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by zabzonk 7mo ago
I'm not denying this, but I do remember a jug of beer being ordered and me being asked to pour it into several glasses without noticeable markings, and me trying to end up with about a 1/4 inch of head as I would in the UK and my
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
I used to work in the Netherlands (i'm from the UK) and I could never understand how the Dutch put up with so much froth on their beer, even really enjoying being ripped off by it.
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Yet Another UK HS2 Screw Up(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by zabzonk 7mo ago|0 comments
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
Somewhat OT: It is actually amazing how far with a couple of tin cans, greaseproof paper taped around one end, and string attached to the paper. You are not going to do VOIP, but 50 yards is possible. Even more OT: One Xmas my Dad (unredeem
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
Which (I think) is why we prefer to use "A --> B" rather than "A>B" or "A > B"
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"We had to kill the gecko in order to save it"(theguardian.com)
2 points by zabzonk 7mo ago|1 comments
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
bad vietnam war pun
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
No, after a couple of days (or even halfway through a day) our lab coats were about as contaminated as could be! I agree with you about the use of tablets in hospitals though. I don't think I ever saw one being sterilised las time I wa
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
Well, as you ask, I got fed up with dealing with human excrement, urine, blood, pus from wounds etc. I was developing an interest in computing using things like the TRS80, and so decided to switch over. The two (microbiology and microcomput
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
To create a simple window, no it isn't. To create a rather complex application, then yes it is, compared with using a higher-level framework.
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
Seems like complaining about how difficult to use Win32 and COM are. And they are if you use them directly! You don't do that - you use libraries that others have sweated over, as you did with raylib.
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
Yes, we did all that - we had to carry markers to label culture media in containers such as petri dishes and universal containers. You can easily misplace a notepad, but its hard to lose your labcoat. I did say we were sloppy. We were not i
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
> Coats weren't white for anyone to write on, and clinical staff didn't routinely write on their clothes. I wasn't a medic, I was a microbiologist. And I can assure you we did write all over them.
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
When I worked in the NHS, our coats were far from white because we used to write on them, in magic marker, things like specimen numbers, doctors and nurses names, phone numbers etc. that we had to deal with queries about. I was always impr
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
In high-level diagrams, which I think is what is being discussed here, I like to think that A --> B means that A "uses" B in some way, and leave it at that.
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
I don't think the type needs to be in the name because it is displayed elsewhere in the diagram, possibly as the object's icon. Plus of course the reasons no-one uses Hungarian anymore - types change. And for your naming, I would
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
Couple of comments: > This can be as simple as adding a type suffix to a resource name (e.g. Orders Table, Results Bucket) Don't encode types in names. And I disagree somewhat that the names are really needed at all. > Making a “
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
> a non manoeuvrable warhead (would just be intercepted) Intercepted? In the UK, by what? London has no missile defence system that I am aware of.
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
> Note that this is from a country that wouldn't exist if not for the allied countries Which allied countries? And (I assume we are talking about the USA) why would it not exist?
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
Isn't "not being upsidedown" just one of the default properties of a button in whatever GUI toolkit you are using? I'd be worried if an LLM _did_ start setting all the possible button properties.
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
sure is - i made one using poker chips and a chessboard - i had to do the computations using my own brain though :-( https://latedev.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/a-poker-chip-comput...
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
Actually, the pad is not too bad - I'm just really not into trackpads.
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
One of my favourite features on my Asus Zenbook (Windows) is the "Disable Touchpad" hotkey.
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
And I would just add: Do we want to model the "real world"? This seems to hark back to that long-forgotten world of "animal-cat-dog" OO programming.
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
Each sub-team (about 4 or 5 people?) must create and fully document the interfaces to their product(s). Otherwise you just have a big pile of something steaming.
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
I've always thought it was Dijkstra - it even sounds Dijkstra-ish.
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
> Why can't faster typing help us understand the problem faster? Why can't standing on your head?
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Len Deighton, originator of modern spy fiction, dies(theguardian.com)
2 points by zabzonk 7mo ago|0 comments
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Heavier Proton Discovered at LHC(theguardian.com)
20 points by zabzonk 7mo ago|0 comments
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
What has that got to do with learning programming? Or not learning programming?

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