baldfat

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Just an old bald man who has loved computers since 1976. Loved my Amiga and C-64 and find the same spirit in Linux community. Also playing PC Games so I dual boot. All of this is second to my family of 7 :)

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Comment · 2 years ago
I tell myself and other people if you have it saved in your browser are you okay if bad people know that password. Also it makes it easy for people in authority to get to that password with a simple court order.
Comment · 2 years ago
These fear-mongers that make everyone hate needs to stop. Multi-millionaires that give their own agenda and anything else is anti-this or stupid needs to stop.

You also probably say you hate "Cancel Culture" while cancelling things including coke.

Comment · 2 years ago
I like R and used it two ways. 1) Scheme-like functionalish 2) Tiddyverse and found Julia to be a lot of talk but seemed clunky to me.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's the financial piece. The poor again get screwed with higher prices because they will never have solar panels. So electric company was charging more to the poor to pay for this. Just like they do for food and for gas. Just like poor voluntarily pay the education tax for the rich.

Agreed that monopolies need to be regulated by the state. In PA my electricity went up over 300% in the first 6 years it was deregulated, and the company's profits were record quaters from 2008 - 2017.

Comment · 3 years ago
I was a research librarian in an academic setting. So, I can do research and have an informed opinion. Now if I was to dispute the information then sure I need to have a masters or PhD in the field to have reasons why the vast majority is wrong. I cannot find a single article from an academic background stating that current laser technology will work. Nor do I see anyone that doesn't say decades away.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's a big deal but its decades away. To do this they need to repeatably do it every few seconds. Right now they can do it once per week.

BIG CAVIET: The energy to power the laser is greater than the return. The return in energy is just greater than the energy the laser put in. So net loss. We need more efficient lasers and be able to make this repeatable and reliable. We are not closer except theory is being proven.

Comment · 4 years ago
Everything you stated is based on emotional stances and conclusions. Medicine doesn't work that way. This was a pretty good study with a very large sample size.

The cohort included 486 149 people with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who were not admitted to hospital, matched with a control group of 1.9 million people with no recorded evidence of coronavirus infection.

Comment · 4 years ago
People have switched to Resolve due to it having a BETER workflow then FCP or Premier. Personally I jumped on the bandwagon due to Linux. The big difference maker for Resolve was when it became an editor. It was THE STANDARD for color correction for over a decade.
Comment · 4 years ago
You contact a contractor
Comment · 4 years ago
I use a 84 keyboard. It is basically a laptop keyboard layout and it works great for me. It has del, backspace, esc and 4 arrows. It shares the function keys with media keys but I have it using function keys as its default and works great as a layout. I don't know why it just isn't the most popular layout.
Comment · 4 years ago
I am the exact opposite :) I started learning languages with Basic, Assembly and Fortran and ended up loving all things Lisp.
Comment · 4 years ago
I personally use Racket (Lispish) just because it is so much fun to build whatever I want and customize it. It just feels good to have my small projects just fit me perfectly.
Comment · 4 years ago
Why ruin a good meme with FACTS! People
Comment · 4 years ago
I would say nothing but also everything. Racket is Schema and Lisp mashed up. Though Common Lisp is very easy to read once you have Racket down. Personally, I prefer Racket for my personal side projects.

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