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by diskzero 3y ago
> With Lego, it's surprising how often the parts are NOT designed for a specific kit. OK, that is interesting. I wonder if and or what the software used by kit designers looks like? Does Lego have a custom CAD system that references
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by diskzero 3y ago
I am an adult who has built several Lego kits recently. These include the NASA Saturn rocket, the NASA LEM, a grand piano and a Fender guitar amp combo. The plastic parts are more than just generic shapes; many of them are custom and design
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SuperCard: Use your stacks again on a modern Mac(supercard.us)
3 points by diskzero 3y ago|1 comments
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Remembering Doc Baily, Creator of Visuals for Feature Films (2007)(cdm.link)
1 points by diskzero 3y ago|0 comments
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Rotating Detonation Engine (Wikipedia.org)(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by diskzero 4y ago|0 comments
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by diskzero 4y ago
I was on a quest to find the Super Foonly for several years in the early 2000s. I never got close to finding it, but did uncover several treasure troves of documents from the early days of computer graphics companies Omnibus, Digital Produc
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by diskzero 4y ago
How did you all at Ann Arbor (I assume) get into Mac development? Did you have Lisa versions of software and decided to move to Mac? Did Mike Boich or Guy Kawasaki convince you to start developing? I am always interested at what makes someo
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by diskzero 4y ago
The QuickDraw code (LISA_OS/LIBS/LIBQD) is just glorious. While reading it, I am overcome by the creative genius of Bill Atkinson. [1]. Bill went on to become quite accomplished at cooking lunch for the team at General Magic. [2]
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by diskzero 4y ago
It was pretty rosey for me, even with all the challenges, emotions and anxiety. I have experienced similar challenges, emotions and anxiety in jobs that were much less satisfying. I think the moments are out there still; you just have to se
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by diskzero 4y ago
Sonic Pi is really neat, especially the work that has been done using Erlang in the playback scheduler.
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by diskzero 4y ago
The author mentions using OpusModus, noting that it is similar in the spirit of Symbolic Composer. OpusModus is primarily the work of Janusz Podrazik, who also happened to be one of the main authors of Symbolic Composer. Janus is also the c
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by diskzero 4y ago
I have been a happy user of OpusModus for a while. The latest version is based on LispWorks. OpusModus used to be based on CCL, but sadly CCL does not have a clear path forward to run on M-based Macs. It would be great for CCL to get some t
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by diskzero 4y ago
The summary under the reference article above states this: About a minute in, he talks about the work he did at Western Technologies, programming VCS/2600 Raft Rider and Q bert. He also mentions WT getting the contract to make home ver
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by diskzero 4y ago
Dave Hampton, also well-known for his work on Q-Bert.[1] You can watch a Computer History Museum interview with him here. [2] [1] http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/qbert/qbert.htm [2] https:/&#x2
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by diskzero 4y ago
In the early 90s, my company developed a video game that was ported to the NEC PC-98. We got a few units to develop on and I found the industrial design to be pretty nice compared to the generic PC clones we had around. The PC-98 re-entered
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by diskzero 4y ago
These types of text metrics bugs show up in my code over and over and over and over again. I keep making them! When I was working on the icon view in Finder, icon layout, multi-line icon labels, additional info text and anything else using
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by diskzero 4y ago
As a former aircraft owner, I immediately began to calculate the costs of doing on overhaul on those props. My three bladed props would need an overhaul at least every 2000 hours. There is also a time minimum as well if you don't reach
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by diskzero 4y ago
She has been using Desmos, which is pretty good. I'll tell her about Geogebra. Creating interactive demonstrations can be very helpful. Sequences and series seem to be the latest topic students are having difficulties with. The underly
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by diskzero 4y ago
This is really neat. Can you share what inspired you to create these components? My significant other is an educator and she is always looking for fun and inspiring ways to introduce mathematical concepts to her student. Are you approaching
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by diskzero 4y ago
I'll be reaching five years myself in April. It is nice to have some time in sobriety, but it is still one day at a time for me.
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by diskzero 4y ago
Many Be employees, including myself, ended up at Apple; some after a brief time at Eazel and others later on. They had, and continue to, make great contributions. As a former Be employee and lover of BeOS, I can say that Apple acquiring Be
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by diskzero 4y ago
I prototyped several user OSX user interface animations using Quartz Composer during my time at Apple. It was a great tool for rapid iterations. We would demo to Steve, get feedback and quickly make changes. Before Quartz Composer, Bas Ordi
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by diskzero 4y ago
I am a current LispWorks customer using the product for new product development. I wouldn’t consider my usage niche, but then again, I am not sure what you may consider to be niche or not.
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by diskzero 4y ago
The new MuseSound data files seem to be the result of the StaffPad aquisition. I haven't done an exhaustive comparison, but the sounds are the same SFZ-format, Opus compressed sounds that StaffPad uses. I don't know if the new Mus
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by diskzero 4y ago
During my time at PDI/DreamWorks, all idle desktop machines would be incorporated into the render farm as well. I don't know if this is the case anymore with so many features of the renderer and simulations software depending on t
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by diskzero 4y ago
Quibi [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quibi
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by diskzero 4y ago
It has been 14 months since my wife passed after thirty years of marriage. There is a lot of good advice here. All I can say is things can get better. Grief is a process. Be kind to yourself. Seek out the company others if you can remotely
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by diskzero 4y ago
I implimented a BSP renderer in my somewhat unremarkable CDROM game Dark Fiber [1] in 1995 or so. I also remember seeing the algorithm in Foley and Van Dam, but it wasn't until a conversation with John at some conference/tradeshow
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by diskzero 4y ago
We actually had an Intel build of most of OSX from the beginning. Various parts would go stale and then a motivated engineer would dive in and get it running again on some specific set of audio and video hardware. At some point the existenc
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by diskzero 4y ago
Yes, it is legal. There is no state in the US where it is completely illegal. Colorado and Utah limit the amount you can collect.

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