kmoser

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by kmoser 2y ago
Googling "pangaea animation" gives you many video demos of just that.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Cool! It's admittedly an obscure game. My main contribution included the random generation and movement of the cratons. This involved mapping Cartesian to spherical coordinates but harder because each row of tiles was offset by half a
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by kmoser 2y ago
Documentation seems to be 404 (except for the earliest version, v0.0).
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by kmoser 2y ago
Back in 1996/1997 I worked on a CD-ROM game that simulated movement of the tectonic plates, as well as temperature, elevation, and precipitation, over millions of years. Amazing to see how evolution (heh!) of computing hardware and sof
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by kmoser 2y ago
You could add more entropy by including not just the headline but an assortment of text from other pages, e.g. market price of whatever stock is listed on page X, the 10th sentence on page Y, etc.
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A Weapons Scanner Arrives in the Subway. [Mayor] Adams Says It Isn't Optional(nytimes.com)
3 points by kmoser 2y ago|0 comments
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by kmoser 2y ago
It was both. Many fled after the war, seeking better opportunities outside Germany. So many, in fact, that the Berlin Wall was built.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Operation Paperclip doesn't seem to have been specific to Göttingen so it's only tangentially related to the topic.
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by kmoser 2y ago
It sounds like your copies were printed with less stable ink. I commend his commitment to preserving his photos but if they're stored in the right conditions, there's no need to remove them every few months to dry them out. If any
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by kmoser 2y ago
Recently I scanned all 1,100 rolls of film that my father and I took, for a total of 31,600 frames. For the 35mm film I used a Nikon Super CoolScan 5000 ED, and for the medium format rolls I used an Epson Perfection 2480 photo scanner (flat
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by kmoser 2y ago
If you go back over 50 years, to 1971, you get Creeper and Reaper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeper_and_Reaper
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by kmoser 2y ago
I think this idea has promise but I wonder how it would work when many of the visualizations I create to help explain logic wouldn't fit neatly into a DSL/schema. For example, I might use red in some places to refer to data from a
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by kmoser 2y ago
I really like the way it lets you navigate from function to function (and file to file) and back again. What would be even more useful would be to have a "history" window, similar to your browser's history, that would show th
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by kmoser 2y ago
I wouldn't say it renders the camera "(mostly) useless." I have brief experience developing software to work with a facial-recognition camera that was specifically marketed as being able to recognize people wearing masks (thi
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by kmoser 2y ago
Diplomatic purposes? What does that mean? And what about people without an SSN?
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by kmoser 2y ago
"The government" is not a monolithic entity that has instant access to all data stored by all branches. The more places your SSN is stored, the higher the likelihood of that information being misused by those with "legitimate
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by kmoser 2y ago
That's true if the time resolution is limited. Theoretically there could be no limit. It would not make for a very practical alphabet, but it would still be an unlimited alphabet.
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by kmoser 2y ago
The article ends by noting that even with colored ink, the number of distinguishable symbols is finite. Indeed, if there is a limit to the number of values held by each of the variables, that would limit what you could write. If we're
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by kmoser 2y ago
Does it store the HTML/CSS for creating the buttons so you can easily repurpose them (which would be quite useful), or are they stored as images (which would be fun but less useful)? If the latter, how difficult are they to extract fro
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by kmoser 2y ago
On the login to the first timesharing system I used, it would prompt for your password, then type eight M's, W's, and X's on top of each other (on paper, of course, since this was using a Teletype terminal), so when you actua
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by kmoser 2y ago
That would neat, although I suspect most compilers/linters should already be able to warn you about potential overflows. If you want to boil down what devs are looking for in a diff tool to one thing, it would be "which change(s)
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by kmoser 2y ago
> - const foo = function(a, b) { ... } > + const foo = (a, b) => { ... } Assuming this is JS code, these differences should not be ignored, as an arrow function can behave differently than a traditional function.
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by kmoser 2y ago
The sensor that detects whether the lid is closed works just as well whether you slam it shut or close it gently, so it's unnecessary to actually slam the lid.
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by kmoser 2y ago
I know this is after the fact but I've gotten much of the same functionality by indenting each line in the log to a level commensurate with how far down in the call stack it's happening. Just being able to see the indentation tell
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by kmoser 2y ago
> Back in the day nobody was taught to program Do you mean the 1940s and 1950s? Because by the 1960s, Comp Sci was taught as a discipline and by the 1970s and 1980s anybody who wanted to work in the industry was expected to get a BS degr
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by kmoser 2y ago
Yeah, "slam" seems a bit hyperbolic, if not click-baity.
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by kmoser 2y ago
What's her hourly rate?
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by kmoser 2y ago
I had a guy tell me he had experience with Apache's mod_rewrite module and, when asked what its purpose was, he said verbatim "It gives you, like, more commands and stuff." Other questions were met with equally disastrous res
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by kmoser 2y ago
While "photoshop" may have entered the current vernacular, it's annoying (maybe even misleading?) in the context of this article because I doubt Comstock used "photoshopped" as a verb. More to the point, we still ha
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by kmoser 2y ago
This is exactly why a visual representation of code can be useful for analyzing certain things, but will rarely be the best (or even preferred) way to write code. I think a happy medium would be an environment where you could easily switch

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