AugustusCrunch

hace 22 díasdiscuss

Alberta has energy. Canada wants energy without Alberta. The Candu reactor program is so defunct that the feds have been trying to sell it for about a decade. Candu makes plutonium and was responsible for a lot of nuclear weapons proliferation in the 1980s, but again, Candu isn't Alberta. Also it's a way to spend an enormous amount of money, and Canada isn't quite bankrupt yet. I say go for it.

AugustusCrunch

hace 2 añosdiscuss

I can't support any business that tries to make their product mandatory. Someone says here he's not scum, he is absolutely delusional scum. Does anyone else think having the government mandate what you can buy is a good idea? Another company designed a saw which did the same thing and which didn't destroy a $200 cartridge and the blade. He said he'd sue them into oblivion. He's a greedy prick who would see people maimed before he'd give up the profits on his half-assed, shitty, Chinese made trash. Use a blade guard, ffs. Don't support this asshole.

AugustusCrunch

hace 3 añosdiscuss

I just agreed with several other people that we'd start sending handwritten mail to each other.

AugustusCrunch

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Yes. I thought this thread would be cool, and it's pretty good, but way too much about programming languages. Books, on the other hand, are amazing.

AugustusCrunch

hace 3 añosdiscuss

I think anything you can mount the computer in a drawer. Not having the case sitting on the floor or on the desk sounds really nice. I've told my wife for several years that I'm going to make a desk with a hinged top, and every night at midnight a small motor lifts it up until everything slides off onto the floor. That way people wouldn't stack random junk on my desk rather than figuring out where it should really go.

AugustusCrunch

hace 3 añosdiscuss

I've done things that people thought were magic. It was TC. There are about twenty similar programs, all descended from the Norton Commander. Any one of them is enormously better than the file managers that come with most OSs, especially windows. Ive read estimates that say you're about four times as productive if you use on, and I think that may be very conservative. There are a lot of things you can't do without one. A friend worked at a place where management disabled the search function in windows, probably because people were getting stuff done. I set him up with TC, which has its own search. The IT lead at one place I worked said, "I don't like that program. it makes things easier than they should be." TC is the best of its kind. It's so good I paid for it. (I've had twenty years of free upgrades.)

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