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by phaedrus 8y ago
I drive a Honda Element. The A-pillars are huge and cover a ridiculous percent of the field of view. "Constant bearing, decreasing range" ought to be printed on the side mirrors, or perhaps it should have been named the "Ho
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by phaedrus 8y ago
Why I've been meaning to build a "Lego Refractory" instead: a leaf blower at the bottom of a 10ft tall acrylic tube, with exit doors at various heights. It would sort Legos by their terminal velocity in free-fall.
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by phaedrus 8y ago
Regarding (5), this reminds me of my long quest to figure out how to make a logic / relational embedded language for C++, which can work with any type.
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by phaedrus 8y ago
The reasoning given here for some reason reminds me of Parallax's decision not to add interrupts to the Propeller 1 design.
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by phaedrus 8y ago
I've often thought there could be hardware fanfiction for car companies / car models. Mostly in the context of a video game, but I could imagine a pure stories / wiki site like the SCP stories but faux-realistic car hardware
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by phaedrus 8y ago
This is interesting because I have (or had) been working on a C++ logic programming library. Many if not most similar libraries are implemented using streams. (See minikanren, LC++, etc.) Naturally as a C++ library I'm interested in
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by phaedrus 8y ago
I still "believe in" OOP, but there's something that is increasingly troubling me lately: I keep thinking about the difference between the unbounded set of possible derived classes which could be substituted for a base cla
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by phaedrus 8y ago
I have at times worked with people who, when the TFS task said, "implement this feature", interpreted it to mean "write code vaguely resembling this feature and mark the task complete" but not "test the code works&q
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by phaedrus 8y ago
Number munchers is one of my earliest memories of using a computer.
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by phaedrus 8y ago
Along the lines of taking the authority of a book as a replacement for critical thinking... I was once hired to rewrite some assembly language spaghetti code a more-electronic-than-software engineer had worked on for two years. Ostensibly
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by phaedrus 8y ago
When I started my CS degree the school was transitioning from teaching C++ to teaching Java, and the state of instruction in C++ was almost as bad as these examples. I had a professor who wanted us to use "new Foo()" everywhere i
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by phaedrus 8y ago
This page gives the first low-level explanation I've ever found for why the 6502 requires a two-phase clock.
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by phaedrus 8y ago
This line from Gattaca always hits me so hard (when the genetically engineered brother asks the protagonist how he always won when they competed to swim as far out from shore as possible): "I never saved anything for the swim back.&quo
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by phaedrus 8y ago
I believe the PC version used palette switching for a lava effect, but not for scrolling (it used Direct X). Never got to see the Mac version of the game. I wrote a bot for Diablo 1 ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/pr
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by phaedrus 8y ago
Maybe the responsibility (and liability) for accidents due to weirdly designed or badly marked lanes would have to fall upon the municipality. You could make an analogy to trains: if a local government commissioned a rail line that includ
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by phaedrus 8y ago
This month I had the same thing happen at 4 different stores (Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, and Ace Hardware): I ask where can I find product-X and the store attendant pulls out his/her smartphone to look it up on the internet, either t
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by phaedrus 8y ago
Many Windows programs embed resources (such as icons) in the executable; perhaps this access pattern would be indistinguishable from what common programs already do? I'm honestly not sure - for instance maybe the embedded resources get
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by phaedrus 8y ago
I could use this! While converting someone's Win32 C program to C++, it struck me that most of the magic numbers, window class names, arrays of GUI control data etc. which are defined in code (in both windows.h and the user source cod
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by phaedrus 8y ago
Thanks for this. I've brought projects through to the "crickets" stage. I've got another project now that I just realized is reaching the far shore of that pit despair (after 2-3 years of "I don't know WTF I&
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by phaedrus 8y ago
In reply to the chiptune thing - I stopped writing poetry when I realized I wasn't especially interested in reading other's poetry.
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by phaedrus 8y ago
I wonder if this in any way related to (causes, or shares a cause with) Mandelbrot's discovery that electrical noise on a signal line follows a Cantor set pattern? Or perhaps the motion of the particle is due to the Heisenberg uncerta
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by phaedrus 8y ago
Imagine if such a planet had a small residual rotation left - any civilization on it would be constantly rediscovering millennia-old sites as previously abandoned regions rotated back under the inhabitable region.
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by phaedrus 8y ago
I can't remember well now, but I think she mainly played Super Mario World, and perhaps an SNES racing game. I never got the chance to actually play with/against her, but my friend told me that she did use it.
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by phaedrus 8y ago
When I was in junior high or highschool I made an SNES controller for my friend's mom who had limited hand movement due to a stroke. I made her a joystick from a piece of PVC pipe, two plastic spools, and a plastic case about the size
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by phaedrus 8y ago
I once worked at a company which separated IT into 3 teams: developers, DB-sysadmin (ops), and QA (who also managed deployments). Releases were supposed to go in a waterfall model from the Dev group -> QA group -> Ops. QA wanted De
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by phaedrus 8y ago
I saw a fan theory suggested on Reddit that it would make more sense if population control was also a means to an end for Thanos, and that Thanos's ultimate reason for doing what he does was to stave off the arrival of Galactus.
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by phaedrus 8y ago
When I first encountered this book, I was working as an outside hand at a small town hardware store trying to save up enough money at $5.85 / hour to afford to move to go to college. It cost me $10 in gas every day just to get to work
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by phaedrus 8y ago
One time I tried to create a tool to do in-place conversion between Linux software RAID volumes (e.g. RAID-0 to RAID-1 (assuming data fits), or RAID-1 to RAID-5, etc.) I used disk image files and the loopback device to test it to avoid hav
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by phaedrus 8y ago
I think the question that has to be asked is what is the specific deficiency? What if navigation skill is like a 3 legged stool that needs all 3 legs to work? Different people could be missing a different leg. For instance in my case I&#x
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by phaedrus 8y ago
I have problems with time and with space. I got into dance and it was hard because "random packet latency" in my senses messed with my ability to learn and keep a beat. However through the help of dance partners tapping out the

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