gramie

joined 1 year ago
[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

A drunk man on a commuter train in Japan was convinced that I was Mr Bean. I can see the confusion, we are both Caucasian with brown hair.

"Bean-san, Bean-san!"

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

To sleep, perchance to dream. And in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

Hamlet (hopefully I didn't get it too wrong)

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's how batteries in series work.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I use Brevo as well. Free tier: 300 emails per day.

Very happy with them.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Expanse TV show is superb. I'm halfway through the books now, and in some ways the TV show is much better, in other ways the books are better.

There's enough subtlety and complexity that I've watched the entire series twice, and I wouldn't be averse to watching it again.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I got one from Prime Cables that not only has a magnetic attachment to the computer, it has different tips so you can use it for USB Micro, C or Lightning. The cable itself has little magnets so it coils up almost automatically.

Edit: https://www.primecables.ca/p-390676-cab-m10-mltc-g2-cab-m10-mltc-g2#sku415474 About USD $10

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I have been using walkscape as well. My walks with the dogs have almost doubled in length, just because I have a little incentive to achieve a goal in the game.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

A lot of his science fiction writing is available with a Creative Commons license, meaning that you can download and read it for free. I really enjoy his quirky, sardonic style.

https://craphound.com/tag/creative-commons/

Gets you to a page where you can download.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

We don't seem to have a problem giving the state power to take life from other countries' citizens, though. The only way you can stop that is if the other country is more powerful than yours.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

And born black. And ~~a Muslim~~ ~~a Hindoo~~ ~~an Indian~~ brown.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago

My point is not about how case is meant to be used my point is that it is very easy to make a mistake that is difficult to spot. I think it makes a lot more sense to the case insensitive, and force different names to be used.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I feel the same way about programming languages. There is no way that "User" and "user" should refer to different variables. How many times has that screwed people up, especially in a weekly typed language?

One of the many things that I feel modern versions of Pascal got right.

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