colomon

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by colomon 7y ago
Nice! Now have it installed on my phone...
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by colomon 7y ago
Do you mean Stellarium Mobile Sky Map, which is $3.50? Or are you compiling Stellarium-android?
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by colomon 7y ago
This seems like a very odd standard to use? I understand that you wanted to compare performances of different languages, that's great. But if you actually wanted to get the job done idiomatically, the code is one short, simple line of
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by colomon 7y ago
For what it's worth, for maybe half of my scripting purposes, Perl 6 was already performant enough back in 2010. The big things I remember it having speed issues on were things you wouldn't normally have considered Perl 5 a solut
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by colomon 7y ago
The older (say 2008-2015) trackpad is best -- a dream to use. The newer one is too big, alas. It's shocking how often I accidentally press it when I'm just trying to rest my palms on my laptop. (But yes, the unix-like OS that do
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by colomon 7y ago
IMO the Touch Bar is pretty useless for serious work. The thing is, you have to look at the Touch Bar to use it! I don't know how you type, but I never look at the keyboard when I'm typing. Plus where I rest my hands on the mach
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by colomon 7y ago
Huh. Here in Michigan I live in a city of 30,000 people, with my usual grocery store open 24 hours a day and about five minutes' drive away.
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by colomon 7y ago
I think your basic point is dead on, but I'm pretty sure ramen is significantly cheaper than potato for the same amount of calories.
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by colomon 7y ago
For me, that Amazon page is listing it as a pre-order, without any release date. And all the other versions (Kindle, Paperback) are the 1st edition instead of the 2nd. Very frustrating, as I considered the first edition to be essential and
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by colomon 8y ago
I've been running the old d20 Star Wars game for my kid, and with PDFs of all the rulebooks, one of my main game prep things is printing out the pages for the creatures / characters / spaceships I think are likely for a sessi
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by colomon 8y ago
Don't forget Ryan North's "To Be or Not To Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure" and "Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure".
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by colomon 8y ago
Guards would scream movie Nazi German snippets at you. "Achtung!" etc. Seems a bit simple now, but almost nothing else like it on the Apple II and C64 when it came out.
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by colomon 8y ago
... it's effectively my clock. Checking what time it is when you wake up is in no way strange, is it?
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by colomon 8y ago
I don't get the given/when part of this comment at all? given/when is exactly like C's switch/case, except the names are better and it's at least an order of magnitude more powerful. It's 100% not added v
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by colomon 8y ago
print in Perl 6 works the same as print in Perl 5. put/say are output functions which automatically add a newline at the end. If you want fancier formatting, printf is available as well. And notice the relative lengths of these names.
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by colomon 8y ago
I'm not sure, but I've got to say, as someone with 10 years Perl 6 experience, I nevertheless learned useful new-to-me things in the second section of it.
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by colomon 8y ago
Huh? I went several years where my insurance didn't properly cover masks / headgear / tubes etc, and I just purchased them off Amazon without any difficulty.
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by colomon 8y ago
Every mask I've ever used automatically vented air by design. (Which yes, is really awful WRT cuddling.)
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by colomon 8y ago
I fell asleep in the middle of conversations a couple of times...
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by colomon 8y ago
It's not exactly the opposite of the meaning... it's more that the last three lines are framed as how he will one day describe the choice he just made, even though he has already described that choice in a way that makes clear his
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by colomon 8y ago
Literally 20% of the lines of the poem are spent saying there is NO discernable difference in how much the two roads have been traveled. Another 10% are saying the roads both look great and he'd like to travel on each of them. Then t
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by colomon 8y ago
I got a Forth for my C64, and it was the PERFECT language for the machine: fast, compact, structured, extensible. Generally much easier to understand the code than C64 Basic, but you could also easily call into assembly language if you nee
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by colomon 8y ago
This sort of question is hard, because ... is he under-rated (or "forgotten", as the original article had it)? I would have said he was both well-respected and still remembered. Personally, I don't think I've read more
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by colomon 8y ago
... this just made me realize I've been conflating Sturgeon and PK Dick in my head for years now. Whoops.
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by colomon 8y ago
For your last case, isn't it just as likely the opposite would happen? If Fred don't deserve any blame for being a mass murderer, why should Sally get any credit for not giving in to her instinct to see him hang for it? And what
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by colomon 8y ago
The C128 came standard with a Z80 as a secondary processor. (Would have been more useful for me if they'd also had an 8" floppy drive so I could have easily gotten stuff to my parents' CP/M machine at work.)
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by colomon 8y ago
"The biggest problem is that multibyte arithmetic has to be processed in LSB to MSB order, with the carry propagating from one byte to the next; but on the 6502 it's so much easier to count down than it is to count up..." Not
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by colomon 8y ago
My favorite example of this was actually from my middle school days. We read Romeo and Juliet from our textbook in class, and I hated it. In the course of getting ready for a test I read over the Cliff Notes on the play as well. Much to m
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by colomon 8y ago
I learned C++ in 1989 using one of his earlier compilers!
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by colomon 8y ago
I dunno what it should be called (including the possibility that "AI" is exactly right). I do know that I focused on AI in my electives for UMich's CS degree circa 1990, and from the sounds of it the AI I studied will have li

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