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What's the opinion here on decimal floating point (_Decimal32/64/128)? I'm guessing there's a significant amount of business software using double for monetary amounts out there that could benefit this being standardized. I think it has been in gcc for over a decade as an extension though...

krueger71

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Incidentally Vonnegut shares his birthday with Dostoevsky who was born 201 years ago.

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I used info in this article when I made this VSCode-theme a couple of years ago: https://vscodethemes.com/e/krueger71.crt-themes/crt-amber?la...

I tried to coax all elements in VSCode to use only two colors (background and foreground) with the foreground in only a few different intensities. It might give a CRT-vibe to some.

The theme is due for an update since newer VSCode has elements that aren't styled correctly.

krueger71

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Back in the day I thought Netbeans rocked! Instead of the Lego-like assembly of plugins in Eclipse you got something that worked right out of the box (we're talking a 10-15 years ago and focused on Java/JEE/JSF).

krueger71

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Often mentioned and relevant to the subject:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

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I had an Onkyo 5.1 system in service from 2002 - 2018. Great stuff! First movie I watched on the system with a 28" CRT TV was "Driven" on DVD. Going from TV-speakers to a full set of speakers including subwoofer was amazing! Later on it serviced Blu-ray:s and a PS4 beautifully.

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I use a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W as a cupsd print server. It is powered by usb from the Wi-Fi router and connected directly to an old USB laser printer nearby. Works great to print wirelessly.

I also have a Raspberry Pi 4 (8gb) with an Argon One M.2 case and a Kingston SSD. I use it mainly for coding/tinkering in C, Pharo, Racket etc. Not logged into any social media or mail in the web browser, just using it to read docs etc. Fast enough to be usable but no speed demon for sure. Overclocked to around 2GHz/64-bit OS.

krueger71

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Is this the first, second, third or 47th time they've said this?

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Shortage of Raspberry Pi in Sweden too it seems

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Of the Tolkien books I've read, the LOTR-trilogy is a classic page turner. Once you get past Bilbo's birthday you can't really put the books down. The Hobbit has more of a children's tale-vibe, but still worth the read. The Silmarillion is harder and the first time it feels like you are cramming for some history exam, but I found that if you read it again you get more context and start untangling all the relationsships which gives a lot of extra character to the other books. The Children of Húrin can be found in abbreviated form inside The Silmarillion and is a dark and tragic tale, but really good in my opinion.

Fortunately Peter Jackson made a good job with the original LOTR-trilogy. You can be a fan of the movies and the books at the same time even though there are (probably necessary) differences between the formats.

krueger71

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Fiction

- Three Body-trilogy, Cixin Liu

- The Children of Húrin, Tolkien

- The Silmarillion, Tolkien

- The Hobbit, Tolkien

- Lord Of The Rings-trilogy, Tolkien

- The Green Mile, Stephen King

Non-fiction

- Practical Vim 2nd ed., Drew Neil

- Pestens år: döden i Stockholm 1710, Magnus Västerbro

krueger71

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Swedish Lantmäteriet (The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority) provides Minecraft maps for the whole country in various resolutions.

https://www.lantmateriet.se/en/maps-and-geographic-informati...

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Sad to hear this. I got a ZX in the mid-eighties. It was the 16k-model but my father upgraded it to 48k, I think it even involved some soldering.

One of my best friends also had one and we tinkered a lot, all by ourselves. To get stuff to load from copied cassettes on whatever tape deck or boom-box you had available was sometimes a very frustrating experience. We cleaned the tape heads with q-tips and alcohol, set the five-band eq to some previous good setting (marked with a pencil), then loaded, adjusted and retried. Typing in long listings from computer magazines, often failing and having to double check and re-type parts was quite common too.

We also learned the value of RTFM. The first game my friend had on a cassette had a fold in leaflet. We spent one evening not being able to load it using the instructions. The next evening a brilliant move was made, remove the leaflet from the cassette and read the remaining part on the hidden side :) Success!

These experiences definitely help remove any fear of tinkering with respect to computers and other digital equipment that I later on have noticed in others.

krueger71

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The book The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau contains anecdotes of zen practitioners, including himself, and their experiences of Kenshō https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensh%C5%8D

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