tengwar2

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by tengwar2 8d ago
Well, you know what they say: if Emacs is a religion, vi is a cult that is difficult to work out how to quit.
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by tengwar2 13d ago
Also: every modern airliner has windows with corners in the cockpit.
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by tengwar2 16d ago
With the important exception of "infinite tape". That always gets forgotten.
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by tengwar2 16d ago
At a guess: the "killer apps" are things like MS Office and Photoshop, and since they are usually available on both Windows and Mac, there's not such a pressing demand to support similar functionality for Mac apps if the Wind
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by tengwar2 22d ago
Hasn't been the case for some time.
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by tengwar2 23d ago
I understand what you are saying, but that's not close to the original meaning of the term, or at least not what I have seen in early papers. Originally the idea was a single central repository of information which would be used to run
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by tengwar2 23d ago
That's pretty much the situation in the UK if you are a sole trader. If you set up a limited liability company, that's a separate entity and has its own tax reporting requirement, but nothing onerous. I am a sole trader, and manag
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by tengwar2 1mo ago
Yes, of course. In my case Waze to get there efficiently, OSMand App for topographic maps, and occasionally Apple Maps (works well with addresses in Calendar) and Sygic. I use them in the car, and on my bike: ruggedised CarPlay / Andro
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by tengwar2 1mo ago
Yup. Just checked on Streetview.
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by tengwar2 1mo ago
Sure, but I've never heard of a diæresis being added to a capital letter.
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by tengwar2 1mo ago
Before that, there was the case of ÿ and Ÿ in the base IBM character set (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ÿ ). The former exists in a handful of proper nouns in French and Hungarian (as in about five proper nouns), bu
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by tengwar2 1mo ago
MS Office doesn't need permanent approval. I have Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Autoupdate and Update Assistant blocked from making any outgoing connection (on MacOS). That works for about a month, then I have to unblock briefly to let the
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by tengwar2 1mo ago
When I started using it, standard advice was to use Wordstar in text mode.
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by tengwar2 2mo ago
I last used MASM back in about 1989 (with MS C on OS/2 1.0). Do you have any hints on how it has changed since then? What is nice about it, and why does the debugger not match up to CodeView?
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by tengwar2 2mo ago
Skoda seem to have a small budget, perhaps $5/car, to add features in. Nothing major: an ice scraper / tread depth gauge under the fuel cap; a parking ticket clip on the side of the windscreen - that sort of thing. It tends to be
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by tengwar2 2mo ago
Yes - in Ireland (both the Republic and Northern Ireland, and irrespective of religion), the funeral is usually within three days. I'm based in England, the south-eastern part of the UK, and here funerals are typically 3-5 weeks after
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by tengwar2 2mo ago
15.7.8 is out today as well, with these security fixes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071 . For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading until MacOS 27 is availab
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by tengwar2 2mo ago
Interesting. This is one of the things that differs hugely between countries. I've taken about 550 funerals in the UK (I have what you might call a "portmanteau career"). I've only had one open-coffin funeral, and that w
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by tengwar2 2mo ago
For England as well, assuming a conservative definition like: Norman or later, mortared stone construction with remaining walls at least 4m high, not something like a fortified farm house for a single family. If you include Iron Age hill fo
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by tengwar2 2mo ago
Just checked, and it's gone from the list. Did you happen to find out what the problem was?
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by tengwar2 2mo ago
Firstly, I'm not intending any slight on you personally! In fact this might be more of an issue for you interacting with the site than for people just reading an article. There are multiple versions of the list. The authoritative site
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by tengwar2 2mo ago
My system is blocking that site as it is on the HaGeZi blocklist. I don't have any further information, and I'm not expressing an opinion on the site. An alternative might be https://noiselang.com , which is not on the
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by tengwar2 3mo ago
They have, but antiquity is not necessarily a good argument. I attended a university which required examinees to wear a black suit, white bow tie, bands, and a gown. I don't recommend it. But this is missing the point. The issue is not
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by tengwar2 3mo ago
Nothing to do with weight. It's a cramp in the muscles of the hand from holding the pen and making fine movements for hours. I'm guessing you are from a generation after keyboard use became common, so you haven't encountered
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by tengwar2 3mo ago
I'm 60+. I'd be more concerned about the student's physical ability to write for several hours continuously. Writer's cramp used to be a problem, and that was when we were used to hand-writing everything. Legibility is a
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by tengwar2 3mo ago
81k - which is interesting, because last time I did something similar, about 20y back, it was 50k. I'm not sure if I've improved.
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by tengwar2 3mo ago
Yes - a very marked step rather than a gradual increase, I thought.
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by tengwar2 3mo ago
It's probably more meaningful to force a guess, since you may guess on the basis of word elements that you do know. At worst, it's possible to compensate for a 25% chance of getting the right word by chance.
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by tengwar2 3mo ago
Yup, and I suspect that even if OP is honest in this respect, if proof-of-work gets established as a normal practice for web pages, it's going to be used this way. But just taking this as-is, what is the environmental impact likely to
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by tengwar2 3mo ago
Different species, similar niche. Highland cows are a breed of small cow bred to thrive in the rough conditions of the Highlands of Scotland, but sometimes kept in England for interest. Very hairy, and placid enough that they are always all

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