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This was a fairly common project when I was in University, except we had to do Scheme in Prolog. https://github.com/FigBug/scheme

Prolog was a mind bending language. Some things that would be so simple in another language were so hard, and somethings that would be hard, were so easy.

I never really got my head around Prolog, just enough to get the assignment finished. But I do remember it as being one of the more interesting assignments I did, interesting enough that I've managed to keep the code for 20+ years.

Yes, you need to understand all the other processes, but in most cases, there are no other processes. You are writing everything the system is doing. It's up to you to determine what is running in each thread and set it's priority appropriately so that each thread has enough time to run. Real time OSes give you complete control. What you do with that control is up to you based on your needs.

The radius of cockpit windows doesn't look that different than the radius on the Comet's square windows.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Boeing_7...

http://www.c-and-e-museum.org/marville/photos/planes/comet-6...

I much prefer hourly to day or weekly rates. When I charge a daily rate I feel I need to work a full 8 hours.

I currently use a timer app and bill my exact working hours. It's great because when the weather is nice and I want to go sailing or cycling, I just stop the timer and go.

I have a set monthly salary I want to make. If I'm on track to hit it, no pressure to work. If I'm behind, then I'll put in hours.

There is no more 'mainstream'. In an age where you could only get music on a few radio stations and what could fit in a physical record store, selection was a lot more limited.

In the 60s pretty much every teenager listened to rock. In the 70s disco came and you couldn't get away from it. 80s glam metal and rap started. All the youth watch MTV.

Now, you can listen to whatever you want to on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Music. There are tons of popular genres: edm, rap, hiphop, rock, pop, etc, etc. The reach of the biggest pop stars is much reduced. In the 60s everybody knew who the Monkeys were. I can't think of any modern manufactured band that has that name recognition. Last ones were probably NSync / Backstreet boys.

> There’s never been a case of a runner dying of dehydration on a marathon course

I don't think this is true, unless the claim is 'on a marathon course' so they can discount dying later in the hospital. Still, it's not common.

https://www.haaretz.com/1.5150497

They have 24 open orders and are making 0.5 a month. 767 has 111 open orders for freighters and aerial refueling tankers. Both are on their last legs.

Hub and spoke model is getting replaced by point to point model.

I outright bought mine. I'd never heard of battery leasing until your comment, it doesn't appear to be an option in Canada.

> I'm really surprised the Japanese mini-trucks havn't taken off in the USA.

There was a small boom for importing them to use as farm trucks, but you can't import them until they are 25 years old if you want to drive them on the road. Most other countries have less restrictive import requirements, so they tend to go to those countries first. Not many left by the time they get to 25 years old.

Steinberg is no longer granting licenses for VST2, so legally there can be no more new VST2 developers. But not all the hosts support VST3 yet and VST3 is over 10 years old. It's a giant pain in the ass.

They are trying to force it, but people just don't want it.

It is on the ground, no longer allowed in the air.

I think "year of Linux on the desktop" is mostly an old Slashdot meme. There are no specific goalposts, it's just used to make fun of Linux adoption.

I had my arm 90% severed in an industrial accident, judging by the amount of morphine they had me on, I must have been in a lot of pain. But I can't remember the feeling of the pain at all, but I can remember all the things I was doing to try and reduce the pain.

Every injury since (broken leg, broken collar bone, dislocated finger) has seemed like the worst pain I've ever experienced, but I know logically it can't be. And once I recover I forget the pain again.

Do you ship any plugins? Do you do a separate AppImage for each plugin?

They are VST plugins and the are dynamic libraries. Call dlopen and call a specified function.

On Windows, I use the Windows API for downloading files. I don't need to worry about curl.

On Linux, I could have statically linked curl, but didn't realize it was going to become an issue. Ubuntu 18.04 was released and curl3 was removed, so that means our software that was working was either automatically removed by the package manager or it started crashing.

For a 32 bit version, a single binary compiled in VS2017 could support XP to 10. For 64 bit, a single binary supports Vista to 10.

In my experience, MS doesn't say go F yourself. They go to extreme lengths to keep old software working.

Not BitWig

I work for a small company that produces a DAW and VST plugins. Supporting Linux is a huge amount of work compared to Windows and Mac.

The main issue is that 'Linux' is not a thing you can support. You have to pick the distros you want to support, and then once you've picked a distro, what versions you want to support.

And you need to use the C++ version that ships with that distro, so if you want to support old versions then the entire project is held back from using latest C++.

And distos aren't backwards compatible. ie when libcurl4 is released, they remove libcurl3. So you can't have one binary for Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04.

So it means for every product, have a build for every distro / version combination you want to support.

So now the solution is AppImages where you bundle up your app with all dependencies like a container. Haven't investigated this yet, not sure it will work for plugins.

Supporting Carbon isn't really an option, it was a technology designed to ease porting from OS9 to OSX. It's been deprecated for years, is 32 bit only and is being dropped completely after macOS 10.14 Mojave.

I think it would make more sense to slowly port the Windows version to Qt. And then when that process is complete, you get a Mac and a Linux version.

The covers are round because the holes are round. :P

Not sure what your definition of cheap is. You can get a used Nissan Leaf for under $5k. Expect 40 - 50 miles of range on a worn battery.

https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtm...

Last year I spent some time in Bruges and Attert and I enjoyed it. I'd like to come back and see some of the big cyclocross races and the spring classic road races. I do speak a bit of French so that could be helpful depending on the area.

I'd like to stay in a smaller European city that is cycling friendly that maybe has some sailing.

We don't have many corporate customers, mainly sell to individuals.

The idea is to grow the user base as large as possible and then sell them the latest version or other products.

Give away a version with 3rd party hardware is to grow the user base to new markets. Let somebody else handle the marketing / distribution and get their users. Sure lots people throw away the CD of bundled software when they buy something, but a decent number still install it.

Give away free is same idea. People love free stuff and will download it. Then hopefully they enjoy it and upgrade to get more features.

The company I currently work for does something similar. Latest version costs money, previous version gets given away with hardware, and version before that is free.

However, we are going to transition to latest version costs money and two feature set reduced versions gets given with hardware and free.

Having 3 versions to support is too much overhead for a small company. And giving away old versions of our products with issues that we know we've solved gives a bad image of our software to new users we are trying to up-sell to the latest version.

> WordPerfect lacks support for Unicode, which limits its usefulness in many markets outside North America and Western Europe.

Oh my.

I do know WP was popular in Law Offices long after Word had taken the market. Not sure if that is still the case.

Vector Capital took them private in 2008 at $4.00 a share. Odd that nobody has historical charts, I can't find it either.

If you live in the EU are you supposed to carry your passport whenever you move between countries?

This is what I was expecting when I drove between Switzerland-Italy in 2016. Except I was stopped, told to park, had my passport examined with with a loupe, and then was sent on my way. Are the borders back to normal now?