kogus
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I write custom software for the non-profit world. I am the owner of Nonprofit Complete, which may be found at https://www.nonprofit-complete.com
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Comment · 22 days ago
No. He's right. Cruelty is corrosive to the cruel person. Courtesy and kindness help build up the kind and courteous person. Burning compute for courtesy is compute well spent.
Comment · 23 days ago
My first reaction was similar to the reaction I'd have if you told me that cockroaches had learned to unlock doors and stand on their hind legs. But then I thought about accessibility, and the ways this could be used to help technologically illiterate or disabled people, and I thought again.
Do you remember when PCs used to come with a completely soup-to-nuts tutorial that would talk to you like you had never seen a PC before? Things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScS4OYDfHE
This kind of baked-in interactivity could really help in a training or disability context.
Comment · 2 months ago
I don't really know why, but the thought of my (elderly) mother using this made me laugh almost as hard as the El Risitas guy[1]. I adore it, and it also should never ever be used in any car GPS scenario. It's far too distracting, and puts far too much emphasis on the places you are not going.
I could see it being useful for a more exploratory style of map, however. Games like Pokemon Go come to mind as a place where this would be pretty cool.
Comment · 2 months ago
Nuh-uh. http://www.isdelphidead.com/
Comment · 2 months ago
I have used Beyond Compare for 20 years, and as far as I know, it has always been and still is written in Delphi. Quest Software, maker of TOAD for Oracle was also a big Delphi shop for many years. Not sure if they still are.
Comment · 4 months ago
Suggestion: Add an "I don't know" button. If I don't know a word, I can admit it - but if I have to guess, then I have a 1/4 chance of getting incorrect credit.
Comment · 5 months ago
quantitative changes in an activity produce qualitative changes
Comment · 6 months ago
If this is the Trump Administration's "punishment" for "disloyalty", then we are in for a treat. Hopefully US forces can also be withdrawn from Japan, Iraq, Italy, Guam, and the other 180 locations where they are currently unnecessarily stationed.
Comment · 7 months ago
I'm pretty sure you are right. Or to emphasize the devaluation, "$100 today would be worth only $3.05 in 1914."
I think it is astonishing that we accept that in a best case scenario of sustained 2% inflation, we are literally planning for the value of the dollar to be cut in half every 36 years.
Comment · 8 months ago
Ah, that makes sense.
Comment · 8 months ago
Slightly tangential, but why is the first diagram duplicated at .1 opacity?
Comment · 8 months ago
I have very fond memories of working with Delphi 5 and 2005 in the early 2000s. Both the language and IDE were a real pleasure to work with, and they were head and shoulders better than anything from Microsoft at that time. The community was small but enthusiastic and supportive as well.
It would be hard to justify Delphi in a new project today - not because of the tooling or language, but because of the prohibitive license costs.
Comment · 9 months ago
I love the ingredients for this project:
made with spite and web audio api. do whatever you want with it.Comment · 9 months ago
I don't think I understand what you are trying to say.
Are you suggesting that if a technological advance is sufficiently important, that we should ignore or accept security threats that it poses?
That is how I read your comment, but it seems so ludicrous an assertion that I question whether I have understood you correctly.
Comment · 9 months ago
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