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"It's like always eating fast food". That right there

BBC Horizon, thinks the microchip is going to be a big deal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_the_Chips_Are_Down

My thoughts exactly!

I can never look at Mario the same

"Amazon knows exactly when you have an outbreak of aphids because you buy things to kill the nasty little beasties, and it probably also knows when you’ve had a nasty breakup becau…

We must have played this for years on the Atari before discovering market "collusion" quite by accident when pressing both player buttons simultaneously mid-auction. It was feature…

When I was a high school kids in the 90s, the dairy across the road from the school would sell individual cigarettes to the kids for 10c each. Utter scumbags. How many addictions b…

Absolutely this!

Absolutely this! Communication of design is an enormous gap that has emerged in the last could of decades.

When programmers are designing it is more likely to be in the early stages when the program is still small. Often once the program gets bigger, the effort devolves to simply buildi…

Can I say this really is great news for mice

Care to qualify this at all?

Same here with regards to preferring the old Thinkpads for daily use. The trouble as I it is that the great ones are getting really old now, and the newer ones don't seem to be of …

I think it is often more helpful to ask the question "To what extent is XDD useful in context Y?". This firstly shifts the discussion away from whether something is universally goo…

Recently I gave up on my latest attempt to read Augustine's Confession. The recommended translation that I have is still so otherworldly wordy that I feel I need something else to …

I recently read the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin which was I think was from this collection. Particularly as a non American (so lacking his featuring highly in my primary edu…

+1 for the i7 x220. I paid £150 for mine a couple of years ago for what I thought would be a throwaway bit of kit at end of life for an experimental Linux build. But what I found w…

-> In some years you'll be 40 ...noting value for "some" may not necessarily be positive

And then the lockdown happened, my kids are suddenly being home schooled in our tiny London flat. Thankfully my fleet of fun to refurb ancient ThinkPads find their reason for being…

In my humble opinion, a lot of projects go quietly bad when they experience some sort of new requirement that gets underestimated in terms of its architectural impact by project ma…

Out of the tarpit anyone?

Even better, think how much quicker you can achieve a sufficiently large application if you can source some really unwise developers?

Does this framework speak to the mismatch in idiomatics? https://github.com/zero-one-group/geni Not asking from any point of expertise mind you, having only stumbled across this li…

This sounds like a good place to learn. Might I ask the company?