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1. Networking and keeping contacts. Not LinkedIn which I have found to be completely useless and full of lunatics and weirdos. Good old fashioned email and exchanging details when …

If you start with a sieve and try and plug all the holes to make a bucket you're going to end up with a leaky bucket.

My initial point was a really that there are terrible privacy implications and poor track record of actually treating the customer well, as if that wasn't obvious. As for the rest,…

That would assume that it was possible to rank them, which I made no statement about. Anyway this discussion is starting to sound like Slashdot circa 1999...

I can't see that happening at all. The idea gives little utility over the top of the last big leap (smart phones) with a lot of additional costs and problems.

I'm not sure why you could infer that from my answer. Last thing is a figure of speech not an ordered set with my point being the tail item :)

Last thing I want is Google, Qualcomm and Samsung looking over my shoulder all day.

Yeah it’s super cheap if you use the pooled service. Back in the 90s it was $1000 for 3 eurocard sized boards if you wanted them in under 2 weeks. This was a big problem for us so …

Not sure where my DNS from my ISP (Zen in UK) but nothing is ever blocked or broken. I’ve stayed away from the big providers because of their target size.

I can go earlier: I was designing them in the 90s.

I've got a mathematics degree and I can't work it out either if that's any consolation.

Yes expensive landfill merchant.

Got a 9 year old iPhone 6s here. Actually still perfectly usable and annoyingly fast compared to my 15 Pro. Was getting patches until July 2024 as well. When one phone falls off th…

I went from climbing into my car to climbing mountains so definitely better :)

50/50 on that. Had a near miss there. Borderline type 2. Blasted weight down from 115kg to 65kg and changed diet. Now I still eat pizza, pasta, bread and chocolate all the time. Ju…

Indeed. The problem is that there is no regression suite clearly. Sometimes things get broken and then have to be fixed again. You end up in situation where you need to tell a pers…

Thanks for the suggestion - will look into it tomorrow. Not performance heavy here. What I do require is something that is less buggy though. Maxima has zero to no test suite so th…

They buy it because they want to tell people it cost $25k. If it's a fucking turd, which it is, does not form part of the equation.

I love how I get downvoted for every negative comment about this rather than an actual rebuttal of the issues. It's fucking shit. I hate every moment using Maxima. I'd rather pay f…

SBCL shipped via homebrew. SBCL is fine. It's Maxima that is full of bugs.

Yes it's terribly buggy. Incorrect answers sometimes depending on release versions and solve gets stuck all the time. I tend to use Xcas/GIAC instead where I can. Also bundled on m…

Stable yes. Buggy yes. There are all sorts of problems it gets stuck on. solve() is terrible.

But Maxima, which is horrifying buggy.

No one has been specifically prosecuted for speech as far as I am aware of. The individuals locked up were quoted as being prosecuted for speech by less than accurate media and wer…

Might want to get your information from somewhere credible.