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by teddyh 5mo ago
See also: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM >, Larry McEnerney’s lecture The Craft of Writing Effectively .
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by teddyh 5mo ago
Nice! python3 -c 'import random, time; any(time.sleep(0.01) or print(random.choice("\u2571\u2572"), end="", flush=True) for x in iter(lambda: 0, 1))'
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by teddyh 5mo ago
Note that only Python standard modules are imported, no third-party libraries. The “random” module is needed, because Python does not have a built-in replacement for BASIC’s RND(). The “time” module is merely to add delays, to emulate the
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by teddyh 5mo ago
Also: < https://manpages.debian.org/stable/biff/biff.1.en.html >
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by teddyh 5mo ago
python3 -c 'import random, time, itertools; any(time.sleep(0.01) or print(random.choice("\u2571\u2572"), end="", flush=True) for x in itertools.repeat(None))'
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by teddyh 5mo ago
1. I can’t watch the video, as I said. 2. I actually don’t believe whatever George Lucas claims, many years later, to have had in mind at the time. Creators in general are known for not always being truthful in these matters, and mostly j
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by teddyh 5mo ago
It’s not a question of understanding; the issue is that the comment had literally no other meaning than “this is bad, for a non-specified reason which I will not give”. This is, by itself, not worth a comment.
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by teddyh 5mo ago
“Not available in your country.” But what George Lucas claims to have thought (now many years later), is essentially irrelevant. What matters is how audiences interpret the movies when watching them, both at the time and now. If, as I str
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Language Registries Are Unstable by Default(nesbitt.io)
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by teddyh 5mo ago
Also the EGCS fork of GCC. That one ended happily, as, IIRC, the EGCS maintainers were assigned (by the GNU project) to be the new official GCC maintainers.
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by teddyh 5mo ago
The “index.php” in the URL is redundant.
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by teddyh 5mo ago
What Viet Cong parallels? Whatever you mean, it can’t have been very visible to the audience, since clear Viet Cong sympathies would not have gone over well (at least not universally) in 1977-1983.
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by teddyh 5mo ago
This is a discussion forum. Putting things into words is the purpose of commenting. If you can’t, then maybe you shouldn’t.
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by teddyh 5mo ago
“Master Control Program’s been snapping up all us programs who believe. If he thinks you’re useful, he takes over all your functions so he gets bigger.” — Ram, Tron (1982)
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by teddyh 5mo ago
The politics of the original trilogy Star Wars was essentially “dictators and fascists with big armies are bad”. It was naïve and simplistic; a simple storytelling device, nothing more. There was no conscious choice behind it. If it had
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by teddyh 5mo ago
…and you’ve rediscovered .a (ar) files.
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‘No way to prevent this’, Says Only Development Community Where This Regularly Happens — < https://itnext.io/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-developme... >
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by teddyh 5mo ago
Are you asking me for citations?
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The original quote from 2019 is “an unexpected noise”: • < https://imgur.com/6wbgy2L > • < https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/aloi5v/pro... >
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by teddyh 5mo ago
Wasn’t it “Twister” (1996) that had a (fake) SGI laptop? EDIT: Or was it “Sneakers” (1992)?
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What Software Is Made Of(siderea.dreamwidth.org)
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I know nothing about any of these APIs, but the claim of the article seems weird. If naitive APIs are insufficient, or slow, or unsuitable, and implementing your own is too hard, then how does Electron even do what it does? One would
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by teddyh 5mo ago
< https://twiiit.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578 > – will redirect to a currently-working Nitter instance.
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by teddyh 5mo ago
If you are running a modern Firefox, there’s still nuMatrix: < https://codeberg.org/arek/nuMatrix >
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In only slightly more isolated regions of the internet than here, it used to be, when this story was new, that whenever this story was brought up, with dozens or more credulous comments with varying attempts at humor, there was at least on
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by teddyh 5mo ago
“He wants metal; they always do.” — Segregationist, Isaac Asimov, 1967: < https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v035n04_... >
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Emacs has this property because it uses Lisp. The general tendency for programmers to start writing everything themselves was noted, for Lisp, but was named “The Lisp Curse”¹. It is a curse because programmers stop collaborating. Everyon
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“Payment must be made in small, used bitcoins.”
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The tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be spoken is not the eternal Name. — Tao Te Ching, chapter 1 < https://ttc.tasuki.org/ >
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All Commodore machines also uses the older ASCII standards, (in addition to filling out the full 8 bit range with various graphics). It’s usually referred to as “PETSCII”, from the original Commodore “PET” series, but PETSCII was also used

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