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by greenbit 4y ago
My uncle has a wood stove like that. It's awesome, too.
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by greenbit 4y ago
"I wouldn’t be surprised if true nerds left the Internet and started hanging outdoors." Right?!
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by greenbit 4y ago
Ah, but java seems to go out of its way to make you make so very many objects. It's almost as though it tries to rub your face in the fact that you don't have to remember to delete objects, by needlessly making you make them. Iter
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by greenbit 4y ago
Maybe the point is, please stop the mutations. If every couple of years someone came to your house while you were out, and completely rearranged everything, I'd bet you'd be pretty annoyed, mainly because all the time you invested
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by greenbit 4y ago
And you used to be "with it", until they changed what "it" was, am I right?
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by greenbit 4y ago
So .. how many trees worth does it take to sustain one adult human? Just curious. Obviously they could make more units, or scale them. Personally, if I were 200 million miles (or whatever it works out to) from the nearest robust ecosystem,
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by greenbit 4y ago
How long do you have to rewrite every such expression with pencil on paper, before you start to be able to apprehend these things directly? I'm not trying to bring this down, clearly it's very concise, just curious what the learni
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by greenbit 4y ago
The year you bought your own for the first time, most likely. Or as soon as you got to college. That would have been the mid 80s for a lot of the first wave of 'PC' owners. And shortly after that, when we all realized any machine
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by greenbit 4y ago
A 50 page look inside real circuit components that have been cunningly sliced through to reveal the home of the magic smoke.
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by greenbit 4y ago
Waterfall could only induce death march mode when deadlines loomed. With two-week "sprints" and management that expects the product of every sprint should be an improved deliverable (whether it's actually delivered or not i
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by greenbit 4y ago
A quick scan of the git page revealed references to Windows 2000, NT and XP (SP3 even!) but I didn't see mention of even Vista, nor anything newer. A slightly longer look revealed an email from 2013 which seemed to speculate about the
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by greenbit 4y ago
It's astonishing that crypto got categorized as munitions so early on, yet AI is apparently just a free for all.
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by greenbit 4y ago
Kind of tangentially reminds me of "nitric acid acts on trousers", which afaict is from Ira Remsen's quote about nitric acid acting upon copper. Can't find a good link
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by greenbit 4y ago
Probably if you record the sound of it airing its grievances and play that back slowly enough, "foof" is exactly the sound it makes.
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by greenbit 4y ago
"At seven hundred freaking degrees, fluorine starts to dissociate into monoatomic radicals, thereby losing its gentle and forgiving nature." Lol - that's the best
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by greenbit 4y ago
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by greenbit 4y ago
I'd imagine to make them seem indistinguishable from magic?
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by greenbit 4y ago
I'd add Frank Herbert's "Dune" to the list. Idk if he actively applied specific techniques or not, but somehow those works elicit a similar sense of only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
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by greenbit 4y ago
I don't think they're extinct at all. Maybe in businesses where the product ('service' if you will) is highly or completely network oriented, you can get the fusion of back-end/network-facing that seems to be attrac
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by greenbit 4y ago
Very troll-ish kind of prank, for sure.
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by greenbit 4y ago
But do not under any circumstances be tempted to demonstrate said janky prototype, unless you want to get re-tasked while said janky prototype gets merged into the build because 'schedule' .. and then be haunted by the damned th
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by greenbit 4y ago
This. Oh definitely, this.
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by greenbit 4y ago
The usual impression of LOGO is that it's all about the turtle, but as it happens, the language has a fair degree of Lisp-iness to it. Nothing like the Lisp macro system iirc, but it did lend itself to functional programming and recurs
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by greenbit 4y ago
Well, they keep remastering the old shows, and the makers of the processed foods are perpetually tweaking their recipes. So there's that.
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by greenbit 4y ago
This thing can see through dust. That's pretty cool, don't you think?
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by greenbit 4y ago
Can't grow pumpkins around here anymore, since the furry tailed tree rats discovered that pumpkins are full of pumpkin seeds. Ever since that year, every pumpkin big enough to bore three inch hole into has had a three inch hole bored i
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by greenbit 4y ago
Let's not forget lobsters are just giant underwater bugs
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by greenbit 4y ago
"introducing codeblog" .. you might want to lead with that. You know, so people know what kind of thing they're clicking on
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by greenbit 4y ago
A megajoule in a microsecond, that's a terawatt impulse with decidedly RF personality. Anything that could generate that would be as big as anything that could capture it. Not exactly nimble enough to weaponize.
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by greenbit 4y ago
Idk, I think OP indicated that a typical lightning bolt would power a typical house (presumably at the stated nominal full load) for about 15 minutes. I.e., you'd need 4 strikes per hour, per hour. Now granted most houses won't ru

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