pcblues

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by pcblues 3y ago
https://www.quora.com/Would-an-asteroid-measuring-400-metres... I googled your question :)
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by pcblues 3y ago
I walk a lot, drink wine, and listen to podcasts and audio books. You probably don't need much social media to keep yourself sane. But you have to test it for yourself, and for some months. Good luck with your experimentation. We evo
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by pcblues 3y ago
I took computer science at school in 1989 because I hated my chemistry teacher in 1988. Never looked back. I really loved the author's call for attention to whether kids are "getting" the concepts being taught and adjust acco
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by pcblues 3y ago
I got better at software project estimation the longer I spent in the dev industry. But I still knew I was using back-of-brain knowledge and probably wouldn't benefit from bringing too much of it into my consciousness. I think it'
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by pcblues 3y ago
The last great effort with resources, experts, etc. was VSCode. If they can't nail it, can it be done?
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by pcblues 3y ago
Recent repeat, but I think I used the template that made the website in 1995. Still amusing. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by pcblues 3y ago
Money follows money. Truth holds the faltering hand of injustice. And so on...
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by pcblues 3y ago
I recently heard a criticism that this forum was looking too far backward in tech history and lore. Can I suggest everyone young and old look back even further in moral history. Start with the secret diary of Marcus Aurelius. It is about 20
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by pcblues 3y ago
If you get a chance to read Computer Power and Human Reason by Weizenbaum, now is the time to do it by any means available - especially if curiosity drives your question.
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by pcblues 3y ago
I like it. I'm getting older. Get the people here you want. If you don't shout out to my past, I'll find somewhere else that does it. Not "my" issue. Not "your" issue.
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by pcblues 3y ago
This is an interesting viewpoint. I might suggest prototyping game ideas with an existing "game creation" tool, even something like roblox. Then one has multiple pathways for their design to progress - world design, interaction, s
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by pcblues 3y ago
If anything, writing froze ideas (see religion), whereas speaking them from generation to generation allowed the dross to slough off good ideas. Does good science require writing? That's a good debate to have. Are written notes essenti
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by pcblues 3y ago
Audio books returned to me the mouth to ear telling of stories that we had for tens of thousands of years. Writing/reading has not been around long enough to have any impact of our actual evolution. I wouldn't bemoan its loss too
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by pcblues 3y ago
My greatest shame as a young developer was wrapping a Delphi application in an exception handler and re-running itself when it crashed.
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by pcblues 3y ago
I made an iPhone VR app to control a lego mindstorms robot by lashing an old Windows 8 phone onto it. https://pcblues.com/assets/videos/vrlegorobot.mp4
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by pcblues 4y ago
A looong time ago, I worked at a company that compiled shareware CD-ROMs and sold them when modem speeds were still slow for most people. We tested all the games on Windows (95 I think) before they went on to the CD. Unfortunately, one game
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by pcblues 4y ago
Sort of like air and food. Government-funded provision of necessities for health via taxes and protection via regulation should not be damned by calling it names.
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by pcblues 4y ago
In 2 years time, he will have died at 188. (edit for maths failure)
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by pcblues 4y ago
This is an interesting point. If the alternative to charging for a free service is to cancel it, which should one do? This of course is usually a false dichotomy. An alternative is to set it free for an exchange of goodwill and perceived lo
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by pcblues 4y ago
And where will it show that ad? Whenever you use their devices to visit Google and MS sites, of course :)
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by pcblues 4y ago
We sometimes mistakenly think history started with the written words we find. But a story travels much further from the past however it is told. And this would be a hell of a flood story.
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by pcblues 4y ago
Love it, thanks. Subvert the dominant paradigm! But only if it's justified and well documented for future maintenance :)
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by pcblues 4y ago
Jazz is an excellent analogy. Been in software dev for 30 years. It's hard to explain to hirers that one can only play jazz well (i.e. know what matters in a software project as you go) after a long time, so trust me :) I tried to bott
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by pcblues 4y ago
I had a dream where the best lappy I ever saw was in my hands. I tried to hold it while I lucidly tried to wake up. Had nothing in my bed. Tried it with money before too. Just doesn't work. Not yet anyway :)
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by pcblues 4y ago
I have not seen anything up-voted here that is non-tech opinion.
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by pcblues 4y ago
"some" means "all" from Australia's recent intrusions (Optus, Telstra). They can say "some" when the people at the top responsible for reporting only want a sample. It's PR.
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by pcblues 4y ago
My Dad used to do and teach VLSI design from the 1970s on. Later in his life he designed environmental microphones and recording systems using Excel and assembly respectively because, "I don't need software tools because I know th
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by pcblues 4y ago
I am kind of banging on about this over time, but being able to send an asteroid back our way from the belt for mining could be an amazing advance for our own resources.
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by pcblues 4y ago
I hope this gets the golf-claps it deserves for an As teroids reference :)
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by pcblues 4y ago
Have you noticed that looking at a monitor is harder to do with a bright background, such as a window with a sunny day outside hurts more than it used to? I do, and I concluded it was increased sensitivity (in a bad way) to contrasting ligh

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