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by cc101 2y ago
For many years I have used a cheap clam shell phone and an Apple iPod Touch (basically a tiny iPad). It works fine for me. Why do I do it? I need Mac compatibility and iPhones are preposterously expensive.
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by cc101 2y ago
The visuals of this website are awful. I stopped reading immediately.
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by cc101 2y ago
I think it is Ukraine's goal to seize the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant to balance threats represented by Russia's occupation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The current invasion is about 60 miles from the Russian plant. Ha
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by cc101 2y ago
Sea transport appears to me to be so risky that there may have been multiple stones lost at sea. An interesting project would be to search for lost stones using side-scan sonar. Artifacts found with such stones might provide worthwhile inf
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by cc101 2y ago
His actual talk is about something else. I hesitate to defend the clown, but if the Left degenerates to this sort of misrepresentation, where is the difference between the Left and the Right? Trump was urging the Christian Right to vote. H
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by cc101 2y ago
Memory footprint and runtime don't count. Total time spent programming does count.
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by cc101 2y ago
A geology professor named Jon Cummings at Cal State Hayward. Why? Consider this: An earthquake struck while he was lecturing. A friend looked down the hall and Prof H. was standing in the doorway (a safer place in an earthquake). Prof.
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by cc101 2y ago
Try Basilisk 2 running MacOS 8 and HyperCard.
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by cc101 2y ago
Paradoxically, disasters like huge earthquakes are not the worst problem. It will be the social unrest that results from the government's inability to cope with the aftermath that causes the most harm. I wish I could say that the gov
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by cc101 2y ago
It is also a cynical manipulative lie that has destroyed the moral authority of the feminist movement.
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by cc101 2y ago
Looks like a game tool to me. You would roll it some distance or more, and hope to get a preferred vertical hole, i.e. a big one if you are trying to toss something into it or a small one if the opponent is. Coins would be likely. You mig
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by cc101 2y ago
Looking at a night sky a long way from civilization, realizing that many of those "stars" were galaxies with as many "stars" as those that were visible to me then, and realizing that was reflexively true for those "
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by cc101 2y ago
It's maybe 10% strictly verbal, and that only when I'm having trouble. More significantly, I make very heavy use of fully formed multi-word camel case variable names. It's much like speaking out loud. It is hugely useful,
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by cc101 2y ago
I moved to Mexico from Arizona. I was able to bring my woodworking tools to Mexico with one minor hassle. Getting tools via internet worked well for small things. Some medium sized tools were cheaper here. Getting hardwood was much easi
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by cc101 2y ago
This has the potential to greatly extend the reach of drone clouds in this rapidly evolving field of modern warfare. For example, such clouds could extend the Ukraine-Russia battlefield deep into Russia, threatening Russian logistics. Lon
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by cc101 2y ago
"Woke" is a meaningless word used by hateful people who are embarrassed to use the correct word.
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by cc101 2y ago
Stanford, 1968. From there on I continued to learn to code wherever I went. The darn field would not stop changing every 6 months or so! Same thing today. My current side project constantly demands I learn something new. Maybe it'
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by cc101 3y ago
I'm not complaining, but isn't this self-promotion? I'd love do something like it myself when I release my next app. I'd think that I would be attacked for doing it.
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by cc101 3y ago
It's a question not a link. People who read Reddit are arrogant idiots. Now your abusive behavior is polluting HN. People like you don't belong on HN.
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by cc101 3y ago
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), "much" derives from Old High German and/or Old Norse with a reference to Greek. There are scholars who trace language written example by written example back a thousand years
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by cc101 3y ago
I too was self taught. For me it was the perfect opportunity to express my best vision ever. Unfortunately it was followed by years of mediocrity. But for one year my work was special. That is to say, for me it wasn't advancing skill.
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by cc101 3y ago
Structured programming was a life saver. Lack of its discipline was literally life-threatening. You can not know how grim things were for me before it came along. Object Oriented Programming was nearly as life changing. Learning OOP was
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by cc101 3y ago
Having faced this issue through out my 56 years as a programmer, I can say with absolute certainty the answer is YES. My O29 keypunch programming skills are worthless. : ) Change in our profession is rapid, and only those who keep up with
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by cc101 3y ago
There is zero chance that this will not result in more expensive food at Wendy's. It just means that the explanation will be different. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
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by cc101 3y ago
What a time that was! There is nothing like it today.
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by cc101 3y ago
You don't need to automate this. I routinely do it with Google images. Just make two images from a slightly different angle centered on the same center. I prefer oblique images. Export them to an iPhone. Flip back and forth between
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by cc101 3y ago
He is bright. He has important things to say. Learning what he has to say takes way too much time. Until he gets a merciless editor, I won't listen to him.
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by cc101 3y ago
Practical means I can't proceed without changing languages. As long as I can proceed with objC, I will.
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by cc101 3y ago
I've been programming for 56 years. Over that time if I had changed languages without a compelling reason, it would have been a huge waste of time, energy, and peace of mind. I'll stick with objC until I am compelled by practica
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by cc101 3y ago
They forgot about Sir Thomas Crapper.

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