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by zem 7mo ago
that makes zero sense to me. developing something like ruff from scratch takes a lot of things happening - someone having the idea, the time to develop it from scratch in their free time, or the money to do it as a job, and perhaps the need
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by zem 7mo ago
i'm very familiar with that genre of story, and also not a great fiction writer, so i could well see myself consciously imitating the style if i wanted to tell this sort of story.
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by zem 7mo ago
google knows how to do research, at any rate.
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by zem 7mo ago
that is indeed a delightful realisation! akin to when I noticed that a cube and an octahedron both had a cross section that was a regular hexagon.
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by zem 7mo ago
and "the feeling of power", also by asimov, for a satirical take on what happens when no one learns stuff the computer can do for them.
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by zem 7mo ago
that's awesome :) thanks for the link!
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by zem 7mo ago
I remember when acorn user (a bbc microcomputer magazine) had an article on forth. I got enthusiastic about the idea but there was no real way to get a forth interpreter back then. I did play around with interpreting rpn expressions in basi
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by zem 7mo ago
relatedly, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Report_on_Grand_Central_Termi...
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by zem 7mo ago
I think metafilter had a similar system and it was definitely one of the higher quality forums
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by zem 7mo ago
stross's "accelerando" has a bit about this. fun book.
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by zem 8mo ago
the game dorfromantik is a fun twist on this idea - the game generates random tiles and you have to fit them in with matching edges. you produce some beautiful pastoral landscapes while playing a pretty fun and challenging game. https:&#x2
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by zem 8mo ago
this is my go to as well, I find the red one has a harsh taste to it
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by zem 8mo ago
"a fall of moondust" would translate extremely well to screen, and "the martian" has shown that it's the kind of movie that would do well enough in terms of reception.
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by zem 8mo ago
I remember 3001 mainly for the bit about deism vs theism, which is one of my favourite throwaway passages in all of sf. 8<------------------- "You said that all the old religions have been discredited. So what do people believe nowa
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by zem 8mo ago
> if you have any family members relying on these services, you have to kill them all every time you reboot your workstation yikes!
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by zem 8mo ago
https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-... has a good run down of the ways to do this.
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by zem 8mo ago
at least on linux you can map caps lock to esc if tapped and ctrl if held
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by zem 8mo ago
this post on union types versus sum types is worth a read (the tl;dr is that they both have their uses and one is not strictly better) https://viralinstruction.com/posts/uniontypes/
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by zem 8mo ago
> Jaeger-LeCoultre's web site says that one of their current collections "takes its inspiration from the classic designs of the golden age of watchmaking." In saying this they're implicitly saying something that prese
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by zem 8mo ago
secret police kidnapping people off the streets didn't clue you in?!!
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by zem 8mo ago
ikea furniture is surprisingly bimodal, either it's cheaply made stuff that doesn't last or it's startlingly solid and cleanly designed for a great price. don't think I've ever gotten something that was just okay.
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by zem 8mo ago
same. there's a classic o. henry short story, "the cop and the anthem", based on this premise.
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by zem 8mo ago
I'm also convinced that trackpoints themselves are stiffer and less comfortable to use than they used to be in the older thinkpads
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by zem 8mo ago
> - We render dozens of frames that nobody will ever see, just to keep Chrome's compositor from going stale what's the issue with this one? it sounds like something I might write, tbh.
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by zem 8mo ago
interesting, I had to stop using my trackpoint because it was giving me rsi in my index finger. the track pad hasn't given me any issues.
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by zem 8mo ago
I switched from a pixel 3 to a pixel 9 pro over a year ago, and I still miss the smaller form factor. the pixel 3 really was the perfect size for me and I am sad I can no longer get a smallish phone with a high end processor.
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by zem 8mo ago
when I saw the title I was expecting a reference to the opera. was wondering if they were somehow going to work in the exchange "Besides, I don't see how a man can cut off his own head." "A man might try." in refer
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by zem 8mo ago
there was an old humour piece on /. about how their name appeared so many times in their products that it took up a significant amount of space, so they were remaining themselves "moft" to save five bytes per instance. for so
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by zem 8mo ago
agreed, but "these letters have been taken down and put back up several times and along the way the H and S weren't always put the right way up" is a complete story. just let the place know and they can fix it. the details of
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by zem 8mo ago
look up upma, a semolina based indian breakfast dish that can be adapted to oats pretty easily.

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