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by whartung 3y ago
This was me only 15 years earlier. My math teacher had a TRS-80 and an early flight sim. For terrain it had a grid, an airport, and a simple, flat, mountain range. It was loaded from cassette. He didn’t know the math. In fact when he was te
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by whartung 3y ago
Mechanically, eMacs is quite close to THI. On THI the LEAP key was the fundamental navigation mechanic. It worked like a SHIFT or CTRL key, but it performed as an incremental search forward or backwards depending on which LEAP key you press
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by whartung 3y ago
I guess the game is to simply not let the holes be big enough to lose the barge through, and the motive power to be able to pull away from the current of the water going over (either on the barge, or maybe there was a shore winch). It'
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by whartung 3y ago
So, this course seems to be about going into the depth, I guess the chemistry and physics, of solid state electronics. Diodes, transistors, etc. But do I need to spend 45 hours watching this to empower me to successfully design, say, a micr
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by whartung 3y ago
I haven’t done it in awhile, but it’s getting close to where I’m probably going to pull the trigger. As a general rule I do not login to YouTube. Instead I have some creators that I informally follow. And then, when my feed starts getting c
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by whartung 3y ago
Nearby are the old blimp hangers from the remnants of the MCAS Tustin. They've been used for many things (including storing blimps, of all things) in the past several years. But notably germane here, they were used for the lunar set fo
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by whartung 3y ago
My iPhone X is full (someone is gorging it with cat pictures...). So, I'm awaiting this event and the release. The phone is down to about 80ish% battery life as well.
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by whartung 3y ago
So, I have a question (I didn't real the LANL paper, save for the highlights above, but I did read your initial post that you linked to). And this isn't meant as some kind of bait, just honest intellectual curiosity (its the inter
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by whartung 3y ago
Depends on your use case. I can't speak to sed, I don't know it very well. Awk is my SAK. But I learned awk while sitting in an office at a client site. I forget the specific scenario, but I wanted to split up some files into some
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by whartung 3y ago
Awks super power, and the reason I mostly use it, is it's free read loop, free field splitting, and the pattern/condition matching model. As a LANGUAGE, it's "eh". It just happens to be "good enough". You
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by whartung 3y ago
You should be able to boost that up to 128k. Once there you have a solid chance of being able to run Fuzix on it. Start there and you’ll find a rabbit hole of reasonable depth.
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by whartung 3y ago
Do folks really watch these hours long videos? Or more so do they come back and watch them after the fact? I get the whole twitch thing (I mean I think I get it, with folks watching video games) but after it’s recorded, that’s where I’m cur
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by whartung 3y ago
But there's the rub. Some of the population hates these kinds of events, and another portion love it. Is there "Griefing potential"? Yes, there is. But, man, the game is so mundane and routine the rest of the time, why not mi
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by whartung 3y ago
I've learned long ago to never second guess Blizzard on the complexity of a "fix" for anything that goes awry in this game. There are innumerable "how hard can it be" bugs that show up that, evidently, are hard to f
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by whartung 3y ago
If mechanical things interest you at all, go see a Monster Truck show. Go see these things move. Go pay for a full seat “that you’ll only need the edge” of. It’s pure mechanical spectacle, and, like most other mechanical things, recordings
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by whartung 3y ago
Save for rare cases, I'm really content with the Apple apps: Pages, Numbers, Keynote. And I love the Apple document management. Document always saved and versioned.
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by whartung 3y ago
Folklore I heard was that after a long day of use it was just faster to restart than let the full GC run.
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by whartung 3y ago
Having lived through the early horrors of WoW patches and updates, I have nothing but praise for how WoW works today in terms of updates and distribution. My favorite feature is how it supports incremental loading. WoW is a huge game, but y
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by whartung 3y ago
Wow, really? Do you know of an analysis that details this? The post-mortem on this must have been crazy. That's got to be a great "You've got to be kidding me" moment for the folks when they went in to fix the issue.
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by whartung 3y ago
The Tempest machine at college was lucky to get 10 quarters a week. We had a little cabal of players, one would put the morning quarter it, get the right score, fire up the free 40 credits, and that would be all she wrote. We'd play it
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by whartung 3y ago
> As a practical matter, many of my college classes went too quickly to do anything _but_ teach the solution My calculus instructor in college was one of those where they'd go through the problem and on step 7 (or whatever)
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by whartung 3y ago
> If you present the hard problem first, the student may flail around and realize: I need something to help with this! I suffer from this. Sure, I'd like to learn physics, but what I don't want to do is learn all of it
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by whartung 3y ago
The rain started, it's been quite light, and has stopped for the moment. So far, under .2 of an inch with a predicted 4"+, so "it's rain, but not as we know it". If we're in for 4" in 24 hours, there'
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by whartung 3y ago
Sitting here waiting, calm before the storm. Wife is asleep, cats are relaxed. Rain is supposed to start in about 4 hours. It’s heartening to think that the last time this happened a direct consequence was the large amount of flood control
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by whartung 3y ago
Not being well versed in the capabilities of the virtual threads. However, both the Servlet and the JAX-RS models are "thread agnostic" in that while we "know" we're running on a thread, the API doesn't expose
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by whartung 3y ago
Not quite that severe, but that is certainly the case in California at least in regards to illegal exhaust systems on motorcycles. If you have a bike with an illegal exhaust, professional shops won’t touch the bike because of potential fine
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by whartung 3y ago
You should look into a roll chart. It’s a small device typically mounted to a handlebar of a motorcycle that contains directions. As you reach each waypoint, you turn a knob and roll the next waypoint into the window. It should work just g
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by whartung 3y ago
How was your experience with Racket in this case vs Java (assuming you've had some FX experience to contrast it to)?
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by whartung 3y ago
Another random anecdote. We ordered a custom glass shower door from Lowes because we were remodeling. During the process, we found we were happy with a curtain (which we did not have before, we were replacing an existing door). So, we asked
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by whartung 3y ago
Well in the context of the paper, the fact that the interstellar drive in Traveller manages to avoid the relativistic affects of lightspeed travel makes things much easier.

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