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UK road signs won for me. Something about the type-face, colours and design.

It's a great piece of software. Best feature - not having your colours retrospectively removed from your project [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/rdtodb/adob...

Non-destructive filter layers caught my eye, and has been something I've missed since moving off Windows/Photoshop to Linux. Looking around it seems like they introduced this in V3, which is great to see.

Should be made into a motion picture I think.

I remember being there and chatting to the engineer who was trying to keep the machine running. As I talked to him, Colossus crashed. It was apparently a full-time job maintaining all the mercury tubes at the correct temperature so that the memory continued to function properly...

A cigarette to doing nothing, is like a dog to walking pointlessly.

> But AI grew up in universities until it transpired that sufficient capital could only be found in the private sector.

One way of looking at it. Another is that AI research progressed within universities, but it was only until recently that the private sector saw the profit potential when combined with modern CPU/GPU technology.

You could argue we're saying the same thing, but I think these angles are different. An academic research programme would not have spent billions on a datacentre to provide AI for free to the general public, for example.

Could have an office Minecraft world with a seminar room instead of Teams?

> decent build materials (ive got a thinpad and the platic build is just terrible. The screen bends when pulling it to open the laptop).

Thinkpads don't show off their build materials like Apple does. I've had several over the years, variously made of magnesium alloy and carbon fibre.

Screen bending is not a great metric of 'decent build'. My Thinkpads have suffered people stepping on them, being dropped etc, and I think the lid flexibility is partly why it has survived all this time - they often use carbon fibre on the back of the screen.

Unless I'm reading the numbers wrong, we're having a bigger issues here in the UK[1], with 2091 cases in 2024, though that dropped to more than half last year. We have already lost our measles elimination status.

[1]https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/vaccine-preventable-dise...

Loved my N900 also, it was peak phone for me.

But more importantly, we need an alternative to two big tech companies who are cranking the enshittification dial right up while also remaining under a particular country's laws.

We need this, an alternative to Apple and Google.

I guess this is a descendent of my 16 year old Nokia N900, and probably the best phone I had. It ran the Maemo operating system, and its UI was a forerunner to a lot of what is current. It also had a built in, full, terminal.

I understand that people are fed up of it running on their operating system (and perceived poor performance of Windows 11), but yes, google/duckduckgo are all running LLM queries with every search.

I have to use Windows 11 at work, it can literally take half a minute before a Win key, then, say, "ou" will find the program Outlook*.

* I was also completely unable to find a keyboard shortcut for New Outlook to filter by 'Unread' without performing a search and respecting the inbox search order etc.. Turns out the filter button just above the inbox is a React component and it can't be called from the Alt - key shortcut.

That seems unfair to me.

Given how well windows games now run on linux through proton, it just made me think - surely, Outlook/Word etc should run easily?

That would be strange firing up Word from Steam though.

Companies seem completely dependent on the Word/Outlook ecosystem. I hope this will change in the future, and not just for some other US tech oligopoly.

Here, you can enjoy them here:

https://youtu.be/u98oi4qThbQ?si=2MQB8dFQ2PXI10Az

Yes, there was such a thing called Vodafone SureSignal and similar devices:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vodafone-075375-Sure-Signal-V3/dp/B...

Dplyr is quite happy with data.frame. R is built around tabular data. Other statistical languages are too, such as Stata.

> This isn’t about Python, it’s about the tidyverse.

> it’s non-standard-evaluation allows packages to extend the syntax in a way Python does not expose

Well this is a fundamental difference between Python and R.

The release day is meant to be today, the out-of-stock just means they haven't opened yet.

They've asked people to purchase a voucher on the C47/R47 site for an early-bird discount which will send some money towards the developers. This voucher can then be used to get the calculator once SwissMicros take bookings. The link is at the bottom of the Swissmicros page.

This is a project to imagine what HP would have made today had they still been making calculators. It is unusual for a newly designed RPN calculator to be released, although there have been several re-releases of older HP models, such as the HP-15ce, HP-16c, and a series of calculators made by Swissmicros - DM-15L, DM-42, DM-32, but all based on designs dating back 30-50 years.

The R47 has been many years in the making and is a small open source project which has collaborated with the Swiss manufacturer of calculators, SwissMicros. It has a superset of functions over older HP models and many more too, including complex solve, default 34 digit decimal precision, 1000 digit integers, graphing, extensive complex support, etc and is substantially customisable.

I have no affiliation with the project, but excited that there is a new RPN machine commercially available.

[0] https://youtu.be/5A-pmjawJg8?si=11Ehf5SnzkZF79-e

You've not had instructional videos on how to throw a party[1]? Odd!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXRkgtnBmzs&pp

The bible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXRkgtnBmzs&pp=ygUubWljcm9zb...

Another alternative

- may depend on the period being measured.

I haven't looked at the article or their methodology, but if they were measuring over a certain period of time, a few hours, or even 24 hours, it will still likely only pick up a proportion of Steam owners.

Goodness the file save dialog(s) on Windows - it makes it so hard to save a file into my personal space. It's unintuitive and you need to click through, I think a couple of dialog boxes before you get to 'Your Documents'.

> Laboratory Management (Occhiolino)

Laboratory Management Systems, or LMS, is laboratory software which handles laboratory orders, retrieving results from the laboratory equipment and sending back the results to the electronic patient record (EPR). It does a lot more than that of course, but basically it's a big database handling thousands of blood tests, biopsies, tissue samples, as well as worklists for staff, in order to get diagnostics results back to the clinicians.

I find bedrock has much better performance than java. It runs very nicely using the MCPE launcher on linux.

Yes, another MATE user here (UbuntuMATE). I like how efficient and boring it is. It's also very consistent.

But I'm worried we're being left behind with the shift to Wayland.

Maybe that is unfounded.

I guess because people want to track some things about their health, and people provide good pieces of software with a simple UI to do it, and this is more useful that, say, writing it down in a notebook, or in a text file or notes app.

I guess also people feel that corporations _shouldn't_ be allowed to do bad things with it.

Sadly, we already know with experience in the last 20 years, that many people don't care about what information they give to large corporations.

However, I do see more and more people increasingly concerned about their data. They are still mainly people involved in tech or related disciplines, but this is how things start.

As a doctor, I often get asked when I'm going to be replaced by AI, or if AI can help in my work.

The reality is that our work efficiency could have been made so much efficient with a bit of decent user-friendly software that is optimised for the user.

I also love computers and IT, but as a result I understand highly-optimised (usually open source) software.

The proprietary system we have at work is a mess. Inconsistent widgets, some keyboard shortcuts for some dialog boxes, but not for others. Lots of forms that need filling that I shouldn't be having to fill out (it's the same every time but I have to go through the whole process just to speak to a patient over phone).

As others have mentioned here, senior doctors used to look at the patient, and give their opinion. Admin and junior doctors would turn it into action in a safe way, following protocol and prescribing advice to make it happen.

These days senior doctors are checking in their patients themselves, clicking through many menus to order blood tests, checking out their patients, writing their patient letters, and basically sorting out the majority of the admin for enacting what they recommended should happen.

How does this affect other insects?