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by baldfat 7y ago
Racket has by far the best I have ever used. Here is everything you need to know about it in a 7 minute read. https://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/getting-started.html
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by baldfat 7y ago
Tell that to people who have to use a iPad for doing office work. I just switched jobs on April 1 and I want to throw this hunk of hot garbage away. Mouse and Keyboard are so much better for doing most things. iOS will be much friendlier to
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by baldfat 7y ago
Also while embracing Open Source they are also making record profits. MS thank you for VS Code - I never thought I would replace my Vim.
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by baldfat 7y ago
The greatest thing is that Racket is fun the worst thing is Racket is fun, because everyone does their own thing. You can do your own thing faster then finding something and implementing it. It is funny how that is an issue.
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by baldfat 7y ago
Racket is still my preferred language based on how fun it is to use and the community is just awesome.
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by baldfat 7y ago
My city about 10 years ago have a car that drives with a camera scans every plate and with a GPS location. You have to move your car about 2 feet and you are fine. They also moved away from towing to a boot. If your on a boot for 48+ hours
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by baldfat 8y ago
This is how I got into debugging :)
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by baldfat 8y ago
I use Haxe which is a Haxe is an open source toolkit based on a modern, high level, strictly typed programming language, a cross-compiler, a complete cross-platform standard library and ways to access each platform's native capabilitie
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by baldfat 8y ago
I think a little Distro hopping is good for the soul. I have certainly had my time with Arch and Fedora but I have settled with OpenSUSE because it is to me the perfect distro. You can get OpenSUSE Leap a typical disto with release cycles a
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by baldfat 8y ago
I would say the opposite. Things have been consolidating in companies and in technologies. It used to be that you had 10 options for everything. Now things are getting more and more standardized. I like to think we are much better today in
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by baldfat 8y ago
I know how loved Debian has been for the community and all that has been built on it but as a user I kind of always felt that Debian was always doing their own thing, at their own pace and their own requirements. Maybe this is a sign that t
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by baldfat 8y ago
I'm on OpenSUSE Leap and it has been rock solid. I had it on a rolling release on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and it was a problem with all the updates. When I use Linux for Audio and Video I DON'T update the computer and I don't hav
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by baldfat 8y ago
LOVE Lightworks But I have moved on to Davinci Resolve which is also on Linux. Lightworks workflow is the best but the learning curve is more like a cliff. Davinci Resolve seriously might be the biggest Video Editor on all three platforms i
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by baldfat 8y ago
> I very much hope that this whole microtransaction racket will be over by the time my kids are big enough to get their own console On mobile that will never happened. Consoles are becoming a smaller and smaller slice of the pie. If anyo
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by baldfat 8y ago
> My recollection of the events was that the KDE team was very much promoting 4.0 as a general release. That was what the community stated but I never found one single thing from KDE to state anything but a warning on not adopting for pr
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by baldfat 8y ago
You would have to purge your system and shower head with vinegar every day just to keep things clean.
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by baldfat 8y ago
I also have the feeling but people continue to state that it takes 15 years for products to come out in the past. I just don't see how in our day and age we see all the wonders of graphine promises and still sit here waiting for some t
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by baldfat 8y ago
Old Man Here. Nor would they be able to sit through 2001 A Space Odyssey. The quality of the movie hasn't changed but the audience has. I love betting people they can't sit through one of the best movies ever. I have yet to see s
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by baldfat 8y ago
Similar to KDE 4.0 being beta and everyone lost their minds.
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by baldfat 8y ago
We actually got a ton of use from it. We use to broadcast the Sunday morning service and it did all the graphics. Anything else would have cost $10,000 more.
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by baldfat 8y ago
Yes they had a tv show on the local channel and we use it for adding to the video and credits. We then were one of the first video projectors and we used that for the projector.
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by baldfat 8y ago
My church bought a Amiga 2000 and a Video Toaster because as a teenager they trusted me to get what they needed. It was there till 2004. :) I loved that machine.
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by baldfat 8y ago
yeah, 24 hours MAYBE?
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by baldfat 8y ago
> A lot of young people think that the people who wrote software 30 years ago were just plain stupid and all wrote crappy code. The generation from the 70s and 80s will forever be the best technological generation the world will ever see
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by baldfat 8y ago
I was thinking the same thing and go to Minnesota in Winter where the life span of the lens would be four months long.
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by baldfat 8y ago
Didn't say it was a benefit (I think there is a benefit though personally). My logic was that it was a common occurrence that humans evolved with the ability to go through long periods of fasting. You can go 40+ days without eating and
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by baldfat 8y ago
It's safe because humans had to fast. Think about it, humans didn't have a fridge and fast food. Humans had to go through fasting and in now way except the elite have 21 meals a week. When you read books in history winter sucked b
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by baldfat 8y ago
I am guessing you also have an issue with people being on unemployment?
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by baldfat 8y ago
That sounds like my childhood. We had an 8 track with Mamas and the Papas California Dreaming and Random MARCHING MUSIC. The radio was broken. It was Russian Roulette with the revolver loaded when mom ask what music you want to listen to. Y
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by baldfat 8y ago
My Own Experience with Basic and teaching programming: I know from teaching kids is that LINE NUMBERS makes more sense to them. Personally I HATE line numbers and think they are the devil. I was showing kids my old 1970s code books that I u

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