jadavies · HackerTrans

Beware trying to make linguistic jokes in another language. It's "popty-ping" which is slang for a microwave oven.

5 years agodiscuss

Seriously? I have to provide my personal details before I can find out what it costs to subscribe? WTF.

5 years agodiscuss

Looks good. However the sign up process takes far too many clicks to eventually get to "Select your subscription level" then I get:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Field 'tblUsers.UName' cannot be a zero-length string.

/-/db/registration.asp, line 136

Oh well I'll come back later

jadavies

5 years agodiscuss

Oddly enough I was just thinking the same thing. From what I can remember every ( Android) app that I've ever installed has come from a recommendation from somewhere else. I can't see how you'd ever get any traction if you mainly relied on the app store search results.

jadavies

5 years agodiscuss

There are apparently a couple of rail gauges changes necessary at the moment - https://www.railfreight.com/beltandroad/2020/01/30/four-ways...

jadavies

5 years agodiscuss

I suggest that you don't read up on how penicillin was discovered then!

jadavies

5 years agodiscuss

The BBC is reporting that both UK and Italian governments say that the doses were destined for Belgium. I haven't got a direct link, it's in the BBC's rolling updates.

jadavies

5 years agodiscuss

That's an excellent channel for train ride videos. Mind you I would love it even more if they did one with a 360 degree camera at the front of the train!

jadavies

5 years agodiscuss

> You cannot sell GPL licensed software

Wrong

jadavies

6 years agodiscuss

A desktop tool to assist with planning a piece of writing using the book architecture method ( https://thefriendlyeditor.com/tag/the-book-architecture-meth... ) Uses GTK and is released under a GPL licence - https://github.com/john-davies/mapter

Problems / improvements are

* Improved Editor with features like search/replace and undo. At the moment the GTKSourceView component looks a likely candidate.

* A method of moving or swapping the contents of cells without a lot of cutting & pasting ( drag & drop? )

* There's also an annoying bug with the tree control drag & drop that I need to fix

I'm currently using it to try and write a novel. I'm about 35% of the way through and it works surprisingly well.

jadavies

6 years agodiscuss

This absolutely.The good stuff is still out there but it's been diluted to homeopathic levels by the infestation of the "look at me" marketing crud.

jadavies

8 years agodiscuss

We haven't had a hosepipe ban around here yet so it's not a proper heatwave :)

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