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What's the opinion here on decimal floating point (_Decimal32/64/128)? I'm guessing there's a significant amount of business software using double for monetary amounts out there th…

Incidentally Vonnegut shares his birthday with Dostoevsky who was born 201 years ago.

I used info in this article when I made this VSCode-theme a couple of years ago: https://vscodethemes.com/e/krueger71.crt-themes/crt-amber?la... I tried to coax all elements in VSC…

Back in the day I thought Netbeans rocked! Instead of the Lego-like assembly of plugins in Eclipse you got something that worked right out of the box (we're talking a 10-15 years a…

Often mentioned and relevant to the subject: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

I had an Onkyo 5.1 system in service from 2002 - 2018. Great stuff! First movie I watched on the system with a 28" CRT TV was "Driven" on DVD. Going from TV-speakers to a full set …

I use a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W as a cupsd print server. It is powered by usb from the Wi-Fi router and connected directly to an old USB laser printer nearby. Works great to print wi…

Is this the first, second, third or 47th time they've said this?

Shortage of Raspberry Pi in Sweden too it seems

Of the Tolkien books I've read, the LOTR-trilogy is a classic page turner. Once you get past Bilbo's birthday you can't really put the books down. The Hobbit has more of a children…

Fiction - Three Body-trilogy, Cixin Liu - The Children of Húrin, Tolkien - The Silmarillion, Tolkien - The Hobbit, Tolkien - Lord Of The Rings-trilogy, Tolkien - The Green Mile, St…

Swedish Lantmäteriet (The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority) provides Minecraft maps for the whole country in various resolutions. https://www.lantmateriet…

Sad to hear this. I got a ZX in the mid-eighties. It was the 16k-model but my father upgraded it to 48k, I think it even involved some soldering. One of my best friends also had on…

Did something similar on my Mac. Dongle for Thunderbolt 2 to Firewire and then got the raw .mov files via iMovie. De-interlacing and encoding with ffmpeg. For a raw file with a siz…

I'm guessing a Hi-Z input before this contraption could improve the tone and do the pickups of the guitar or bass justice. A dedicated buffer pedal or just a pedal with buffer bypa…

In the Zen-tradition it's almost expected at some point during meditation to have hallucinations (sometimes severe) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maky%C5%8D

The first variant of Zen-meditation is often to count your breathing from 1 to 10 repeatedly. Sounds easy enough, but the mind starts to wander pretty quickly. If you get lost in y…

Tab-completion in the shell

I remember back in the late 90's when I was studying Computer Science at Lund University, Sweden. They had a research focus in compilers and had their own Simula-compiler if I reme…

I remember hearing about this guy a few years back. Apparently he found them :) https://www.oneindia.com/2008/06/02/lived-17-years-mars-choc...

The absurd stuff http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Maybe Batman, Turkey could help out?

Monitor successful mutual fund managers that receive unsolicited advice on how to invest from dentists at cocktail parties

https://craftinginterpreters.com/ gets a lot of love

" No, I must not attend the meeting because it has absolutely no reason to exist at all." wish I could be this blunt...