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by phaedrus 6y ago
I wonder if this works for the Linux version of Dwarf Fortress? It would be an ideal workload - requires a lot of CPU but doesn't do a whole lot of disk or screen I/O. It would be an ideal way to run DF on a laptop.
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by phaedrus 6y ago
Something about that Orion photo in particular makes it seem beyond belief that there is not other life around other stars in the galaxy.
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by phaedrus 6y ago
When you run out of those, move on to Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants by John D. Clark. https://archive.org/details/ignition_201612/mode/2up
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by phaedrus 6y ago
Imagine being a civilization alone in the void, and not even a generation ship could make contact with anyone else, even if they knew which direction to send it.
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by phaedrus 6y ago
You might have some success using hand-coded routines for the last / hardest-working portion of the rasterizer, and just use SQLite to translate data from a format produced by the front-end to a format that matches the back-end. I&#x27
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by phaedrus 6y ago
I couldn't even figure out where the animation was among all the ads.
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by phaedrus 6y ago
My mentor worked with drone projects in the early 80s. They flew S100 bus computers. The drone craft were at least half the size of an ultralight manned airplane.
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by phaedrus 6y ago
I actually hadn't seen that one (I did know of the "Buffalo buffalo" family of sentences). Regarding observation of the phenomenon, in a way I first observed the inverse of it. My first proofs of concept didn't learn pr
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by phaedrus 6y ago
I used to write Markov-based chat bots. Something I thought I observed, but tried and failed to show mathematically, is the possibility of well-connected neighborhoods of the graph (cliques?) leading to some outputs being more likely than
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by phaedrus 6y ago
If you're unlucky enough to have lots of crazy Trump cultist family members, or live in the conservative South, or both, Facebook will show you a never-ending stream of this content as well. It's like having to walk past an overf
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by phaedrus 6y ago
In my opinion, if they really cared about their stated goals, the EPA should have also rolled right-to-repair protections for the relevant equipment into emissions rules for car manufacturers. They should have mandated interchangeable part
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by phaedrus 6y ago
Yes American outlets are already more dangerous than European style; when the switch plates are missing there are exposed live contacts on the sides. I don't know why but it stood out to me how many houses (of friends) I saw where all
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by phaedrus 6y ago
When I was growing up in the late 80s thru 90s, my family was an early "casualty" of this economic trend. The housing / rental market in Massachusetts was already too expensive and layoffs too rampant for a blue collar famil
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by phaedrus 6y ago
I have the same issue. Worse, when I did get my hearing checked, the supposed test for difficulty picking up speech against background noise was terribly and obviously flawed. They used a very short (few seconds) clip that looped. My bra
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by phaedrus 6y ago
The novel is called, "Fall, or Dodge in Hell." It's probably even better if you know some of the characters from previous novels, but I haven't read his other stuff yet and still enjoyed this one. It's a sprawling
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by phaedrus 6y ago
One of my best friends in college was in the same position as the guy at the start of this comic: he was paying for his own college so he had to work for a year (restaurant jobs) to pay for each semester of college. When I met him I was si
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by phaedrus 6y ago
Your last paragraph is actually an idea fleshed out / minor plot point in a Neal Stephenson novel.
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by phaedrus 6y ago
This makes me wonder if my old Zoom H2 recorder has any latent remote control ability (perhaps not brought out to a physical connector).
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by phaedrus 6y ago
I could be projecting, but it sounds like your team member has ADHD. My work set up an automated system that emails people between 9-10am if they forgot to log their time the day before. You get dinged if and only if it gets to the second
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by phaedrus 6y ago
Much like how cosmic inflation after the Big Bang is postulated to have left pockets of normal space, I think the exponential expansion of computing power due to the Moore's law left several scales of computing which are relatively une
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by phaedrus 6y ago
I learned to program from two QBASIC games that were on the school computers, Nibbles and Gorillas. My friends liked to watch me make mods for the games or code from scratch, so I was doing "live coding" from the beginning. I th
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by phaedrus 6y ago
This needs a memetic hazard warning! I had just eaten, and the linked illusion caused me instant nausea/motion sickness, which has not gone away after hiding the browser tab.
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by phaedrus 6y ago
Finding SuperKarts in this collection takes me back to my childhood. It was a 3D racing game that ran smoothly on older computers.
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by phaedrus 6y ago
I saw this article linked from a YouTube comment on a video by Ron Pratt, owner of the towing company who did the recovery. I was struck by the lack of ads, click bait referral links, etc. Because the website is not overrun by crap, they
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by phaedrus 6y ago
Something I've found applying Value Oriented Design to C++ is that it often leads to freeing designs of arbitrary limitations that weren't clear beforehand but in hindsight you realize, "well, of course I should also be able
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by phaedrus 6y ago
That could be, but my first thought was it's only compiling it to a single assembly instruction (which can only have two operands). Or it generates ADD instructions using a succession of registers or stack locations, but the initializ
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by phaedrus 6y ago
My wife was recently traveling in Europe, and wanted to return early. She asked me to handle calling the airline to reschedule the return flight. It was exactly as you describe. Luckily I was talking to a very helpful airline employee,
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by phaedrus 6y ago
The whole enterprise of writing software, from top to bottom, (historical) beginning to present day, has been based on the fallacious, machismo idea of perfect execution by the programmer of writing correct forms. This is actually impossib
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by phaedrus 6y ago
I like how you describe focusing on your plot of land as a positive coping strategy. I had been doing it instinctively (or necessarily), but had thought of it as some kind of failing. Your comment makes me feel better about it. The end go
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by phaedrus 6y ago
Turo was using out-of-date info to validate my driver's license; I had to guess that it wanted the expiration date from before I renewed my license. An identity check system used for VA loans uses your credit history to come up with se

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