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jope12on Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"

I cannot work productively with Linux because there are no Linux alternatives to the following Windows tools (and the 'alternatives' people tell me about are a sad joke):

* AutoHotkey

* Voidtools Everything

* Agent Ransack

* Irfanview

jope12on Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers

Malaysia is a Muslim country. Pornography is illegal. Homosexuality is illegal.

jope12on I switched to Vim – and it took me only 6 years to learn it

Interview with a VIM Enthusiast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n1dtmzqnCU

jope12on Google lays off its Python team

>If Google was really existing in service of its employees rather than its investors

But then it wouldn't make that kind of profit.

jope12on Ask HN: Can you recommend a book to learn basic electrical concepts/engineering?

This is not a book for beginners.

jope12on Nine million people in city 170km long; is world ready for a linear metropolis?

Thunderfoot's take on this nonsense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB_X5ZUcZlE

jope12on Germany’s ultra-cheap train ticket saved 1.8M tons of CO2

The price per ticket was 9 Euro, but the cost for the taxpayers was billions. This ticket was pure subsidization.

jope12on The UNIX Programming Environment (1984)

It's not in print anymore. Your link is a used book.

jope12on The Making of Prince of Persia [pdf]

For people liking this book, this here might also be interesting:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2001502/Book/Its_Behin...

Direct link: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/zxdb/sinclair/entries/200150...

jope12on Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk

Depends on what you mean with 'career'. Brian Kernighan doesn't do this because he needs money, but because he would get bored otherwise.

jope12on Nobody wants to teach anymore

Teacher unions don't want higher standards.

jope12on Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy

People get what they pay for. If you want industrial-strength stuff, you have to pay, a lot. People also forget or don't know how expensive things were back then.

jope12on The value of owning more books than you can read (2018)

Read until 'Taleb', then stopped reading. The value of not reading articles from people who talk and write mostly garbage.

jope12on Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions

>I really do hope this finally pushes the open source community to create a viable and enjoyable to use 3D CAD modelling software.

What incentive do people have to invest years of their life to do this and then not get a dime back? There is a reason why most commercial software is better than their free, open-source counterparts.

jope12on 'This is a food bank now': Workers seized a McDonald's in France

Yeah right, as if anyone in France would have to starve...

jope12on Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

The whole point of creating Stack Overflow was to not have subscription access like Experts Exchange. Doing that would be suicide for SO.

jope12on OO in Python is mostly pointless

>Deep hierarchies of inheritance need to be carefully designed or they become a mess.

Deep hierarchies of anything need to be carefully designed.

jope12on CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

So the taxis look different. So what? How knowledgeable and smart do you have to be to still know what the correct solution is?

jope12on Rat That Sniffs Out Land Mines Receives Award for Bravery

If I understand correctly, the rats smell TNT? What are the problems in building artificial TNT detectors working like the olfactory systems of animals?

jope12on We need physical audio kill switches

An "optical rotary encoder"? I doubt it. I bet it's a mechanical rotary encoder. And that it randomly jumps means their code for reading the encoder sucks. Something like that should not happen if properly implemented. I will take a rotary encoder over a potentiometer every time.

jope12on We need physical audio kill switches

I noticed it in my first Sony walkmen 30 years ago and it really pissed me off.

jope12on ULX3S: Hackable FPGA that runs Linux on RISC-V

Qmtech on Aliexpress have the best price/performance when it comes to FPGA boards.

jope12on ULX3S: Hackable FPGA that runs Linux on RISC-V

The question is rather, How does it compare to the Qmtech Wukong board? And the answer is: you get way more bang for your buck with the Wukong board. No Symbiflow, though, if that's what you're after.

Link to board: https://aliexpress.com/item/4000170042795.html