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I was 100% C=64 before I transitioned to Apple ][ before I went IBM-PC DOS, briefly Windows/OS2 Warp, then MacOS, then 100% linux, and added Android later.

(sprinkle in some brief CP/M, BeOS, and NetBSD sidequests)

I'll deal with the shift to the next phone platform OK, I think.

I should probably dust off my Pine64 and try the latest builds again. It's been a few years since they were unusable as a daily driver.

Folks, this might be a huge opportunity if you correctly pick the successor and are the first developers.

Well in the UK the left lane can be used for straight forward too and it's not uncommon for a driver in the left lane to continue past an exit, whilst an impatient driver who is overtaking on the roundabout then tries to come off the roundabout into the other driver.

I don't think many US people know the sheer scale of roundabouts in the UK. They aren't rare. They aren't just common. They're everywhere. You won't pass your driving test in most areas without going on several. Larger or busier roundabouts have a lot of driver assistance (lane markings and lights) that assist drivers to get to their exit (a common layout is the lane markings spiral out to the exit lanes, so you don't need to change lane once you enter the roundabout on the correct lane.

But they're simple - they're one-way roads you are joining (so don't join if there's traffic) and equally leave for your exit (so indicate and get in the correct position).

I love these retro stories from 2012.

What a blast from the past!

This is a retro story from 2012, right?

I don't understand why vertical-axis wind turbines are not more common: they take less horizontal space, you can potentially stack shorter pieces as high as you want (and use guy lines for stability), have various heights spin at various rates, etc... I'm no expert so I guess they have good reason for this race to gigantism, but it seems a bit like the dinosaurs...

> Python isn't perfect with its syntactically meaningful whitespace nonsense

I know a programmer with a visiospatial disability.

Braces are fine. Python is literally impossible.

I looked at a few 'Python with braces' preprocessors for her but they all seemed to be half-done and not really usable.

I'm not quite sure why.

It's a dumb reason to shut someone out of an entire software ecosystem. Almost every other language is accessible to her.

Or information on the murder of their whistleblower.

[I bike a lot (no ebike though)]. More accidents with ebike, sure that's a given: they are heavier so in a collision will do more damage; many are unlocked and can go to 80kph and that's scary as shit on a footpath, and they are often driven by people who are not used to biking (old people with poor reflexes, mothers with 2 kids on the back seat...). As for banning those e-fatbikes, they are still way better than motorbikes (slower and quieter), so maybe just restrict them to roads.

Delete those and I'll go another 10%.

I just came back from a month-long vacation in the England and Wales. Back roads are incredibly narrow: no shoulders, just hedges or walls directly on the side of the road, with no space to walk and no visibility at all in curves. Of course you have to drive slower, you can't see shit. But do you drive slow enough to brake in time ? That's the 10k£ question. You can't walk safely at all on those roads; and we had taken bikes with us but decided not to use them: too dangerous.

It's odd how every time I need to look at a Vimeo it stutters and buffers like it's 1997 no matter what device, OS, or network I'm on.

Literally the only video site that this happens to me. I thought it was my DSL line back in 2009 but home gigabit has been a thing for a while and oddly similar results.

If I understand what TFS is saying, check out The Why? Files for an example of what people like in a show with good production values (it did have a Midjourney rough patch).

"True Crime" seems lame to me but I'm not a chick so that doesn't matter.

"The Telepathy Tapes" is an investigative series that blew up the Internet.

This sounds like the NPR dweebs realized that their product was popular due to scarce distribution. Now distribution is democratized and listeners have choice.