August 2019 – Homo Ludditus

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24-Hour Shifts: A Planet of Fools

August 1, 2019 24-Hour Shifts: A Planet of Fools2019-08-01T14:55:26+01:00 Miscellanea 1 Comment

Since I already posted today on an issue involving both logic and common sense, here's another one, in the context of a human tragedy in Romania where it…

What divides the Internet is not math

August 1, 2019 What divides the Internet is not math2019-08-01T09:46:01+01:00 Technical 3 Comments

They swear by their PhD in maths or by their experience as a software developer. They invoke PEMDAS or BODMAS as the correct order of operations. Some of…

Vit on Nostalgia & Fun With CalculatorsConcerning that integral from the Update 10 which android calculators fail to solve, and "to be able to compute on
Béranger on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseThis comment about Linux Mint 20 made my day: Blank • 5 days ago It's so ugly for a distribution,
Béranger on Nostalgia & Fun With CalculatorsI know that the haptic response is configurable, but I just can't find the right values. I'm very picky, and
Ben on Nostalgia & Fun With CalculatorsThank you so much for your comment! Your professional feedbacks are very important to me, and allow me to create
Béranger on Nostalgia & Fun With CalculatorsThanks for the feedback to the feedback :) Speaking of suggestions, there are two issues with your app, as far
Béranger on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseNot yet, but I suppose I'll boycott Mint 20. One of the reasons I don't comment ANYTHING, ANYWHERE (except on
Béranger on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseNothing is wrong, but it doesn't have anything to entice me to use it. Oh, well, the distro's icon (logo?)
Ben on Nostalgia & Fun With CalculatorsHello, I'm the programmer of ChampCalc scientific calculator. I really liked reading your professional review of my app, and I
John on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseHave you decided on a distro yet? Dedoimedo probably hasn't heard of it if he hasn't tested it.
John on Back to ChinaFor some reason, PC Manager's UI looks both old and new.
John on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseWhat's wrong with it?
Béranger on What divides the Internet is not mathSome calc apps now ask the user about how to treat the implied multiplication:
Béranger on Nostalgia & Fun With CalculatorsRevisiting the Vietnamese calc apps (not to check whether each one is still there), I discovered a new one, by
Béranger on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseCentOS is dead. I already said that Red Hat is dead, right? Not just Fedora. GNOME2 sucks, and they screwed
HAL on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseBut also : "If you want to Red Hat, you could try the rather nifty CentOS 8 instead. If you
Béranger on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseAs I didn't make my mind yet, some side notes based on Dedoimedo's opinions (a smart, yet peculiar guy). He
Béranger on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseYeah, but I'm not such a huge fan of it.
John on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseMX Linux seem to be trending as far as XFCE desktops go.
Béranger on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseThey shouldn't recommend it, yet they don't discourage its use either: Although Manjaro is compatible to Arch --being based on
HAL on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseI believe I have read that nowadays Manjaro does not recommend the use of AUR. I used it, but for