cbm-vic-20

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by cbm-vic-20 5mo ago
It's enough of an influence that macOS APIs had (or still have) "NS" prefixes to many functions.
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by cbm-vic-20 6mo ago
When my mother retired, she volunteered at the local church to transcribe and prepare 100 years of sacramental records to prepare them for digitization by the archdiocese. There were records in filing cabinets in offices, some in chests sto
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by cbm-vic-20 6mo ago
I am sad to say that the latest release Neovim (0.12) no longer works properly with my VT420.
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by cbm-vic-20 6mo ago
I've never been Wolfram's biggest fan, but this is a solid article. I'm trying to get a deeper understanding of the transformer architecture, and it seems that the written articles on transformer are bimodal: the either blind
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by cbm-vic-20 6mo ago
The MacOS built-in screenshot tool has an optional "timed delay" feature, where you can click "screenshot in 5 seconds". With that time, you can open menus, or do anything that requires events to be processed by the appl
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by cbm-vic-20 6mo ago
Four day workweek!
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by cbm-vic-20 6mo ago
Designers are hired to make sure those light switches are put in the right place. Much of the time, it's pretty obvious. But sometimes...
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by cbm-vic-20 6mo ago
I wanted an Atari VCS
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite scenes in the movie, wherein our protagonist is given his new identity credentials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAUcSb3PgeM
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
"Embarrassingly" considered harmful is all you need.
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
Is there anything you can do on a rented QC that you can't do cheaper on a simulated QC on a "classical" CPU/GPU today?
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
Don't miss a chance to see the Cherenkov radiation effect at your local research reactor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
fd:find::rg:grep Someone please make an awesome new sed and awk.
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
And of course, what an "ounce" means may vary. According to Wikipedia "An imperial fluid ounce is defined in British law as exactly 28.4130625 millilitres, while a US customary fluid ounce is exactly 29.5735295625 mL, and a
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
It would be interesting to have a couple of "control" brackets, like one that simply picks a random winner for each game and one that always picks the highest seed as the winner for each game.
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
The internet did die, and was reborn as something else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
As a data interchange format, you can only depend on the lowest commonly implemented features, which for XML is the base XML spec. For example, Namespaces is a "recommendation", and a conformant XML parser doesn't need to sup
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
> I'm amazed that you have 50 years of experience and still able to have the mental flexibility to adapt to new development paradigms. This is the root of age discrimination in technology fields.
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
> one tiny step away from simply streaming a video of your windows In the 80s/90s this wasn't feasible due to network latency and bandwidth, but it's pretty common now to do exactly this, with VNC and other remote desktop
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
I hear you, having learned programming on a machine even more constrained by the BBC Micro. But learners today are more likely to "Siri, build me a Hangman app."
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by cbm-vic-20 7mo ago
TIL about "Charlieplexing", or how to use a reduced set of pins to drive a matrixed set of LEDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlieplexing
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by cbm-vic-20 8mo ago
I don't know much about how these models are trained, but is this behavior intentional (ie, the people pulling the levers knew that this is how it would end up), or is it emergent (ie, pulling the levers to see what happens)?
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by cbm-vic-20 8mo ago
egacs: Eight Gigs And Constantly Swapping
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by cbm-vic-20 8mo ago
Multi-user Unix? What will they think of next? This is cool, though. Gives people a taste of what it used to be like with everyone in the university logged into the big time-sharing machines all together.
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by cbm-vic-20 8mo ago
If you're looking for more to add: ticking second hands have momentum. How about having the ticking hand go beyond the proper place by a degree, then snap back into proper position?
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by cbm-vic-20 8mo ago
In the 30 years I've worked in software, I've seen more than one shop that worked this way. Then "eXtreme Programming" and Scrum rose up and morged into "agile", and that pretty much went away.
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by cbm-vic-20 8mo ago
Or, like the Shakespeare programming language. https://shakespearelang.com/
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by cbm-vic-20 8mo ago
The 9front web site is certainly.. something. https://9front.org
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by cbm-vic-20 8mo ago
This isn't new- it's been happening for decades.

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