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by teapot7 2y ago
I discarded my copy of Tales From Earthsea, but thought The Other Wind was very good indeed. On the other hand, I didn't like Tehanu, so that might help you decide whether my advice is for you or not.
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by teapot7 2y ago
It got some criticism for being simplistic at the time it was published. I like and respect Le Guin, but maybe not this one so much.
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by teapot7 3y ago
Yeah, we like to think foreigners can't hack it - but we had an American friend staying with us for a while, and one day I came out to breakfast to find him having Vegemite and peanut butter layered on top of each other, on the same pi
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by teapot7 3y ago
My story is a very small one compared to most peoples - a few hours of work on the side, spanning a couple of weeks - but it think it sets a pretty high bar for pointlessnes: This was back when: - the internet was new and exciting, rather t
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by teapot7 3y ago
Yes - he's one of the very best! I loved his 3 part series on making a reflector telescope from a single chunk of glass.
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by teapot7 3y ago
Yes! One of my university textbooks and I still remember what a nice physical artifact it was.
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by teapot7 3y ago
Likewise. I can happily drink coffee at bedtime. I never experience a "coffee rush". A yoga instructor friend once told me "You have a sluggish metabolism". I cannot deny it.
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by teapot7 3y ago
We do like our anthropomorphisation, and I prefer to say that ChatGPT and its pal likes to "bullshit". They're neither "trying" to tell the truth nor trying to lie - they trying to sound plausible, with a cheerful d
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by teapot7 3y ago
I wish I'd known about Forth in my first job in the late 80s. We were writing 8-bit assembler on small slow machines, and I've always suspected that Forth could have been a good productivity solution for those circumstances. Fast
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by teapot7 3y ago
I remember my old boss saying that everyone was expected to do more than was expected of them. He probably thought he was being quite clever.
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by teapot7 3y ago
Thinking of "hey I could do that", here's one of my favourite articles, on the making of the game Sensible Soccer. I end up rediscovering and rereading it every few years, and every time I do I feel the urge to site down and
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by teapot7 3y ago
Some programmers like the idea of making a profit. Apps facilitate this.
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by teapot7 3y ago
> He’s gone and it is perfectly natural that Apple would regress toward the mean of any well funded hip tech company. I remember when Jobs died I thought "Apple - Jobs = Sony". I don't think I was too wrong.
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by teapot7 3y ago
Made me laugh.
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by teapot7 3y ago
Slightly tangential, but I've always wanted to see the Orkneys and their archaeology since I read Kim Stanley Robinson's "A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations": http://www.infinityplus.co.uk&
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by teapot7 3y ago
> That surface-level judgement is as naive and nubile as it gets. Nubile? Auto-correct mistake? Or just a very strange worldview?
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by teapot7 3y ago
I think there's something there - I feel like there's a sort of glamourisation of shyness on some social media, as if claiming it as a label inducts you into a special club. I can be shy, like many people, but I can't fathom
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by teapot7 3y ago
The original article looks much better in "reader mode" which dumps the styling for a standardised page - no more need to read the folksy mock-handwriting font.
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by teapot7 3y ago
He's saying that it happened for reasons completely unconnected with race. Whether you believe his claims are correct or not, how do you manage to read them as racist?
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by teapot7 3y ago
> If our displays flicker to them, which is a highly probable, it is annoyance by any definition. Well, an annoyance by your definition. Not sure how you managed to declare it universal.
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by teapot7 3y ago
Don't forget https://humanclock.com/
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by teapot7 4y ago
I'd look up Grant Abbitt. I think he's excellent for beginners and provides a good foundation. He does some paid stuff, but there's plenty of good free stuff on YouTube. I tend to listen to him at around 1.5 times normal spee
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by teapot7 4y ago
I've never played Sensible Soccer, and don't focus much on sports of any form, but this article: https://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-sensible-soccer/ is fascinating. I've reread it a few times now, a
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by teapot7 5y ago
Seems it's a book of assembler snippets. The Amazon page is less cryptic: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1502958082
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by teapot7 6y ago
It's a shame whoever put it at MIT didn't credit the author, the excellent Terry Bisson. Here it is on his home page: http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
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by teapot7 8y ago
The blog post seems to be pretty much a recreation of examples from the The Algorithmic beauty of Plants, but I didn't notice the author giving any credit to the original source.
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by teapot7 8y ago
One turning point that saddens me as an ex-Smalltalker - at one point there were negotiations underway to have Smalltalk installed by default on all new Sun Workstations (this was back when Sun was a very significant player), but it fell t
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by teapot7 9y ago
Photoshop 7. It still works and it does everything I want it to do. And it's not subscription based. I also agree with the poster who gets an old version of WinAmp. That's a program that started out fine and the just went bonkers.
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by teapot7 9y ago
Though Smalltalk is quite alive and happy in a niche way. I use pharo.org, but there's also Squeak, VisualWorks and a few others. There's some good recent work on compiling to JavaScript, which seems to be the universal solvent t
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by teapot7 9y ago
I guess I do ask for money for this, but it's pretty overengineered and I wrote it knowing that nobody wanted or needed it: Long ago, when Sun workstations were new and exciting, I wrote a simple Roman numeral digital clock, which just

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