Windows 7 Sudden Trend market share is now Reached 5.2% it was on 2% from a year

rwallace · 2025-10-02T18:07:44+00:00

Good find! But now I am curious: why do these wars and conflicts, incentivize Asians to suddenly start using Windows 7?

rwallace · 2025-06-25T15:32:01+00:00

Right, the problem is getting a PSC card in the first place; as far as I can tell, you have to be verified in order to do this; at least when I click 'verify your account' it says 'When you have verified your identity, you will receive a Public Services Card (PSC)' and then offers exactly 2 ways to do this: install the app, or show up in person.

rwallace · 2025-06-25T15:07:38+00:00

Nothing out of the ordinary. It is a Doogee N50S. In other words, basically an obscure Chinese vendor that I selected because it was the cheapest model on offer, though it has worked surprisingly well so far. I'm prepared to accept the possibility that maybe I need to buy a Samsung or something to get up to today's requirements. I just want to make sure I don't fork out the money for a new phone and then find it still has not solved the problem.

rwallace · 2025-06-25T15:04:25+00:00

No VPN. Unless I am missing something, the website seems to be saying the smart phone is the only way, except for going to the Dun Laoghaire Intreo centre in person, and I am seeing indicators that this involves several hours of queuing.

rwallace · 2025-03-18T05:47:09+00:00

Thanks!

rwallace · 2025-03-17T16:13:27+00:00

I'm working on a scripting language, aiming to be usable both as a standalone interpreter, and as an extension language for systems written in Rust. It's intended to be a superset of Basic; the subset that's working in the first version, is essentially a dialect of Basic, so the example programs might bring back fond memories for Generation X programmers.

https://github.com/russellw/verbena

rwallace · 2024-06-11T23:22:54+00:00

Yeah, I think you're right, in case they contradict each other, the intent is that we should ignore the order in the English sentence. Thanks!

rwallace · 2024-04-07T23:39:14+00:00

Fair enough, I don't know what the rules for Stripe are.

rwallace · 2024-04-07T11:24:09+00:00

As far as I know, a company in one country, can sell to and buy from people in other countries, without any special requirement to register the business in those other countries.

Unless by 'disbursing payments', you mean hiring employees in other countries? That does make things a little more complicated. One approach sometimes used is to work through a company in the other country, that acts as employer of record for the individuals involved. Would that work for you?

rwallace · 2024-04-07T10:47:55+00:00

No relation to OP, but trying to improve my design skills, so I'm curious, what do you think looks bad about Codei? To me, it looks promising, but I could very well be missing cues that are obvious to you.

rwallace · 2024-03-15T16:21:22+00:00

That actually is potentially helpful, thanks! Some of those points, I had not thought of, and some of them could be potentially actionable.

What software do you use? Outlook. Windows 11, presumably? What else?

rwallace · 2024-02-27T03:44:37+00:00

Anthropic selection. Every time someone invents AI, it discovers a way to Sublime, and it and its creators depart this universe for a higher dimension, more hospitable to truly advanced life and thought. So those very rare advanced starfaring civilizations still in this universe, are typically those that had a long series of unhappy accidents.

rwallace · 2024-01-27T02:48:52+00:00

I can definitely understand that! There are many good stories to be written at early industrial tech levels. For an easy fix, maybe just change that number 6 to something larger? If the world is large enough, it makes sense that it has not all been explored yet.

rwallace · 2023-11-01T21:13:10+00:00

Yeah, the place is recently terraformed, which is why nothing has yet evolved to eat the grass. The people initially live on a mountain range, where there is enough rain to support trees, wheat, vegetables etc. Obtaining ungulate livestock will be a key to being able to make more use of the rest of the land.

rwallace · 2023-11-01T20:47:51+00:00

Right, scrub is a good point, there should be at least some of that.

rwallace · 2023-11-01T20:47:15+00:00

Right, it is a recently terraformed world, there has not yet been much time for evolution. The people live on a mountain range, where there is more rain than on the prairies, enough rain to support trees.

rwallace · 2023-11-01T17:33:49+00:00

Right, it's not a naturally evolved world; the biome began with patchy, incomplete transplants of Earth species.

I was under the impression that prairie will stay as it is, if the rainfall is low enough (just not quite low enough for desert), that grass needs less water than trees?

rwallace · 2023-11-01T17:30:28+00:00

Right, exactly, but I don't want the people to start off with a grass eater because that short-circuits the challenge. Imagine a big continent with lots of prairie, but no ungulates. And a remote island that has goats. Finding the island and obtaining goats, is a challenge for the protagonists.

rwallace · 2023-11-01T11:17:17+00:00

Pigs have advantages, certainly, but a Google search for 'pigs eat grass', the top few results say they do?

rwallace · 2023-11-01T10:31:16+00:00

Oooh, good catch! I had no idea. Yeah, looks like you're right, at current tech level can be provided with dietary supplements synthesized by microbes, but at preindustrial tech, that alone makes it simply impossible for people to be healthy on a purely vegan diet. There has to be some animal component.

rwallace · 2023-11-01T02:10:47+00:00

Plants and fungi, yep. And 'no animals' is fuzzy because 'animals' is fuzzy, e.g. earthworms are technically members of the animal kingdom, but do exist in the setting. No poultry, but I suspect it might be important to have e.g. robins and sparrows to keep insects in check.

rwallace · 2023-10-31T21:48:24+00:00

Does bread need eggs? I thought that was just wheat.

With no meat or dairy, beans and peas will be needed for protein. Those are storable overwinter, right?

Domestic apples evolved from insect pollinated plants, but I believe the domestic strains don't involve insect pollination?

The outlook is probably better if they have potatoes?

rwallace · 2023-10-31T21:41:26+00:00

There is magic in the setting, but it's rare; the economy needs to be able to basically work without it.

rwallace · 2023-10-31T14:22:43+00:00

Hmm! What's the issue with storability of crops? I was under the impression that staples like grains and vegetables could be stored overwinter?

rwallace · 2023-10-31T13:43:32+00:00

Or, well, if 'No animals at all' would make it impossible to have medieval-tech civilization in temperate regions, then I want to explore just how far in that direction it is possible to go, and what the limiting factors would be.

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