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by sizzzzlerz 11mo ago
i was a euler fanatic some years ago reaching problems in the 500s albeit, skipping problems along the way. at that point, too many problems required a deeper math background than i possessed so i abandoned it. what amazed me was that other
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by sizzzzlerz 11mo ago
I have that and do like it even though it lacks that HP tactile feel.
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by sizzzzlerz 11mo ago
I had a 48C that fed on those batteries. They lasted forever. I had to retire mine when the battery door broke and the batteries wouldn’t stay in. It was a great calculator from HP’s heyday.
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by sizzzzlerz 11mo ago
So says the billionaire locked up in his gated mansion surrounded by armed guards and patrol dogs and who travels by armored limos and flies in private jets.
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
I suppose it is true that you can only learn so much from anal probings. One asshole is pretty much the same as another.
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
I really want to see The Shoemaker and the Elves!
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
God, she was so good in Annie Hall. Of everything she did and I saw, that role has to be my absolute favorite. Another tremendous loss.
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
'long as they're the authoritarians-in-charge.
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
I hope they pick up the Hellfire missile option. “Shoplifter, put down your packages and put up your hands. You have 10 seconds to comply!
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
Like raising dinosaurs from their blood found in amber-encapsulated mosquitoes dug up in mines deep underground, archaic software has been resurrected with modern technology because computer scientists were so excited they could, they didn&
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
Any actor with even 10% of successful movies that Redford would be considered an "A" lister. Thanks for all the entertainment for 5 decades, Robert. RIP.
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
Of course. It's taught in both mathematics courses as well as engineering. The Fourier transform and it's digital domain cousin, the discrete Fourier transform play such a fundamental role across nearly every engineering disciplin
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
In Ed Abbey's book, Desert Solitaire, he writes about a search mission to find a lost hiker somewhere in Canyonlands National Park, who was ultimately found dead, dying of heat and/or dehydration. He goes on to give some advice if
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
Well this made my day. Randomly clicking on the covers, I hit on November 1979. It turns out that this issue had an article on software to solve SOMA cubes and Pentominoes written in 6502 machine code and Basic for the Pet PC. When I origin
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
I own every book McPhee published and have read each one at least twice. He is, without question, the finest writer of non-fiction I know. Annals, as you may know, was originally published as 4 separate volumes, each covering a particular U
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
It costs next to nothing if you do it like the K-man https://youtu.be/62NyFTAKgOI?si=SQR-FDoq3CF4UvIy
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
I live in the San Jose end of the bay. We haven't had temps above mid-80s all this summer. Typically, July has at least one week of 100+ temperatures. This summer, its been mostly 70s and low 80s. I'm not complaining and we still
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
That brings back some memories from my early days. I worked on a project that had decided to use the newish C language for a 68000-based system. They chose Whitesmith compiler for it, probably because it was the only one available. For some
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
Even more. The two primary reasons I believe it harder to find tech jobs when you're older are 1) Your salary demands exceed the budgeted amount for the position 2) You probably aren't willing to work insane hours any more Even if
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
Douglas Adams said it best: Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
Not quite. The height of a structure, antenna, tower, etc., can be limited by the FAA based upon the distance of the structure from a nearby airport. Beyond a certain distance, the height is no longer an FAA issue.
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by sizzzzlerz 1y ago
This is equivalent to students using AI to complete computer programming assignments. They misconstrue the purpose of an assignment as just one of generating output instead something to teach the principles and techniques they'll requi
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by sizzzzlerz 2y ago
I really liked the movie which was pretty faithful to Clancy's book and, I think, to submarine life itself but the one thing I didn't like about it was the choice of Sean Connery as Ramius. For a supposed Russian speaker, his Scot
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by sizzzzlerz 2y ago
Vandalizing is a crime against someone else's property. A hate crime is action taken against another person with special circumstances relating to race, creed, or religion. Applying hate crime to a property crime is absurd and, should
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by sizzzzlerz 2y ago
The sense of infinity becomes more prevalent when looking at the image and all the tendrils stretching out. For the same reason, the idea that those tendrils trace back to the main body via infinitely thin channels always gives me the willi
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by sizzzzlerz 2y ago
A couple of universities built a telescope called Dragonfly, that utilizes 48 Canon 400mm lenses to photograph the skies of New Mexico. The kicker is they don't use camera bodies. Instead, they designed and built mounts that directly c
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by sizzzzlerz 2y ago
I chose early on to invest in Canon's L lenses even though I'm an amateur. Yes, they are considerably more expensive than consumer lenses but for the price, you get a more rugged, weatherproof body, sharper and faster glass, and a
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by sizzzzlerz 2y ago
Seinfeld's experience is interesting. I'll admit that the first half of season 1 was bad but, thereafter, it gained strength which lasted to the end (less the two-part finale). Of course, there were clinkers but surprisingly few,
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by sizzzzlerz 2y ago
Looks like a scene from some of the ages in the old Myst PC game.
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by sizzzzlerz 2y ago
One of my faves. Cheesy sets, of course, but cool back in the day before anybody knew what a computer should look like. Real dystopian ending, as well.

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