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Comment · 3 hours ago
Here I am, brain the size of a planet and I have to move for a delivery drone. And I have this awful pain in the diodes down my right side. Life? Don't tell me about life.
Comment · 3 hours ago
One Bitcoin is currently worth £57700 or €68980.

Nothing to do with dollars.

Comment · 2 days ago
As mentioned, you can't do it with batteries.

To capture the 1.21 GW from a lightening strike requires a flux capacitor.

Comment · 3 days ago
One of the first proper jobs I had, I ended up doing unofficial support for the Windows 3.1 machines that they had. I can't remember exactly what I had to do, probably just cleaning temp dirs or something, but I got regularly called to one of my friend's machines.

He liked to play minesweeper and I found that the high scores were just stored in minesweeper.ini or something. I didn't know very much about computers at the time but I could manage that [1].

So, whenever I was on his machine I would edit the file and add my own name with a score that was one second quicker than his.

He got some really good times so I feel it was definitely an encouragement to excellence!

[1] When I was in my 20s I was immortal and knew everything. Now I'm in my 50s, with decades of experience, I am very much mortal and know practically nothing. Strange how life turns out.

Comment · 4 days ago
You know, it kind of surprises me there isn't an Apple Linux yet.

It seems like such an easy win and could rapidly become the most popular Linux distro, even running on non Apple hardware.

They have the money so why not just do it?

Comment · 11 days ago
Nope, both statements are completely wrong because 52 years old, and thereabouts, is GenX not Boomer.

And yes it makes a difference. They would have grown up with the first home computers like the 8 bit C64 or ZX Spectrum, and later the 16 bit Amiga A500 or Atari ST.

Comment · 13 days ago
No, it's not. That isn't how night works. It's not how anything works.

I despair sometimes...

Comment · 13 days ago
No, it shouldn't. It's perfectly valid to refer to the members of a group rather than the group itself.
Comment · 15 days ago
No, it makes sense to get into an EU country because it gives you access to so many more countries.

My niece was thinking of working in Ireland for a while and I told her that if she happened to stay for 5 years she could get an EU passport. It's a valuable thing.

Comment · 15 days ago
"Papers please."

That used to be a joke about the Soviet Union. Perhaps before your time.

Comment · 15 days ago
The UK dropping isn't surprising because of Brexit. It makes far more sense to move to an EU country.
Comment · 15 days ago
Yes, I could easily get into the USA (or indeed practically anywhere in the world) but I live in Scotland because that's what I prefer.

You fire ahead and take my spot.

Comment · 15 days ago
> shower and general bath room)...Spilling red wine, putting sizzling hot pans on it, accidentally dropping big pans on it.

You're either using your bathroom wrong, or have a vastly more interesting sex life than I do.

(Yeah, I missed the kitchen counter on first reading)

Comment · 16 days ago
> London has a dozen cameras per person, totalling to almost 1 million cameras.

Something wrong with your numbers there.

Comment · 21 days ago
Of course they haven't. The old Unixes are dead and gone.

The shell grows not old, as we that are left grow old:

Aix shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of Sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

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