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by fbomb 11mo ago
Oh my goodness! This gives me similar vibes as the first time I picked up an issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal in the early 80's. Just awesome!
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by fbomb 2y ago
Well, not exactly a book and not necessarily something I recommend everybody reads, but when I was getting started (early 80's) I purchased a copy of the source code to HDOS, the HeathKit Disk Operating System (written by J. Gordon Let
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by fbomb 2y ago
I learned regex incidentally from reading the classic book "Software Tools" (Kernighan & Plauger). It has a chapter which briefly describes the syntax but focuses on an analysis of the code used to parse & process them (in
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by fbomb 3y ago
My policy has always been to not have children.
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by fbomb 3y ago
Over the last 30+ years, I've found automata theory to be pretty much indispensable. I can't even begin to tell you the number of times I've run across hideously complex logic that I replaced with a simple and maintainable fi
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by fbomb 4y ago
got some cool images by keeping the owl drawing and changing the prompt to "batman on drugs"
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by fbomb 5y ago
https://mantiseye.com/img/caps/102/scr05.jpg
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by fbomb 8y ago
"Microsoft is going to provide the U.S. military with access to the best technology – all the technology we create." So which is it? The best technology or the technology Microsoft creates? You can't have it both ways.
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by fbomb 8y ago
The unicode power symbol looks like someone's giving you the finger. Nice.
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by fbomb 8y ago
55. Just stumbled across a philosophy course online. I had always thought of philosophy as archaic, useless and boring. I could not have been more wrong.
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by fbomb 8y ago
Holy crap! this brings back memories. I actually did this many years ago with real logic gates, eventually ending up with a 4-bit CPU that could address an entire 16 nybbles of RAM. That was so much fun!
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by fbomb 8y ago
Nice. Consider adding a favicon so that people who put it on their bookmarks bar without a name can easily distinguish it.
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by fbomb 8y ago
I literally just finished reading an article on how the myth of learning styles keeps getting debunked - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth...
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by fbomb 9y ago
I remember these machines fondly. I suppose they were pretty Unixy, but since it was the first *nix system I was ever exposed to, it was hard for me to judge. I do remember they renamed a lot of the command line tools (like fpat instead of
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by fbomb 9y ago
My first thought was that this was a trailer for a new Rambo movie. First Blood: Transfusion
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by fbomb 9y ago
Perhaps, but doesn't the fact that a piece of code has bugs imply that it wasn't actually written as cleverly as possible?
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by fbomb 9y ago
I agree with you completely, but if I actually had a chance to talk to my 18-year old self, I'd tell him to put every penny he could spare into Apple ;-)
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by fbomb 9y ago
YMMV. I found the style extremely distracting to the subject matter.
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by fbomb 9y ago
I handle a number of sites that require a login but need Google to index their content. I verify that Googlebot requests are actually coming from a domain owned by Google. I can't imagine that I'm the only one doing that.
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by fbomb 10y ago
Have a good backup system which keeps every version of a file for at least a few months - or is that too obvious?
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by fbomb 10y ago
"Simulation." - You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by fbomb 10y ago
Hahaha - I just used GRC's Never10 tool to stop the constant annoying pestering to upgrade to Windows 10. Now, I'm not so sure anymore.
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by fbomb 11y ago
MacBook Pro, mid-2009, 17" 8GB. Original 100GB SSD + 120GB SSD in slot on the side. Replaced the battery a few months ago. Still runs great. I think the DVD drive died from lack of use (and dust).
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by fbomb 11y ago
Am I the only one who thought this had something to do with fantasy games?
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by fbomb 11y ago
Who's Al?
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by fbomb 11y ago
I put avocados and goat cheese on home-made pizza. Absolutely delicious although they turn brown, which can be off-putting.
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by fbomb 11y ago
How does performance compare to 0mq?
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by fbomb 11y ago
It's not really that terrible. If he became the republican nominee, all it would accomplish would be to hand the election over to the democrats on a silver platter.
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by fbomb 11y ago
I found a rather elegant solution for the halting problem. I would share it here but it won't fit in the margins.
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by fbomb 11y ago
I could go for some Chicken Pennsylvania right about now.

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