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New comment by GregorBrandt in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

GregorBrandt — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 18:19:40 +0000

And a modern implementation can be found here: https://wordtsar.ca

New comment by GregorBrandt in "mactop"

GregorBrandt — Wed, 22 May 2024 14:46:01 +0000

CPU usages seems very very high for this.

New comment by GregorBrandt in "I'd rather kill myself than host SMTP again"

GregorBrandt — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 23:30:31 +0000

They are right about UCEPROTECT, what a scam they run, but Spamhaus should do better.

New comment by GregorBrandt in "Why modern software is slow"

GregorBrandt — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 01:34:56 +0000

Performance should be part of the requirements!

New comment by GregorBrandt in "Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm"

GregorBrandt — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:23:37 +0000

The press release specifically states the satellites will de-orbit and burn up by design.

New comment by GregorBrandt in "Amiga at NASA (1999)"

GregorBrandt — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 23:52:19 +0000

That was mostly due to the planar based video layout rather than a byte per pixel display.

New comment by GregorBrandt in "Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax"

GregorBrandt — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 03:41:27 +0000

And what are the other options?

New comment by GregorBrandt in "Poll: Switching from WhatsApp"

GregorBrandt — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:40:08 +0000

Have you travelled or lived in central or South America? WhatsApp is critical social infrastructure. WhatsApp is used more than telephones. For everything. Businesses advertise their WhatsApp contact before, or even omitting, a telephone number. People you meet want your WhatsApp for communication, not your telephone number. WhatsApp has become critical to these countries as the primary form of communication.

New comment by GregorBrandt in "Time to Upgrade Your Monitor"

GregorBrandt — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:25:41 +0000

My optometrist tells me this is not true. Exercise does not hurt your eyes.

New comment by GregorBrandt in "Computer latency: 1977-2017"

GregorBrandt — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 08:49:19 +0000

Would love to see someone do this on an Amiga running Cygnus Editor. That was the fastest code editor I've ever used.

New comment by GregorBrandt in "Bangkok plans to ban all street food by year′s end"

GregorBrandt — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:20:26 +0000

This would be a serious loss to the experience of Bangkok and Thailand in general. Street food makes the trip!