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by blue1 4d ago
Note that we already already apply this principle not only to software, but also to some sentient beings. If your dog kills someone, you are accused of murder. [at least, in the jurisdiction where I live] If your dog gets this treatment,
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by blue1 18d ago
I would be curious to know the age distribution in yesterday's Iceland vote. In the case of Brexit, the brexiters were mostly old people and the bremainers mostly young; for this reason, the forces of demography are slowly pushing the
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by blue1 1mo ago
Too bad an updated edition of PCL never materialised
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by blue1 2mo ago
did you forget the "/s" or is it a serious question?
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by blue1 3mo ago
On Ponte dei Pugni (Bridge of Fists), which was the most famous venue for these spectacles, there are marble feet markings which were the starting positions for fighters.
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by blue1 3mo ago
To my ears, the sound is wrong. At least the Solari flip boards had a typical rustling sound, this is too much clicking.
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by blue1 5mo ago
SPI does not exist anymore, but there are other publishers still doing it, although the market is much smaller now. The biggest one is probably GMT games.
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by blue1 5mo ago
Interesting... However, ironically, EBGRIA is awful too, in its own way. The typography is rudimentary.
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NASA's lunar Gateway space station is out. Moon bases are in(space.com)
5 points by blue1 6mo ago|0 comments
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by blue1 7mo ago
ISBN prefixes does not always indicate a country. They may be are indeed countries, but others are language areas (e.g. 0/1=English) or "regions" (groups of countries) or even other subjects. See https://en.wikiped
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by blue1 7mo ago
High level programming languages were conceived by humans and for humans. Will AIs in future better use their own languages, or maybe even output machine language directly?
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by blue1 9mo ago
Unusable on iphone SE, the UI is cropped on the bottom and cannot be scrolled.
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by blue1 10mo ago
I was basically thinking about investing in the “S&P7”. No forecasting.
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by blue1 10mo ago
So a viable strategy would be to only buy the best 7 stocks? Like the Dogs of the Dow, but reversed? (The Gods of the Dow?)
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by blue1 1y ago
The Elgato Stream Decks, although not keyboards proper, come very close
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by blue1 1y ago
This project, which seems interesting, would greatly benefit from a better explanation of what it is, and some screenshots.
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by blue1 1y ago
I see no mention in this thread of KiTTY < https://www.9bis.net/kitty/ >, no one uses this instead of PuTTY?
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by blue1 1y ago
I agree in general, but this project HAS releases; At least, it had until a certain date. So if you jump to the releases page, it gives the impression that the project is now dead. If they have abandoned that model, they should at least wri
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by blue1 1y ago
Latest release is from five years ago, unfortunately. The project seems mostly abandoned.
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by blue1 1y ago
Correction: books.com became barnesandnobles.com, not Amazon. Amazon assimilated bookdepository.co.uk, but much later.
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by blue1 1y ago
In the 90s, Book Stacks (books.com, eventually bought-and-destroyed by amazon), in addition (or before?) having a website, had a text-only online bookshop via telnet. I bought some titles that way. It was pretty cool!
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by blue1 2y ago
I remember enjoying it a lot until the end, which I found stupid and contrived.
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by blue1 2y ago
There's a whole book devoted to that, titled "10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1));:GOTO 10"
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by blue1 2y ago
I don’t know in France, but at least in Italy companies are not a shield for penal responsibility; crimes are always committed by persons. If a company does something criminal, someone is responsible for that decision within the company, an
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by blue1 2y ago
I don’t think that’a true. Too many years have passed so I cannot cite makes and models, but I worked in an IT magazine back then and there were mp3 players with a lot of buttons, not unlike those overcomplicated VHS recorders which sold on
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by blue1 2y ago
Apple used to sell stuff that had “curated UIs”: few control, few functions, and excellent UX. I remember the cleanliness of the iPod vs the overfeatured and complicated competitors.
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by blue1 2y ago
What matters to me are certain small differences in the UI.
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by blue1 2y ago
I have been using Seamonkey since when it was called Netscape, but there are so many sites that do not work with it that I been forced to switch to Firefox. I still use Seamonkey for my mail though, I prefer it to Thunderbird.
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by blue1 3y ago
Emacs runs in haiku OS. So most of my requirements are satisfied.
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by blue1 3y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC AmigaOS is the whole operating system, while AmigaDOS is the part of that OS that handles disk I/O, plus the CLI, etc. Yeah, a naming mess.

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