cptnapalm

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by cptnapalm 3y ago
The exit is that way, sir.
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
"seem to be independent thinkers, but they pretend to follow the in-group for the purpose of maintaining social harmony" Preference falsification [0]. There's a book called Private Truths, Public Lies by Timur Kuran which del
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
The pipeline wasn't just the fastest; it left everything else in the proverbial dust!
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
I have an AMD L14. The damn keyboard has a hardware fault. I have to close and open the lid so it suspends then wakes up to get it working again. Not a great experience, obviously. The Thinkpad I had previously had some wonky wifi chipset.
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
It's pretty much BD-1 from Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order.
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
I need to find the two reports I got from the US Government about the Ural computers.
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
This is... wow. I really like this.
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
zellij
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
This is exactly why I never click on it when I'm looking for something. It's never a solution that a search finds; it's always an question answered that it's a duplicate of something completely unrelated.
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
Maybe write a program that plays the game for you. It could be called You're the Operating System Operating System.
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
Have you tried looking in the sofa? I found some change I had lost last week.
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
One curious thing I've noted about myself playing these things is that there are some complex things I figure out and have a great cycle count. Others, I can barely figure out and I have one of the worst cycle counts which don't e
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
Catholicon: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Catholicon/4336
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
Was in a black metal band and there was this one riff we had a problem syncing up at the end for the transition to the next. Sometimes we'd nail it, other times it fell apart. Turned out that, while the drum beat was 4/4, the fi
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by cptnapalm 3y ago
Not a day has gone by where I have not been sensitive to opportunities to use the word "defenestrate".
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
I got an older Supermicro off eBay with 6 10Gb ports for $89.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Curious that one of the ChatGPT's attributes is that it has been trained to be a shameless liar.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
There's a large cross-over audience from reddit on HN.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
I want you to know that I love you.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
What does Natalie Portman need to imagine a Beowulf cluster of Dooms running Crysis? Grits?
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
A friend of mine took something over a decade to get around to doing his. So, don't despair!
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Which would likely be a massive step up from Velma.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
My Tadpole Ultrasparc laptop that I love...
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
I'm going to take a not completely insane guess and say that it's an odd outcome of everyone going by their personal (usually first) name. Instead of 10 Jasons, each with a different family name, you get 10 different spellings of
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
When I was learning C, I found most books only skimmed pointers, a topic I was having a hard time with. Reek's Pointers on C is a beginner C book in that it goes over all the novice stuff, but it has a concentrated focus on getting yo
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
I have wondered if the reading of Don Quixote serially was a very different experience from reading it as a novel. It was a serial satire, so I could see reading the "new episode" every week being funny. Before I got side-tracke
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Still remember my last game from years ago. Concentric moats of lava with long drawbridges that raised to the outer side rather than inner. Goblin invasion. Waited till all of them were on the draw bridges. Raised the drawbridges and la
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
There are a couple: w11: https://github.com/wfjm/w11 PDP2011: https://pdp2011.sytse.net/wordpress/pdp-11/
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
&(list + 15) = https://gist.github.com/fay59/5ccbe684e6e56a7df8815c3486568f...
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Reek's Pointers on C for... C pointers.

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