stolenmerch

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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I would love to be able to use citizens band radio on my phone. Heck, at this point I'd settle for my carrier unlocking the FM receiver in my phone.
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I agree, but at least it isn't "I forced a robot to read my diary", which is something I've seen.
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
To my eye, they are clearly synthetic elements composited together in Photoshop or similar with a keen artistic, human eye. Doesn't keep it from being amazing, but there's no way these faux film stills are coming straight out of a
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
> It isn't that we "hate him" as he claims, it is simply that we strongly believe he is wrong. Then please write up a dispassionate rebuttal citing published findings that dispute his claims. This piece is not that. It&#x2
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I grew up playing APBA with my friends and tried to write some automation tools in BASIC on my TRS-80 in Jr. High. A few years ago I wrote a simple Node app to scrape Baseball Reference data and create plausible, reverse engineered Strat-O-
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
https://archive.ph/8H0hg
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Honest, good faith question here. One stated goal of building this is because you "deleted most social media, but still wanted a way to keep in touch with friends and my network." How does this solve that? Keeping in touch is not
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I've been doing this for the past couple of weeks after reading this tweet: https://twitter.com/obryant666/status/1395816947913138178 It's oddly fulfilling.
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I think there's an inflection point after learning the basics of syntax, variables, data structures, control structures, etc. where you see how things fit together and your goals feel attainable instead of murky and unknowable. You may
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I was so incredibly hungry for any and all personal computer content as a kid in the 80s that I'd stay up for Computer Chronicles on Sunday nights just to sit through 20 minutes of dry discussions of financial software to catch a 30 se
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Correct. It was always something like PRINT "HELLO. I AM YOUR NEW TRS-80 MICROCOMPUTER [0] or PRINT "HI, I'M YOUR NEW COLOR COMPUTER" [1] [0] https://archive.org/details/TRS80ModelIPreliminaryUsersMa
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
You may be interested in Collapse OS, a "Forth operating system and a collection of tools and documentation with a single purpose: preserve the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse". http:/&#x2
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
It's a huge nostalgia trap for me too. Probably because we can't go back. There's nothing else that brings me the same feeling. For people of a certain age, it's almost like being homesick for the house you grew up in.
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I have no doubt that there is a correlation and I did read the Bayesian Vector Autoregression paper. However, I think it's a bit misleading for a doctor to take to social media with some very casual observations of Amazon reviews and
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I was a big fan of Endless Quest for similar reasons. Loved CYOA, but loved the non-linear narrative along with tracking stats throughout your story.
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Same here. Software dev with an MFA in Studio Art. Generative Art was a topic 20 years ago in school and my feeling it was politely tolerated as conceptual, but not aesthetic. The difference now is that the models and algorithms and amount
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Don't worry about special "kid friendly" rpgs. Just play D&D but water it way down. Get some miniatures and map tiles and let them set up the map to explore with their characters. They will want to play with these things
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
> a ballistic justification for both damage and armor You may be intrigued by Phoenix Command. Written by a literal rocket scientist, it offers a level of granularity down to time-of-flight of bullets, penetration factors of various mate
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
It seems the annual income vs. CPI is the core chart here. Something happened in the decade of 2000-2010 to throw things out of whack. I'm not informed enough to know if that was the result of policy decisions or what, but I'd lik
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
One problem is that both sides of this "schism" tends to easily fall into a Cosy Catastrophe mindset [0]. Not always, but it happens quite a bit. They touch on this in the article, but it's too common in my opinion. It'
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Not exactly a screenshot, but I recently found a file from December 1991 that was a proprietary image file of the home screen of a local BBS I used to visit in high school. Was actually able to convert it to a PNG after some work. This migh
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
It's probably too basic for anyone who's taken even college-level math courses, but I thought it was an engaging summer read that got my imagination going. Easy to read but also required some work. It was fun to imagine examples o
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I just read this story in Jordan Ellenberg's book, "Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else" as part of the section on decision trees, evaluating state, etc. Tinsley is the
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I've never found editing Wikipedia to be a pleasant experience. Unless it's a totally obscure topic, there are just too many people who feel entitled ownership to the page and will fight you on every edit. This isn't exactly
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
In 2000, artist John Freyer cataloged then sold all of his possessions on eBay. It was documented in a website and book published by Bloomsbury [0], later optioned by Warner Brothers, and Freyer made all the talk show rounds in 2002-3 [1] [
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I was infatuated with Eliza as a kid, thanks to its inclusion in David Ahl's "More BASIC Computer Games". It was my first foray into modifying someone else's code and trying to figure out how it worked. Something about t
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
~75% of those deaths were among people of retirement age or older. I think it's fair to question whether it was "reasonable precaution" to shut down schools, people's workplace, and entire sectors of the economy. Simply
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Would be interesting to hear a few other perspectives from finance, manufacturing, or tech. Not that she's necessarily wrong, but I need some opinions on this other than from a veterinarian with a twitter presence seemingly dedicated t
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I personally don't have the stomach to develop in public like this, let alone in front of the gaming community, let alone a beloved franchise. Not even sure what level of attacks he experienced, but I assume it would be enough to push
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
This is something I did pretty early on and my colleagues said the results were bad or not worth pursuing. Now that we can all do it it's going to become HATED.

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