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I bought this on Steam last year and it is a great game! A lot of pace and impressive graphics and sound. The music is made by Yuzo Koshiro of Streets of Rage II fame. You don't ev…

I used Novell DOS 7 back in its day and squeezed > 70 MB on my 50 MB hard disk drive thanks to its Stacker disk compression feature. I remember it coming in a flashy red colored bo…

This. I really wonder how trainees are supposed to grow in an age where they are asked not to code themselves but guide a machine doing so.

You can use code blocks for this and even specify the language so Emacs can provide proper syntax highlighting: #+BEGIN_SRC html #+END_SRC If you are writing a technical document w…

While there does not seem to be a maintained snap or flagpole package available, the company behind WPS Office releases DEBs and RPMs it seems: https://www.tech2geek.net/how-to-ins…

> How do you make LSPs fast? https://github.com/blahgeek/emacs-lsp-booster The fundamental issue is Emacs its JSON parser is currently still rather slow (not sure why actually). Bu…

While I agree with you, I think, having cognition is not black and white. There are animals with great cognition skills especially among predators. Our brains are essentially antic…

> bits like those variable prefixes ($@%) Perl originated from shell programming and inherited some of its patterns. If you ever looked at a bash script using arrays you will immed…

> They threw away their user-repairable mantra when they made the Desktop You forget the value proposition of Framework products is not only they allow you to bring your own hardwa…

I am working for a company maintaining an enterprise grade software system that is primarily driven by Perl 5 and Postgres. It generates about EUR 50 million in revenue every year.…

Of course, you can use TRAMP to edit files inside docker containers. You don’t even need to install anything inside them.

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What are you using it for? Is just Youtube and checking mails or can you decently type on its small keyboard, too?

> It looks like adding a defcustom that would disable macro expansion, and basically any attempts to eval the code being edited Probably, yes. „org-babel“ can execute shell code in…

> The onset of inflation correlates more closely with global energy supply shocks than with changes in QE policy or “printing” money in Covid stimulus. Hmmm. [1] > USA, the UK, Aus…

> Today, we control inflation with changes in interest rates, not changes in the quantity of money. That is also not quite correct, I believe. The FED can invest money created out …

> I really don't need bad hinges The hinges were changed a long time ago and affected only the first generation laptops AFAIR. > weak USB ports Never had these issues. But the port…

> By the mid-'90s, NSFNET was formally dead, after years of accepting commercial traffic. Mind you: Your statement says nothing about profitability. Until 1995 the NSFNET was the m…

> The internet functioned fine for over a decade, profitably, without invasive adware like we see now What time period are you even talking about? In the mid nineties the Internet …

> I so badly wanted that future of the Internet, but somehow we ended up in a place where corporations ate it all. The high bandwidths we got today are exactly the result of a full…

Wolfram explains the basic concepts of neural networks rather well, I think. He trains and runs a perceptron at the beginning und then a simpler network. Then he dwells into replac…

Yeah, if you compare with the prices set by large manufacturers you are right, of course. But note the company behind this machine is like a two persons shop. They lack the economy…