mturk

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by mturk 4d ago
MESA, a piece of software referenced in this article, is a pretty incredible system. (Even referring to it as software underplays the extent of its community and impact.) Many people are involved in MESA and Bill Paxton was always quick to
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by mturk 21d ago
I'll still be around on Oct 1.
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by mturk 4mo ago
I bought a Pixelbook during the middle of their product lifetime, and it was one of the best laptops I ever had. I genuinely don't know how broadly that sentiment was shared, but the cancellation of the product line suggests "not
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by mturk 6mo ago
I am genuinely delighted that `dcc` (the system I play with my friends) is in the list of systems currently supported: https://rpg.actor/systems and I might participate as a result. Very cool.
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by mturk 7mo ago
Ghidra is a very impressive piece of software with a deep bench of functionality. The recent couple major releases that move to a more integrated Python experience have been very nice to use.
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by mturk 11mo ago
Kaitai is absolutely one of my favorite projects. I use it for work (parsing scientific formats, prototyping and exploring those formats, etc) as well as for fun (reverse engineering games, formats for DOSbox core dumps, etc). I gave a gue
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by mturk 1y ago
Larry Smarr recently spoke at NCSA and they wrote up a fair bit about the history of the institution: https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/homecoming/ It has links to some of the panel reports that led to the founding of NCSA
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by mturk 2y ago
That's the one! And all this time I'd been holding on to something I read on a mailing list or website back then, attributing the reading to Brian May "just because he liked that book."
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by mturk 2y ago
I read this in high school, but not because it was assigned. At the time I was really into "rare" Queen MP3s, and there's a studio recording of the fast version of "We Will Rock You" where Brian May reads a passage
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by mturk 2y ago
I do so love the TI-99/4A. I've been going through some TI-99/4A disk archives from the Chicago Texas Instruments User Group (which streams its meetings every month) and one of my favorite finds so far was this fun demo: ht
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by mturk 2y ago
I don't think that it's fair to compare the rendering to what is currently in use in the scientific community, for two main reasons: The first is that different types of rendering have different uses; typically in scientific visua
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by mturk 2y ago
This is really impressive.
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by mturk 2y ago
Not a dumb question! Markwhen has a CLI: https://docs.markwhen.com/cli that I used.
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by mturk 2y ago
I used Markwhen recently to make an interactive Gantt chart for a proposal to a collaborator and it went swimmingly. (We got the gig!) So, thank you! For the record, I used the Obsidian plugin to develop, then deployed as static HTML.
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by mturk 2y ago
One feature of DOSBox-X I've come to really appreciate when reverse engineering is that you can toggle the debug log on and off. Additionally, it can display the current VGA palette in the main window.
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by mturk 2y ago
Sure -- the other comments have done a good job of explaining my usage of "sentence fragment" (which was what we referred to it as in my composition classes in high school, although I now see this may have been more colloquial tha
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by mturk 2y ago
My now-spouse, then-new-SO, proofread my thesis for grammar, clarity, etc. At the time, I had written my acknowledgments, but after the proofreading, I added a thanks to her to it at the end just before submitting it and finalizing it. But
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by mturk 2y ago
I've worked at NCSA (to one extent or another) for about a decade. It's pretty remarkable to hear (from people who both pre-dated and post-dated the browser work) about the suite of tools being developed around that time. Many h
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by mturk 2y ago
The TI-99/4A community is really (and somewhat surprisingly) still very active. Among other things, the monthly stream from the CTIUG on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/@chicagotiug5404 ) of their monthly meetings a
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by mturk 3y ago
I was listening to the audiobook of "The Future" by Naomi Alderman, and it spent a fair bit of time talking about MENACE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_... which I had not heard
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by mturk 3y ago
This has been my experience too, and it has reached the point that my (young-ish) children have commented on how poorly they understand and respond to things. I suppose it doesn't help that the Home devices used to be able to tell sto
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by mturk 3y ago
The answer to your first question is more philosophical, and I think outside the scope of what I am able to reply to here. But for the second, I think while there are similarities, the details are awfully important for galaxy formation simu
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by mturk 3y ago
I am genuinely surprised they did not even mention J. Allen Hynek [1], who was department head at Northwestern for a long time. There was even a TV show (sort-of) about him a few years back! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by mturk 3y ago
A project I work on is currently working through a bunch of performance issues that arose because we had inlined functions in `pxd` files that we did not declare `noexcept nogil`. So, heads up if you see similar regressions! We saw a ridi
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by mturk 4y ago
I kind of dislike the "Google graveyard" discourse, but ... I started using Pocketcasts after the demise of Google Listen.
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by mturk 4y ago
I mean, I guess I should have been more obviously self-aware in my original post, but yes, my intent in that comment was explicitly to bemoan that I was not able to take the deal they offer for education and that my precarious freeloading l
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by mturk 4y ago
I'll be honest and say that I - not even that long ago - held similar attitudes and slowly made a series of compromises (to myself) that led to this point. While I'm not sure I fully regret it I do think it was ... not as well-con
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by mturk 4y ago
I have to think through how this will impact my usage of observable when teaching. I'm not sure how I feel about asking my students to utilize it if part of using it is that all of their notebooks are instantly public, or if that will
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by mturk 4y ago
This is a much better idea than the d216, and probably a lot more fun.
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by mturk 4y ago
I really like the "funky dice" that get used in Dungeon Crawl Classics [1], like the D5 which shows up here. Also, it's probably worth noting that Lou Zocchi had at least four major iterations of the Zocchihedron (d100), wit

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