pacman128

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by pacman128 7d ago
The episode (_SURVIVAL_) that stuck with me as a kid was the one where Col. Foster is lost on the surface of the Moon with an alien and they have to work together to survive. The end of the episode was gutting.
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NoMachine ditches free edition and forums(reddit.com)
2 points by pacman128 2mo ago|0 comments
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by pacman128 4mo ago
I've been on both sides of the interviewing process and I agree with you. It's the questions like "what is you greatest weakness?" that tick me off where an honest answer at most places will probably kill you chance of g
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by pacman128 4mo ago
Is it too much to ask for interviewers not to ask questions where the "right" answer is to give a BS answer?
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by pacman128 6mo ago
In a chat bot coding world, how do we ever progress to new technologies? The AI has been trained on numerous people's previous work. If there is no prior art, for say a new language or framework, the AI models will struggle. How will t
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by pacman128 1y ago
Fun fact, George RR Martin still uses the MS-DOS version of Wordstar for his writing.
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by pacman128 2y ago
Look into the Unitarian Universalist (UU) church. I'm a recently retired atheist and moved to a new city. My wife was brought up UU and they welcome all beliefs. We started attending services at a local fellowship a month ago and have
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by pacman128 3y ago
This Philby story (father of the infamous double agent Kim Philby) is a key plot point in Tim Powers' book _Declare_. It's a mash up of a John le Carre spy novel with Lovecraft. One of Powers' best novels.
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by pacman128 3y ago
No, I'm not actively working on it. If I ever find the time, I might update it to 64-bit.
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by pacman128 3y ago
https://pacman128.github.io/pcasm/
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by pacman128 3y ago
Nice to see NASM is still going strong. I used this for a class I taught back in the 90's. The class supported both Windows and Linux (but most students used Windows) and NASM supported both and was free. I ended up creating my own fre
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by pacman128 3y ago
Paul Carter here. Yes, as someone already replied. It's online. I would have liked to update it to 64-bit, but I jumped to industry and don't have the time to do a decent job of it. I didn't realize that Randall had a 64-bit
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by pacman128 4y ago
_Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms_ by James O. Coplien It showed me how to really use C++ effectively back in the 1990's. It was at the time in a class by itself. (Pun intended).
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by pacman128 4y ago
rec.arts.sf.written was the one I was referring to.
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by pacman128 4y ago
I just recently started looking back at one of the groups I frequently read years ago and found that there was a small community still using it. Even recognized a few of them. The trolls and spammers were gone.
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Surviving the Bridge in Squid Game(chalkdustmagazine.com)
1 points by pacman128 4y ago|0 comments
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Anima Puzzles(davidkoloski.me)
1 points by pacman128 4y ago|0 comments
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by pacman128 5y ago
Really sad to hear this. The TRS-80 Model I was the first computer I ever owned in high school. I spend many, many hours programming on it. Taught myself BASIC and Z-80 assembly language on it. Definitely was a major factor in my profession
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by pacman128 5y ago
I taught college CS for 10 years before moving to industry. Cheating wasn't a huge problem, but I did run have some issues. Gave a makeup exam to one student with an altered programming problem than the original exam. The student answe
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by pacman128 5y ago
It was published 3 years before his death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Fe... !
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by pacman128 5y ago
It's actually the prequel, 'A Deepness in the Sky', that has this. Both very good books.
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by pacman128 5y ago
I thought the same at first. I worked on the Air Force AWACS E3 ( https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/1045... ) program as a contractor in the 2000's. It had dual IBM-360 computers
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by pacman128 5y ago
Completely agree. I usually start with a trivial step and then build from it. Keeping notes on paper, in a markdown doc or jupyter notebook as appropriate is also useful. I have notes that I still look back at to remind me of details of are
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by pacman128 5y ago
It's definitely a type of Platonism. The question isn't how hard it is, but if it's possible at all.
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by pacman128 5y ago
I'm not talking about physical measurements. How do you make a simulation that makes the sum of 0.9 + 0.09 + 0.009 + ... not equal to 1.0? It really comes down to whether math is universal. Maybe it's not, but I certainly don&#x27
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by pacman128 5y ago
We can't make a simulation that changes the result of infinite series. They were computing pi, not measuring it. This wasn't changing the curvature of space, it was changing math itself.
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by pacman128 5y ago
This brings up the thing that really bothered me about Carl Sagan's novel _Contact_. A book that I really liked otherwise. Warning, this might be considered a spoiler: A pattern found deep in the computed binary digits of pi are used t
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by pacman128 5y ago
How would they contact the owner of the device? All they know is the IP address of the device.
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by pacman128 6y ago
I was also lost for a while working on my physics Ph.D. The course work ended with the state of physics in 1930 (this was the late 80's). I was also trying to do Lattice Gauge theory which involves many different areas: statistical mec
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by pacman128 6y ago
99% Invisible just had a podcast on the advantages of peat and bogs over forests. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/for-the-love-of-peat/

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