eludwig

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by eludwig 4mo ago
To be fair, the earliest text adventures are brutally, brutally difficult and in many cases, very much unfair! There are nowhere near enough in-game indicators or foreshadowing of what might work in a certain context. Some solutions are obv
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by eludwig 4mo ago
> An alternative could be a good 5K/6K monitor with a KVM, but this is a unicorn as well... I use a Dell U3224KB (32" 6K) in this way. Thunderbolt (usbc) is connected to a Macbook Pro and DP & regular usb c is connected to
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by eludwig 6mo ago
I actually did this back in the late 90s! The editor was called "Scorpio"[1]. It was written for the classic MacOS in some version of C with objects, maybe Think C(?). I'm not 100% sure. It's an amazing fun thing to do,
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by eludwig 1y ago
Closer to a nibble!
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by eludwig 1y ago
This is great! Back in the 60s & 70s, before the digitization of all life on earth, there were a huge number of very ornamental, very hard-to-read fonts that were sold, generally, on sheets of Letraset press-on type (at least for those
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by eludwig 2y ago
Hehe, being a Java dev since the late 90’s meant seeing a lot of bad code. My favorite was when I was working for a large life insurance company. The company’s customer-facing website was servlet based. The main servlet was performing horri
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by eludwig 2y ago
Mainly remote, even though I am about a mile from the office lol. They fully bought into the remote first idea. We have team get togethers generally about once a month. Very nice to spend time with the team, but I prefer my home office with
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by eludwig 2y ago
Actually in Los Angeles, but they have offices all over the world. The home office is in Tokyo.
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by eludwig 2y ago
Usually one at a time, but sometimes they combine. Also, parts of the same task can be one or the other, so you may have to switch from fun (coding something new) to boring/annoying (writing unit tests) in a single day.
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by eludwig 2y ago
It really depends on the type of environment and work you are looking to do. At 59, I applied for a “full stack” (ugh..not my favorite term) job at a large Asia-based multi-national corporation working on support software (web apps) for the
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by eludwig 2y ago
>> lifelong mix of sarcasm with sincerity, skepticism with optimism Love this, perfectly said. Or, in the words of Don Martin, Thook Zak Splak KWOP!
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by eludwig 2y ago
Lovely excerpt that gives a good general overview of Mad history and highlights! I was an avid reader as a child in the late 60s to early 70s. I eventually moved on to National Lampoon as a teen, but Mad will always glow in my childhood mem
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by eludwig 2y ago
I still have my original copy of "The MAD Adventures of Captain Klutz", probably bought around 1970ish. Such a singular talent. Died pretty young (68), which is sad.
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by eludwig 2y ago
Sorry to pile on to the doom and gloom around this, but I have been at a bunch of companies that tried this and have never seen it work out well. The problem is that building generalized, actually-in-the-real-world reusable UI components is
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Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art(newyorker.com)
49 points by eludwig 2y ago|139 comments
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by eludwig 2y ago
I think that both viewpoints are correct. I would add that, importantly, the invention of photography changed the economics of picture ownership. No longer was it necessary to sit long hours and pay a ton of money to get a family portrait!
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by eludwig 2y ago
Just wanted to pop in to say I think she is a terribly underrated actor. Truly a gem. For my money, the only reason that The Shining has any stakes at all is because of her incredible performance! RIP, Shelley.
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by eludwig 2y ago
As others have mentioned, a centrifugal casting machine would have really helped here. I took quite a bit of jewelry making in college and all the lost wax casting we did was done this way. The force of the metal filling the mold at extreme
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by eludwig 2y ago
I saw Sun Ra back once back in the mid-70s in NYC. Easily the most memorable jazz concert I've ever seen. My recollection is not 100%, but what I do remember is the Arkestra lined up in a row of chairs facing the audience. There were 2
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by eludwig 3y ago
Yes! I absolutely lived in Think C for many years. You’re right though, it was on the way out by then, supplanted by CodeWarrior and MPW, which were both really good too.
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by eludwig 3y ago
Worked on a homegrown Mac wsywyg editor back in the 90s. Arrays worked perfectly. If you are assuming that files fit in memory, using BlockMove() was very, very fast indeed. I can see if you need to edit multi-gig log files and things will
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by eludwig 3y ago
Yes, 6144x3456@60 was working, but not at 30bit, only 24bit. Sonoma fixes that part (for me)
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by eludwig 3y ago
I can verify that an M1-M3 Mac running Sonoma (14.1.1) the U3224KB supports 6144 x 3456 at 30bit (60Hz). Under Ventura this did not work. Seems fixed now.
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by eludwig 3y ago
Writing (and illustrating) an amateur novel is the most creative fun I've ever had. Highly recommended if you have a mind to try. (trained artist, but software developer by day) I wrote one[1] about 5 years ago. It's amateur and t
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by eludwig 3y ago
Seconded. This is great software sold the old-fashioned way: pay once and upgrade when you want to. The lovely lack of mental friction around this model is something I miss dearly, as opposed to endless subscriptions. But this is probably b
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by eludwig 3y ago
Sounds like a perfect use-case for a GoPro?
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by eludwig 3y ago
This is a really silly framing device wrapped around a decent high-level review of end-user focused dev environments. Hypercard was hugely influential and very widely used. Yes, it ignored the internet, but that was inevitable based on its
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by eludwig 3y ago
Many older word processors (the only ones I'm familiar with) used style "runs", which are simply an array of structs that contain startPosition, endPosition (or length) and then a bunch of style info in whatever way makes sen
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by eludwig 3y ago
To be fair, it would probably be a really nice toaster
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by eludwig 3y ago
As someone who has done a ton of drawing both on computers and off, the idea that this was drawn with mouse blows my fricken mind! I can't even imagine the patience needed. As I recall someone saying once, "Drawing with a mouse is

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