TomMasz

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by TomMasz 3y ago
From the article: "Computer simulations done in advance of the landing attempt did not incorporate the terrain of the new landing site, Ujiie said." The problem wasn't in the software, it was in the planning and testing.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
His Things I Won't Work With are always hilarious as well as educational. And they really make you wonder about the chemists who actually work with these substances, especially when their notes include things like "violent explosi
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by TomMasz 3y ago
You truly know you've become an adult when at least one of the things you played with as a kid are now banned from sale. This is a perfect example.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
I rode this with my parents just a few years after this accident. I don't recall any mention of it at the time. My mom was an anxious sort and I'm sure if they had said anything we wouldn't have taken it.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
The Albums That Never Were site has featured multiple Beatle "what if?" albums over the years, including post-breakup. https://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.com/search/label/beatle...
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by TomMasz 3y ago
My learning history is similar to yours Basic->Pascal->C. I feel it was a lot easier learning C by already knowing Pascal than it would have been coming directly from Basic.
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Something definitely happens to people when they become extremely rich. No one will say "no" to them for fear of reprisal. Most of us encounter limits on what we can do, not enough time/money/political power/etc., a
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by TomMasz 3y ago
Missing Initech from Office Space.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
Some of these aren't just bad, they're downright evil. Don't be surprised if someone implements one of them not realizing they're supposed to be a joke.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
I was an early adopter of Apollo and it's probably my most-used phone app. I'm hopeful this will go well, but what happened with Twitter is hard to ignore.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
The Pilot Manhattan fountain pen in medium nib is the best fountain pen I've ever used. Combined with a Maruman Mnemosyne notebook (also from Jet Pens) it's perfect for journaling.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
I was taught slide rule basics in 8th grade. The teacher had one of those giant slide rules that was mounted above the blackboards. Then in freshman year of high school I got my first calculator (a Bowmar "Brain"). Every now and t
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by TomMasz 4y ago
“Tubes just distort things in a very pleasant way,” This is probably the best description of tube sound. Not that they don't distort, just that humans seem to like it when they do. If you A/B tube and solidstate amps at a level
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by TomMasz 4y ago
It was a configuration issue between the machine being emulated and the ROM I was using. I found it by chance poking around in the config since there was no indication of what the problem was. Now I have to figure out everything else.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
Is there any real documentation? I have NeXT ROMs but no matter which one I use it crashes immediately.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
I use Mnemosyne notebooks ( https://www.jetpens.com/Maruman-Mnemosyne-Notebooks/ct/765 ) from JetPens. The paper works great with any pen or pencil and the spiral binding allows them to lay flat.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
You still need to read the labels carefully. I had a box of stevia packets and when I looked at the label they also contained erythritol.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
This is a message to all of the remaining developers there that it's time to move on. But you know there's plenty of "that won't happen to me, I'm different" going on.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
Even an old 5 MHz scope will do for audio applications, though that generation is getting on in years and likely to be a problem to maintain.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
I'm currently using Menlo in VS Code (on Mac) since SF Mono is too restrictive for my needs. I like Fira Code but the ligatures, while very nice, would be confusing for my students and probably best not used.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
Google sounds like a Kodak or a Xerox, so enamored of their cash cow they lose the incentive to innovate. I'm not saying they will end up like those companies, though, as they're in an industry where catching up won't be as d
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by TomMasz 4y ago
It's a tacit admittance that work culture sucks. It sucks so much they know they can use the threat of it to get you to do what they want just to avoid it.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
I did some Prolog programming in school but I never really got the language coming from a Pascal/C background. Your first language(s) really do affect your future learning.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
Is having an order from United Nuclear on your credit card something that might get you flagged as a potential terrorist?
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by TomMasz 4y ago
I'm staying with Monterey on my iMac and MBP. Ventura offers me nothing I need and lots I don't. The security aspects are appealing but not sufficient to get me to change.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
I recently asked a question about Java and Maven development differences in VS Code between Windows and Mac OS and got only one answer from someone who didn't actually read the question. So, yeah, it sure seems that way.
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by TomMasz 4y ago
The Real Book (and its ilk) were perfect for the way Jazz was played from the Bop era onwards. You'd play the basic melody so that listeners understood what the tune was and from then on you'd improvise, possibly reprising the mel
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by TomMasz 4y ago
I have an unusual gene mutation that is basically unknown. There are other mutations in that gene that cause fatal birth defects but not the one I have. It was found as part of a search for the cause of a (non-fatal) condition I've dev
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by TomMasz 4y ago
Many of the disagreeable personalities I dealt with over the years were that way to co-workers and direct reports. They were completely different when dealing with their superiors. They did well because of that, even when employee opinion s
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by TomMasz 4y ago
Traveling to Japan (~1999) really got me aware of vending machines. Even then, you could buy so many strange things from machines compared to what I had seen in the US. It took a while but the rest of the world did catch up.

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