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I think you're taking that far more seriously than it merits. I'd just read it as "we had fun times too"

The opening scene of the first novel during the cultural revolution I recall as being absolutely fantastic. The rest of that novel was a big rather dull Asimovian deus ex, and then the rest of the ser…

Oh, you think that's a weird view...? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_L... Not that I think anyone much bought the thesis at the time either.…

Hi, I'm Dave. Location: Stockholm (remote or hybrid only) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, AWS, Linux, technical writing Résumé/CV: https://www.l…

HN generally serves that purpose for me!

Before all the e-tailers existed one would often buy a computer magazine such as Computer Shopper for the ads and the articles were almost a nuisance. True enough now that the best deals are all onl…

Hmm, I don't entirely agree - I don't, after all, need my Disney+ subscription, or my Spotify subscription, or several patreon sponsorships. I think those are comparable. The major intrins…

Sure, and I agree except that I'd put the date a lot later; a lot of magazine reading was done on-the-go, so the point at which reading on the mobile phone was ubiquitous would be the delimiter f…

> The last time I bought a mag was probably more than a quarter of a century ago There is some kind of vicious cycle going on I'm sure - where fewer people are buying magazines, so stores have…

I agree except that I'd say "when internet access was not ubiquitous" actually. One of the major reasons I bought magazines was to have light reading when commuting by public transport …

> if people wanted magazines on topics they care about ... they’d buy ’em. I do wonder if this is entirely true. Some print magazines I would have liked to subscribe to made it unpalatable in one w…

It allows you to practice presenting yourself, which is an important part of interviewing. Having prepared material in circumstances under your control is also likely to make it easier for you to talk…

Upvoted because I disagree with this (I presume your downvoters also disagree). My degree course actually had the option of converting to a BEng from a BSc if you so chose once you'd done your in…

Well, these should get me in trouble here fairly quickly... • Modern Java is a good language. • It's ok not to be polyglot. • Debugging should not start with the debugger. • If you can't exp…

In the past I've occasionally had PDF docs printed at copy shops (spiral bound usually) - but that can work out surprisingly expensive. You should try out a Remarkable and see if that works for y…

I recommended ollama because IMO that is the easiest way to get started (as I said).

Do you see a lot of high value political discussion? I see a lot of political posturing. I despise what's going on at the moment, it's not normal, and it's not OK. But discussing it her…

I think you'll find that on that card most models that are approaching the 16G memory size will be more than fast enough and sufficient for chat. You're in the happy position of needing stee…

Probably because this is an obviously hot political topic, not new, and something that will indeed be sufficiently mainstream to be (heavily) covered in the usual news channels. Whereas the guidelines…

He did a book ("Designing Web Usability" I think) with an unconventional layout and it clearly hadn't been user-tested as it had a flaw (text too close to the binding) that made it iron…

Like many others I don't do that. Firstly it's low grade bullying. That may not be how you mean it, but you're not on the receiving end. Bullies often don't think they're bull…

When I get gloomy about current tech stuff I like to read the latest on the "Vesuvius Challenge" - making progress on reading a library's worth of scrolls that literally burned to ashes…

There's always going to be room for craftsmen.

Unless you believe that 3D printing is "going to replace all manufacturing" then the OP is not "pretty wrong" and you don't even disagree with them. FWIW I think OP came up wi…

Huh, I never knew there was a Wang Unix before. Presumably this was on the VS8000 systems? I found this brochure mentioning it: https://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/wang/vs8000…

You probably enjoyed this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/3054/

I'm not specifically recommending them as I haven't been (and I often find museum exhibitions lacklustre) but these are on my list to check out next time I'm in the UK in the appropriat…

That's super cool - I'd be interested to hear more about that if you chose to write about it.

Exactly - and the article was written as the foreword of an edition of the screenplay in the 90s prior to being republished here.

Not to mention the enjoyably ambiguous "Dogs must be carried" !