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by dukoid 7y ago
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1228824996228800513
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by dukoid 7y ago
For some reason this reminds me of the famous xerox copier where the compression algorithm would swap out digits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156238
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by dukoid 7y ago
Related reading recommendation: "The Dead Past" by Isaac Asimov.
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Swiss journalist re-implements ClearViewAI in two weeks with OS software(twitter.com)
147 points by dukoid 7y ago|55 comments
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by dukoid 7y ago
It has to be for some people in some aspect, otherwise there wouldn't be any demand?
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by dukoid 7y ago
I never understood the hype for vinyl records -- they aren't that much better than CDs when compared to shellac...
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by dukoid 7y ago
Java added LinkedHashMap a while ago. I tend to default to it except for small temporary use cases where order absolutely won't matter or have an outside impact...
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by dukoid 7y ago
I am using simple JS function that builds a DOM fragment in a safe way as a template engine replacement: https://github.com/stefanhaustein/notemplate/blob/master/src... Allowed me to implement TodoMVC in
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by dukoid 7y ago
German Air Force and Navy losses totaled 110 pilots. One alternative considered at the time was the Mirage III. But (partial) production in Germany and Nuclear Sharing were in the mix, too. The latter seems to be a factor wrt. the F-35 agai
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by dukoid 7y ago
Worst part: read a new word, "make up" your own pronunciation. Pronounce it wrong for years...
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by dukoid 7y ago
I tried an ultra wide monitor, but I somehow found the limited height annoying. I am much happier with the screen space distribution since I have switched to a 43 inch 4k monitor. Mostly using it for coding. Nice to have a full IDE on the l
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by dukoid 7y ago
I saw this position for Dart (in Denmark) on twitter: https://twitter.com/mraleph/status/1218909246294765569
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by dukoid 7y ago
What's their expressiveness? I always thought the nesting could be "flattened", so it wouldn't really make a difference?
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by dukoid 7y ago
I'd buy a mission pack....
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by dukoid 7y ago
Today we seem to need "on preventing frameworks from interfering with Programming"
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by dukoid 7y ago
They are not powerful enough to model complex UIs. In terms of expressiveness, state machines are equivalent to regular expressions. That's why I find the title quite misleading. They may be useful to some extent for very simple UIs (f
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by dukoid 7y ago
Superhot worked best of the three for me, but now I have played through... :-/
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The general approach seems to work well for NodeRed and Unity? I think it's good to get to a point where we can use layered infrastructure to experiment more easily with this paradigm. I have tried to build something for mobile, partia
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by dukoid 7y ago
My favorite tool to double-check O:) my math homework was derive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derive_(computer_algebra_syste...
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by dukoid 7y ago
Shameless plug: If you prefer java, try https://github.com/stefanhaustein/expressionparser/blob/mast... Bonus feature: symbolic derivation
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by dukoid 7y ago
It was once, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period
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by dukoid 7y ago
Don't use dd -- use ddrescue (reads all "working" sectors before retrying broken ones).
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by dukoid 7y ago
Seems to be the tape channel: http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/H...
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by dukoid 7y ago
Looks more or less like "standard" MS-Basic... Shouldn't be too hard to get it running with vintage-basic.net ?
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by dukoid 7y ago
Shameless plug: Try flowgrid.org -- Unfortunately it tends to be more cumbersome than "traditional" programming. I hope the tutorial is some fun though. Perhaps because one just gets used to traditional programming too much? Data
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by dukoid 7y ago
TLDR: Article describes how link previews are rendered by various social media / chat sites and provides useful tips for web developers on how to optimize the preview experience.
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by dukoid 7y ago
return nullableVariable != null && nullableVariable.someMethodCall() || fallbackIfNullMethodCall()
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by dukoid 7y ago
TLDR: "Management feared that the availability of a recording device would make customers less willing to use the telephone system and so undermine the concept of universal service. (...) The fear took two forms. First, if conversation
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by dukoid 7y ago
There is also the friction added by throwing in another language and subsystem, potentially with some fancy build system requirements for integrating code generation....
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by dukoid 7y ago
Space Ambient is best for this purpose... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuqZTQ_5gsppMEJWlJoH3...

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