a_gopher

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by a_gopher 3mo ago
If reading aloud a children story, you may notice you are able to maintain an independent unrelated train of thought. While doing so, I notice that occasionally extra mistakes can "leak" into the story telling - e.g. you read a si
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by a_gopher 1y ago
apart from blind users, who are also now completely unable to use their screenreaders with your site
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by a_gopher 2y ago
my thoughts exactly - crazy to know all these arcane SIMD opcodes but not know basic maths!!
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by a_gopher 2y ago
So the butterflies flew 2600 miles only to be killed for study by some curious entomologists?
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by a_gopher 3y ago
An old BASIC program, with full explanation
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Ray tracing on 8-bit retro hardware(github.com)
1 points by a_gopher 3y ago|1 comments
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by a_gopher 5y ago
Looks dead. No release for +3 years
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by a_gopher 6y ago
aka Sinclair ZX81. There was such a program in Your Computer that would toggle between fast and slow mode to generate tones. It was a actually a trivial 8 or 16 step tracker, so you could even make beats... And here's the program listi
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by a_gopher 6y ago
OneTick, Kx, and QuasarDB
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by a_gopher 9y ago
Paper doesn't address what measures the aliens might use to disguise any obvious signature of the starshade. You'd think that the aliens might not be too keen to create huge beacon advertising their presence to all and sundry...
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by a_gopher 10y ago
Using a yellow whiteboard marker, simply colour in the LED's face. Problem solved.
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by a_gopher 10y ago
fair. not quite so pretty now... perl -E 'for(@ARGV){say,unlink for<$_/whatever*>;push@ARGV,($_)x(-d^-l)for<$_/*>}' .
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by a_gopher 10y ago
perl -E 'sub x{say;for(<$_/*>){&x;unlink}};x for@ARGV' * perl -E 'push@ARGV,<$_/*>for@ARGV;say,unlink for@ARGV' *