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by timonoko 1y ago
If you try OpenScad-style adding and subtracting volumes, the syntax is pretty horrific. It is impossible to script objects that way. Quote Gemini: However, implementing a full OpenSCAD-like syntax and robust CSG system from scratch
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by timonoko 1y ago
I truly do not understand how Ænglish poetry works, do you appreciate written form or vocalizations? But Validator works on sane languages too: mieleeni muistuu tässä yhteydessä eräs tapaus joka tapahtui
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by timonoko 1y ago
Plenty to do, you can for example fish and eat it too: Paddeling from Nesseby to Russia https://youtu.be/nW5sFJKs8K4?si=xbmMz11CRIrC7obk
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by timonoko 1y ago
Most of these are short/long vowel markings, except last one which is (probably) implosion. And rest are frontal/back and wide/narrow A. But Swedish "Å" is just stupidity "O", because they started pronounc
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by timonoko 1y ago
Based on your description, the story you're likely thinking of is Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars. The scenario you describe is a key element of the book's early colonization efforts. The colonists use electric vehicles and h
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by timonoko 1y ago
What was the scifi-story where they explored some planet with electric helicopters. They had several hectars on thinfilm solar panels, which they spread on the fields every other day. This does not sound Scifi at all now.
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by timonoko 1y ago
One thing I discovered on 8080 was that 0FFFFH is "infinity". Meaning it is better to produce this infinity than zero-division error, when system is oscillating around zero. Otherwise you have to insert zero-tests everywhere and w
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by timonoko 1y ago
I maybe only one here who really used TTY editor on ASR-33. Paper and ink ribbon were expensive in poor country of Finland, so you tried to use PP only once and mark the edits with pen. Eventually the paper become too messy and then you had
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by timonoko 1y ago
This issue used to drive the nation of slaves nuts in the olde Usenet. There was also a Russian Scientist promoting this theory based on frequency of Finnic haplo groups, but he soon learned better theory in Siberian Gulags.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Before computer was ever invented we learned to make Fourier analysis of complex circuitry by hand. Huge matrixes and sliderules. It was most horrible torture, but bloody nazies of Helsinki Polytechnic insisted we must learn to do this with
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by timonoko 1y ago
I sometimes tried to irc for 24 hours straight, but always fell asleep. I was following #sci.nanotech and always testing how long can I go spewing nonsense before real experts, like David Deutsch, realize I am full of shit. Though I did dis
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by timonoko 1y ago
Er what? In Python the graphics libraries are written with whatever is the speediest language. But If you study my program all it does is to produce a website and graphics rendering and viewing is done in a browser. Map tiles are organized
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by timonoko 1y ago
There is nothing to it. I once made web.py-server that combines maps from two countries. While kayaking. It was too annoying when you had to switch programs to see what is on other side of river. Unfortunately they do follow Google tiles st
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by timonoko 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567047#44568157
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by timonoko 1y ago
What? C-z was most important, when you had only 300 bit/s shell-account.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Tmux is reborn, because there is only one terminal window available on Termux. But only customization so far is metahar = C-b, because C-a needed on Emacs.
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by timonoko 1y ago
I saw PDP-8 and two ASR-33 on a garbage pile in around 1980. I knew that if I take them, it will destroy my life, I would do nothing else than tinker those for the rest of the millennium.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Silicon Film was interesting in 1998 because we all had cameras that were becoming useless. https://www.digitalkameramuseum.de/en/prototypes-rarities/it... But not anymore and not in this crude format, where elect
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by timonoko 1y ago
Small numbers are "eq" in python. It saves space and time, because probably those numbers dont even exist, and the value is derived from the pointer value. >>> a=3 >>> b=3 >>> a is b True &gt
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by timonoko 1y ago
In Finland you have to pay €30 annual license for €100 euro camera drone, but this continues to be free: https://www.flickr.com/photos/timonoko/albums/137298/
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by timonoko 1y ago
This is the most important issue, especially in EU: "If a kite weighs less than 25 kg and is tethered without a propulsion system, it is not subject to the EU UAS Regulation. This means that, unlike drones, such kites are exempt from r
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by timonoko 1y ago
Please shutup. Last time this kind of EU-whining produced only "If you dont accept cookies, you can piss off"-type checkboxes, whose effect to security is less than zero.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Done that. I got my vitamin cocktail recipe from youtube-doctor Joe Rogan. Restored only magnesium part because it really seems to make sleeping better. Other shit comes from food from now on.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Make it funny and Tintin style: https://flic.kr/p/2rb1vfn
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by timonoko 1y ago
I am not concerned. Unlike America we can't get blood tests without doctors orders. Last time I did it it was like €200 and basically useless, because it was just iron deficiency, which old-time doctors diagnosed from color of membrane
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by timonoko 1y ago
I havent even seen a doctor about this. I was complaining to ChatGPT about occasional dizzy spells. It found out some half a dozen other symptoms and the fact I was doing 100µg D made the diagnosis obvious. -- It worked like a charm, in few
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by timonoko 1y ago
Found out I was overdosing Vitamin D. Aches and pains everywhere and constantly urinating, because too much calcium in the blood. "Overdosing D is virtually impossible", they say and sell 100 µg capsules in supermarkets. Recommend
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by timonoko 1y ago
What? Did I just give you an example that it is true? Natural language is the highest of course. We will return to assembly programming eventually, because those intermediate "highlevel" languages are not needed anymore between yo
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by timonoko 1y ago
I had quite entertaining session with ChatGPT and recursive fibonacci in nasm. We found out that C-version was twice as fast. So no returning back to year 1975. "Higher language version is easier to optimize, because machine gets bett
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by timonoko 1y ago
If you live above 60 parallel, the night light is associated with summer. I also sleep with lights on, because dreams are about summer and happiness. Worst thing is to wake up in total darkness in strange place. You dont remember were thin

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