camperman

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by camperman 9y ago
More than a third of respondents to his survey either strongly or almost agreed with the documents point of view.
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by camperman 9y ago
Not realizing that the mind is supreme and the mind is fallible.
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by camperman 9y ago
I loved Dalton. He was such a hard bastard.
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by camperman 9y ago
Indeed - I used to write them when I was young and had more time :)
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by camperman 9y ago
Quite true. I personally don't have a problem that PC 64k intros today will leverage the GPU as much as possible, with all the help from the driver code that that implies. It's how they stay current and awesome. Of course anyone w
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by camperman 9y ago
Claudius's confession of murder in Hamlet comes right after Hamlet has put on a play to prick his conscience. This girl's confession comes right after her friend reads Claudius's prayer. Quite extraordinary that after centuri
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by camperman 9y ago
Aldine Cursive reminded me immediately of Operator's monospaced italic font.
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by camperman 9y ago
It's criss-crossed with fiber, the ICT policy is very open and the leadership friendly. Also it's a small country.
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by camperman 9y ago
Huh? If you could point out the uncivil bits, that would be helpful.
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by camperman 9y ago
Sheer volume is meaningless unless we know how many times it's been successfully summitted. Mont Blanc is dangerous because it's easily accessible to lay people and despite being advertised as a 'long walk' can turn dead
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by camperman 9y ago
Just a nitpick on an otherwise excellent piece: Annapurna is actually the most lethal mountain in the world, just ahead of K2. It claims 34 deaths per 100 safe returns over K2's 29. To climb K2 in winter is extraordinarily dangerous. I
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by camperman 9y ago
Several times a month.
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by camperman 9y ago
I've been using this recipe for a good seven or eight years now and it has never let me down. But you really do need an oven that is capable of 800F. I eventually knuckled down and bought a small dedicated pizza oven with a thermometer
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by camperman 9y ago
Because it's so easy. From the manual: So here's something to pop up a message box on Windows: local ffi = require("ffi") ffi.cdef[[ int MessageBoxA(void *w, const char *txt, const char *cap, int type
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by camperman 9y ago
I guess it's my personality type too which is INTP, the classical deconstructionist. What does this do? How does it do it? Why isn't it working?
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by camperman 9y ago
Aaaah, this makes so much sense. Thanks for the reminder. Here's the para in question: "Hackworth was a forger, Dr. X was a honer. The distinction was at least as old as the digital computer. Forgers created a new technology and t
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by camperman 9y ago
Whoops - you're quite right. QWAN is Christopher Alexander.
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by camperman 9y ago
I KNOW I'm better at debugging than at programming. My own working code is terribly simple and straightforward but I've fixed kernel sound drivers, buggy firmwares and complex interrupt-driven music players. Perhaps I find it easi
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by camperman 9y ago
Amen brother. This right here: “In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it i
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by camperman 9y ago
My introduction to Quality Without a Name and motorcycling. I still ride and still appreciate engineering that somehow manages to be greater than just the sum of its parts: the Leica M3, the Blackbird SR71, the HP 12C.
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by camperman 9y ago
Spooky!
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by camperman 9y ago
"The movie also has the distinction of branding the character in an explicitly homophobic light by heightening the Baron’s actions and displaying them all at once:" Hmmm. I don't think you've read the book.
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by camperman 9y ago
Lenny!
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by camperman 9y ago
Very cool story. When I was in Turkey I asked my guide where the country grew its coffee. I was surprised to hear that it didn't - it's always got it from Yemen. Turns out that Turkey getting coffee from Yemen has always been a th
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by camperman 9y ago
The log itself was a 2.7Gb file sitting on a slow SD card on a Raspberry Pi.
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by camperman 9y ago
“They’re just logs, they can’t possibly impact my code efficiency.” More bad news: oh yes they can, particularly in the critical execution path. Lots of people seem to think that there is no cost to dropping DEBUG statements around their co
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by camperman 9y ago
Not only is this an excellent introduction to competitive programming, it's also a very nice overview of some of the nuts and bolts of C++. I recently have had to deal with a large C++ codebase and this is a really good little refreshe
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by camperman 9y ago
Aha - yes, I can imagine how it would.
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by camperman 9y ago
One of the reasons Threads worked because it felt like a documentary about ordinary people. That bloody voiceover with its calm measured tones describing the absolute horror that was unfolding...brrr.
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by camperman 9y ago
Sssh - nothing to see here. Whatever you do, don't go looking for evidence or anything. Keep consuming and obeying.

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