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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

Malaysia is a Muslim country. Pornography is illegal. Homosexuality is illegal.
Re:Google lays off its Python team on Saturday April 27, 2024 @08:19PM (#40184831)
>If Google was really existing in service of its employees rather than its investors

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

This is not a book for beginners.
Thunderfoot's take on this nonsense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB_X5ZUcZlE
Re:Germany’s ultra-cheap train ticket saved 1.8M tons of CO2 on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:49PM (#32683759)
The price per ticket was 9 Euro, but the cost for the taxpayers was billions. This ticket was pure subsidization.
Re:The UNIX Programming Environment (1984) on Saturday August 27, 2022 @11:27PM (#32625495)
It's not in print anymore. Your link is a used book.
Re:The Making of Prince of Persia [pdf] on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:59PM (#32572717)
Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk on Sunday August 21, 2022 @01:23PM (#32542314)
Depends on what you mean with 'career'. Brian Kernighan doesn't do this because he needs money, but because he would get bored otherwise.
Re:Nobody wants to teach anymore on Sunday August 21, 2022 @01:16PM (#32542242)
Teacher unions don't want higher standards.
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.
Re:The value of owning more books than you can read (2018) on Monday August 15, 2022 @09:17AM (#32469274)
Read until 'Taleb', then stopped reading. The value of not reading articles from people who talk and write mostly garbage.
>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.

Yeah right, as if anyone in France would have to starve...
Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:34PM (#27376629)
The whole point of creating Stack Overflow was to not have subscription access like Experts Exchange. Doing that would be suicide for SO.
Re:OO in Python is mostly pointless on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:34PM (#25934275)
>Deep hierarchies of inheritance need to be carefully designed or they become a mess.

Deep hierarchies of anything need to be carefully designed.

So the taxis look different. So what? How knowledgeable and smart do you have to be to still know what the correct solution is?
Re:Rat That Sniffs Out Land Mines Receives Award for Bravery on Friday September 25, 2020 @06:00PM (#24594552)
If I understand correctly, the rats smell TNT? What are the problems in building artificial TNT detectors working like the olfactory systems of animals?
Re:We need physical audio kill switches on Sunday September 20, 2020 @05:43PM (#24537673)
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.
Re:We need physical audio kill switches on Sunday September 20, 2020 @05:34PM (#24537594)
I noticed it in my first Sony walkmen 30 years ago and it really pissed me off.
Re:ULX3S: Hackable FPGA that runs Linux on RISC-V on Saturday June 13, 2020 @10:53PM (#23514718)
Qmtech on Aliexpress have the best price/performance when it comes to FPGA boards.
Re:ULX3S: Hackable FPGA that runs Linux on RISC-V on Saturday June 13, 2020 @10:50PM (#23514710)
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