gramie

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by gramie 5y ago
For Commodore, we had the Commodore Inner Space Anthology, put out by the wonderful people who published The Transactor magazine ( http://csbruce.com/cbm/transactor/ ).
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by gramie 5y ago
It may not be practical for you, but you could try a hydroponic system like AeroGarden. I was given one last Christmas and grew lots of herbs (I've just moved and haven't unpacked it, but when I do the herbs will be coming out aga
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by gramie 5y ago
I do it as well, just before bed, and it certainly helps me to breathe better while I'm sleeping.
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by gramie 5y ago
I don't think that the Nigerian scammers are necessarily unsophisticated. Their scam emails intentionally contain enough red flags that any reasonably intelligent person will recognize the scam and not reply. This way, the only replies
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by gramie 5y ago
It may be hard for people who weren't using computers back then to understand what a leap this was, why it was worth applause. I never had a Mac, but I appreciate what it did to drive the industry toward usability.
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by gramie 5y ago
A couple of years ago I decided to learn Kotlin by doing AoC puzzles. It was a really good way to get comfortable with the basic syntax and data structures of the language.
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by gramie 5y ago
I just tried the Windows (GUI) version. Three times in a row, I entered numbers into two cells, and when I tried to sum them into a third cell the app closed without an error message. I think I'll give it a pass.
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by gramie 5y ago
I did an internship at a pulp mill that was on the Canada-U.S. border (Canadian side). There was an elementary school literally besides the plant (~50m away). If there was a release of sulphur dioxide that was going to stay on the Canadian
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by gramie 5y ago
You could have just said "RTFM" to be condescending and concise.
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by gramie 5y ago
> I’ve never once had a bad interview or work experience with a U of Waterloo graduate Well, one of the things they are doing is requiring a 95%+ average from HS graduates (we don't generally do SATs up here), along with scores in c
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by gramie 5y ago
One of the issues is that Apple can take their time processing the sound, but hearing aids have a very small window of time (< 15ms, if I remember correctly) before there is a noticeable lag between sight and sound.
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by gramie 5y ago
One of the costs built into hearing aids is the lavish perks that the suppliers give to the audiologists. My partner got a trip for two to the Caribbean every year, to 5-star resorts, for selling a certain number of their hearing aids. Ther
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by gramie 5y ago
I use Teams on a Mac. Every day or two the chat window randomly disappears and it stops displaying notifications. If I don't notice I sometimes go more than a day before I realize that it's dead and restart Teams to fix the proble
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by gramie 5y ago
I have never heard of this. The African National Congress (ANC), which fought against Apartheid for decades, had close ties with communist regimes in Angola and Mozambique. Those countries in turn had Cuban help in the fight against (South
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by gramie 5y ago
I was used to WP´s function keys; I don´t have much trouble switching between editors and word processors. The thing that WordPerfect had that I still miss was ¨Reveal Codes¨, which would show you the exact placement and ordering of normall
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by gramie 6y ago
Maybe it's laying off devoted long-time staff and hiring cheap contractors. The amount of institutional memory they lost is astounding.
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by gramie 6y ago
"It's more mature" Usually that implies that bugs and rough patches have been ironed out. I would have to say that Delphi is far more polished than Lazarus. Not that I'm complaining about Lazarus, it's an amazing
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by gramie 6y ago
What's the difference between an introverted programmer and an extroverted programmer? The extroverted programmer looks at your shoes when he's talking to you.
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by gramie 6y ago
I can't believe that no one has made a connection between these and Monty Python's cat detector vans ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2maz36_q6Fk )
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by gramie 6y ago
This would have been handy when we were naming our boys 19 and 23 years ago. There are lots of girls' names that work in both languages, but no good boys' names.
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by gramie 6y ago
I'm no expert, but I think that a lot of the GPU speedup has come through massively parallel execution rather than processor/bus/memory speed. NVidia's Quadro TRX 8000, for example, has 4,608 CUDA cores, 576 Tensor cores
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by gramie 6y ago
There is also a free (except for iOS) version of BASIC ( https://www.b4x.com/ ) that compiles to executables that run on Android, iOS, Windows, OSX, Linux, etc. It's very much like Visual Basic, including a visual UI edi
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by gramie 6y ago
You could check out Burn Math Class: https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Math-Class-Reinvent-Mathematics/... or Calculus Made Easy: https://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/keislercalc-09-04-19.pdf
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by gramie 7y ago
About ten years ago, a relative came to Ontario and had to pay the cost of an emergency room visit (about $400 to see a doctor and get a cast). The bill was sent about a month afterward (to our address), but I could see a tourist being made
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by gramie 7y ago
It's worth noting that the same developer has free tools for desktop (Java) and Raspberry Pi applications, and a paid tool for iOS. All of these use the same dialect of BASIC, and I believe they can use (but don't have to) a cross
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by gramie 7y ago
I found DuoLingo interesting, but it didn't really help me to learn Spanish. I had a lot more success (I just came back from a trip to Panama where I had to interact with people who spoke little no no English) using https://
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by gramie 9y ago
And before Deming, there was Sarasohn ( http://honoringhomer.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cringely... ). In fact, Sarasohn recommended Deming for the job.
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by gramie 9y ago
I have been using http://www.languagetransfer.org to learn Spanish, and it is the best language system, aside from total immersion, I have ever used (I speak five language with varying degrees of fluency). It is a series of audi