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by foone 4y ago
It was deleted because it was posted here.
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by foone 4y ago
yeah, same. they really need to be blocked from HN, permanently.
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by foone 6y ago
my favorite part of this bullshittery that there's quotes around my name. it's just my name. it's on my license and everything. anyway you can keep linking to my threads. I just won't like it.
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by foone 7y ago
ADHD. If I have a long-form blog post to write end, I get caught up in going back and rephrasing and re-editing and such, and it never gets finished. Twitter's paragraph-size chunks with minimal editing (if I really have to, I can dele
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by foone 8y ago
Feel free to write it as one! But personally I can only do it this way, as I've got rather bad ADHD. So when I'm writing, it's a choice between "a rambly twitter thread" or "an unfinished never-posted blog post
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by foone 8y ago
Yeah, if you read to the bottom I apologize for this. I made this rant at 5am after being in the hospital for 8 hours, I could barely see the screen. It's amazing the thread doesn't have even more typos
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by foone 8y ago
A few people have mentioned that! I'm keeping my eye out for a second one, so if I find one (or I figure out a way to talk to off-the-shelf hardware with this one) I'll send it his way and we can exchange disks.
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by foone 8y ago
The drive itself was actually very powerful and capable, it just was very limited by having to talk to the C64 using the Vic20-compatible interface, which had issues. That's why there were so many products for the c64 to fix it: Epyx F
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by foone 8y ago
Very neat! That sounds like it's pretty similar to this one then. I wonder if the FISK was directly inspired by the DiskFax? I'm hoping to get in touch with the designer so I may have some answers soon. I'd love to see those
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by foone 8y ago
oh, hello! I've been looking for a DiskFax machine for a long while, in fact I think it was my searches for that that ended up finding this one (on ebay). That was a few years before the FISK, right? (FISK was ~1993). What was it inter
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by foone 8y ago
Sorry. I've got ADHD, so that's really the only way I can usually do these things. I'm planning to videoify it in the future, if that's more your style.
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by foone 9y ago
I checked, and that means it's basically illegal to fly a drone in the bay area: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DB54FczUQAEQ5D6.jpg:large
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by foone 10y ago
I've actually got the game in-box, that's how I remembered it. The only web-version I know of is the one based on the novelization, which is only available on internet archive now: https://web.archive.org/web/
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by foone 10y ago
I just now realized this story I'd been ignoring isn't about the game "Portal" for the Apple II. Activision published a game with that title in '86 about exploring the future internet after the death of all mankind.
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by foone 10y ago
We also had weird CCITT Group 4 issues, because of someone trying to be extra smart and convert TIFF to PDF without a recompress (PDF supports Group 4 compression too, so you can turn a Group4 TIFF into a Group4 PDF by just swapping the hea
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by foone 10y ago
I bet I worked with the same company when I was with the government. We had a subcontractor who'd been hired to digitize something like 200 million paper records (they made it about 50 million in before we ran out of funding). But a sm
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by foone 10y ago
I think they mean use the magic numbers so you can limit to common file formats like jpeg/png/gif/bmp/tiff/etc instead of just dumping everything to imagemagick, which has the side effect of allowing "weirder&q
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by foone 10y ago
I swear I've had amazon ask me if it was alright to deliver to a new address on weekends. Maybe that's a recent feature?
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by foone 10y ago
That was a joke. Sorry, more than one person thought it was serious.
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by foone 11y ago
It's an old trick for compression/size limit competitions. You have N bytes allowed, but you can get an extra M bytes by putting them in the filename (minus however many bytes it takes to access the filename) like if you several u
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by foone 11y ago
Seems unlikely. This page is at least 16 years old.
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by foone 12y ago
Ollydbg run traces and in a plain text format. I'm constrained by my target application only working on older versions of windows, so I can't easily insert a compression step in the log generation or switch to a more compact binar
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by foone 12y ago
Yeah, one of my main debugging tasks right now is primarily limited by my SSD write speed. Instruction-level traces take 9gb at minimum, any more significant work takes quite a lot more.
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by foone 12y ago
There are some. I had to deal with a microsoft project using one, and in the end the only solution we came up for dealing with it was extracting the decompression code out of the EXE file and embedding it in a DLL (at run-time, to prevent c
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by foone 12y ago
BTW, the random module has a "choice" function, which takes a sequence and returns a randomly chosen element from it. So instead of "result[randrange(len(result))]" you could have "choice(result)"