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Comment Linus Torvalds and I both enjoyed the QL (Score 1) 124

(Comment I also added to the register article - but I like /. too :-).

I offered to go with Linus to Sao Paulo zoo once to help him avoid having to meet Lula, the president of Brasil which he really didn't want to do :-). I did so only on the condition he do an interview with me. I was fed up of people asking Linus about Linux, so I only asked him questions about the Sinclair QL, which both he and I enjoyed. Interview is still available on youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Bury new releases (Score 1) 93

"On a storefront that goes to some lengths to bury new releases, and even buries pages where you can deliberately list new releases."

Steam front page:
Secondary heading: "Your Store"
Subheading includes: "New Releases Queue"

Secondary heading: "New & Noteworthy"
Subheading includes "New Releases"

This is just a crap article.

Comment Pause and out (Score 2) 227

i put my subscription on pause (means don't auto-renew) and won't be renewing. I hope they get the message.

Frankly, I don't get it. Why would not not do N-tier pricing where the top tier has no ads. It's not like that's hard to do. I guess they just think more folks will put up with 'ads for all' than not.

Comment Re:Perhaps I'm just unusual (Score 1) 53

A long time ago there were editors without plugins or extensions. I don't know if emacs lead the way using lisp to make it all extensible, but back in the day, it was a fantastic way to make your editor more of an IDE.

Once you've written thousands of lines of lisp code to make your editor/IDE just the way you like it, why would you change?

Comment Re:When I hear "Air Conditioning", I think COLDER. (Score 1) 160

In a refrigerator or air conditioner, heat from the warmed-up fluid would be dispersed in the environment, while the cooled fluid would serve to keep the interior or the room cold. For heating, the heat pump would cool down the external environment, extracting heat from it to be pumped into the building.

It's a standard heat pump that uses ceramics instead of compressors. Which is .. cool.

Comment Really!? (Score 4, Funny) 57

Are they planning on announcing, or are they just thinking about it? Because if they're really planning on announcing it then that's super huge news. But if they're just thinking about it then we should probably hold off until they're really planning on announcing that there is going to be a GTA VI some time in the future.

Wow. That'd be news indeed. But only if they're really planning on announcing.

Comment Naive Schoolboy Dream (Score 4, Insightful) 105

"Humanity needs a backup plan," he says. "If you want to be a sustainable species, you want to be a multiplanetary species."

We need to put this naive schoolboy idea to bed.

There is no planet B.

There will be no planet A if we continue to fail to act on the climate emergency.

We have no right to take on another planet if we cannot look after our own.

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