simonblack

the main drivers of recent gold gains have been the weaker U.S. dollar and ...

You have an 'in' tray, with me it's my 'Downloads' folder. Even locally-generated files get put there. So stuff comes into that and it rapidly gets full so stuff then is forced to be put elsewhere.

Have an 'archive' partition which is really a 'write-once keep-forever' partition. So stuff that you want to keep gets put there, your music, your photos, your video, your ebooks, etc. You get the idea. Tree-structured so you can find stuff easily.

Your home folder is where you keep the really important stuff like documents. They go in a 'Documents' folder, which is also tree-structured. In your home folder you might also keep your current work-projects. But that is just about all that you keep close by. You don't need to keep all sorts of extraneous shit in your home folder. Get some discipline to move stuff out of your home folder as a constant policy.

This means that there is stuff that you want to keep and stuff you don't. Delete that stuff you don't want to keep. It only clutters up your life. Archive the good stuff on that 'write-once keep-forever' partition.

I also make an index of all files on the computer twice a day. To find a file you search the index, not rummage haphazardly through folders.

Last thing: backup your whole computer at least once a day. By reducing your home folder to just essentials you can make a snapshot of it on a daily basis. My snapshots are between 10 and 15 gig. Any larger and I investigate what's taking up all the space.

The archive disk can be backed up within a few minutes, because there is very little change day-by-day and it only takes a moment to back up those few changes.

If all this seems a lot of work, it isn't really. Most of it is automated with a small bunch of 'cron' jobs. My main job is deciding what is keepable and what isn't. And where it belongs.

Of course this was going to happen, it's what always happens, generation after generation. It's called 'The Cycle of Life'. We've been doing it for several million years.

Imagine the possibilities of capturing the non-Microsoft market be allowing the TC to be turned off, or by not including it.

When it comes to Microsoft, there is an old business saying: "Never turn away a paying customer", because you will not only lose this sale, you will lose all future sales too.

That's a bit like having to choose between bashing all of your teeth out with a rock or gouging out your right eyeball with a rusty nail.

TSMC makes something like 60% of the Wests's chips IIRC.

This is starting to remind me of WW1 when they banned music because it was written by German composers.

Absolutely laughable.

Ban everything made in China or with Chinese parts and civilisation collapses. Actually, ..... that wouldn't be a bad thing at all.

Those other civilisations have been around a lot longer. They've been there, done that. Some even have the T-shirt.

I was always taught that it was colorless, odorless, and tasteless.

     int a=5;

I tend to initialise all ints as a zero default with "int xxx = 0;". I know that all globals, etc are initialised to zero anyway by the compiler, but 'belt and braces' kind of habit. That way I don't get weird and wonderful things occurring because my int variable is actually initially -3281932 instead of 0.

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Two shock realisations:

One: when I looked in the mirror one day and my reaction was "Who is that old bastard?"

Two: when my mind suddenly came up with the thought "Fuck! I'm only 18 months off being 80. 80!!"

"Sorry. That article has been submitted already."

Time and time again we get the same article submitted by half a dozen (or more) submitters over the course of several days. ONCE is plenty.

For extra points, a <LINK to some News Article Telling Us about Bill Smith> could be included.

If Google can do that when it shows a 'special day' image, why can't HN??

Most of Murdoch's media have been designated as 'Entertainment, and not obliged to be truthful'.(Florida ruling: early 1990s)

If you're expecting the truth from Murdoch's rags, I have a lovely new bridge to sell you.

The physics of flight is well understood, no matter what bullshit 'scientific' American may print.

Better overall, IMO, is the 'air fryer' with a non-stick surface. The beauty of those is that the basket(s) can be thrown in the dish-washer.

I was once told (30-40 years ago), "Don't bother listening/watching the news on radio/TV. It only wastes your precious time." And the next sentence was "If the news is important enough, you will hear about it almost immediately, one way or another."

I don't ever bother with the news, but I heard about Trump's shooting literally within minutes of it happening.

I usually don't watch the news but hours later that night flicking through channels, I caught a few words talking about 'huge outages worldwide'. I also heard the word 'Crowdstrike' which joggled bad vibes in my head.

My day had been normal. I have a Linux computer.

Crowdstrike is a notorious organisation, always up to their necks in no good. So it's normal that they are the cause of yet more trouble.

Those bananas were dwarf Cavendish. And the farmer said " .. and we don't treat them with (ethylene) gas."

I thought the redesign was to do with the STRUCTURE of Linux Mint, not a piddly logo change.

And the central menu isn't as worker-friendly when you have a screen-full of stuff already on there.

And what's with the predilection for the panel at the BOTTOM of the screen. We are always working downwards on the screen. Therefore it's more useful to put the panel at the TOP of the screen and out of your way. Just because MSFT and Apple put their panels at the bottom of the screen is no reason not to think carefully about panel placement.

Sometimes you don't want to have to wait days for a fruit to ripen, that's why it's faster to use the plastic bag trick.

Today, apart from one or two websites being slower than usual, I didn't notice anything until I heard the news on the TV about the outage hours later.

If you trap that ethylene oxide by putting the fruit or veges in a closed plastic bag, they will ripen even faster.

Here in the tropics fruit ripens very quickly (chemical reactions proceed faster with increased temperature). I try to slow that down by keeping the stuff cold in the fridge. (But the fridge traps the EtO anyway!)