Z80 assembler - using the assembler and linker - getting a clue about how the CP/M file system worked (it didn't, ve
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I remember back in the 1980s that if you had a cheap microcomputer (I had a Dragon32) you actually needed a cheap, low-quality cassette deck to save/load your code/data successfully - the higher-fi ones would simply not work well,
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I suppose these might have been attractive to very well-heeled musicians because of the MIDI ports, which was one of the reasons that the full-sized ST was popular with them.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I remember being called in to make my screaming little brother (he was 5 to my 9) eat this horrible crap. My brotherly advice - "Eat it or I will kill you". Frankly, it didn't work, and I could hardly eat the stuff myself.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Galactic Pot Healer
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Or as Philip K Dick knew him - "Serious constricting path".
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Please explain what you mean by "a separate instruction".

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