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I found the whole article very low quality. I don't recall the last time I read anything on Gizmondo, but I wasn't expecting that.

> Can you explain what a source code is to me like I’m five?

It should be possible, there are other cores available:

https://gitlab.com/victor.trucco/zx-spectrum-next-cores/-/tr...

The problem is finding the right plugins, but it doesn't require that much time (at least in Linux/Mac; Windows may be a different experience).

I use "IDE features" when writing Scala: vim-plug first, then vim-lsc + metals. The configuration of lsc is trivial (as in you can copy an example of less than 10 lines).

After using this for a while, I replicated the same experience in Python with python-language-server (I install it with pip --user), and it was matter of 5 minutes to setup. Before this I was using syntastic + ctags, and that required much more work.

May be is more work than getting the same functionality in VSCode, but it doesn't look a lot of work to me.

I'm not sure how sound is UK's strategy.

Current advice is to self-isolate for 7 days if persistent cough suddenly appears and/OR a temperature of 37.5°C (that is not high temperature).

That sound like good advice, but they are not going to test those cases unless it ends in hospital. And they don't want you to call to the NHS help line or go to the doctor (again, not bad advice but I see some people getting anxious about this; IMHO at least the help line should be available because most people aren't doctors).

Considering that it could be a mild case of the disease or any other common seasonal disease (I have two toddlers at home: they get ill), how can we tell we had passed the disease and we have some immunity?

Besides, if testing and tracing stops, it means there won't be information about the progression of the epidemic in the UK; which sounds to me like a bad idea (but I'm not an expert).

Considering how the Conservative government has been underfunding the public health system for 10 yeas, I understand how their approach can be seen by some as untrustworthy.

EDIT: I see this may be off-topic re: herd immunity, sorry about that.

The message is clear to me: don't panic. And it is a good one, even if things were (or are) worse than this experience, panic won't help.

I'm talking about the year 2003 in Spain. Perhaps I should have mentioned it.

802.11g was still a draft. There were serious issues to use cards from different vendors to talk to each other, and 802.11b cards were common.

Anyway, 802.11a frequency didn't play well with walls (or other solids), added to the shorter range compared with 802.11b (and g), in 2003 b was king and g was introduced early because of the higher speed.

It operates on the 5GHz frequency, instead of 2.4GHz of 802.11b/g (802.11b was more popular when 802.11g was still a draft).

Not sure if that was a factor or just that being less popular there was less investment to make it "better".

I don't think I ever saw a card supporting 802.11a exclusively, it was part of a chip supporting multiple standards. And then you would always use 802.11g.

The title of the post is misleading: it means "ordered by insertion order" (not sorted).

Previously it was unpredictable, and that's why collections have OrderedDict; which makes sense instead of trusting an implementation detail of CPython from 3.6.

Is not mentioned in the docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#mapping-type...

EDIT: but the behaviour is documented in OrderedDict itself! https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html?highlight...

Interesting!

Not sure that's a good point. The CVE list for almost any programming language can get you to the conclusion that you can shoot yourself in the feet despite not being as tricky as C.

When Firefox starts misbehaving like that, disable uBlock and the problem disappears.

I'm experiencing the same issue, and it seems related to uBlock.

I think you're right. I was thinking almost the same when I was reading the post.

Let me add that, in my opinion, there are more chances of a successful game if you're a competent artist with poor coding skills than the opposite. In fact, lots of solo projects succeed because the author is an artist that happens to be a half decent programmer.

Some defaults aren't very usable, although "Debian defaults" are very close. I had the same approach, but lately I've decided to add plugins or configuration to "enhance" and never "replace", and I have never been happier as I'm now with vim.

I also decided to invest some time to move to vim + tmux instead of using gvim and now that I'm used to the extras I get with tmux (yep, terminal support in vim 8 is nice but not as flexible), I think I can't go back!

My Nvidia GPU was fine until gnome 3 happened. See, is not my fault. It had good drivers and decent support.

Now I use only Intel because... well, it works. But I don't bother with 3D gaming, of course.

My point is that you can blame the manufacturers because their support is broken, but you can't blame the users because they will use something else (I know I did: XFCE works great).

EDIT: Gnome shell was initially released in 2011. This may or may not have changed, for better or worse. I moved on.

That was the same argument gnome 3 used when it wasn't working in my Nvidia GPU: the driver is buggy, not our fault.

This is very hard to explain to your users, because there's nothing they can do.

So yes, it really doesn't matter too much why if the software doesn't work. I don't mind X until Wayland is ready for all.

This is not how I remember it. Default background colour in Netscape Navigator was not white but #c0c0c0 (and IIRC it wast that colour in Mosaic too). And yes, lots of pages relied on the default.

For example, this post has some screenshots: https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/whats-changed-in-the-past-17-...

"[..]only have the goal of creating a bootstrapping path to a C compiler capable of compiling GCC, with only the explicit requirement of a single 1 KByte binary or less."

I believe the "size" refers to the binary size of the compiler.

You can use Chrome (or Chromium) for development and Firefox for regular browsing. Is that a big deal?

At the moment I can't change the password. It fails with "Failed to save password" error, no more information.

EDIT: it finally worked, 4th attempt, and very slowly. Looks like something isn't working 100% as it should

EDIT 2: aaaand I can't login now with the new password. A password reset did work, but it looks like their password database is under some stress at the moment.

For personal use (I host my own domain and mail server) I use Thunderbird and, occasionally, mutt.

At work we're a Google G-Suite shop, so Gmail web interface.

I played it when it was PLIB based. It is amazing how how it looks now compared to how it looked back then.

I think the comment was referring to work remotely for a Spanish company. In Spain, remote work culture is almost nonexistent.

It would be matter of not working for a Spanish company. It makes taxes a bit more complicated though.

(Ironically, I did some remote work for a Spanish company when I was living in the UK)

It may be tricky to do remote work from one of these places. In Spain, rural areas may not have broadband at all. You may have phone line, but the quality is so bad that not even ASDL is usable.

After giving a fair chance to Gnome 3 and Unity I decided to seek refuge in XFCE 4. I was a happy user of Gnome 2, but I'm not sure how things are today.

How does it compare to XFCE?

I'm just guessing here, but Chrome is not packaged by the distro whilst Firefox is.

Personally I like the tar. That's my preferred way to use Firefox in Debian. I untar on ~/apps/firefox, symlink to my ~/bin and it is ready to go. The auto-update of Firefox works perfect, so I don't need to use Debian packages for that.

It doesn't look like they were signing releases until two days ago with 1.10.10.

I'm Debian user and I usually install the packages, and the shipped version of the software is just fine for me.

Occasionally I may want to use the newest version of a particular application and I've found that instead of installing dependencies and compiling myself the Linux version, it is way easier to download the Windows binaries and run them with WINE. In some cases, it even works better! (e.g. full screen support)

I'm not familiar with the console anyway, but I remember it had a ridiculous amount or RAM, so I assumed BASIC was out of question.

Thanks, that sparkled my curiosity and turns out the source code is available!

Fair enough, looks like viability (or being "totally useless") didn't stop people back then!