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by rbobby 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgt1X6qXTKs
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by rbobby 5y ago
To me it reads like a text based adventure program or dnd game. A few drops from your universal antidote potion would have allowed for safe consumption.
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by rbobby 5y ago
> Another example is a slightly toned-down account, compared to other versions, of Merlin’s sexual encounter with the enchantress Viviane, better known to Malory readers as the Lady of the Lake. Watery tart!
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by rbobby 5y ago
Last buyer has to wait 3 years to get first pick. Yuck. A lottery to set the initial order is fair to everyone. If you want to find out what the actual cash value of picking first, second or third is then do an auction.
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by rbobby 5y ago
> Priority order is determined by the owner's purchase date (1st buyer gets 1st choice, 2nd buyer gets 2nd choice, etc), with the order rotating each year (2nd buyer gets 1st selection in year 2, 3rd buyer gets 1st selection in year
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by rbobby 5y ago
Zip files on floppy disks!
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by rbobby 5y ago
> Sunday morning is when they're stealing our copper wiring Huh... what folks need is a way to rollup their copper wiring and take it with them at the close of business.
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by rbobby 5y ago
I wrote my own for this, specific for my $DAYJOB application. It primarily focused on configuration tables, and optionally a slice of the main data tables. The tricky parts were: 1. Write code to write out DDL. This is easier than it sounds
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by rbobby 5y ago
How creepy would it be if they mounted a toy animal head to the front of the robot? It strikes me that "balance" is probably one of the rules of legged animals (thinking of rules in terms of the boids rules of separation, alignmen
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by rbobby 5y ago
> if Neanderthals existed today, as some unconnected tribe in a remote village I was wondering if that would make a good story for a TV show/movie. The UK government protecting a secret village is the Scottish wildlands, an intrepid
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by rbobby 5y ago
> Get a useful stacktrace that's not just lines of framework wrapper garbage and then an elipses. This is the biggest pet peeve of mine. Over the years I've spent too much time ensuring I can get a stack trace *WITH* line numbe
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by rbobby 5y ago
AI enabled toaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec (from Red Dwarf)
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by rbobby 5y ago
Johnny Knoxville the coolest man in America.
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by rbobby 5y ago
> With card numbers, you (generally) don't really care about the number -- you just want the payment. I don't ever want to have a card number in my database or via a administration system (my own or my provider's). So I ca
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by rbobby 5y ago
I find this a bit concerning. Catching bad guys is all well and good but I wonder whether the various governments are overreaching. Selling a bugged phone to a known criminal is likely fine (cite: The Wire). But is it acceptable to sell a b
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by rbobby 6y ago
> which language has standardized SIMD vector datatypes C# https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/simd and https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/hardware-intrinsics-in...
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by rbobby 6y ago
They are amazing at knowing why the DJI moved up/down. Just for yesterday though. I think for tomorrow you have to subscribe.
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by rbobby 6y ago
And soup in a mug.
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by rbobby 6y ago
smh/fml... it's at $33k now.
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by rbobby 6y ago
There was a really useful spreadsheet application for DEC's RSTS/E... named "calc" maybe? The innovative part of it was a cell formula included an output directive. So the normal excel formula in cell b1 of "=sum(a1
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by rbobby 6y ago
Cool. It's freaky and weird watching as you drag the world around :)
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by rbobby 6y ago
Very interesting. It would have been really cool if you could drag&drop the "globe" around in realtime (i.e. shift things so Australia was at the center, or Canada, or wherever.
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by rbobby 6y ago
> Broome’s attempt to downplay the privacy concerns by pointing out that the federal court system’s own website uses Google services ended up backfiring. > The judge demanded an explanation “about what exactly Google does,” while voic
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by rbobby 6y ago
* 20% * Holy cow.
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by rbobby 6y ago
How's the page turning speed and/or screen refresh speed? I remember looking at an e-ink reader years ago and thought it was unusable because of the weird page refresh/slow page turn.
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by rbobby 6y ago
From left to right draw a sawtooth shape. Make the last one very wide. Then retrace your steps completing the other half of the sawtooth. https://imgur.com/a/Kb8Y8zv (there are about 4 completed saw tooths above the sc
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by rbobby 6y ago
> "Ah, so you have two monoliths?" Made me snort.
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by rbobby 6y ago
> He also created the logo for this: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/02/18/obituaries/18blac ... What can you say... the man liked worms. :)
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by rbobby 6y ago
Are neural net weights code or configuration settings? Are email connectivity parameters code or configuration settings? How would a judge distinguish the two?
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by rbobby 6y ago
If they charged for it I wonder how many people would subscribe?

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