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I saw the "Bring Up the Bodies" stage show with Miles in London in 2014. Miles was very good, as was the show. I agree that Rylance was a bad choice for the part on the BBC. He doesn't look the part at all, plus I tend to find him very unexpressive as an actor. Po faced, wooden. The rest of the TV adaptation was excellent but, as the central character, Rylance ruined it for me. I'm finishing the "Mirror and the Light" just now (having re-read the previous two again). Great, great novels. Thank goodness she lived to complete them.

Well done and thank you to everyone putting out Perl releases and working on this still great language. Way back in the 90's I had the misfortune to use C to process large amounts of textual information (addresses), cleaning it up before shovelling into a database. I wish I had had the good fortune to have found Perl back then.

I agree. I stopped reading on the kindle years ago because I got so fed up with the terrible mistakes in the text. Not just spelling but also formatting. I love paper books. Having said that, Standard EBooks are very good.

Lots of good suggestions here but I have a comment. My 90 year old uncle lives near me so I can pop round and help with problems. Trouble is mostly bad UI on web sites.

- finding the login button

- cookie/consent popups blocking page and causing confusion (especially those that dim entire web page).

- finding the close button ("x") on the above

- dynamic UI surprises and confuses basic usage

This week he tried to login to a finance web site from an email they sent him. The only links on the web site were twitter and facebook (UI icons). No actual links to their site, so he failed to login. He was trying to login to their Facebook site using the web site credentials.

The internet/web is very poorly designed for many oldies (and not just them).

Lastly, if they're messing up settings or deleting things, it just needs to be locked down. Tough but better than broken.

This is an interview from 2010 and covers Crumb's illustration of the Book of Genesis. I don't own Crumb's book but have seen it reviewed (RIP Ed Piskor) and it looked wonderful. I can't read the article unfortunately due to the paywall (and the "archive" links don't work for me in general anymore) but I am also reminded that his wife Aline died in late 2022, so I hope Crumb's doing OK.

A good book on semiconductors is "Chip War" by Chris Miller. It talks at length about TSMC and Morris Chang. Great book.

[1] https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Chip-War/Chris-Mill...

In addition to cars, I'm a cyclist and have noticed that LED cycle lights, both front and back, can also be far too bright sometimes. Blinding in fact. A few years ago, I was behind a bike which had such a high powered rear (red) LED light that I had to drop back to get away from it. It reminded me of the sort of powerful red light an airport might have. For bikes, it sometimes felt like an "arms race" in brightness.

Noah Smith (Noahpinion) had a decent post up a few weeks ago about this aspect of war - war production. He titled it "People are realizing that the Arsenal of Democracy is gone" [1]. It was quite a sobering read. The thought that we might ever need this level of commitment in the future is frightening. War is always full of nasty surprises.

[1] https://archive.is/Ih3pm

I don't really use social media (no Facebook, twitter etc.) and have not kept up well with the various new technologies and terms in the field (e.g. mastodon etc.). But I use Firefox and like Mozilla so I am interested in what this is. But to the untrained eye, what is it? It looks a bit like Twitter.

I think the information shown via the small "About" link (bottom right) should be more prominent on the main page. At least some of it - to explain what this site is.

Both James and Pragmatic Philosophy have had their own program on the BBC's In Our Time radio show. Very good.

https://www.braggoscope.com/2010/05/13/william-jamess-the-va...

https://www.braggoscope.com/2005/11/17/pragmatism.html

I wonder why you get this? I also use Firefox and I don't think I've ever seen this. I am on Linux. Is this a Windows thing?

No idea. I've been using Firefox and Sync for years, currently on 5 devices (one android). Never had a problem. Firefox 121.0 (64-bit). This is the "release" channel. Maybe you're beta testing?

I think you sometimes need to be in the right frame of mind to tackle some books, especially the more "literary" or complicated novels. "Possession" was like that. It's one of the great books I've read and perhaps the first time I saw that some authors are on a higher literary level than almost all others. Byatt was like that. Beautiful book. I also enjoyed "Ragnarok" and "The Childrens Book" but "Possession" is one I will re-read at some point.

I have the Fagels translations and found the Bernard Knox introductions excellent as well. Especially the ruminations on the possible "deep history" of the story and events depicted in the books. Overall though, The Illiad is so relentless I find it hard to read to completion.

The Waterstones bookshop on Tottenham Court Road, London, has a coffee shop and bar in the basement. It's very comfortable and pleasant, although I haven't been in for about five years now.

It means "rubbish" (or "trash").

I live in Edinburgh and one of the first things I noticed when I first came here was how many Tesla's there are. I put some of it down to a dealership in a central swanky street with rich footfall (gone now). Things snowball. We get a lot of "weather" in Scotland. Not quite as much rain as Glasgow and the West, but plenty. And there has been some torrential (really, monsoon-style) rain on occasion recently (past two or three years really). I've rarely seen so much water come down so quickly.

However, I would still assume a Tesla was waterproof! Something seems odd about this.

Yes, I agree. Something that has been increasingly bothering me: how hard it is often getting to see the scrollbar, or grab it if you can find it. It's being hidden and minimised. Firefox is quite bad here, and some GTK apps. Frustrating.

"It was kind of inevitable that after VC-funded terminals, mail clients, launchers sooner or later there would be file explorer."

Well, Nautilus [1] (nw "Gnome Files" apparently) was created for Gnome quite a long time ago now. The company was Eazel and included some ex-Apple luminaries. So money spent on file managing is nothing new.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Files

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I use Virgin Bank and Firefox works OK for me.

I've recently read Josephine Tey's novel "The Daughter of Time" and enjoyed it immensely. It has a fictional detective, laid up in hospital, investigating how true the terrible tales and crimes of Richard III were and comes to the conclusion that it was almost certainly a stitch-up. Great book.

LXD is now supported in the latest Debian stable release "bookworm". There should be no confusion on LXD vs LXC commands.

Why is xterm as good as it is? Some good people programming it and in particular Thomas E. Dickey, who's been working on xterm for a long time.

https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html

All verses and illustrations are linked at the bottom of the page.

It was a bit of a shock when I upgraded my Debian systems to Bullseye (11) from Buster (10) a year or so ago. I discovered that the wiki I've been using for years, Moin Moin, was removed because it didn't support Python 3. I've a lot in the wiki and was in no position to migrate, so I made a wiki only VM and keep it at "oldstable". Since none of it is internet-facing, I can keep it this was forever, even once all support ends. I'd rather not have to have another VM though.

Not my main bank so this did not affect me badly but their online (web based) banking portal is still glitchy and not very good.

Modern film making technology can probably do much better justice to a book like Neuromancer but the technology isn't the most important part. The BBC did a radio adaptation almost 20 years ago and you can find it on YouTube and other places. I enjoyed it and it is worth listening to.

I thought "A Place of Greater Safety" (her first work) was good in part but too long. My favourite book of hers, other thann the Wolf Hall trilogy is "Beyond Black".

I read Wolf Hall when it came out, seeing it had such good reviews. By the end of the first chapter I knew it was going to be a great book. She was such a good writer in a world full of very badly written books. I'm very sad she's gone.