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by jweather 7y ago
Are there any good resources for learning more about voice acting? I'm a complete amateur and probably will never record an audiobook, but I love reading to my kids and always feel like I could do better with differentiating character
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by jweather 7y ago
Mike Stewart is part of the team working to restore an actual Apollo Guidance Computer to full functionality -- check out CuriousMarc on YouTube for the full story: https://www.youtube.com/user/mverdiell/videos
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by jweather 7y ago
I discovered the hard way that a library I was using would parse an IP address in a URL like 192.168.000.077 as 192.168.0.63. Yeah... it treated leading zeros as octal in individual components of the IP. Lots of fun to track down.
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by jweather 7y ago
One of my favorite OP-1/OP-Z artists just did a video with a whole bunch of iOS apps -- doesn't make it any more affordable when you price them all, but at least you can mix and match the parts you want: https://www.you
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by jweather 7y ago
Or if Ruby is your jam, here's a Ruby+Supercollider mashup: https://sonic-pi.net/
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by jweather 7y ago
Another vote for Feedly... it imported my Google Reader list ages ago and checks that box well enough for my tastes. I don't remember seeing any ads in it - maybe I'm ad-blind by now, or maybe uBlock is taking care of that for me
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by jweather 8y ago
Linear git history is infinitely better than no version control, even on small solo projects.
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by jweather 8y ago
Mousewheel scrolling now does nothing in Firefox on Windows, which I guess is an improvement. Seems to work as expected in Chrome on Windows. Thanks for looking at it.
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by jweather 8y ago
Some more guidance would be appreciated... first level is pretty inscrutable with no indication of what to click on or why. Scrolling is badly broken in the Level Log page -- one click down of my mouse wheel sends me into another dimension
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by jweather 8y ago
But don't let the "functional" part scare you off -- you can do this in any language from assembly on up.
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by jweather 8y ago
This is a pretty epic programming puzzle. Closest thing I can think of is Eric Wastl's Synacor Challenge.
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by jweather 8y ago
Yes, but some features are unavailable such as iMessage and probably iTunes DRM, which are tied to the hardware. I was very disappointed to discover this since I was installing OSX in a VM primarily to use iMessage so that I could type my
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by jweather 8y ago
1 write per second per key. It's from the Limits and Pricing section of the technical post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-with-workers-kv/
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by jweather 8y ago
The Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ Starts out focused on text-based games, but branches out to a history of computing in general. My favorite thing is that Kindle-formatted archives are available.
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by jweather 8y ago
Are you a mechanic? It's only straightforward when everything goes according to the book, which is a welcome surprise, but certainly not the norm.
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by jweather 8y ago
If you like writing small emulators, try the Synacor challenge and/or ICFP 2006. Extremely challenging puzzles, and both start with writing a simple emulator.
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by jweather 8y ago
Music for programming... assuming you like ambient music.
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by jweather 8y ago
I appreciate being able to turn off the percentage progress indicator in the Kindle app for exactly this reason when reading fiction.
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by jweather 8y ago
"House of cards" is an interesting analogy. Most books do a better job of appealing to a wide audience, while GEB comes with a long list of potential pitfalls, even for interested readers.
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by jweather 8y ago
I've read it cover-to-cover at least three times, gifted a copy, and read it out loud to my son. I find it very playful and mind-expanding. I will admit that it is verbose and wandering, but I think that's part of the charm. Out o
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by jweather 8y ago
In case it's not obvious, each bullet point links to an article on the topic.
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by jweather 9y ago
Even better, I have two Bluetooth adapters with identical names. At least they show up in a consistent order.
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by jweather 9y ago
I use AHK to remap CapsLock to double-click to reduce the strain on my mouse hand, but I can access the original CapsLock function via shift-CapsLock. Try it -- maybe that will help you.
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by jweather 9y ago
My IoT button is stuck to the washing machine. It uses AWS Step Functions and SNS to text me an hour after it's pushed to tell me the laundry is done. Unnecessary? Completely. Useful? Heck yeah.
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by jweather 9y ago
The most traditional tool we've used is probably http://www.codecombat.com Also PBS has a Crash Course in Computer Science video series that's excellent for ages 10+ -- we pause it a lot to make sure they caught the m
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by jweather 9y ago
That was my life a few years ago when Java applets switched from being the best thing since sliced bread to being anathema. Or take ActiveX for another example. Trying to do business with consumer-grade browsers is just one pain point aft
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by jweather 9y ago
Followed along until I had to compile a kernel, now I'm facing a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Error while loading native library "JNvrtc-0.9.0-windows-x86_64" This seems to be a dependency of ClojureCUDA, but I don't
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by jweather 9y ago
Numberphile video on this topic, including 3d-printed examples of some higher-order slicings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_VydFQmtZ8
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by jweather 9y ago
Not since 100Mbit... Gigabit is full duplex only and has no need for collision detection/avoidance.
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by jweather 9y ago
This is a similar concept to the odd numbers of teeth used in gear chains. If you had an 8-tooth and a 16-tooth gear, they will wear unevenly as the same teeth (with potential manufacturing defects) always meet the same teeth. If you chan

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