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Re:Novellas with Groff on Sunday November 01, 2026 @11:24AM (#50327074)
Isn't the HTML->ePub workflow called zip?
Replace colonoscopies in that sentence by anything that can be made money from and pays doctors.
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:05AM (#50314888)
Although I suspect they would have got richer anyway just being able to trade with the EU and not being controlled by Russia,
No it is not an alternative to a colonoscopy it is a different test.

If this test finds something then the next step is not treatment it is you need a colonoscopy.

It is a test that cuts down on the number of colonoscopies needed and is cheap enough to find problems earlier than everyone having a colonoscopy which is just unaffordable,

That is not a colonoscopy. That is a stool sample and as other replies noted this gets sent out every two years to every one. In the UK from age 60 Australia seems to be from 50.

If that tests positive then you get a colonoscopy to check more things. If you have had colon cancer then you get a full colonscopy evry two years and an MRI every year.

In the UK whichj has the highest electricity prices in Europe all parts of the electricity supply chain are owned by companies.
Yes they do.

Most UK large companies had cafeterias in the 1980s now they don't and you have to go out to get lunch.

Training always costs thousands a year.

If you train a person you have to pay their salary and overheads. whilst they are being trained and are not fully productive. Plus you need to pain for the people and machinery needed to provide the training. Much cheaper to do non of these.

Also in BCPL from late 1960s
Apple has pretty well always got users to do things via the GUI – look at the Lisa and Classic MacOS.

CLI is just a thing that NeXT had and even that made it easy to use GUI tools.

Xcode is a GUI tool – it happens to expose some cli tools but they could be covered up – however some developers would complain a lot so I don't see that happeneing.

It is much cheaper for a company to do NO training.

It does not matter if Education/Training is done by the government or another company all that matters is that the company does not have any training in its accounts. If it has that is an obvious cost to cut.

Long term this is not good for a company but for the next year or two at least it is better and that is all that their shareholders will look at,

No that will not happen as the company has to pay and it shows in their accounts.

Much cheaper not to train anyone and let the state or pupil pay for training.

See lack of apprenticeships for a case of this.

Yes there are economic reasons to back Trump.

If you don't then actions might be taken against you see CBS and other media having to pay.

DoJ choosing who to look at.

Re:I can't believe PowerShell is good on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:20AM (#50191487)
Only a decade ?

Perl python tcl have been around for over 30 years. Anyone writing in bash/sh etc is producing unmaintainable line noise (and I was a perl and APL programmer)

Re:Another day another GitHub incident on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:59PM (#50154825)
Yes then you know the problem is not in your set up and so do not have to waste time looking into that possibility.
I had the Withings sleep monitor – it never managed to sync with Apple Health anyway.

Looking at the support forums many others had issues with their then new app replacing a working one.

So I don't think this will have much effect as it didn't work anyway.

Re:Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:25AM (#50057801)
In Europe a small city car will drive to the next town and in much of Europe to the beach.

"In Europe 100 miles is a long way in USA/Australia 100 years is long ago"

Re:Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:20AM (#50057718)
There are iconic expensive cars e.g. Jaguar E-type, Aston Martin DB5 and very expensive e.g. Rolls Royce Shadow.
Re:Lobbying is corruption on Saturday October 10, 2026 @10:19AM (#50033279)
Half of Americans did not have democracy until 20th Century
Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:11AM (#50019994)
The NeXT was even better.

The cmd key was a thin key of full width below the space bar. https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=12260

Although having the Help key where ⌘ is now was not that useful.

Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:03AM (#50019902)
CUA is from IBM and Motif is using CUA.

The shift+insert,delete etc. are from MSDOS as far as I used them – they might have been copied from a previous OS.

Re:Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:42PM (#49998529)
How many of these are companies that learnt from the 1990s and made sure they registered their own name/tradmarks etc rather than having to buy them off scalpers, even though they might have no plans to use them?
Yes I know pay by bank – I have used that to pay my plumber. In effect it replaces paying by cheque.

But the problem is that if you use it to pay for a service and do not get the service you can only claim off who you paid and that requires taking them to court while Credit Cards just require phoning up the card provider. Debit cards are between the two.

It is the difference between Credit and Debit cards.

I could see Debit Cards being replaced by direct transfers.

The issue is what happens if who you pay too does not provide the srvice or just runs off with the money.

Under UK Law the customer can deal with the Credit Card issuer and get their money back with a direct payment it is npot always possible.

For debit cards I think the issue will refund if fraudelent but might take a battle. With direct payments the customer has a much harder job.

Re:The Early History of Smalltalk on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:57PM (#49981868)
There is Pharo (and Squeak) as a free SmallTalk.
The problem about more-heavily taxed is that the gambling companies have spotted this and are registered in off shore tax havens.
Re:Apple and a Hacker's Future on Monday October 05, 2026 @08:22AM (#49963909)
Linux.

There is no Linux that will run on anyhing newer than M4 and even that is incomplete.

VB.NET was always second class to c#.

Unfortunately it was a one-to-one match to C#.

It would have been much netter if it was based on Visual Basic 6

Re:StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:44AM (#49945244)
In UK there is no such thing as a highway so I am still confused as to what highway is.

Your explanation of why edits were reverted makes sense

Re:cp: -r or -R? on Saturday October 03, 2026 @07:52AM (#49943434)
Use rsync instead

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