cydonian_monk

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by cydonian_monk 9y ago
I deeply miss games that had massively branching storylines. I understand why gamers dislike them (especially the completionists), but the branching gameplay was what set the first three WC games apart. (And maybe WC IV? I don’t remember mu
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by cydonian_monk 9y ago
As far as video game movies go it was rather good. I enjoyed it, even having played most of the Wing Commander games that came before it. I think that movie would be better received if it was released today instead of 19 years ago. We’ve ha
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by cydonian_monk 9y ago
And that pattern is exactly the reason I’m in favor of restructuring NASA. Get them out of the “big project to nowhere” business and make them a “science and space traffic control” organization. Maybe even split those two operations off to
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by cydonian_monk 9y ago
Kids being unsupervised is a good way to get arrested for endangerment in many parts of this country, or at least result in an investigation by authorities such as child protective services. This [0] is the most widely cited recent example,
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by cydonian_monk 9y ago
Reports. Batch processing. Business logic in desktop applications, provided you have a good framework and a compiler that works for your target environment. (I can't get into too many details for contractual reasons.) COBOL is English
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by cydonian_monk 9y ago
I don't disagree with your main point, and I think the apprenticeship model could work wonders in many tech environments. Harder to implement when you have a very migrant worker population, even at normal rates of turnover. There is ho
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by cydonian_monk 9y ago
We approach this with documentation (using text / wiki), mentoring, and by trading product responsibilities semi-regularly. There are a few cases where specialized knowledge hasn't changed hands, edge cases, but the cross-training
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by cydonian_monk 9y ago
An overwhelming number of people I know are convinced all of this data has been falsified (usually by Democrats, but I hear all manner of wild conspiracies), and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise. To them summers are not wa
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by cydonian_monk 9y ago
Agreed. I too have always been a fan of the sub-genre. Except.... I might've been excited for the Blade Runner sequel if I hadn't known Harrison Ford was in it. Had I been blind to that, could go in without knowing, maybe it would
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by cydonian_monk 9y ago
I was five when I saw my first; only thing traumatic about it was the smell inside the welder's helmet we were passing around to watch it.
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by cydonian_monk 9y ago
Agreed. A stand-alone server would also be great for those of us that run the game with a different integrator (such as Principia for n-body physics). I too like real-time missions, at least short duration ones, and recently flew Vostok 1 i
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by cydonian_monk 9y ago
Hopefully this means things will "improve" without turning the community into a sterile, lifeless environmemt, but we'll see. Maybe not much changes, maybe they take the IP and run with it. Who knows. Must say it was weird to
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by cydonian_monk 10y ago
Re: super-bright lights. I've been wondering the same thing. I think part of it comes from misconfigured Automatic High-Beams [0] (the sensitivity settings for which are user selectable; mine defaulted to nearly always-on when new desp
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by cydonian_monk 10y ago
While in this case they probably are actual mainframes, at my firm we use the term to refer to the VMs running in tiny boxes that replaced what once were also mainframes. Sometimes the language outlives the hardware.
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by cydonian_monk 10y ago
> Westworld reminded me a bit of Asimovs stories. I suspect this isn't an accident, given (some of) the same writers/producers are developing the Foundation series for HBO. There are MANY Asimovian themes scattered throughout t
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by cydonian_monk 10y ago
C/C++ for the usual embedded and backend stuff. And a tiny bit of legit COBOL, because our orginization is married or perhaps chained to it. The COBOL code is mostly for UI work, sort of a VisualCOBOL, as well as legacy reports. And of
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by cydonian_monk 10y ago
And the NPR comments section wasn't generally terrible, either. At least not on the articles I usually read. Still, I'd rather the money/time/energy required to properly maintain a comments section for NPR be spent on pu
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by cydonian_monk 10y ago
In my experience, no. When I was first tested for Vit-D deficiency the test was not covered, period. I had every symptom in the book (largely because I was extremely Vit-D deficient). My insurance even went so far as to relabel it as emerge
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Study Finds Cause of Visual Impairment in Astronauts(press.rsna.org)
2 points by cydonian_monk 10y ago|0 comments
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by cydonian_monk 10y ago
As nice as this is, it really is little more than an empty recap statement, and leaves so many questions. When, exactly? There are seven or so decent launch windows between now and "the 2030s," so what are we targeting? With what
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by cydonian_monk 10y ago
I danced with Amazon once (casually, I have zero desire to move to a Pacific Coast state), and had a similar "first step" experience, just with no webcam. Had they asked me to code on a webcam I too would've refused. At this
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by cydonian_monk 10y ago
Exactly. It's beyond my authority to change the language in use, but I would love to have alternatives to argue for. C isn't a terrible option, or is perhaps the least terrible option, but it's not leaving my corner of the co
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by cydonian_monk 10y ago
While I wouldn't suggest that, I will say spending more time manipulating my code to work with the automated unit testing tool of the month has definitely lead to an occasional decrease in code reliability. Not all code can be unit tes
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by cydonian_monk 12y ago
I've also not read "Maker of Dune," so this is the first time I've heard that. I can understand where he was coming from with regards to Luke vs Paul, but the common story they share is generic enough that I'm not c
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by cydonian_monk 12y ago
WaMu. Maybe they weren't perfect, but one of the things we lost when Chase ate WaMu was their "quirkyness." They always seemed happy and friendly in my branch. Now? Zombies.
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by cydonian_monk 12y ago
Weird. When I read xkcd this morning it didn't mention anything at all about GNU/Hurd. Apparently my RSS reader decided to cut off the far right side of that image, so it just ended "In Fire." Checked the site and the wh
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by cydonian_monk 12y ago
Hang in there - It does eventually get better. I was in a very similar situation - unable to find work after college. It took me three years from graduation before I landed a job that was even tangentially related to what I wanted to do. In
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by cydonian_monk 12y ago
I was reading up on this earlier today and it looks like an absolutely fascinating project. Rather labor intensive to rebuild the document though, and not something that seems easily automated. So many of the scrolls appear to have kinks or
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by cydonian_monk 12y ago
Seeing Woz hold solder in his teeth while working really made my day. I still recall the form I had to sign in an early Electrical Engineering class that made me promise not to do exactly that. :)
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by cydonian_monk 13y ago
Yes, which in my case is an indication of the system working properly. Leads me to wonder if the issues I have with Comcast + YouTube are on the Comcast side, the Google side, or are just the nature of the streaming-video beast.

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