A little computer board is only a fraction of the BOM of a laptop, so a 'lapdock' of equivalent quality couldn't be very much cheaper than a whole laptop.

If you use cloud storage, your laptop already has all the stuff on your phone anyway.

Is it character mapped, designed to run in a tty terminal? TUI.

Is it pixel or vector mapped, designed to run in a graphics terminal? GUI.

Of course strictly speaking TUI is a subset of possible graphical user interfaces, but the term GUI was coined to denote interfaces other than the already-ubiquitous text terminal interfaces.

TUIs have since absorbed GUI interface elements like buttons, checkboxes, and even pointer input, which I think is causing the terminology complaint here. Classical TUIs like Norton Commander are more about keyboard input and navigation. But being text-mapped is the identifying feature of a TUI, I think most people accept.

His title at Oxford was 'Professor', and he was addressed as 'Tony'.

He made incoming DPhil (PhD) students a cup of tea individually in his office at the Computing Laboratory. It was a small group, but still I appreciated this personal touch.

I never met Tony, but I liked his work. I'm not much of a one for tea, but I don't think either of my PhD supervisors ever bought me a drink - I didn't finish (got cancer, I'm fine now†, some cancers are very curable, but frankly I was struggling anyway so it was a good excuse to quit) and I'm sure it's traditional to buy something a bit harder than a cup of tea if you pass, but I didn't get that far.

Anyway my point here was just a PSA that honorary degrees "don't count". If somebody only has an honorary doctorate but insists on being called "Doctor" they're an asshole. In fact, even outside University I know a lot of MDs and PhDs and in most contexts if they insist on the title "Doctor" they're an asshole even though they're entitled.

† Well not fine, I'm old but I think that's an inevitable side effect of surviving so the alternative was worse.

There's having An honorary degree... and then there's having 6 of them plus numerous other awards, and all the achievements to back them up :)

Regardless, I've met people with only honorary doctorates, and it's a mixed bag when it comes to preferred titles. Often, though, the ones that really care, soon acquire a 'superior' title anyway, so it ends up becoming a moot point.

You’re right. And ‘Professor’ comes and goes with the job, independent of degrees held.

Nature would enjoy that. The economy not so much, depending on location. Around San Onofre (decommissioned now), a 30 mile Chernobyl-size exclusion zone would cover big chunks of Orange County and San Diego County. The US government recommended a 50 mile exclusion zone around Fukushima. 50 miles would cover southern Los Angeles and millions of people.

So The "worst case scenario" for nuclear power is creating a new wildlife park free from human interference [and emptying out half of Los Angeles]

I wonder what is nuclear equivalent of pollution in Los Angeles.

You're absolutely right.

You know it's bad when reading "you're absolutely right..." causes you to oscillate between wanting to laugh and also violently destroy the computer.

You are viewing this through exactly the right lens. But here is the kicker..

I laughed so hard. It has been a long time. Thanks!

One factor is that you may not be in a position to push your working data to a third party service, for security or legal reasons.

> "was 1066 really all that?"

This article might exist just for this joke in the sub-headline. Pretty good.

"1066 and all that" is a highly influential satirical history book from 1930, and "[X] and all that" a meme/idiom in UK English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_and_All_That

https://archive.org/details/1066allthat00walt/page/n5/mode/2... for anyone who'd like to read it.

Embarassingly for me, while the book advertises that it contains '2 genuine dates', 1066 is the only one I can remember.

> the rapid advances of AI have altered or closed off entirely a lot of the futures that I would find most interesting.

Opening them up again is a possible creative move. For example 'Dune', a far future where AIs and computers are banned and highly taboo because they caused too much trouble. Or there's alternate paths from the actual past such as steampunk in which we pushed mechanical engines further instead of switching (!) entirely to electronics.

I agree that opening up opportunities for other futures is good, but I don't think Dune was a good example of that even if you like the story -- Dune simply avoided the issue by assuming the future would implausibly turn into the past and that technology would be rejected and medieval feudalism and centralized religious control would return. A better, more plausible, future would show, as is often the case, that the technology we think is so ground-breaking today, just is integrated into daily life and hardly thought about rather than disappearing (which basically never happens).

How will you know?

If my eyes glaze over! For now output has a very programatic feel. Maybe not later, who knows?

It's an interesting moment we're at. Circles of trust are going to be really important. The internet is gonna be assumed-bot soon. TikTok is pretty much there already.

Many students will simply not do these assignments. They should but they won’t. Continuous assessment partly solves this.