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by sjackso 7y ago
It was because of Escape Velocity that I discovered web forums and IRC; it was because I wanted to make mods for EV that I learned to use POV-Ray and ResEdit; it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that I eventually became a professional pro
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by sjackso 7y ago
I'm really glad that US senators are hearing your perspective on these issues. Thank for putting in the time and for your patience with their endless name-mangling. :) Do you feel any more or less optimistic about what's coming
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by sjackso 7y ago
It's worth providing the context in which CS Lewis praised 'A Voyage to Arcturus:' it's in a list of what he considered the best mythopoeic fiction. The quote below is from Lewis' essay 'On Science Fiction,&#x
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by sjackso 8y ago
Can you clarify what level of REMOTE-ness is welcome? None of the listings on jobs.amd.com seem to mention anything about remote work.
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by sjackso 8y ago
Without exaggeration: Playing Descent 3 online was the most fun I have ever had in front of a computer screen. Thanks for a great time. :-) When I was doing computer graphics research in university, I always hid a secret 6DOF flight mode
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by sjackso 8y ago
Another commenter has mentioned Python's urwid [0], which is precisely that. [0] http://urwid.org
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by sjackso 8y ago
'The Man Who Was Thursday' by GK Chesterton. A short novel about which any description would tend to spoil the effect of reading it cold.
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by sjackso 10y ago
Planning to go, first time to Brussels. Any advice from regulars about making the most of the experience?
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by sjackso 10y ago
Is there a theorist who can put this into perspective? How excited should we be?
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by sjackso 10y ago
I went through a very similar period a couple of years ago. Would be glad to trade war stories (or just talk freebsd :) -- find my email in my profile if you like. Good luck, either way!
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by sjackso 10y ago
FWIW, the desktop app has a free trial, and on top of that, the developer offers a 30-day money-back guarantee if you buy direct from their store. (Not sure about the mobile app, haven't used that.) I use the desktop app every day and
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by sjackso 11y ago
Can anyone recommend articles or guides for learning org-mode? I'm interested in its use as an all-purpose information manager to combine TODO lists, daily notetaking, calendar and agenda planning into a single cross-referencing syste
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by sjackso 11y ago
Wow. This sounds like an urban legend (for values of "urban" that mean "university CS departmental"), but I would love to be convinced that it is true.
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by sjackso 11y ago
I use reckon regularly and find it very helpful -- thank you!
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by sjackso 11y ago
I've run into similar issues with a similar setup. It's frustrating. You can convince gmail user A to whitelist your messages, and so they'll get through to user A, but gmail user B probably still won't see messages fr
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by sjackso 11y ago
To make the situation even weirder, "giving up citizenship" to avoid these complications is difficult and expensive for US expats. Renunciation of US citizenship was free until July 2010, the same year that FACTA went into effect.
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by sjackso 11y ago
idlewords: This talk is fantastic. Thank you. I'd love to hear about reactions you got from other attendees at the conference. Was there interest, serious thought, skepticism?
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by sjackso 11y ago
Part of the brilliance of idleword's approach in this talk is in his avoidance of Godwin-level rhetoric. You don't need to posit an authoritarian dictatorship to see big data as hazardous. "Nixon in your datacenter" is
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by sjackso 11y ago
So true! The only thing I dislike about my retina Mac is that Monaco 10 no longer looks right.
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Domain name WHOIS anonymity hangs in the balance under ICANN proposal(arstechnica.com)
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by sjackso 11y ago
Chesterton reiterated similar ideas to this in several of his writings. I like this expanded metaphor, from the book Heretics: 'Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many in
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by sjackso 11y ago
Supporting Linux is a surprise, but I think it's a great move on their part. Think: How many iOS apps are frontends to a server API? And how many of those APIs are running on Linux servers? Swift on Linux means ~all the code for a
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by sjackso 11y ago
Great idea. Potentially more useful alternative: rank the posts strictly by the time they were posted, so that it's easy to see what's new since you last looked. (Perhaps allow posts to be downvoted but not upvoted?) I was readi
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by sjackso 12y ago
I think games like Myst succeed in cases where, when the player changes to the state of the world, the consequences of the change make some kind of sense (be it mechanical, symbolic, imaginative, etc.). If you can follow the wire from th
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by sjackso 12y ago
Oh cool, he finally finished it! Hadean Lands was kickstarted five years ago [1], receiving $31337. (Read that number carefully; this article rounds to $30k and completely misses the fun.) At the time, it was astonishing to many people
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by sjackso 12y ago
The patterns definition file, listing the things that this tool detects as potentially sensitive, is worth a look: https://github.com/michenriksen/gitrob/blob/master/patterns.... Special award for most m
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by sjackso 12y ago
Here [0] is a really extensive how-to for running FreeBSD as a desktop OS. It goes beyond the basics, including information about 3D graphics, printing, emulating Linux binaries, installing Flash, and running Wine. It's useful as a g
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by sjackso 12y ago
It seems like only smaller VPS services offer first-class support for BSD. There's a few out there besides RootBSD. ARP Networks [0] is one; it's got pretty reasonable rates. [0]: https://www.arpnetworks.com/
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by sjackso 12y ago
...if you've installed bash from ports. The base system doesn't appear to be affected.
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by sjackso 12y ago
> Given the very large number of experiments and studies being conducted everywhere, and the selection for positive results, statistical anomalies are being accidentally selected for and then not being extensively enough re-evaluated mu

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