lkesteloot

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by lkesteloot 10y ago
I discovered this for my Model III one morning, and my parents couldn't pull me away to leave for school. I had to try each one! You could change the shape of the cursor, the cursor blink rate, and even display a clock in the upper-rig
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by lkesteloot 10y ago
Me too. They must have had a surge of takeouts given the recent lock-outs.
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by lkesteloot 11y ago
You're right. Last time I tried it Amazon told me that this format wouldn't work with my bucket (because it was created after a certain date), but now it does (with a different hostname). Thanks!
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by lkesteloot 11y ago
Yep, and my site includes photos from S3, and S3 can't be https (because my bucket name has periods in it, like Amazon suggested). I guess I'll have to proxy the images myself.
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by lkesteloot 11y ago
This is awesome!
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by lkesteloot 11y ago
Tell us more about your anecdata! What specifically do you mean by "provoke"?
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by lkesteloot 11y ago
I remember learning quite a bit of Lojban back in 1989 using a flashcard program on my PC. I even subscribed to Bob LeChevalier's newsletter for a while. I drifted away from it probably because it wasn't solving a problem that I h
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by lkesteloot 11y ago
Counterintuitive rule: When the founder has had a successful startup in the past. They tend to be both overconfident and under-motivated.
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
No, my heart rate goes up (like everyone else's) but doesn't come back down for a while (10 minutes?). I have no endurance and resting between workouts doesn't recharge me.
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
A well-run study should control for weight and smoking. But the undiagnosed cardiovascular disease can't be controlled for. Exercise is much harder for me than for others, for example, and I don't know why.
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
If you were running such a project, you would FEEL as though you're winging it all the time.
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
Practice is the key to getting better at everything. Ignore the concept of innate talent or gift. People who are good are good because they spent a lot of time practicing. People who practice a lot usually do so because they’re interested i
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
I've used Ant, Maven, and Gradle, and Ant is the only one that's never given me a minute's trouble. But it's true that it has a bad reputation. It feels harder to use when everything is working right.
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
It's not so much that Java is great at everything. It's more like it doesn't suck at anything. Every other language has, somewhere, a deal-breaker for some particular use. I've not found one for Java. And Java's big
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
Okay honest question: How did you get bitcoins? I've looked around and my options seem to be to give my CC number to a shady website or to meet someone in person and give them cash. Is there really no safe-sounding option?
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
> to contrast the usual negativity Thank you.
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
A good eulogy here from economist Steve Landsburg: http://www.thebigquestions.com/2014/11/13/the-rising-sea/ "... the greatest of all modern mathematicians and arguably the greatest mathematician of
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
I don't think you're using it as intended. I also want to use it the way you do, but I think most people don't mind missing tweets. They're just dipping their toes in the stream. Facebook works the same way. I get FOMO.
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
Self-driving cars would not reduce not number of cars produced. If anything, it would increase it, since going somewhere would become easier.
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
My emulator does Level 3. The difference is the language itself. The graphics were the same for both (blocky, as you say).
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
Same for me with the Model I, but my parents then got me a Model III. I didn't appreciate at the time how freakishly expensive it was.
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
In fact it comes with an LDOS disk. Try putting "ldos513.dsk" into Drive 0 and booting.
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by lkesteloot 12y ago
It does! I loved LDOS and DOS-PLUS.
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by lkesteloot 13y ago
JavaScript is classic worse-is-better.
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by lkesteloot 13y ago
I agree, the manuals were great. (Though I bought them again on eBay for this project and they actually contained a lot of errors!) But also the floppy came with sample programs, and I learned most of Pascal from those.
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by lkesteloot 13y ago
:-)
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by lkesteloot 13y ago
Done! Try the hidden "X" command.
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by lkesteloot 13y ago
Thanks! The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/lkesteloot/turbopascal It's a two-pass compiler. The first pass runs the code through the Stream, Lexer, and Parser classes to generate a parse tree (with type inf
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by lkesteloot 13y ago
Exactly right. Turbo Pascal compiled straight to machine language, which made it hard for them to do nice optimizations. But people like me didn't care. IBM's compiler couldn't blow off optimizations, though. Typical worse-is
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by lkesteloot 13y ago
Isn't that crazy? You can't write a generic integer array sort routine!

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