JeremyReimer

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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
I had a similar experience with a BASIC game I wrote in 1987, which I revived recently in an emulator - the code itself was copied directly from ancient hard-sectored 5.25" floppy disks into a virtual disk image. The emulator had a bug
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
The distinctions between volatile and non-volatile memory weren't always so distinct! "Another interesting property of core was that it is a non-volatile system, unlike most of its predecessors. The magnetic field in each ferrite
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
Just to save everyone a Google, you can find it here. https://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/ (shameless plug) I actually wanted to write the series in order to answer the question for myself of why t
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
You reminded me of a time in high school when I worked for the local library. The librarian had a perverse habit of closing the windows in the back room during the summer, making it unbearably hot. My mother, who worked there full-time as t
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
I'm happy to hear that more people are discovering this article series. It was my (very) long-running dream to write this, and I'm happy that Ars Technica supported me during the entire journey. Plenty of Amiga people back in the
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
These are all great examples. I would add "Adios", which came out recently, is short and bittersweet, and has some of the best writing I've ever seen in a video game.
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by JeremyReimer 6y ago
I think the idea is that a UBI would provide only enough money for subsistence, and the human drive for greater wealth and status would continue unabated. Status and meaning are certainly important, and people would continue to seek those o
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by JeremyReimer 6y ago
These two types are often called "Plotters" and "Pantsers", with the idea that the Pantser writes by the "seat of their pants". One thing that doesn't get talked about much is the concept of a third type o
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by JeremyReimer 6y ago
I've noticed that other YouTubers, for example the Game Grumps, have stated that they cannot mention "Covid" in their videos for fear of being demonetized or taken down. To get around it, they refer to the situation as the &q
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by JeremyReimer 7y ago
Agreed. I only found out about the Dream Machine from Hacker News (I think it was Alan Kay who recommended it) and it was absolutely the best book ever written on the topic.
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by JeremyReimer 7y ago
I was the final president of the Panorama Amiga Club, a division of the Commodore Computer Club based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Our last formal meeting was probably around 2009, although I kept going to lunch on Saturdays with three o
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by JeremyReimer 7y ago
I was pleasantly surprised that Ars re-ran this story. It was one of my favorites to write. Also probably the most popular single article I ever did.
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by JeremyReimer 7y ago
I'm working on a 2.0 release for newLISP on Rockets: http://newlisponrockets.com It's a rapid development web framework written in newLISP, with inspiration (and many many ideas) taken from Dragonfly. I had stopped wor
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by JeremyReimer 8y ago
You can find out on his blog (cringely.com). The TL;DR is that he mostly does consulting for startups and writes his own columns on the tech industry at his own pace. A few years back he did a Kickstarter for a $100 Minecraft server with hi
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by JeremyReimer 8y ago
Mass Effect Andromeda was no more a multiplayer shooter than Mass Effect 3 was. The multiplayer was optional. Andromeda had other problems, but it wasn't quite as bad a game as the Internet made it out to be. It just wasn't nearly
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by JeremyReimer 8y ago
I think this attitude might have something to do with the volume of emails that people receive. I'm a minor writer for Ars Technica and I always answer every email I get about my articles (or about anything) but then again I only get a
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by JeremyReimer 8y ago
I think it's because Curiosity was a rover and Insight is only a lander. A lander can have rockets on the bottom that slow its descent, but a rover can't, as then the wheels won't work. So the "helicopter drop" puts
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by JeremyReimer 8y ago
I'm sorry you've had bad experiences with newLISP evangelists. In my experience, every single language has overly eager evangelists, and it's best not to let them affect one's overall view of things. I am a huge newLISP
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by JeremyReimer 11y ago
You're correct. Windows NT 3.1 was visually nearly identical to Windows 3.1. This was part of the reason for releasing a 1.0 product with a 3.1 version number.
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by JeremyReimer 11y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to tar all newLISP advocates with the same brush. I understand the design choices that Lutz Mueller made, and I can understand how they might be considered unsatisfactory by other Lisp users. That's f
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by JeremyReimer 11y ago
I'd start with the newLISP documentation, particularly the Code Patterns page: http://www.newlisp.org/CodePatterns.html This is what I learned the language from, and after I got a handle on it I just used their referen
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by JeremyReimer 11y ago
Hi there! I fell in love with newLISP a few years ago, mostly for its clean documentation, the fact that everything seemed to make sense, and the fact that it was small and fast. I found the newLISP web framework Dragonfly and adopted it t
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by JeremyReimer 11y ago
Macs aren't the titans, although it's worth noting that the Macintosh's market share has crept up over the last few years from a low of 2.5 percent to a current value of about 12 percent (stats like Netmarketshare measure ins
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by JeremyReimer 11y ago
I feel like I have already been through this process without an Apple Watch, because I always keep my smartphone in my pocket with my wallet, so whenever it vibrates with a notification I can feel it buzzing on my skin. I solved it by just
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by JeremyReimer 12y ago
I feel like I understand what the author is trying to say, because I remember feeling that "click" in my head when I finally understood why LISP syntax was the way it was, and why it was the best possible syntax. (It was at the s
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by JeremyReimer 12y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines holds up once again. The answer is emphatically "no".
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by JeremyReimer 12y ago
> This is confirmation bias. If people plateau in their skill at 1k hours and then stop such serious pursuit, the burden of proof is on you to say that their gains would have resumed as they approached 10k hours. Surely, though, out of a
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by JeremyReimer 12y ago
>And the "10,000 hour rule" is worse than just a trivial factoid. It is a recipe for disappointment. If you tell someone that, despite their initial lack of talent, they can be "superb" at anything they want, and 10,0
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by JeremyReimer 12y ago
That entire sequence (the song snippet, and the garter story) sounds familiar... I remember seeing it on Robert X. Cringely's "Triumph of the Nerds" on PBS (great documentary series, btw)
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by JeremyReimer 12y ago
If a panel of experts are evenly split on their opinions about the future of jobs, it seems to me that nobody really knows what is going to happen. It's one thing to point to how historically new technology created new jobs to replace

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