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by keithnz 4y ago
The ports were great, they exposed both input/output pins. Back in the 80s, as a kid, on my Atari 800XL I used these ports to interface to electronics and used my computer to control real things! This significantly influenced what I w
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by keithnz 4y ago
Personally, I wouldn't actually care if Visual Studio Code was completely proprietary with zero open source element. I think the imagined consequences tend to mostly be not that significant for the vast majority of people, at most it
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by keithnz 4y ago
I think the most striking for me with my first is that I felt a lot of things were suddenly out of my control, while there's always things to worry about, I never really worried that much, but the significance of having to look after a
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by keithnz 4y ago
I've also done a bunch of machine control, and I generally really like the multi CPU architecture for real time control, if you are making your own hardware, I don't think it is too extreme. I've also found a lot of the syst
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by keithnz 4y ago
my autohotkey is super simple and mainly to be vimmy in things like native controls (ALT-K and ALT-J for things like drop downs) which means I almost never need to touch the arrow keys <!k::Send {Up} <!j::Send {Down} Capslock:
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by keithnz 4y ago
yeah, the pressure on housing is a problem in so many countries and it really became problematic the more and more people started using it as a way of investing. In many places it is one of the easier things to convince a bank to give you
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Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain(theconversation.com)
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by keithnz 4y ago
reminds me, in the mid 80s, of my friend and I who made a lot of gun powder when we were young, we pretty much got all the things we needed out of the encyclopedia. The potassium nitrate was easily available, in bulk, at the garden store,
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by keithnz 4y ago
I know in the library and some bookstores, I have found notes about finding "god" in books on evolution and atheisim.
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by keithnz 4y ago
note: I skipped the introductions in the url
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Spacetime, Quantum Entanglement and Black Holes(youtube.com)
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by keithnz 4y ago
I think they needed to do something like breast to head ratio, from the sounds of it the waist has got bigger, but the breast to waist ratio has stayed the same. I think if it was compared to head it would give a sense of "size"
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by keithnz 4y ago
not sure about "expected". Quite a few of my friends and myself got computers in this era, vic20s, c64s, Spectrums, Ataris mostly. Most of my friends just loaded games. I learnt to program mine ( I had a few of these books! ),
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by keithnz 4y ago
I like the books, but the strips are online an https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2022/07/16
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by keithnz 4y ago
I'm pretty skeptical, and details are thin, but this is what they say in their FAQ... "Even though the longest range Aptera can drive for about 1,000 miles between charge, the reality is that most of our driving is 30 miles or les
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by keithnz 4y ago
I do a variety of dev, web, native, backend, embedded. I don't code a project, I mostly just play with the features and try the variations to make sure I understand them. Once I think it's a good option and does what I need, I
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by keithnz 4y ago
ages ago I used http://norvig.com/lispy.html to write lisp in C#. Pretty easy to do the basic mechanics of the language, somewhat more work to do some of the more advanced features, was fun to play around with!
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by keithnz 4y ago
I've seen quite a lot of people use C# + winforms to do similar things, most "professional" devs kind of turn their noses up at winforms, but, you can bang out functional little apps without too much effort. I haven't t
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by keithnz 4y ago
I once interviewed a guy who worked on various parts of the core windows, naturally being curious I asked a lot of questions about it. I think it would be an interesting experience, but ultimately it seemed very constrained in terms of wha
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by keithnz 4y ago
I have a t-shirt which has "don't be a" and the equation for the third derivative
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by keithnz 4y ago
Interestingly asking wolfram alpha to calculate it, you get a cool little graph showing a history.... https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=population+of+new+zeala...
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by keithnz 4y ago
wasn't that hard, I used paint shop pro and a text editor and also made Java applets to make things "cool" :)
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by keithnz 4y ago
This is pretty cool! It's been ages since I have played, but actually did pretty well, some of this stuff is just burned into my brain
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by keithnz 4y ago
you may feel they are unnecessary, other people like it, and it definitely isn't from the age of punch cards. I like to watch people code on twitch, and the amount of times I see people get confused about what a particular closing bra
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by keithnz 4y ago
I wouldn't be too quick to judge..... quick tell me what these braces close }}}} no idea huh? in VB, closing blocks will tell you what they are closing. So, not such a silly idea, just more verbose!
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by keithnz 4y ago
didn't try the download on windows due to the erorr warning, but I did do docker run -it --rm browsh/browsh
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by keithnz 4y ago
I'm curious also, looking at their issue tracking (discord server invite looks like its gone stale... ) it seems like not a lot of interest at the moment. But it is weird how much old VB stuff is out there and because so few people pu
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by keithnz 4y ago
if you want out of the box Vue 3 component framework, try https://quasar.dev/
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by keithnz 4y ago
Perhaps you should take the time to find out. Many of the things you mention create a development experience that is pretty cool. It allows you to dynamically change your code and instantly see the result. I do backend systems, embedded s
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by keithnz 4y ago
click "Why Vite?". I think it has a pretty good explanation about what it is doing and the tools that are similar to it and the problem it is trying to solve.

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