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by richardjdare 7y ago
It's the same thing at different levels of abstraction. If you are from a locale where low-trust, feuding groups are interacting with each other but on a largely negative basis, and you're tired of it - then nationalism looks like
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by richardjdare 7y ago
I read "Seven Gothic Tales" by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen's pen name) after seeing it quoted in Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language". Lovely dreamlike prose. Stroustrup's book is one of my all-time
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by richardjdare 7y ago
The article mentions Professor Falken from War Games, who is a kind of Claude Shannon-esque scientist and tinkerer but doesn't mention the scene with Malvin and Jim! [1] I tell curious friends that this is the most realistic portrayal
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by richardjdare 7y ago
I find Jünger a fascinating person. A WW1 stormtrooper and militarist who later wrote prescient sci-fi and took LSD with Albert Hoffman. In the documentary "102 years in the heart of Europe"[0] Jünger was asked what he thought of
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by richardjdare 7y ago
If you want to get a handle on Heidegger, I recommend working through Being and Time while listening to Prof Hubert Dreyfus's UC Berkeley lecture series, 'Philosophy 185 - Heidegger'. I heard them on ITunes U long ago, but th
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by richardjdare 7y ago
I left school in '93. Throughout my school career I was the only person I knew who was diagnosed with anything like that. I only got diagnosed after talking to a physio who was treating my brother. Once that happened I started being tr
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by richardjdare 7y ago
I spent my childhood upsetting people who think there is some moral significance to handwriting. After a chance meeting with a physiotherapist, I finally got diagnosed with dyspraxia ("clumsy child syndrome" for us old people) at
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by richardjdare 7y ago
I had a complete set of the Joy of Knowledge Encyclopedia when I was a kid in the early 80s. They'd send you a magazine-sized section each week and you'd gradually build up to a full set which you could bind yourself in the provid
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by richardjdare 7y ago
It was frustrating. I loved the Amiga but when I saw Wing Commander featured in ACE magazine in 1990 I realised that the PC was where the innovative games were coming from. And I wanted to be a game dev so I had to follow where the industry
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by richardjdare 7y ago
About the only thing MS did for the Amiga was Amiga Basic, which was bundled with AmigaDOS until v2 and was eventually surpassed by AMOS, GFA Basic and Blitz Basic. There was a lot of good productivity software for the Amiga: Protext, Wordw
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by richardjdare 7y ago
Ah, I think about this often. Although I moved from the Amiga to PC in 1996, I've never felt at home on other platforms. I consider myself an Amiga exile :) So far, I've settled on a few principles for my new Amiga: - No x86. The
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by richardjdare 8y ago
Reminds me a bit of how when I was a teen, Amiga demoscene and game music sounded like nothing else and contributed to my sense that the "computer world" was something apart. Then years later I found out about Italo Disco and Tang
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by richardjdare 8y ago
I spend most of my gaming time at the moment playing IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad in VR. I've still got an old DK2 which I didn't use for ages until I discovered I could fly Spitfires in VR. Now I'm hooked again, and in the mark
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by richardjdare 8y ago
The Amiga was like that. It didn't physically have a text mode, so there was no point to TUIs. The console (a GUI app that displayed text) was primarily command based. Anything screen oriented (even the first version of Vim) was a GUI
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by richardjdare 8y ago
I've wanted to read A Thousand Plateaus for a few years. The first time I tried it, all that stuff about wolves and geology just lost me. I will have to try again. Honestly, I found it harder than Heidegger's Being and Time, which
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by richardjdare 8y ago
My notion of ergonomic mostly comes from programming the Amiga in 68000 and then moving to the PC and being horrified by x86! In 68k you had 8 32-bit data registers, (d0-d7) and 8 address registers (a0-a7) If you wanted to access bytes or 1
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by richardjdare 8y ago
Back then assembly language was much more ergonomic than it is now, and the machines were simpler. Many of my favourite games in the 80s were made by teenagers programming in their bedrooms. Check out this 68000 assembly tutorial video from
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by richardjdare 8y ago
I programmed for over 15 years before I got into Emacs. I grew up with Visual C++ and later on used Eclipse, Netbeans and XCode. Along the way I realised I wanted a text editor with live-coding capability. I wanted to be able to write code
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by richardjdare 8y ago
I started smoking at 19 and was a chain smoker throughout my 20's. I was a total addict - I hated it. About 10 years ago I read "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" by Allen Carr. The next day I stopped. For 4 days I felt as though
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Imagine 2.0 from an Amiga Format coverdisk (Like most of my application software when I was a teenager) I remember reading about Caligari, but I never used it.
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by richardjdare 8y ago
Paint programs go back to Xerox Parc in the 70's[1], at the very least. In the 80s and 90s there were a bunch of high-end paint programs for Symbolics, SGI workstations, Quantel Paintbox [2] etc. They were more video-graphics oriented
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by richardjdare 9y ago
I for one, am thoroughly tired and fed up with being expected to think of another human being from two hours flight away as some kind of alien. It's absurd when I can have face-to-face conversations with people on the other side of the
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by richardjdare 9y ago
The Amiga version of STOS, AMOS, was nice and quite popular. Wasn't as fast as Blitz Basic II though. There were some interesting "multimedia authoring systems" on the Amiga which might warrant inclusion, such as Amiga Vision
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by richardjdare 9y ago
I guess I'm similar in that I left high school with very little mathematical knowledge. I've struggled with many many maths books over the years which usually assume you have a certain background, or don't explain things
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by richardjdare 9y ago
I always thought anti-aging tech should come with a mandatory course of ayahuasca to shake the belief system up a little.
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When I took Piracetam I used a Cap M Quik machine[1] to make batches of 50 capsules at a time. Took about 15-20 minutes to make a batch and I was pretty leisurely about it. [1] https://www.cap-m-quik.com/
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by richardjdare 9y ago
Don't forget the scene where the rabbit warren is gassed. Imagine you are ~five and you see that for the first time:) What really hit me was the haunting, archetypal imagery surrounding the rabbit mythology and the Black Rabbit of Inle
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by richardjdare 9y ago
Ever since I found out about Lisp machines I've been a bit obsessed with them. When I got the leaked distribution of Symbolics Genera going in Linux I felt like I was in possession of a crashed UFO. The user experience of the Listener,
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by richardjdare 9y ago
What I find difficult is that by the time I've got my DAW going and found some synths I like, the tune in my head has evaporated. Do all people find musical thoughts so insubstantial, or is it just me? If I imagine a picture or a parag
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by richardjdare 9y ago
I loved his lecture series on Heidegger's "Being and Time". It helped me finally understand what continental philosophy was all about. I first heard it on iTunes U but it's also on archive.org: https://archive

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