xacto75

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   by xacto75 11y ago

   The C64 had one byte at $D010 -- 8 bits, one for each sprite -- that, when set, would add an offset to that sprite's X position, moving it beyond the 256 limit. This would allow the contents of each sprite's X position register t
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   by xacto75 12y ago

   Stop. Please. Obesity and diabetes are not the eighth and ninth deadly sins. Nobody wakes up in the morning as you so assert and chooses to gain weight, become insulin resistant, or have their pancreas fail. Further, your uninformed opin
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   by xacto75 12y ago

   In most corporations (at those I've been involved with), the people who actually get the work done very rarely advance. Your career is not the work you do. It's how you're perceived socially within a company structure. This
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   by xacto75 13y ago

   This piece really struck a nerve. I am a cynic; I think it impedes my ability to do all that I could. The trouble is this: I don't know how to not be a cynic.
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   by xacto75 13y ago

   I've never enjoyed exercise. As a young child I would feel horrible after physical exertion. For years I heard things like: grow up, grow a pair, get used to it, you just need to toughen up, and so on. In my early teen years I ran long
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   by xacto75 13y ago

   It's no coincidence that the modern Western diet is based on carbohydrates and hydrogenated oils. While an individual can choose to eat a high fat, low carbohydrate diet, our entire society cannot. This is a problem of scale. Our pol