drpixie

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by drpixie 3y ago
Wrong domain name - bcdclock.net is available.
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by drpixie 3y ago
No idea but it did generate a reaction ... Is she a Hollywood spy/hacker? What system she breaking into? (Maybe it's the dark scene and backlighting :) )
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by drpixie 3y ago
yup - and because the number feature interactions is exponential with the number of features, things get much, much worse as the number of interacting features increases.
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by drpixie 3y ago
> with the right programming :( That's the bit we still don't have right. Apart from a few special cases, we really struggle to use a small number of threads, or a GPU, without enormous amounts of effort - let alone distribut
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by drpixie 3y ago
Perhaps add "Docs must be more than screenshots or follow-the-monkey instructions". If it's not appropriate to explain what the system is doing, it is then appropriate to link to something that does explain it. Docs that say&
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by drpixie 3y ago
But the fact the manufacturer wants you to replace the part, is not evidence that the part needs to be replaced.
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by drpixie 3y ago
I've certainly had lots of login probes at common non-standard ports - 22+n for easy to remember n. But it's nice to have the logs reasonably clean, makes it easier to see real problems.
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by drpixie 3y ago
Similar. It's been a good experience and no more or less successful than gmail. I've had a couple of delivery hassles (easily fixed) but plenty of stuff gets lost in gmail's or outlook's filters. So at the end of the say
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by drpixie 3y ago
If you've got a sensible ISP, you can host from home just fine. You'll need an ISP who can permit traffic on port 25 (usually blocked for domestic connections); a "static" IP address really is necessary (a fixed address,
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by drpixie 3y ago
YES - The ribbon UI has been around for ... what, decades, now. And it's still less usable that regular menus :(
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by drpixie 3y ago
Over the last few years it's been moving away from providing maps. Seems like management only want to provide advertising, and follow-my-directions ... It feels like "do what I tell you and buy what I tell you", not what I wa
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by drpixie 3y ago
I now routinely install fake-ubuntu-advantage-tools.deb to remove Ubuntu "Advantage". It's an empty package that satisfies the dependencies. I also remove some of the crap that Ubuntu put in /etc/update-motd.d. From
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by drpixie 3y ago
Precisely. Why go for the complex, expensive, and fragile solution when better shades (and maybe proximity/motion sensors) would do the job?
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by drpixie 3y ago
An important function of language (and accent) is to distinguish between groups/classes of people. Makes it easy to tell if someone spent many years at school, or learnt a "trade", to tell people from one (monied) area from a
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by drpixie 3y ago
Perhaps ' is pronounced as a small tongue click?
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by drpixie 3y ago
Anyway, a well organised big project is a collection of related small projects :) And what's good for one small project is likely to be good for many small projects.
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by drpixie 3y ago
And of the same vintage, hands up who remembers "line printers" (hence the device name lpr). They had a row of solenoid driven hammers that would belt the paper+ribbon against a spinning drum or chain that was embossed with metal
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by drpixie 3y ago
And make people better programmer it did :) It's very usual now (and for the last 20-30 years) to see programmers live a loop of more-or-less randomly change code and see if it runs, repeat... Their code will eventually run, and pass t
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by drpixie 3y ago
Reaching a "reasonably close" upper bound estimate wouldn't provide proof ... probability maybe, but not proof.
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by drpixie 3y ago
Am I the only person who thinks the whole thing is a joke, a bit like brainfuck - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
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by drpixie 3y ago
Outlook webmail is pretty bad. Not only does it do the "... days ago" thing, but it wants to show what it regards are important at the top. So you get two partly duplicated lists, partially shuffled together - it's horrible
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by drpixie 3y ago
Absolutely agree. If they think they can make a better file manager, great, go ahead. But including transports in the file manager means that remote data only looks integrated, it isn't actually available to local apps. Or (just as b
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by drpixie 3y ago
Well ... Name a language is which you categorically cannot "shoot yourself in the foot"!
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by drpixie 3y ago
While there are a few disagreeable points, I like the article. I've always felt that C is unfairly maligned. Yes, it's very low level, it's meant to be. Yes, it lets you shoot yourself in the foot, but what language doesn&#x2
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by drpixie 3y ago
You're right about the tape. Duh.
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by drpixie 3y ago
> But BB is an uncomputable function. You've not escaped undecidability at all. You cannot write a program that will compute BB(n) given n as an input. I think you're going down the wrong path re "uncomputable". BB(n)
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by drpixie 3y ago
Personally, I enjoy these various "programmers fallacies" articles. I find those weird and obscure factoids about postcodes, names, addresses, numbers, and so on, to be fascinating. They remind me what a rich and diverse world we
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by drpixie 3y ago
See https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-...
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by drpixie 3y ago
> Unicode the complete, total and utter clusterfuck that it is. I'm inclined to agree - they took a big problem and made it into a big & complex problem. I propose a fix - immediately depreciate all multi-codepoint graphemes and
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by drpixie 3y ago
An Australian here. " A couple " is exactly 2, excepting very specific downward exaggeration ("I'll only have a couple of beers.") " Several " is always more than 2 but always a small number - say 3, 4, or

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