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by kej 1y ago
As an aside, Python includes a `turtle` module that mimics the drawing experience of Logo. It's a fun way to introduce kids to some programming ideas. https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html
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by kej 1y ago
I think you can get that by setting `GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden` and `GRUB_TIMEOUT=0`. Then you can hold `Shift` to see the GRUB menu, otherwise it will boot the default option immediately.
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by kej 1y ago
I think the landing page would be a lot more convincing with more examples. Show some simple scripts and a few of the generated outputs so people can get an idea of what your app is capable of.
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by kej 2y ago
I feel like this has some potential overlap with the PulsePoint app (that one is for CPR/AED emergencies rather than large scale disasters), so that could be a potential partnership to look into.
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by kej 2y ago
I would love to know what data the state of Florida possibly has that needs to be stored on the moon.
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by kej 2y ago
DOSBox if you want to run them locally, or a web browser if you want to play them immediately: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Ultima_III_-_Exodus_1983
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by kej 2y ago
You might like nandgame.com. It's the same ideas but in a visual drag-and-drop format, which can make it a little easier to get your head around some of the ideas. I found it helpful to work through all the exercises there and then go
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by kej 2y ago
To add on to what you said, the rhyming is usually in the direction of easier sounds for children to make. Kids will struggle with R a lot more than D, so you get Richard -> Rick -> Dick but not David -> Dave -> Rave, for exampl
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by kej 2y ago
I'm curious what the full starting instructions were, and I concede that this might be a regional or cultural thing, but this entire article is missing that in the traditional children's game and in most online FizzBuzz problems y
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by kej 2y ago
I've been playing with this off and on since the previous post, and it's such a cool idea. Thank you for sharing it. Are there any differences between the previous version on github and this version on itch.io?
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by kej 2y ago
I wonder if it would work to do something like the punycode system for internationalized domain names. Shell scripts could handle a name like `xn--0civ130n` just fine, and user-facing utilities could choose to convert that to :sparkle::unic
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by kej 2y ago
There is more on your ballot than the president, you know.
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by kej 2y ago
The PEP has been withdrawn based on the poll results, which mostly echo the comments here: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-760-no-more-bare-excepts/67... >Hi everyone! >Thanks a lot for voicing your opinion
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by kej 2y ago
This reminds me of Poul Anderson's "Uncleftish Beholding" [1] which is an attempt to explain atomic science without words derived from French, Latin, and Greek. [1] https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/11
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by kej 2y ago
It can take a lot of slowly moving the flipper around to get it to read a pet chip. Definitely not as straightforward as scanning your office's access card.
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by kej 2y ago
Presumably being able to make money spinning up cheapo servers, via Azure, just reinforces that decision.
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by kej 2y ago
The problem is that Google makes it hard to go all-in on their products even when you want to. I was an early user for Google Apps for Your Domain, which was a free version of what is now Google Workspace that you could use with custom doma
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by kej 2y ago
A site like that is going to be a magnet for grifters, but there are plenty of not horrible people on there, too.
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by kej 2y ago
The previous version still works and has a decent collection of (user made) Taylor Swift songs, though, doesn't it? Why not just use that?
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by kej 2y ago
This looks like a cool project, but I notice the date at the bottom is from 2020. Presumably it's still alive if you're posting about it, but how alive is it? (If you're comfortable sharing)
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by kej 2y ago
And, depending on when you read it, there may be more because she returned to it years later. In total there are five novels and nine short stories.
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by kej 2y ago
Reusing the surveillance film and fax technology for a lunar mission makes this story feel like something out of an episode of James Burke's Connections.
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by kej 2y ago
Lots of things are possible with access to source code that are still easier when someone writes a tool for that scenario.
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by kej 2y ago
Scammers don't need this to copy an existing website, and I could see plenty of legitimate uses. Maybe you're redoing the website but want to keep the previous site around somewhere, or you want an easy way to archive a site for f
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by kej 2y ago
From the bottom of the page: >This estimate does not include the value of the individual's primary residence, or any outstanding liabilities.
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by kej 2y ago
I had tons of fun playing this in Boy Scouts, and when I worked at summer camp we would have a weekly game with around 50 campers on each side. My dad and I also had a bunch of fun with this shareware version for DOS, so much that a few yea
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by kej 2y ago
Which is really a missed opportunity for U+130B8 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH D052.
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by kej 2y ago
Seconding this, and I'd add that Sobel's Galileo's Daughter was also a good read for anyone interested in the history of science.
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by kej 2y ago
It's a movie from 1989 about an all-boys school in 1959 that still managed to include a bunch of LGBTQ subtext; I think it's fair to read this line as commentary on lazy writing instead of sexuality.
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by kej 2y ago
>So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

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