dcminter

I look forward to today's Money Stuff!

I hoped as much! Delightful.

He's likely a good bit older than me then - I was about 9 when we got ours. I think "fancy calculator" was probably one of the best ways to use them given their limitations. Their succe…

The ZX81 didn't have so much software around for it - what there was mostly came on tape, or was typed in¹ on the ghastly membrane keyboard, and what there was was very limited in capability (the…

Ask it for advice on learning to play the banjo... Edit: ...or was it the ukulele?

> I'm a Noctua fan! :)

I'm a Linux guy who doesn't really like Macs but has intermittently been required to use them. On the whole I have a grudging respect for Apple (their hardware is peerless), but seeing one s…

I like opera and classical music generally. Musicals too, although only ones written up to about 1950. I was unreasonably embarrassed about this as a kid because it wasn't "cool".

The author says: > I’d recommend you go to the show if you haven’t already, but that’s not really the point of this post. So while I agree that it is good to contemplate why you like things, that…

Yes. You should try liking things too instead of being dismissive of those who do. Kind of the author's point.

My terminal (terminator) does (2) and the "easy" scrollback on tmux messes up the ability to scroll with the mouse, at least with default settings. I just tried it in zellij and that doesn&#…

If anyone's interested, there's a bit more about the intention behind this library here: https://paperstack.com/kafkaesque/ …

Perhaps you're looking for this? https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-... …

I think you're not appreciating how big space is. They're not going to be near any star for thousands of years - and near here is still very distant. If we're still around then, we&…

My wife, being a genius, has a decoy keyboard. Pretty effective, it usually has a cat sitting on it.

Even if promotional (which I doubt even if other posts are), this ticks the 'is interesting and not shallow' box for me.

That's the third paragraph.

Their second paragraph addresses this.

The real challenge is to do it in a way that's intellectually stimulating. Mind you The Economist just had an article about the monkey called Punch so all things are possible...

> people who never actually used WASM ;) Fair if you mean me - I've at most toyed with it, but the shim stuff was off-putting. I'm a backender though, I don't pretend my opinion is o…

It misled me too - though I'm interested in the article anyway. I've emailed the mod team so hopefully the submission here will get a less context-dependent title soon.

Does anyone know if there's any reasonable timescale likely for this to happen? Last time I looked into the topic it seemed to be completely stalled, but I might well have been looking in the wro…

Just before I installed an SSD was the last time I owned a computer that felt slow.

That's unusual. Maybe that's a US thing? In Europe anywhere I've had to interview people I've received at least a couple of hours of training and then usually sat in as the shadow …

I hadn't read that page, but now I do I note that it says: "The term blob was first used in database management systems to describe a collection of binary data stored as a single entity.&qu…

One of us! :) Currently in a brief macos phase before I can be issued my Linux laptop at work. It's so clunky. A major annoyance for me right now is the lack of MST multi-screen over USB which me…

In the database world a BLOB is a Binary Large OBject ... are you sure of your etymology? Edit: and I'm not btw - for all I know BLOB in DB land might be backronym from blob in the common usage.…

While these are all reasonable points, there is a distinction between criticising people for using ${lang} (bad) and criticising the language (neutral). Some people get their egoes attached to t…

> [Rust is] a good language [...] but also a huge pita to work with This is practically the elevator pitch of the language :) and I speak as one who likes it a lot!