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by rootbear 6y ago
I was diagnosed with ADHD in my fifties! I'd known I likely had it for some years, but the formal diagnosis came late. Alas, none of the meds I tried worked, or they had unacceptable side-effects. So I mostly rely on monitoring my own
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by rootbear 6y ago
Exactly. It was way too early, in 1993, to be doing that sort of thing in Post. Much cheaper to do it on set.
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by rootbear 6y ago
The Univac 1100 computers I used in college used the Fieldata character set. I only recently learned that Fieldata was the name of a whole program of the US Military in the late 1950s to create a standard for military and battlefield inform
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by rootbear 6y ago
Interesting article but the author needs to learn the difference between systemic and systematic. This is also wrong: > That’s why the shipbuilders bragged that the Titanic was unsinkable. Instead, systematic design error let water spill
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by rootbear 6y ago
Back in my BSD-on-a-VAX days, I once typed grep string * > out and wondered why it was taking so long. The shell (probably csh) had created the file "out" before it expanded the *, so my grep command was forever findin
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by rootbear 6y ago
This has been out for some years. I played with it a bit when it was first released and it was definitely a fun trip down memory lane. I'm sorry that the author hasn't continued to update it, it still had some rough edges, but I d
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by rootbear 6y ago
A friend suggested that they'll find the name Acme on it and when it's removed there'll be a very flat coyote under it. (American cartoon reference.)
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by rootbear 6y ago
Very few of my friends in same-sex marriages exchanged diamonds, with many forgoing any sort of engagement ring. Maybe we get to be on the vanguard of style and custom again and start an anti-diamond engagement ring trend.
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by rootbear 6y ago
If I wasn’t so close to retirement, this would be tempting. I really liked Finland on my short visit a few years ago.
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by rootbear 6y ago
I noticed that. Audio has to come from the HDMI connection or from Bluetooth, either of which will produce better sound than the standard Pi audio jack. I imagine they see this being used with a TV, much like the old classic 8-bit consoles.
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by rootbear 6y ago
Agreed! One of my favorite scores. I was sad to learn the Mr. Poledouris died fairly young.
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by rootbear 6y ago
Oh, no! I hadn't seen the news! Still one of my favorite Bonds.
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by rootbear 6y ago
Theme parks paint the exteriors of buildings housing large rides and theaters in "go-away gray" or "go-away green" so that the public generally doesn't notice them.
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by rootbear 6y ago
There is a tendency at some places to not rip out old cables when putting in new. I have seen in some buildings at NASA Goddard a few runs of old 10Base5 cable with vampire taps still in place. I should grab one as a souvenir of the old day
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by rootbear 6y ago
I was really hoping someone would offer corrections! Thanks!
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by rootbear 6y ago
If I corrected all of the incorrect grammar I hear on a daily basis I'd be exhausted. I'm not too polite to correct, I'm too busy...
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by rootbear 6y ago
Just checked and yes, enola.gay is registered. That was inevitable, I suppose, if a bit regrettable. (Edited for clarity.)
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by rootbear 6y ago
As Don Hopkins notes, this was originally part of the National Air and Space Museum's "Life in the Universe" exhibit. I saw it several times there and it's still a treat. For a while, a high quality version was available
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by rootbear 6y ago
Nice! Too bad they don’t include Hungarian. I’d like to see if they included the name my Hungarian friends gave their daughter. They picked Edith/Edit. The Hungarian version is pronounced ED-eet, which is pretty different from EE-dith,
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by rootbear 6y ago
A few years ago this saved my bacon when we had a piece of lab equipment that booted DOS (5.0-ish, I think) from a CF card. There was some problem with it and I fixed it by remembering how to copy console input into a file. Input was termin
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by rootbear 6y ago
This may be an old fashioned way to do it, but I set aside a command by using ^A (or Home) and the entering : and space: $ : Command that has an error I can then cd to the right directory, or fix whatever other problem I had, then use up-ar
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by rootbear 6y ago
I was pretty amazed by the Casimir Effect when I first learned of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
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by rootbear 6y ago
There is a long Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment The most mind boggling aspect of this for me is the single photon version, which is under the "Interference of individual p
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by rootbear 6y ago
It wasn't my intention to be inflammatory and I don't consider myself a zealot. My comment has generated a lot of interesting discussion and that's a good thing, and probably worth the down votes. I wrote C for a long time be
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by rootbear 6y ago
I think the issue is that programmers want a type "pointer to int", for example, but C doesn't directly provide that type. It has a type, int, with a modifier (asterisk) that can be applied to a declarator to make it a poin
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by rootbear 6y ago
Pointer to type "struct Bark".
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by rootbear 6y ago
I would assert that usability and clarity are very much a difference.
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by rootbear 6y ago
This is what you get when a person who is mostly a C++ coder (as per his bio) writes C. I cringe when I see things like struct Bark* p_dog = p_cat; instead of struct Bark *p_dog = p_cat; That weird affectation of C++ programme
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by rootbear 6y ago
Interesting observation. I've never taken the time to try to retrain myself to use a mouse in natural mode. This is in part due to the fact that I am a Linux system administrator and I am often working on systems that aren't mine.
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by rootbear 6y ago
On my Dell XPS running Ubuntu, I have the touch pad set to "natural" scrolling but I also use a mouse and have that set to traditional scrolling. I find I like this combination a lot, so being able to set up my Mac the same way wo

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