medwards666

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by medwards666 6d ago
Windows 7 was certainly pretty, but I still think that W2000 was peak Windows UI (and I've been around since Windows 2.0)
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by medwards666 8d ago
Absolutely beautiful.
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by medwards666 9d ago
... and that's the trick, isn't it. Have you ever tried going into an electrical store and buying a dumb TV any time recently?
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by medwards666 9d ago
True. But corruption by those in positions of power and influence is a problem as old as the ages, sadly. But at least there _are_ rules and penalties in place for those caught so there's an element of risk. Whereas the blanket data
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by medwards666 9d ago
This sort of blanket data collection needs to be made illegal in every single jurisdiction, and have _very_ robust penalties for anyone found in breach of them.
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by medwards666 27d ago
Turn on caveman mode first?
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by medwards666 27d ago
This morning I asked Claude to provide a summary of the work it had done but to '... explain it as if you were talking to a moron' and it actually turned out a quite comprehensible summary. So going to continue trying that as a co
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by medwards666 27d ago
But what if I _really like_ Duran Duran???
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by medwards666 2mo ago
Awesome. Have starred the repo and will have a look through it later tonight when I'm done with work.
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by medwards666 2mo ago
True, that's an option, but a native build would be optimal
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by medwards666 2mo ago
Presumably though Canva subscriptions? Shame it's only Mac/Windows compatible. I'd kill for a Linux build.
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by medwards666 3mo ago
I had it several years ago when I was running my own one-man consultancy [ie: self-employed] ... somehow I'd managed to have six or seven people on LI claiming to work for the same company. Reported them to LI and nothing was ever do
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by medwards666 4mo ago
Love the closeout of the article: "On page 112 there are coffee stains where the caffeine blots are somehow still a valid Perl program."
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by medwards666 4mo ago
There were a couple of cartoon series by Cosgrove-Hall that were _really_ well done. (Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music)
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by medwards666 4mo ago
I read it, and I cried like a baby. Still do whenever I reach for it.
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by medwards666 5mo ago
> LN2 had something in a bathroom? You have to position yourself in the doorway and do a squat of faith) Sounds like every time I go to the bathroom ... :D
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by medwards666 6mo ago
I get the same. Work has shifted to being agentic first - and whenever I use anything other than Claude Opus it seems that the model easily gets lost spinning its wheels on even the simplest query - especially with some of our more complex
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by medwards666 6mo ago
> "I think it depends on what you find enjoyable" Exactly this. I use agents every day to either produce tests for code I've written according to the guidelines I set out for it, or to produce the boilerplate code (which i
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by medwards666 7mo ago
Cannabis in the UK is still illegal, so unless you're picking up weed from your local dealer, it's not a big thing outside the home. But price of booze is killing pubs here. Getting close to £8 a pint now in London. £10 for a pi
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by medwards666 7mo ago
They're mentioned in the article (with a photo)
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by medwards666 8mo ago
I always thought the internals were encased in potting compound for these things to prevent exactly this scenario (certainly the ones I had for LightWave back in the day were)...
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by medwards666 9mo ago
Copying listings from computer magazines into a ZX81 ... could never get the damn tape drive to save anything that would then reload (either a cheap tape deck, or cheap tapes)... so had no choice but to hand-code. Also, didn't have the
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by medwards666 9mo ago
You could try the new remake of Avernum 4: Greed & Glory (first part of the second Avernum trilogy - no need to have played the first trilogy as this is entirely standalone): https://store.steampowered.com/app/38
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by medwards666 9mo ago
Geez ... that's a heckuvalotta pron consumption ...
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by medwards666 10mo ago
> How hard is that to fix? Aren't they using CoPilot? Just ask it to fix the invisible icon. They would, but no-one in the development team are able to log into their PCs due to no longer being able to locate the password icon ...
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by medwards666 10mo ago
This was also similar to my first thought. Damn. I want pizza now as well...
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by medwards666 11mo ago
No, the truth of the matter is they needed Copilot in there to analyse and identify the bug for them. And then write the code to fix it...
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by medwards666 11mo ago
No, but it is an odd trend I’ve noticed on several websites recently, and from an accessibility standpoint is something that should be addressed for any public facing site.
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by medwards666 11mo ago
Yup. There were drivers for both the Electron and the BBC Micro (required the Model B IIRC, Model A didn't have enough spare RAM for the software)
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by medwards666 11mo ago
Wasn't the Microwriter was it perchance? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter

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