mkovach

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by mkovach 1y ago
A summer afternoon, static on the radio, the low hum of an announcer calling balls and strikes like he’s reading scripture in a Midwest church. Baseball used to be stitched together with silence. You heard the game as much in the pauses as
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by mkovach 1y ago
Ahh, yes. In college, the CS department used Turbo Pascal (hint, I'm old). My first programming gigs out of college were FORTRAN and COBOL. It's nice to see that they are still registering. Now, time for a Metamucil and a nice nap
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by mkovach 1y ago
Funny thing about ed: While it is still one of my most common commands, it is also my dad's name. So, I've spent my entire career regularly typing my father's name at work.
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by mkovach 1y ago
It reminds me of one of Grandma Bicker's favorite mantras: "Measure twice, bake once!" She baked right up until the end, whisk in hand, oxygen tank nearby, unapologetically dusted in flour like a retired magician still perfor
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by mkovach 1y ago
This isn't meant to critique you personally. Your post just sparked the thought. But it points to a deeper, systemic issue with AI collaboration in coding, design, writing, and beyond. The core tension is between replication and creati
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by mkovach 1y ago
I am taking a slightly different route this month and working on my Half Fast DevOps writing project. Borne from 25+ years in the trenches of software development, IT, DevOps, and any number of popularized names from the past two plus decad
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by mkovach 2y ago
As somebody in the ISP/webhosting business back then, I spend quite a bit of time helping people set these up. Such a blast from the past. Glad to see it is still hanging around!
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by mkovach 2y ago
Free Pascal, but I am interested in Ada and will be learning it more this year. I love the readability of the syntax, and on the outside looking in, the community seems good. I have also moved back hard to using TCL as my scripting language
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by mkovach 2y ago
Oh man! I still booted my system up occasionally when I had it to remind myself that you didn't have to write HUGE programs to do stuff. Now, I want to write a text adventure game again. Where are my Turbo Pascal disks?
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by mkovach 2y ago
I had one of these growing up, until it was replace with a Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack. Well, I kept it around until I moved into my second house. I had TI Forth, the huge accessory box, a disk drive, the works. It was fun, I learned quite
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by mkovach 2y ago
While I love typing on typewriters, it doesn't compare to writing with a good fountain pen loaded with excellent ink. But more and more, for writing that I intend to end up is some where in the digital void, I have found myself writing
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by mkovach 2y ago
Interesting. I don't know if it will distract me from Acme, but I will try. I'm unsure if I am ready for a rest API interface when the 9p interface to Acme works so well.
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by mkovach 2y ago
"You ever seen a duck that couldn't swim? Quack, quack!" It's still one of my favorite "I can't sleep" movies.
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by mkovach 2y ago
Yeah, I happen to see Adrian's Digital Basement on YouTube showing how it works. When he described that, I shook my head and called myself an idiot that I didn't think of it.
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by mkovach 2y ago
To this day, TCL is still my go-to for internal scripting languages or, quite often, creating a simple configuration DSL (or an internal linter for configuration files). Of course, I also do most of my scripting in TCL, so I'm a wee bi
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by mkovach 2y ago
It is a bit more complex than that; what matters is the correlation between the initial trajectory and when the batter's vision believes the ball will go. The dry spitball (knuckleball) and the spitball work on the same concept (i.e.,
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by mkovach 2y ago
A change up is simply a slower pitcher than a fastball, thrown with the same motion. The slower speed mean that ball, while looking like a fastball, will act differently.
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A baseball loving physicist looks at the knuckleball(baseballprospectus.com)
16 points by mkovach 2y ago|18 comments
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by mkovach 2y ago
Since it is written in C, we need to write COBOL and FORTRAN interpreters with it, make sure the manpages are in Latin, and we'll hit the ancient languages nerdvonia.
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Dealing with "New" Old Data(mlb.com)
7 points by mkovach 2y ago|0 comments
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by mkovach 2y ago
I still use Acme as my daily driver, with a good smattering of Sam on my vertical monitor for various things. About 90% of my scripts are written in rc or use the tools in $PLAN9/bin (awk, sed, seq, etc.) It gives me good consistency b
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by mkovach 2y ago
So, will they now add JCL extensions to HCL? Will they be pulling TCL into the fold be the next plan?
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by mkovach 3y ago
I still got nostalgic when I see web pages like that. I miss them.
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by mkovach 3y ago
Now I have an excuse to write my next project in Pascal. :) Bwahah! Bwahah!
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by mkovach 3y ago
Interesting, I remember it be harder than that. But, when I had to write a basic parser during the Y2K storm, I was still a bit green in my programming skillsets. Hmm, yea. I guess I'll have to take a look and see how they handled it.
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by mkovach 3y ago
I want to look at the parser for the COBOL syntax, but I'm not sure if I'll ever be in a place emotionally to do so. Kudos to the folks that are writing the parser!
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by mkovach 3y ago
At the time, I was interested in the physics behind pitches, how the eye works when watching the flight of the ball, and how that might be affected by pitch sequencing. Lots of math with crude estimations for stuff. It's not Moneyball
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by mkovach 3y ago
Ahh, BeOS. I used it has a daily driver for about 6 months. It was fairly nice, but my job moved from Mainframe/VMS/Minicomputer work more towards Web related work (it was along time ago for the kids reading along) and I had to pu
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by mkovach 3y ago
Frankly, I found this "translation" the best: https://aui.me/text/the-dude-de-ching/ ,but Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, my opinion, man.
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by mkovach 3y ago
I have actually looked at it, in my endless quest to stop having Naviserver/AOLserver be my favorite web server. ;-> I'm going to be giving it another go here in a bit, I got a small little personal project where I'm going

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