daltont

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by daltont 15d ago
I was just thinking about this concept a few days ago.
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by daltont 5mo ago
"The 6809 saw some success, especially in arcade machines, but it did not steamroll the world the way the 6502 and Z80 did." Could have mentioned the use of the 6809 in the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer and the Dragon in the U
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by daltont 5mo ago
Location: St. Louis, MO USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, REST, Scala, Typescript, SQL, Python Resume/CV: https://daltontf.github.io/Resume.pdf Email: In resume Site: https:&#x2F
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by daltont 8mo ago
Old one. Coleco known for the ColecoVision home video game system and the Coleco Adam home computer started out as the "Connecticut Leather Company" in 1932. The business supplied leather and "shoe findings" (the supplie
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by daltont 9mo ago
An exercise in simulating sports fandom on a map. To do things like simulate expansion and relocation of franchises. The idea of turning this into a simulation game is a possibility hence "warz" in the name. It is a bunch of Jupyt
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by daltont 1y ago
A idea like this has been on the back of my mind but more like forming a taxonomy of embellishments and dramatic license. Figure out which ones are somewhat necessary and which ones are "bad". Particularly bad would be those that
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by daltont 1y ago
Paging Steve Austin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puvc-FodxV4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTWJc72p2pE
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by daltont 1y ago
Otherwise it is just a Strawman argument
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by daltont 2y ago
Saturn V rocket
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by daltont 2y ago
I've internally thought of a similar metaphor. Previous generations didn't have to conscientious of food intake. Food options were more limited, there wasn't as much processed/calorie-dense food, work was more manual in
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by daltont 3y ago
I was just thinking about something where I could design web based workflows that could use online services to perform transformations on items dragged into a dropped and perhaps the output would be downloadable. Maybe this exists elsewhere
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by daltont 3y ago
I did a tiny bit in the late '90s at Mastercard. Wrote my share of TACL macros before that. When I first saw the "99 Bottles of Beer" site, I was working for a company the was using the POSIX-layer OSS and C. I was able to &q
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by daltont 3y ago
I guess the original TAL is not making a comeback: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Application_Langua...
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by daltont 3y ago
Was it run by Andy Griffith? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/
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by daltont 3y ago
"- The world isn't getting worse" Bad stuff has always happened, but when something bad happens now, more people are made aware of it. For example, when I was in high school in the the early '80s there was a shooting at
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by daltont 3y ago
Sounds similar to a case where I am from: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/02/25/turns-out-it-was-actuall... The "hacking" was decrypting social security numbers from BASE64.
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by daltont 3y ago
The ironic thing with increase in GDP is that life becomes almost too easy. In the past the difficulty of life didn't require a person to have use as much willpower. Easier life with things like plentiful food and entertainment options
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by daltont 3y ago
It would be just be cool just to have a HD footage of satellite orbiting Mars or Venus.
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by daltont 3y ago
"cats have been dominating the airwaves from the beginning of broadcast video." Maybe the Kzinti will think we are long lost relatives after receiving them. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kzin )
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by daltont 3y ago
https://github.com/daltontf/clipzoomfx I wrote it to be able to extract exceptional plays from footage of my daughter's volleyball teams and be able to zoom in on each clip. Pretty much a minimal viable product.
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by daltont 3y ago
Williams Electronics used the 6809 in Defender, Robotron, Joust and Sinistar. It was more expensive. Tandy chose it for the TRS-80 Color Computer and sacrificed dedicated sound generation hardware for it to keep costs down.
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by daltont 3y ago
The book "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", is handy is you are Bugs Bunny and your are cornered by pack a dogs in New York. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XFFqbr27Vc&t=148s )
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by daltont 3y ago
The imagery of the football players at the buffet brings back memories of my team going to the breakfast buffets at Shoney's the morning of Saturday games at noon. We didn't need lunch and the food was down before game time.
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by daltont 3y ago
The idea of silicon based life reminds of this old B-movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMPLzowjKQc
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by daltont 3y ago
Inko would be interesting ( https://inko-lang.org/ )
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by daltont 3y ago
Every time I see a project ending with "FX", my first thought is that it must be implemented using JavaFX.
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by daltont 3y ago
I read this book, https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Men-Odyssey-Astronauts-Journey... and Apollo 8's accomplishments were way under-rated.
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by daltont 3y ago
Confirmation dialogs "Are you sure you want to cancel xxxx" with "Ok" and "Cancel" buttons. The "Cancel" button cancels the cancel and always gives me pause.
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by daltont 3y ago
I suspect that my wisdom teeth that did not warrant removal may be contributing to my tinnitus in my left ear. Anyone get relief from wisdom teeth removal?
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by daltont 3y ago
I had very similar idea about 13 years and it festered for years due to lack of time and fact it was originally implemented in Scala + Swing. The concept is similar user must write code to solve problems involving a "rover" on a g

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