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by whartung 1y ago
There's something to note here. As someone who's always dabbled in electronics, skimmed and read some books, my primary complaint abot most electronics texts is that they just talk about individual topics: oscillators, amplifiers,
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by whartung 1y ago
> Isn't that two problems? No, that would be regexes.
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by whartung 1y ago
We used to put them next to our TI-58/59 calculators. You could use the radio for sound effects in games.
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by whartung 1y ago
Anecdotes from the age. When I would fire up my KIM-1, the TV would turn to snow. There was a toy called the "Big Trak", a programmable ATV toy. If you ran that underneath the desk with a TRS-80 on it, it would crash. The TRS-80 M
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by whartung 1y ago
There's a lot of truth here. As they say "In baseball, anything can happen, but often doesn't". Oh boy, is that true. Also, baseball is the most random of the major sports in the US. Consider the playoffs, statistically,
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by whartung 1y ago
The Forth super power is that you have full control over how a symbol is evaluated, both at compile and runtime. I don't know of anything else that offers that. Lisp doesn't. That gives the developer pretty much free rein to do wh
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by whartung 1y ago
I think these modern TUIs are a testament to the general failure of modern GUIs. It's not like they're particularly easier to write these. But since there's no remote GUI option, much less a portable remote GUI option, partic
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by whartung 1y ago
They stick the licenses in the back of whatever pack of documents are used during the sale. Heck, print it on the back of the work order in small print with a gray font. On my motorcycle, there’s an option to view the software licenses used
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by whartung 1y ago
Similarly, there was the Robert Zemeckis movie "The Walk" which is a dramatization of the same event. After watching, I felt the movie was as much a tribute to the WTC as it was about this wire walker. It's a beautiful film.
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by whartung 1y ago
I get the attraction to var, but I, personally, don't use it, as I feel it makes the code harder to read. Simply, I like (mind, I'm 25 year Java guy so this is all routine to me) to know the types of the variables, the types of wh
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by whartung 1y ago
Sure, but I have to launch the calculator, instead of just typing it into the ever present search bar of my persistent open browser. If I could just type it into my shell, that would be nice. I’m sure there’s some command (or one could be t
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by whartung 1y ago
Doesn’t macOS have dtrace? Couldn’t these tests be instrumented to give a deeper dive into what may be happening here?
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by whartung 1y ago
Testing backups is boring. If you want exciting, test restores!
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by whartung 1y ago
Anytime the inning ends, or the pitcher changes, there's a 2 minute pause. Save for the mid-7th inning, when it jumps to 3 minutes. I believe they are longer during the All Star Game, and, maybe, the WS. I didn't notice them longe
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by whartung 1y ago
I'm not saying this isn't happening, the fact that the RSNs are (mostly?) owned by betting companies does not help. But, anecdotally, my local (Angels) broadcasts don't talk about it at all. I listen to MLB Radio, and their d
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by whartung 1y ago
Mailing list delivery is centralized, but archiving is federated. How many folks have a full copy of, say, the last 1, 2, 5, 10 years of a long running mailing list? Client accessibility is up to the individual user. They can choose whateve
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by whartung 1y ago
But you know what? The bulk of the players are not degenerate gamblers. Most even know the odds are against them. Yet they play anyway. Why? They LIKE to play. They enjoy the games. They enjoy the environment. They’re not all there trying t
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by whartung 1y ago
> ed isn’t quite flipping binary toggle switches to load your program, but close enough to deliver the joy of brutal minimalism along with a nostalgic waft of yesteryear. No, that would be Teco, or, more “all we had were zeros”,
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by whartung 1y ago
We’ll see but I don’t think that’s going to be the case. The primary use case is the glaring wrong calls. 1/2 a ball in/out of the zone called wrong. The batter/catcher/pitcher have to do the challenge, so, ideally, the
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by whartung 1y ago
I dunno. Storing your files on a synced folder (i.e. DropBox or something similar) can handle a lot of heavy lifting. The use case is not simultaneous editing, folks typically aren’t working on things on different systems at the same time.
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by whartung 1y ago
I don’t recall the mechanics but I do know that folks have bundled starting a local instance of PG solely for unit tests. There’s a pre-install step to get PG on the machine, but once there, the testing framework stands it up, and shuts it
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by whartung 1y ago
I groused about this before, when part 1 rolled out, and I looked at part 2, and now 3. But, still, these are treatises on the BZip2 algorithm. These posts have pretty much nothing to do with Ada. No "how would one approach this with A
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by whartung 1y ago
The reason they're dangerous is not because you have to interact with them, per se, its simply because they provide to much information that takes a lot of cognitive processing to interpret. Specifically, text. Reading is "hard&qu
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by whartung 1y ago
The only real nut right now is, if you're using the Oracle distributions, only the latest LTS is, essentially, free to do anything with. Older releases are under their OTN license, which is only for personal and development, but not pr
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by whartung 1y ago
Swing is swing, it's as good as it's always been (eye of the beholder). As I understand it, it hasn't completely rotted on the shelf, they've made updates to the rendering to better leverage modern hardware, but it'
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by whartung 1y ago
I’ve tried to listen to a book on tape on a long drive twice. And each time I was lucky to not drive into an abutment. For whatever reason, the droning just knocks me unconscious. Talk radio is ok, sports radio. I’ve listened to more radio
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by whartung 1y ago
No...no Programmer switch. Close, they wired the Reset button! But, no Programmer switch. It's very hard to contain my disappointment. Bridge too far I guess.
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by whartung 1y ago
This was actually a potential problem, at least on Commodore machines. On those machines you were able to abbreviate keywords. At the same time, they support full screen editing. That meant you could just cursor up over some code, make chan
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by whartung 1y ago
My singular problem with visual programming is simply the amount of detail necessary in modern programming. Code is flat out complicated, with lots and lots and lots of steps, each with perhaps even more detail. And it's hard to do tha
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by whartung 1y ago
Its interesting that despite the utility of S-Expressions, as mentioned, semantic diff, for example, of CL code is uncommon. By that I mean highlighting the diff between these: (dolist (i l) (print (car i))) (dolist (i l) (print

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