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Links to the books are not on that page, the post was not meant to promote them but the links for both books are on the RHS of the page in recent posts.

or here => https://books2read.com/b/b6qlWE

All the online sites like amazon, apple, kobo etc can download the first 10% of any ebook as a sample so you can try-before-you-buy

A short (and hopefully) uplifting post about what happens when life throws you a lemon.

OK look like my kind of books and happy to drop a few dollars on kindle for a fellow Kiwi author, I will drop an email if I see any glaring mistakes.

Just on Chapter 3 but if an AI wrote this we are well and truly fucked.

They have cheap ICE cars

When you can fit it in an 8K ROM I will believe you

Bear in mind there are thousands of books a day released, most of them will never get on your search radar, or even get rated, so unless it goes viral somehow or you get a word of mouth recommendation, there could be millions of awesome books out there you will never see, and you will just keep getting the same shit recommendations from the same shitty algorithms.

Kind of sad.

the 6 has stopped getting updates, I had to update it last year

All a control thing, incompetence is just a side effect.

integration with LCSC for parts and assembly is a killer feature though. I loved getting my PCBs back but then if you need to solder on dozens of 0603 caps and a BGA package it just became another thing to get wrong.

As my eyes and coordination are not as good as they were hitting buy now and having fully assembled boards come back for basically the cost of the parts and the PCB was game changing for me.

Nothings changed then..

I did, ignore me :-)

Writing is fun. Everyone has a story or two inside them and I encourage people to try it and just ignore the many people who will try to tell you how to do it.

Whether you have ten thousand words or a million inside you go for it and either upload it as a free eBook if you think its good enough to one of the many sites or just leave it for your kids or grandkids to find and have something nice to pass on through history.

Never start writing thinking about the money side, there are thousands of books out there which have never sold one book, you may get lucky, but without investing the same amount of time in marketing you will never get anyone to even open it, so do it but do it for fun.

My first novel was fun to write, I released it on Kindle and never told anyone, for the first three months I was so happy just to see it there, just like a proper book, even though I bought the only copy. I am now half a million words into my second novel and still loving it.

I may have not made a penny from sales but I have a much broader vocabulary and have saved at least two hundred dollars by not having as much time to read anymore.

screens were generally 80 characters wide 256 was good enough, if you needed to go bigger null terminated could still be done in pascal, you just had to roll your own.

The editors I wrote back in the eighties were just linked lists of pascal strings so a line was limited to 256 characters but these were very fast in VMS and DOS

Also we only had a few character sets and you could live your whole life in ASCII

There are 7 possible plots according to Shakespeare or 1 according to Marvel. I believe 2^7 is therefore 127 possible movies or books - assuming there is one with every single plot element and including porn with zero plot :-)

Clearly though their is more to a movie or book than just the plot.

Your right. Your pushed to read or watch the same shit because of "the algorithm" I'm resigned to the fact ninety percent of the content out there I really want probably has no reviews whatsoever and there is nothing I can do about it if I stay in a corporate ecosystem.

I just love this type of website, where 80% of my screen is whitespace.

voxi.co.uk, wife tried three times to cancel it, never ever got past the help bot, no number to call, she ended up just moving every penny in her current account to savings account. She got it in UK on holiday, doesnt even live in the UK

I wish I could make a hackernews post that went viral everytime I got screwed over by a company

Just thought I would add that Modern != Better. You can still write shite in 'modern' languages and a well written program is that regardless of its language

How I work it out in my head that time effectively did not exist before the big bang is that; If everyone agrees that time slows as the gravity increases, and we assume at the time of the big bang that all the mass of the universe was in an infinitely small space, the conclusion is we had an infinitely large gravity and time would be effectively be stopped. Take it with a grain of salt.

recently did a conversion of a Delphi program to Java with some C++ and this is a strange argument to use. pressing F9 at any point in Delphi and having your program run a second later is incredible, that plus catching the vast majority of errors compile time certainly does not slow you down.

Speed wise on this last conversion project with the same first level optimizations GCC is a good 50% faster, the Java parts feel about the same or a bit slower though, Disclaimer I never go to extreme optimization settings on compilers, was bitten several years back and happy to not go cutting edge.

Also Pascal is much less toxic community for noobs I got to the point about ten years back I would rather not ask the question on-line for GCC due to the fact I would be branded stupid for not knowing some obscure linker setting or such like.

end of my career now, happy Pascal was part of it, especially in the early Turbo Pascal DOS days, I doubt I would have carried on at the time if I was forced to use C (I later did and it wasnt that bad but I had to scratch my head at the time how people thought it better)

Agree with the documentation, its rock solid and NOOB friendly. 7 years ago I had to rebuild and restore an embedded server for a client and with no BSD experience at all it took me a few hours and has been working flawlessly since.

100% afree, its all about lock in these days and I'm so over it

running a 40 year old car (ev conversion) with drum brakes just fine. its a solved problem.

3 people can keep a secret if two of them are dead. Good luck with hundreds!

Does this mean windows 10 will stop bugging me to update?

Finally. I thought it was just me getting older!

Personally, I'm not bothering to learn any new languages, stacks or APIs and will stick with what I know. AI will eventually (2-10 years) end up completely re-writing your whole program stack in machine code in whatever ISA without any bugs. The future of programming is a prompt engineer, write it in psudo code and english and output fully tested machine code.