I'm familiar with this conundrum. I've been taking notes, managing tasks and appointments on paper since 2015; before that I took most notes in Emacs org-mode and managed some tasks there, and some in OmniFocus.
Lack of search is a definite disadvantage of handwritten notes. Here's what I've done to blunt that:
(1) Every notebook begins with a few pages for a table of contents. (2) When a notebook is full, I scan it in as a PDF.
(3) I type up the table of contents to make it searchable and add that to the PDF. (4) The PDFs are all available on my phone.
I am generally able to find things this way, but it is not as convenient as i-searching around a giant buffer in Emacs or using something like deft.el. For the moment I am continuing in this fashion, but I do periodically consider switching back to using a computer for note taking. Perhaps some day I will.
There are "smart notebooks" that make it relatively easy to send your handwritten notes to the cloud. The problem is that, at least when I checked a couple of years ago, they had no OCR, and only uploaded images to which you could attach a name, so they are not especially helpful when it comes to search.
I hope in a few years, with good OCR, they will be a good solution for those of us stuck in this dilemma.
What a blast from the past!
Logo was my first exposure to programming in elementary school (1981-1986). This was fun to play with and the tutorial is well done. I was surprised by the lack of any kind of "run" button, but I think this was a good choice for this kind of learning environment. Neat!
"Educt, is a substance separated from a mixture in which it already existed, as opposed to a product, which is newly generated by a chemical reaction."
So, in this context, the substances consumed by the cell's chemical processes.
Thank you, you're right of course, I couldn't recall 'Tunny' and hoped I'd get away with 'helped' as general contributory effort in that line of work with 'Enigma' as something everyone's heard of. Probably should have said 'used at BP' or something instead though.
For the case of accidentally closing a Viewer: The command System.Recall restores the most recently closed Viewer. Just find or type that command anywhere on the screen and then execute it by clicking it with the middle mouse button.
Most obviously Modula-2 is is case-sensitive, while (Turbo)Pascal is not. Also Modula-2 addresses the danging-else problem in Pascal, while TurboPascal does not.
It wouldn't surprise me if TurboPascal addressed some of the same deficiencies in Pascal that Wirth also addressed in Modula-2, but they probably do so differently.
I'm not seeing "significant liability" in how even major data breaches have been handled in the US so far. Where are the fines large enough to be noticed for gross negligence? Where are the prisons terms for the captains of industry that set the priorities and determine the budgets that inevitably lead to such negligence?
Equifax? Yahoo? Target? Heartland? TJX? eBay? JP Morgan Chase? Adult Friend Finder? Locationsmart and the cell phone carriers providing real time location information on all of their customers to third parties?
A CEO of a major corporation The Land of the Free™, wouldn't consider liability for negligent data handling very seriously given the government's seeming lack of interest in seriously prosecuting same. S/he'd probably even argue that investing more in security would lower profits and harm investors. And we can't have that.
I don't think it's an equal comparison... the effects of social media on societies is a somewhat subjective matter. It's more likely that social media is just another tool that exposes the underlying human nature.
That said, if a fire occurs in my shelter and I don't have sprinklers installed, I could die.
> Heinlein's point was that one's vote is a huge responsibility, and that privilege must be earned: by demonstrably placing the needs of one's country above individual wellbeing.
I find the unspoken assumption that the "needs of one's country" always mean going to war and killing other people curious. Is that the only thing that countries need? What about jobs, infrastructure, health care, pensions, education, social insurance, good laws, and competent government among many other things.
Lack of search is a definite disadvantage of handwritten notes. Here's what I've done to blunt that:
(1) Every notebook begins with a few pages for a table of contents. (2) When a notebook is full, I scan it in as a PDF. (3) I type up the table of contents to make it searchable and add that to the PDF. (4) The PDFs are all available on my phone.
I am generally able to find things this way, but it is not as convenient as i-searching around a giant buffer in Emacs or using something like deft.el. For the moment I am continuing in this fashion, but I do periodically consider switching back to using a computer for note taking. Perhaps some day I will.