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There is a nice video 'in praise of retrofuturism' on the BBC Ideas page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/in-praise-of-retrofuturis...

> Thinkpads There is a much better option than the trackpad mac or otherwise built in ;-)

brexit means brexit /s In seriousness, wasn't Storm Ciara named by Met Éireann ? that was certainly my impression, given that most people in the UK struggled to pronounce it. So th…

yup lots of love for visidata, a nice quick way to eyeball data and then munge: https://visidata.org/docs/join/ before proper carpentry with pandas.

Boomers? Did you mean millennials?

i used to be a heavy excel user, when i worked on windows, it was great for eyeballing data quickly, now, in a different job, i use a mac, i would really do anything i can to avoid…

>> for all intensive purposes I've never actually seen that written down, i have _suspected_ people have been saying it, rather than: "for all intents and purposes" but was never s…

i agree wholeheartedly with you but just to point out it does look like this is from 2003

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not sure where you live but atm, in the UK, the range of non-alcoholic beers is superb. Off the top of my head: * Brew-dog Nanny State * Erdinger blue * big drop pale ale * big dro…

I've also read it, for anyone thinking about buying it, i think it can be completely summarised by: 'checklists are very very good. You should really use checklists' Now if you req…

Yeah, except this was never their orginal plan. There _is_ a $5 computer (i think the zero still costs that in microcenters). But that was never the original plan

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." is that the actual quote? Maybe not enough coffee on my part but i am having dif…

[european here] I can't read this article as there is no way to opt-out of the tracking - isn't this in breach of GDPR?

just seen this tool (outline) on another HN post - works well: https://www.outline.com/9eSGhG (i can't think of anyway to write a post recommending something that doesn't look like…

the man practically defined the 'dead cat strategy': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy thats all this is, thats all he ever does.

not read it, but i'm guessing her tedx is a tl;dr? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh8el8m9mLM

I've been reading interviews with Lanier since the 90s and i have come to the conclusion that one of us is really dumb, but i'm still not sure which of us it is.

Like that a lot, is that under-pinned chyronhego data by any chance?

Yes. I had a lot of problems. In my late 30s, I worked at a large multinational for 10 years doing... some kind of middlemanagement sharepoint stuff that makes my brain fall asleep…

Great? Angela Merkel, Maragaret Thatcher, Frauke Petry. Whatever your political persuasion there is, i'm sure at least one of those you would not describe as 'great'

My 2008 mbp has represented the best VFM of any machine i have owned, I only stopped using it last year. For an x220 that i got off ebay. But my point is that mbps did represent fa…

it was you!! - sleep with one eye open, timthorn

Why the query string? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35233951