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by jsrcout 2y ago
I definitely want to keep working at home. My workplace rebuilt all the cubicles to be half their previous size. Coincidentally, this was just as COVID started. Now we're required to work 2 days a week in the office. It's great to
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by jsrcout 2y ago
It's refreshing to read the replies here as I am currently working in the worst codebase I've ever seen in my life. It's just unimaginably bad.
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by jsrcout 2y ago
As did Yuri Knorozov, linguist who played a major rele in deciphering the Mayan language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Knorozov > Knorozov listed his cat Asya as a co-author on his work, but the editors always
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by jsrcout 2y ago
A friend calls it the Logjam Principle. There are always a few logs floating down the river and that's not really a problem. But a small logjam of just a few logs will grow over time until the entire river is obstructed. It's bett
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by jsrcout 2y ago
There was. I had one at work, it was huge (for the time). It displayed in 4-bit grayscale IIRC.
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Soundstream: Introduction of Commercial Digital Recording in the US (2012)(arpjournal.com)
1 points by jsrcout 2y ago|0 comments
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by jsrcout 3y ago
Sadly the past several years have conditioned a lot of us to equate "no longer the default" with "about to be permanently removed".
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by jsrcout 3y ago
I, too, remember when GUIs (not UXs!) respected the user's desires, workflow and general agency. That's not entirely gone yet, but it's going. Heck, Office 365 updated lately and now I have this ongoing little contest of disp
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by jsrcout 3y ago
Seconded.
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by jsrcout 3y ago
Just wanted to mention my favorite ASCII art ever - Simon Jansen's monumental ASCII art version of Star Wars from the late 1990s. Comes with a great FAQ as a bonus. https://www.asciimation.co.nz/
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by jsrcout 3y ago
I have the same one, from way back in like 7th grade! Someone from NASA gave a talk about the agency's work including planetary science and Voyager at our school. They also did a memorable demo involving heating a handheld Space Shuttl
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by jsrcout 3y ago
I once worked with safety critical code that had a variable name 62 characters long, without any extra fluff. It made sense in context. The problem was disambiguating it from the other half-dozen similarly-named, almost as long variables. A
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by jsrcout 3y ago
They did the same at my first job out of college (Sun based company). It was my first introduction to free software. That was circa 1990... it's amazing that gcc is still going strong.
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by jsrcout 3y ago
Ha. That kid would be proud to know what became of their prank.
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by jsrcout 3y ago
Sites like this are why I love the Internet. Not the corporate, but the quirky, passionate, pointless, humorous, and fun.
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by jsrcout 3y ago
Apollo wasn't at all a military program - it was about as far from military as you could get, at that time, and still use huge rockets. And would have been a massive waste of money, if it were. There was a military space program, but A
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by jsrcout 3y ago
Bummer. The Microsoft hardware I've dealt with has been solid. I still live in terror of dropping my Microsoft Force Feedback 2 joystick on its head just one too many times and finally killing it. Looks like Amazon has them for $200
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by jsrcout 3y ago
It's my personal nemesis. I've finally just gotten to the point of memorizing "oh here's where the /real/ code is for this subsystem" after doing the interminable traceback enough times. Not a fan.
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by jsrcout 3y ago
I can vouch for that idea. I dreaded taking statistics in college, because I'm just not a mathy person. But the teacher was fantastic . I actually enjoyed the class - which was 100% due to his passion for the subject, and deep interes
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by jsrcout 3y ago
Sounds like you'd benefit from adblock. I've used the Steven Black adblock host list [0] for some time now on all my PCs and it works extremely well. [0] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
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by jsrcout 3y ago
As a Perl developer, I never once used that feature. It does make some sense in the context of how Perl's own operators work, making them "do the right thing" for different cases. But for user code... not needed.
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by jsrcout 3y ago
Years ago Larry Wall presented a graph of programming languages with the axes labeled "whipupitude" and "manipulexity". Perl excels at both. It's still my go-to for tasks requiring a lot of text manipulation, or wit
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by jsrcout 3y ago
Magnificently pointless, in the finest traditions of the old-time hackers. Sir, I salute you.
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by jsrcout 4y ago
> Real low-level assembly language probably is easier to really understand and reason about than C++, isn't it? I've often thought that. If nothing else, if a given opcode (say, an ADD) is being used, things like integer wrapar
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by jsrcout 4y ago
I took an intro to computer graphics class in college in the mid-80s. Was so bummed to find out that it mostly about matrix multiplication (according to my hazy, non math-guy memories). I mean yes I wanted to write software to do graphics,
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by jsrcout 4y ago
I think the developers of the system I work on used your product:-). Although I don't think it has plugins. They said that in the early days they brought in a vendor engineer for a week to configure it. Currently the main config file i
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by jsrcout 4y ago
Love his writing so much. Always entertaining and informative. > This stuff was first prepared in Germany in 1932 by Ruff and Menzel, who must have been likely lads indeed, because it's not like people didn't respect fluorine b
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by jsrcout 4y ago
I too used Byron's rc shell for many years. "Elegant, simple, and powerful" describes it well. I only gave it up as my daily driver after getting spoiled by ever improving bash tab completion at a time when rc didn't hav
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An obituary for the man who saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster(ncrabbithole.com)
2 points by jsrcout 4y ago|0 comments
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by jsrcout 4y ago
TIL. In my defense, the first one I remember having (on my birthday at age 4 or so) was made by a nice German lady who lived up the street from us, so I guess it was a natural assumption.

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