JoeDaDude

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by JoeDaDude 1y ago
Tempting, but I'll need to hurry. Submission deadline is May 20th!
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by JoeDaDude 1y ago
Jolt Cola! I drank boatloads of the stuff in the 1980s, even had a bright red t-shirt with their slogan: "All the sugar and twice the caffeine". All this time I had no idea it was part of the hacker scene in Sweden.
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by JoeDaDude 1y ago
I'm just going to recommend the biology books written by Lewis Thomas. The books are collections of essays rather than science or text books. They blew my mind and opened up a deep respect for the field of biology and gave me a deep
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
The tool url is not listed in TFA, but a simple google search results in the following: https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/TLHdig/
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
I'm sure most science fiction fans will know that Hugo Gernsback, mentioned prominently in TFA, is the person the Hugo Award is named after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Why is it "music for developers"? I was expecting one of those Lofi music videos designed to enhance concentration or similar. These are typically instrumentals, ostensibly because they are less distracting, something like this:
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
RIP the Ad Accelerator, which would up the speed upon detection of an ad. Youtube has found a way around it and it no longer works. https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
This is not the only service of its kind. There is also the Video Gist: https://www.videogist.co/ I can't speak to the differences between the two. Once casual observation is that the one posted by the OP seems to be
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
The best one is the one you make yourself. I made my first one using a BASIC compiler for the Timex Sinclair 2068. The compiler only supported 1-dimensional arrays and I used special characters so I could get 4 pixels in each alpha numer
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
You may, or may not be asking in jest. In any case, I think you are alluding to the fact that Luke Farritor, winner of the Vesuvius challenge in 2023 and former SpaceX intern, is now employed by Elon Musk in the Department of Government Ef
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
I read somewhere that you can place a candle under a bowl (with allowance for oxygen to get in) and you can capture the plasma given off by the candle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5BFIVDUQPE
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
An AI would be nice for solo practice, though I have a hunch an AI would be unbeatable. Have you given any thoughts to implementing an AI player?
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
I agree, it was very dark. They prohibit photography but some people manage to take a few pics or videos, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwDqKWMLSIM A detailed and lengthy explanation of the necropolis, exc
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
The necropolis of Roman tombs, over which the Basilica was built, and what is claimed to be Peter's Tomb, can actually be visited, deep in the bowels of the Basilica. To do so one must sign up for the Scavi Tour and book well in advan
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Nice! Hopefully it will grow to include circuit bending [1] techniques, those typically used for altering music machines and similar. [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_bending
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
I made jokes about having a dead man's trigger that would automatically send out resumes as soon as a paycheck was not deposited on schedule. This is half of it right here.
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
What seems to be a related project, Project Scan 8, is mentioned briefly in this 1980's Nova episode about scientific research into ESP. See it at about the 44 minute mark. https://archive.org/details/TheCaseofESP
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
I'm sure language learners all over have felt this way. Once one starts learning another tongue, one realizes that languages do not exist in isolation, they are part of a larger culture and the language comes with customs, traditions,
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
I remember reading the following anecdote about Grainer, repeated on Wikipedia, though neither I nor Wikipedia have a source for it: "Grainer was amazed at the resulting piece of music and when he heard it, famously asked, "Did I
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
I can't make a fair comparison between the object in TFA and Oumuamua, the presumed interstellar object that passed through our Solar System not long ago. For the latter, a "Project Lyra" study [1] posits a combination of Ea
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Maybe. But sign a new lease (or mortgage!), pay moving expenses, relocate away from friends/family/social network/what have you and then the job disappears after 18 months, leaving you to relocate again....
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The FORTH code for Chipwits is released in the game's 40th anniversary(chipwits.com)
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Just a nit: The Spanish deck of "naipes" is not just a historical footnote, the deck is still in use today. The same may be true for some other historical variants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish-suit
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Came here to point folk to this video. The article seems to gloss over a lot of how modern rice cookers actually work. It involves latent heat of water, magnetism, and the Curie point, as explained in your link.
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Indeed! Why [doesn't Barnes and Noble] take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon? [1]. [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapstick_(novel)#Anthropologi...
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
The path to getting this game published was not easy. At one time, Barnes and Noble rejected the idea of publishing and selling the game because “Not enough people know who Kurt Vonnegut is” [1]. [1]. https://web.archive.org&#x
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
This is fun, but how do I get more credits? I don't see way to add any.
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
When I took an AI class, the first thing they taught was Prolog and for exercises we all had to write adventure/colossal cave style games in it. Prolog turned out be well suited to the task. The variety of simple games made in the cl
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Excellent! Upon further digging, I found out that a chess grandmaster, one Savielly Tartakower, was defeated by El Ajedrecista [1], a machine that could play chess endgames. This was 1951, so before the Los Alamos lab assistant, but a bit
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Another small tidbit of lost computer history: The first person who lost a game to a computer was an unnamed Los Alamos laboratory assistant who lost a game of simplified chess against a computer program in 1956 [1]. The assistant's

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