packetpirate

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by packetpirate 8y ago
It's not useful in any way, but I have one alias... "doot". It runs a Python script that draws a skeleton playing the trombone over an 80s scrolling grid and sunset.
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by packetpirate 8y ago
I got into D&D by chance around 2009. Unfortunately I started with 4th Edition (I know...), but I'm very happy that I did, because all throughout High School I was one of the outcasts, but never had any of these mediums to confide
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by packetpirate 8y ago
Unfortunate acronym, but this is so asinine. Did the people who reported this have nothing better to do?
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by packetpirate 8y ago
You might be what some might call an evil genius.
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by packetpirate 8y ago
I also read Revelation Space this year. I liked it, but it definitely felt like it dragged on. Maybe because it has fairly long chapters. I feel like shorter chapters help me get through a book faster because I usually do most of my reading
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by packetpirate 8y ago
So far this year, I've read the following: - Revelation Space - Armada - I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire - The Sleeping Dragon - Wizardry: The League of the Crimson Crescent - Snow Crash - Scythe - Off to Be The Wizard - Spell or H
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by packetpirate 8y ago
Get a Raspberry Pi for her. The latest images of Raspbian come with a pre-installed Pi edition of Minecraft as well as Python libraries for modifying the game world on the fly and making mods. There's also a book by No Starch Press cal
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by packetpirate 8y ago
Am I alone in thinking that the sign, exponent and mantissa model makes more sense, and that (-1)^S * 1.M * 2^(E-127) isn't that hard to understand? Maybe because I already understand that model, but his explanation just made it more c
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by packetpirate 8y ago
Honestly, I'd rather have the Ethernet port than the Wi-Fi.
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by packetpirate 8y ago
This game should really be Linux supported so all the kids learning Comp Sci through the Raspberry Pi can try it out.
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by packetpirate 8y ago
One reason is that there's still a divide in understanding of the requirements to actually solve a problem between management and the engineering team. Unrealistic deadlines are given, and as a result, shit is produced.
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by packetpirate 8y ago
We've got a Robert Heinlein fan here...
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by packetpirate 8y ago
Maybe I'm just lazy, but from a quick glance, this language seems a little too wordy for my tastes... why "import_module" instead of just "import"? Or "write_string" instead of "write"? I prefer
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by packetpirate 8y ago
Agreed. Ever since I first discovered them, I've decided that I eventually want to specialize in these types of algorithms. They may not be the most efficient algorithms to solve a problem, but they're incredibly fascinating, and
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by packetpirate 8y ago
I thought I had an original and clever solution to TTT... my solution was to define all winning combinations as sets of (x,y) coordinate pairs and each time a player made a move, check to see if any of the winning combinations was a subset