jdporter

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by jdporter 3y ago
Back in the day, I did quite a bit of programming, professionally, on 6800-family CPUs, mainly 6850 and kin. It was an absolute pleasure to work with. The 6502, by comparison, felt like an absolute nightmare.
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by jdporter 3y ago
The book Willem says he is reading, by Joe Keohane, talks about the benefits of talking to strangers, and calls this "connecting". That is not at all what psychologists mean by "connecting". I talk to people all the ti
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by jdporter 3y ago
> Your compiled C or C++ program will be very different from the code you wrote Sorry, you just lost beaucoup credibility points. C is just "high-level assembly language". The output looks exactly like the input, modulo some
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by jdporter 3y ago
"I am not going to sanitize things just so your precious little Jeighden can locate the latest tweenwave ringtone they ripped off Twitch."
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by jdporter 3y ago
I just realized - the logos of Windows 3.x through 7 look more like flags than they look like windows. I wonder what the reasoning was behind that? I'm sure it has been documented/analyzed somewhere.
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by jdporter 3y ago
looks cool, but D specific. how easy would it be to generalize this?
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by jdporter 4y ago
omg, this is primo java trolling. at least, I think you're being sarcastic...
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by jdporter 4y ago
Or, for extra challenge/fun, as a stage play.
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by jdporter 4y ago
Since you can't call it the slashdot effect, obviously...
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by jdporter 4y ago
I don't think they're federated. They don't transparently share data using a common protocol under the hood. They simply link to each other. They're a web.
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by jdporter 4y ago
I was also a #gplusrefugee on pluspora :-) Very sad to see it go. Once a nomad, always a nomad, I guess? I joined Nerdica not long after joining pluspora, but wasn't active there because the (web) UX is pretty poor. But still, it&#x
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by jdporter 5y ago
Show up, pay, and ride? Like getting on the subway? Not workable, for two reasons: 1, from the passengers' perspective, you need to get to Indianapolis, and when you show up, there are no seats, or worse, no flights. 2, from the airl
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by jdporter 5y ago
Apparently not 100% of National Forest is freely usable. I learned this lesson painfully not long ago. I planned my overnight campout "carefully"... but there were still things I didn't know, even after reading everything I
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by jdporter 5y ago
Why do you say it's a non-SI unit? Seems to me it is. I mean, it's a derived unit, not a fundamental unit; but still SI.
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by jdporter 5y ago
I do feel bad for those who have lost their social net during the pandemic; loneliness sucks, I know it. At the same time, I find it hard to be sympathetic because - it must be nice to have had a social net to lose! For me personally, the
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by jdporter 5y ago
> Loneliness is a widespread problem, even prior to pandemic Tell me about it. > often associated with the older generation - despite more young people struggling with loneliness. Thanks for the age shaming. > Three times as many y
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by jdporter 6y ago
Hit us up on Twitter. Eh, I think not. The "commands" I create are, most often, small tools for my own use, so I don't worry about making the names short. I always try to make the name a verb, or include a verb, e.g. &quot
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by jdporter 6y ago
XD
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by jdporter 6y ago
It isn't always fake. I used to work in a retail chain store (I won't say its name, but it ends with "xx" and starts with "TJ") and we were trained to use certain codes on the PA when we needed security to com
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by jdporter 6y ago
What if "What is the question?" is the question? (ht Hofstadter)
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by jdporter 7y ago
Of course it's from the Bible -- as a quick google would have told you. It's Mark 2:21-22.