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Comment · 2 months ago
I loved nedit back in the day. I wrote my entire PhD thesis in LaTeX using it. I think the only reason I picked it over emacs (which I was using for coding) was that the text line wrapping was sane out of the box.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Good article and I was shocked to see a picture from my old office at the top of the page!
Comment · 6 months ago
Patrick Stewart is from Yorkshire not Scotland, by the way.
Comment · 6 months ago
That stood out to me too.
Comment · 7 months ago
I know it's not the point of the comment but it's a bit of a flawed analogy. Microwaves have wone to a large extent, such that people without them are a bit of an oddity, and cooking with an oven is more of a special occasion thing than the default cooking method that it was before.
Comment · 8 months ago
I am using AI a lot to do tasks that just would not get done because they would take too long. Also, getting it to iterate on a React web application meant I can think about what I want it to do rather than worry about all the typing I would have to do. Especially powerful when moving things around, hand-written code has a "mental load" to move that telling an AI to do it does not. Obviously not everything is 100% but this is the most productive I have felt for a very long time. And I've been in the game for 25 years.
Comment · 8 months ago
Well unironically you would be safer if you did that! Although it's a trade off between looking ridiculous and being safe. I personally don't think bike helmets should be mandatory because it puts people off riding a bike (including me), but do acknowledge that they do make an individual safer.
Comment · 9 months ago
I have done that multiple times in the past but there came a point where I couldn't "white knuckle" my diet any more. GLP-1 has really helped a much better quality of life - lower cravings for food and alcohol, meaning that I am losing weight and feeling cheerful instead of gritting my teeth.

Why is that so bad?

Comment · 1 year ago
London had the tube bombings, but there is no security scanning there.
Comment · 1 year ago
The patients can also see the posters, and it won't be background noise for them, so they can think of asking about it.
Comment · 1 year ago
As someone who has been fat and not-fat throughout my life, I think literally everyone knows that it is simple to lose weight by eating fewer calories. That does not mean it is easy. If you are already fat, which can happen almost without you noticing by eating 200-300 calories too much a day over a year say, or as a result of some brain malfunction (both have happened to me), then eating the calorie deficit require to lose weight is mentally very hard to to.

As a thought experiment, imagine what you eat per day. Now halve it. Would you be having a good time?

Comment · 1 year ago
That's quite a lot of European countries to be fair.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not sure about the amp, but the Yamaha Pacifica I have is decent. It's been used in a stage show successfully (not played by me), and the artist was very happy with it.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think it's more to warn a motorist to be mindful of slow moving people. And older people do occasionally fall over too.

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