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I visted this page hoping to see the PowerPC 970 top of the list, but all it gets is a "Dishonorable Mention". After going through three PowerMac G5s, all of which had their proces…

"Think of the children" is used to pre-emptively attack any opposition to what is being proposed, i.e. "you are against this? you don't care about children?". It is despised by pri…

A collaborative guide to COVID-19 care https://covid-at-home.info/

I don't know about the US but in Europe many police stations are situated beside a bridge. There is a reason for that.

In Italy the average age of patients who have died is 81

With a lot of older people isolated in care facilities, and general advice for older people to stay at home, what online games are there out there suitable for families and friends…

I think the reference was to languages in general. In James Joyce's Ulysses there are four or five chapters which all tell basically the same story, but written in wildly different…

> while ( ) { ($h{$_}++ == 1) && push (@outputarray, $_); }; We use Perl::Critic [0] to deal with issues like that. It has enabled us to develop a very consistent style, and helps …

Interesting perspective there. Worth noting that Larry Wall trained as a linguist and "often compares Perl to a natural language and explains his decisions in Perl's design with li…

> Remember 'who shot JR?' All was revealed by Father Ted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq4_c-_r0K4

I always get a good laugh when I'm reading an article on the Guardian about protecting my privacy and look up to see uMatrix reporting 182 trackers blocked.

As someone who (happily) pays for music and needs it in a high quality format, I really like Bandcamp. After buying say 10 tracks I notice on my credit card statement 3 or 4 transa…

There is another critical thinker I recently came across - Adam Greenfield - much better then Morozov IMO. Have a look at his latest book: Radical Technologies: The Design of Every…

"Julius-Christian Schreiner’s Silent Agents series, shot in London, Paris, Innsbruck and Hamburg, depicts examples of ‘hostile architecture’: subtle interventions in urban spaces d…

I am writing a privacy policy for a community website. I want it to be concise and to only use plain English. I want to highlight that no external tracking services are used and wh…

Yes I use it regularly. It has more or less the same features as the commercial software. Where it falls down is with the quality of the audio effects which are nowhere near as goo…

Not for producing as such but there's also Mixxx DJ software where you can write your own controls and effects in Javascript.

Check maps and know where all the water bodies are in the area, and all the routes to get to them.