Roboprog

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by Roboprog 3y ago
Exactly: it's really hard to tell if "the environment" took out the other hominids, or if the descendants of the 1280 took them out. "Hmm, this monkey looking thing isn't as tasty as a wooly mammoth, but it'll
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by Roboprog 5y ago
If you have an iOS device, KQ Dixie is a pretty good DX7 emulation. It’s an audio unit, so you can load it into a host (“DAW”) and add an effects chain, even though it’s on a mobile device
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by Roboprog 5y ago
I suspect they will have a different naming convention after they get to M4. There might be some hesitance installing an M5. You should stay out of the way if the machine learning core needs more power. I guess by the time they get to M5,
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by Roboprog 5y ago
Maybe there were only 54, and that was one of the bugs to be fixed - exactly the sort of problem that lurks in that kind of repetitive code.
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by Roboprog 5y ago
I like iOS, but I won’t buy their flagship hardware. It’s too expensive for something so fragile. I have 3 iOS devices, but I won’t pay a grand for a phone. I would rather replace my base level devices in 4 or 5 years when they start to a
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by Roboprog 5y ago
Perhaps someone will start a “Speaker of the House” index fund which the officers from the Federal Reserve can buy, since they won’t be able to buy individual stocks.
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by Roboprog 5y ago
More 9s. Closer to 24x7.
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by Roboprog 5y ago
I picked up on that angle as well. “Ignition” isn’t about generating electricity. It’s about making fusion bombs which don’t emit neutrons or other radiation (from a fission trigger) while the device is in storage. So, not primarily a powe
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by Roboprog 5y ago
The smoke plume stretches all the way to the Dakotas this morning. It’s a startling visualization.
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by Roboprog 5y ago
Sure. Orange man rushed out a shot. It must be bad. Gray man said get the shot. It’s good. I’m not saying that kind of “thinking” is valid, but it’s apparently widely accepted. (I got the shot, but I can see why some people would have con
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by Roboprog 5y ago
“China Uncensored” on YouTube has covered this sort of behavior towards countries neighboring the China Sea frequently. China stripping unguarded Atlantic coasts was news to me, though.
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by Roboprog 5y ago
We need to ban all assault computers with more than 8 CPUs now. Think of the subsidiaries, er, children!!! Does this fall under violating the First Amendment, or the Second?
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Any numbers on China’s coal plants?
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Ah, yes, the IBM PC. I think of it as the Permian extinction (Great Dying) of computer science. I’m joking, but... most higher level languages were tossed aside for “serious” app development. First to use x86 assembly, then “portable asse
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by Roboprog 6y ago
I think you meant to say “tungsten rods”, rather than titanium. the composition of the drop weapons doesn’t change the gist though. Titanium is used in airframes for its strength to weight ratio (it’s not very dense). Tungsten is used in
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by Roboprog 6y ago
God-Emperor of Scrum. The code must flow.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
We had different lunches in the 70s. Cooking on site, no fast food boxes brought in. I’m sure they were still too much carbs, but they had protein and real vegetables, though usually canned.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
The “In & Out Burger” chain actually lists burgers without buns on the menu. They put it on an extra bit of lettuce.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
I don’t think you can run something like Native Instruments acoustic instrument sample suite on Linux. I’m guessing they want orchestra sounds, and not just analog/subtractive, FM or other digital synth sounds.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Perhaps “heavily influenced by”, based on a need to be able to sell their services overseas?
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Bingo! It was apparently off limits to discuss how the family of one presidential candidate made so much money overseas for doing so little, and might this have something to do with how a member of that family perceives policy? If the [reda
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Meanwhile, Congress is working hard to ensure that we are all competitive. https://zeenews.india.com/world/relief-for-indian-it-profess... Into the arena for the glory of Rome, I guess. (“Competition”)
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by Roboprog 6y ago
I spent the late 80s working in XBase, which also had a single numeric type, though you could enforce the desired precision by saving numbers in tables.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. Safe to assume views go in the “code” schema with procs/funcs/packages, leaving just tables and sequences (if needed) in the “data” schema? Considering building a side project using this kind of appro
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Presumably you can revert to a previous tag/label in source control and reload the previous procs/funcs to roll back versions. The apps I have been working on are monoliths which run at about 2% CPU on the server, so there is no A
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by Roboprog 6y ago
I think the order management system at Pizza Hut in the early 90s was on SCO. (Yeah, Snow Crash hit a little too close to home for me.) We had an SCO box (among other unices) at the job I worked in the early 90s making software to port RPG
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by Roboprog 6y ago
That seems to be pretty common statement about JavaScript, but strangely not one I share. I have been programming since the early 80s, and my experience with JS has been pretty positive, especially compared to the slog through the unreadabl
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by Roboprog 6y ago
I think the parent post was attributing longFuglyCapsUnpronouncabeName type identifiers to the Java language/culture, As much as (just) the editor? I’m biased, though. I HATE gigantic supposedly “self documenting” (but utterly impossi
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by Roboprog 6y ago
It seems to crash or otherwise reload frequently as well, at least in Safari on my iPad. After a while I put it in reader mode, until it reloaded crapify mode again :-( Note to Wired staff: surely you can do something that would make people
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Hopefully some will take that policy into account next Tuesday.

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