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by phaedrus 4y ago
I got diagnosed late as an adult and was on ADHD medication for a year or two. It allowed me to actually get things done in my work and personal life like paying bills on time, making appointments, setting up retirement contributions, and
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The difference is a person with ADHD will be calmed by a stimulant rather than amped up by it. The ADHD brain can't focus because it doesn't produce enough dopamine to reward the neural circuits for maintaining focus. So there&#
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I learned to drive from GTA III (before I had my license). I'm convinced the reflexes developed playing that game saved me from what could have been a bad accident in real life. I was driving on an interstate and traffic went from wid
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by phaedrus 4y ago
Illustrates a case where even workers who have a good relationship with their management might benefit from a union. Management can change; then who is left to hold the new management to former promises?
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I started my career right at the peak of this graph in 2008.
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It's premature to claim these "AI" models are equivalent to a human memorizing lyrics to copyrighted songs. They're much closer to XOR'ing copyrighted works so that the encoded form is not casually recognizable. I
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by phaedrus 4y ago
What's funny is I was that guy (not literally the same guy, but did similar things) as GP describes who could type in a program implementing the math lesson in the time it took the teacher to describe it. And. I. Struggled. So. Much. w
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by phaedrus 4y ago
From the FAQ: The version you use will depend on your computer processor. In theory, the most up to date version of MAME you can use will result in more accurate the game emulation which usually required a faster computer processor to run t
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by phaedrus 4y ago
With apologies to Oscar Wilde: I spent all morning putting in std::unique_ptr and all afternoon taking it out again.
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by phaedrus 4y ago
Your comment strikes at a deeper issue than what I suspect most replies it gets will address. The example of your never having needed nor missed std::move in all the code you've written rests on the distinction between specific uses a
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by phaedrus 4y ago
This dovetails with something I was thinking about recently in the context of Reproducible Builds (or the lack thereof). For most of its history Computer Science (at least as practiced by industry) has gone all-in on "functionally equ
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Similarly I had just read this thread summary about a person asking how to fix a zipline that had been built without any engineer input. They'd only calculated after spending $40,000 and building two massive platforms that it would pr
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by phaedrus 4y ago
As a millennial here's my childhood experience with that: I knocked on the door of an older lady (Silent Gen, or Greatest Gen) in my small town and negotiated to mow her lawn and the price. An unemployed older Baby Boomer who lived hal
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I'm currently reading The Gripping Hand years after having first read The Moat in God's Eye. There's further exposition on the concept of "Crazy Eddie." Nothing to do with computer-business Crazy Eddie. The Motie
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I've been teaching myself POV-ray with an eye towards using it to render 2D sprites for indie games. Thinking about how 3D rendered scenes could be tile-ized lead me to an epiphany last night about a difference between Diablo 1 and lat
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Social Media is Orthographic Projection (2020)(robinsloan.com)
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I definitely have the same experience trying to get C++ game dev libraries running. Trying to wrangle a bunch of open-source library dependencies into mutually acceptable versions whilst also keeping up with (intentional, or unintentional)
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by phaedrus 4y ago
Puzzle 850 (10x10) appears to be unsolvable? After fixing the rest of the tiles, I was left with a scrambled area in the top-middle with 3 loose ends. Even if the affected tiles were all adjacent and shape-compatible (no on both counts),
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I was in a college research experiences for undergraduates program in 2007, and Tower Defense games were incredibly popular among my peer group. I'd compare it to Angry Birds or perhaps Flappy Bird in terms of how it was seemingly eve
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I did something remarkably similar. In the 90s I independently reinvented Markov chains, although I didn't know that was what it was called. I wrote a mIRC plugin and made a bot with it. I gave it the username "Cybergirl"
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by phaedrus 4y ago
Got any tips for eliminating or mitigating the interference? Recently some retiree in my area got himself a new, illegally-high-powered CB radio so he can talk to truckers from his house. It comes through on the wired headphones I wear wh
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by phaedrus 4y ago
And is the juice even worth the squeeze? We're using astronomically more computing power to enable developer conveniences that are (however you define or measure it) not astronomical improvements. I've heard the developer time ar
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by phaedrus 4y ago
It reminds me of pop articles about the P=NP question which simplify it down to, "is being able to recognize creativity the same as being creative?" Turns out for practical purposes, yes (the simplification question not the mathe
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by phaedrus 4y ago
Re: comment aging poorly - somewhere on this site there's a really old comment of mine saying I couldn't believe Facebook didn't accept the Microsoft buy-out offer. I correctly predicted the then-soon coming backlash against
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I worked with someone, who previously worked at a hard drive manufacturer, whose initials are coincidentally valid hexadecimal digits. He told me a story how as a low-level firmware programmer, he was in the position to immortalize his ini
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by phaedrus 4y ago
Your mention of modular arithmetic makes me draw a connection between this story and the way I think about ceiling fan pull chains. Suppose the fan is clearly starting on high and you want to turn it off, but you don't know if the orde
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by phaedrus 4y ago
Huh. That is an interesting point about carpentry not being as easy to self-teach. I don't think it's entirely impossible to do so, the Youtuber Mr. Chickadee being a counter-example: he's mentioned in interviews learning t
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by phaedrus 4y ago
There's more pictures and info on my old blog: http://dennisferron.blogspot.com/2008/12/prop6502-laptop-pro... Looks like Parallax still has a link to their old site, but I couldn't find the contest page
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I did a similar thing with a 6502 and the Propeller microcontroller. I always meant to make an 8086 or 8088 version, but moved on to other things before ever doing so. Dangerous Prototypes wrote up a pretty good post about it: http:/
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by phaedrus 4y ago
After a series of previous employers I ended up burned out (but sort of wasn't sure if I was or not). I couldn't quite pin down WHAT it was that was burned out of me until I saw this quote from the linked article: "Flow stat

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