nmdeadhead

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by nmdeadhead 4mo ago
For Triumph of the Nerds, Bob spent hours interviewing a few of us at ARDI, my Macintosh emulation company. Mat's is the only voice that made the cut. Our fridge got more air time than I did, but I'm juggling and riding a unicycle
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by nmdeadhead 4mo ago
Cleve was chairman of the C.S. department at the University of New Mexico from 1980 to 1984. I got my MSCS there in 1985, in a large part thanks to Cleve. I never took any of his courses, but I did speak to him off and on, because he was fr
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by nmdeadhead 11mo ago
D'oh! I didn't think to mention that I do serious rucking, because I tend to think of that as running, because I actually run when I ruck. Most ruckers don't. As for injuries, I have some trouble in my right foot that was due
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by nmdeadhead 11mo ago
Funny you should ask. I do my core exercises on Tuesdays and Thursdays and read Hacker News while I'm doing my unweighted squats. "Normally", I run Monday through Saturday and ride my bike on Sundays, with the aforementioned
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by nmdeadhead 11mo ago
Assuming no lying or cheating, the plural of anecdote is existence proofs.
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by nmdeadhead 11mo ago
I started programming professionally at 16. I ran my first mile at 46. I'm 62 now and have run quite a bit. There's a very good (IMO) podcast that is mostly interviews of runners over 60[0]. At least one of his early interviews wa
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by nmdeadhead 1y ago
In compatibility, it's MUCH worse than all the others, but there's also Executor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software) which you can use to run a Macintosh version of solitaire in your browser
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by nmdeadhead 2y ago
Ultramarathoning is, IMO, often misunderstood. However, volunteering at an ultramarathon aid station is a great way to get exposed to the sport, since you'll get to see a wide variety of people participating, whereas if you only know o
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by nmdeadhead 2y ago
I haven't read "The Comfort Crisis", but but for the last dozen years, I've spent three and a half months training hard to compete in the Bataan Memorial Death March male civilian heavy division[0], meaning I race a toug
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by nmdeadhead 3y ago
FWIW, although it's closed source and pre-alpha, I've written a poker server (and proof-of-concept client) in Rust. A few people gather together at 5:05pm Pacific and play a tournament a day at https://craftpoker.com T
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by nmdeadhead 4y ago
I do not think that when it's explicitly stated it becomes intuitive for everyone and that adds a further wrinkle. Many people will still get it wrong, even when the problem is stated correctly. However, if the rule is not explicitly s
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by nmdeadhead 4y ago
I'm that old. I toggled the PDP-8 our high school had. I did it often enought that for over a decade after I stopped I had the RIM bootloader memorized. It's only a handful of instructions. You can see it on page 35 of http:&#x2
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by nmdeadhead 4y ago
As a high school student, I stopped our PDP-8 while it was running BASIC, then toggled in a little machine loop that changed all the occurrences of the 12-bit value that represented "Clear the Accumulator" with the 12-bit value th
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by nmdeadhead 4y ago
I too am a runner (~100 mi/week when not tapering or recovering) and "normally" I limit my caffeine to a double espresso at 5:15am. I take that one to synchronize my sleeping and bowels. However, it's a little more compl
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by nmdeadhead 4y ago
Ostensibly an African proverb is “If you want to run fast, run alone. If you want to run far, run together.” I'll add "If you want to run really far , call walking running." The Cocodona 250[1] starts in less than two weeks,
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by nmdeadhead 4y ago
Perhaps building a start-up is more like finishing the Hardrock 100[1]. Unless you get extremely lucky, it takes years of work just to qualify to get into the lottery. It then takes a lot of persistence and failures in the lottery to get to
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by nmdeadhead 6y ago
I wrote the first 10,000 lines of ROMlib on a Mac+ with no hard drive or even a second floppy drive. I had Think C on multiple (IIRC, five) floppies and enough room to have a few portions of ROMlib and tests on the rest of each of the flopp
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by nmdeadhead 7y ago
I get the runner's high most days when I run (and I typically run 6 or 7 days a week), starting about a half hour in. I feel very comfortable physically and mildly euphoric mentally. I hear more in the music I'm listening to than
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by nmdeadhead 7y ago
I don't normally spend much time there, except at 1pm Pacific on Sundays, but at that time I can be found on #poker of my own (poorly administered) devctm.com IRC server. FWIW, twenty-one years ago I wrote the first software to deal mu
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by nmdeadhead 7y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA Remote: Yes I've posted my desire for full-time Rust work on the "Who wants to be hired?" page[0]. However, while I look for the perfect Rust gig, I'll happily do Ruby work, e
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by nmdeadhead 7y ago
I've been a Ruby developer since 2005. Prior to that I did a lot with ancient C, Objective-C and assembly. I'm looking for a Junior position programming Rust. I know enough Rust to be useful, but not (yet) enough to architect
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by nmdeadhead 7y ago
Short article that includes a bunch of information from this new paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaaw0341 I read that paper shortly after it came back and sent this info to a friend: I&#x27
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by nmdeadhead 7y ago
As someone who runs a lot with a pack that typically weighs forty pounds, I highly recommend that you not do this. FWIW, I don't believe I'm damaging my joints by what I do, but I spent many years hiking with a pack and then many
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by nmdeadhead 7y ago
Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA Remote: Yes, please, preferably as a contractor Willing to relocate: probably not Technologies: Ruby / Rails since 2006, Really enjoying--but am new to--Rust!, prior to Ruby, did Objective-C (and before t
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by nmdeadhead 7y ago
I typically "train" every day, meaning I run six days a week and ride my bike on the seventh. I do, however, have rest days; it's just that my rest days are shorter distances at a lower heart rate. My Tuesdays and Thursdays a
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by nmdeadhead 7y ago
I use an Osprey Aether 70 for search and rescue. I used to use a Kelty Tioga 5500, but the external frame snagged branches in awkward situations. I've also done the Bataan Memorial Death March, civilian heavy, 10 times, with all but o
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by nmdeadhead 7y ago
FWIW, I manually attempt to update to nightly (nightly-x86_64-apple-darwin) once a day, not because I need to, but out of curiosity. I find that clippy often prevents me from updating for a day or two before working again. Today happens to
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by nmdeadhead 8y ago
Thank you for the compliment. I wrote the beginning of it (B&W graphics (QuickDraw), filesystem, port to Sun3/60, port to NeXT), although people smarter than I did some of the heavy lifting (port to DOS, port to Windows, color grap
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by nmdeadhead 8y ago
I'm thankful I got lucky. I was born in a prosperous country at a good time. I had parents who were well intentioned and reasonably smart. I have an older sister and got to see and avoid some of her mistakes. Some of the work that I di