WillAdams

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by WillAdams 2mo ago
My grandfather lived in a time when commercial hunting went from viable to being outlawed --- I was worried that my children might live in a time when commercial fishing ceases to be tenable, but now that seems a near certainty. Consider th
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
I didn't say this was a solution or that the problem has a simple solution, but pretty much any solution needs to start with community involvement and community oversight seems a useful component to consider.
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
The problem is, this behaviour and training fails the legal standard of a presumption of innocence which should guide such.
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
The one official statement I have ever seen on that was when a new Base Commander was being interviewed and was asked, "Will there be a quota on the number of speeding tickets issued by the Security Police on base?" and his respon
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
When I was younger, in the summer, when I had a (very dark) tan and worked a night job which involved my driving around at odd hours I would get pulled over once or twice each summer for pretty flimsy reasons which equated to me matching th
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
Maybe: https://www.asme.org/about-asme/engineering-history/landmark... To see a typecaster which works find a Linotype or Monotype.
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
NeXT also had "click to scroll to here" and Mac OS X added it as an option (which I always enable).
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
I would give a lot for a version of Squeak which could instantiate standard GUI controls and easily compile to a stand-alone binary or HTML page w/ included JavaScript.
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
Well, maybe what you want is: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/483/diplomacy
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
I remember using these when I was young, and being quite disappointed when the local store quit carrying them. Glad to have them back for note-taking and sketching.
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
Well there was GeoWorks (which AOL used the GUI of to their advantage): https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
The solution to that would be "locavore": https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-is-a-locavore-5118259
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
The thing it makes me wonder is why we need vibe coding to create such an app --- why can't there be a nifty RAD tool for web development like to VB6 which makes this sort of thing easy and natural --- I expected LiveCode to become tha
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
Supplement w/ geothermal?
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
I dunno, I kinda stopped tracking BeOS (and derivatives) when I was essentially bodily ejected from a Be user's group meeting/demonstration by asking how the slides were printed (at that time, BeOS lacked printer drivers). Maybe a
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
I bought an original 128K Mac, and then used them professionally for decades --- Snow Leopard, 10.6.8, which I view as the most perfect Mac OS ever, was the last version I really liked, or found comfortable. I need to replace a MacBook Pro
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
The thing is, one needs to consider more than efficiency, but the overall health and appearance of the lawn --- as noted on _Magnum PI_, it is necessary to vary the cutting so that the lawn does not develop a "grain" where it lays
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
Recent example in the news: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-chess-playing-robot-grabs-and...
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
For the fictional take on that see Ursula K. LeGuin's wonderful novel _The Lathe of Heaven_ --- the PBS movie version is unexpectedly quite good.
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
The usual response here is, any author can predict the horseless carriage, only a true visionary will predict the traffic jam and road rage.
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
This is one for windows --- unfortunately, even the best such windows have a markedly lower R-factor than the much less expensive typical door construction. Such refrigerators are available for commercial applications --- where the on-going
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
I do know at least one couple who have two dishwashers and just alternate which is being used for loading dirty dishes and which is being accessed for clean.
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
Fair point. I find the presence of a microphone sufficiently creepy that that was a non-starter for me, and I didn't pay attention after the initial launch.
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
One thing which I find striking here is that a modern home and attendant conveniences roughly embodies 10--15 horsepower of effort, or the work of 40 or so full time house staff. Thus far, the only notable robots are little disks which vacu
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
Not an issue though, since Fusion 360 has CAM.
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I would really like to see a programming system where the positioning of elements is part of the interaction and parameters.
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There was at least one program for the Acorn which is unique --- Cerilica's Truism --- it was a DTP application which actually simulated mixing inks and what inks would look like on various paper substrates (no need for the "C&quo
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
"There is no Royal Road to Geometry".
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I view it being stripped down and focused (and _not_ having biometrics) as a feature --- kind of annoyed my Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360s have a fingerprint sensor, and I've rather consciously _not_ removed the film covering from them. If I w
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by WillAdams 2mo ago
Some of the CAM tools, esp. those oriented towards hobbyists will import an SVG --- Vectric Vcarve notably, and (ob. discl., I work for the company) Carbide Create. Ages ago there was a Flash file, PartKam (also forked to MakerCAM) which us

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