ofalkaed

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by ofalkaed 9d ago
The Octopus Carwash is one of my early memories from trips to the twin cities, probably the first time I have seen it or thought about it in 40 years. Kind of weird to stumble on that after all these years, I opened the link curious if ther
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by ofalkaed 16d ago
PureData is a good example.
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by ofalkaed 16d ago
Believe you have to do that anyways unless you are going to create full language bindings as tkinter and the like do. I don't know the Tk API in full but I don't believe it provides ways to create widgets, just interact with them
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by ofalkaed 16d ago
>you can have Tk (as long as your Cobol allows you to call C). No C required, you can just connect to the UI through a socket and often skip the FFI completely. This is my preferred way to use Tk and I don't even consider anything e
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by ofalkaed 1mo ago
That is absolutely true of the chatbots we have access to but I suspect there are people working towards these ends, including all the big names in the field, major win for their company if they manage it. But even then, I have yet to see a
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by ofalkaed 1mo ago
Within a few minutes of picking up a guitar my fingers start to stiffen up, I crack them and then all is well, been doing this for 30 odd years now and the joints of my hands are some of the few which don't cause me problems at this po
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by ofalkaed 1mo ago
>You'd think that LLMs fulfill this, but I do wonder if a clever human could still discern between them given their particularities. While LLMs are very capable of appearing human in general conversation, the test is that they are t
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Finite State Machines in Forth (1994)(forth.org)
86 points by ofalkaed 1mo ago|3 comments
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
It takes no effort to play LLM or not, you don't need to know anything about the topic or put anytime into reading and understanding the submission, just find that em-dash and you can turn every discussion into meta slop.
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
They don't need to be on the ground to release as a rule, there are just situations which make it very difficult or impossible for them to release without being on the ground. The bald eagle courtship would be suicide if they could not
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
Interestingly, it is not always the case that birds can drop what they catch. I never knew this until I watched an eagle struggle to shore after it caught a fish that turned out to be too large for it to fly off with or do what it needed t
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
Link for with the video not sped up to make it seem more dramatic. Personally, I found the real time video to be more dramatic and impressive. https://www.wionews.com/trending/giant-iceberg-flips-violent...
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
I have never liked split keyboards but I might if each keyboard was also a mouse with its own cursor, it seems fun to develop the skill to work that way. Would also be useful at times if the the Thinkpad trackpoint and trackpad could each h
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
Apparently so, he does not seem to be giving me any choice in the matter.
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
Jokes are downvoted not because of a lack humor but because if we reward making jokes we will have to scroll through dozens of jokes and all of their responses to get the actual discussion. Voting is about keeping the on topic and worthwhil
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
Of coarse they are going to pick Steam and Netflix and social media just like 20 years ago they picked reading Harry Potter, majority of people want to use their time alone towards connecting with people and they put that time towards thing
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
In the early days of the guitar it had tied gut frets, it was microtonal by nature and you could move the frets for different temperaments. Then in the 19th century things changed and the guitar got fixed metal frets, ever since people have
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
>almost as old as guitar-family instruments. They are as old as we can trace it back, vihuela/viola de mano were multi-course, as was the baroque guitar which developed from them. The romantic guitar brought us single string courses
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
Beckett directing the play in question. https://youtu.be/FqpjddXaw4E https://youtu.be/Q77jgal4Gto
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
His em-dash usage is not clearly defined and distinct from other punctuation marks, it introduces a fair amount of unintended ambiguity. It is easy enough to understand but a few times I had to stop and try and figure out if there was some
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
Tree squirrels are big on digging, they bury food for later retrieval and eat a good amount of terrestrial foods. You regularly see them on the ground even in dense forest. Flying squirrels stick more to the trees but their gliding ability
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
I agree and even when they offer something new, they stick close to well established topologies generally just adding in more. I don't need 8 flavors of filter that I have to scroll through with a single button, just give me one or two
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
Neither TFA or this thread are legally binding, there are no consequences other than some fun and maybe finding something new to read.
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
Barlow? https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8683/8683-h/8683-h.htm I wouldn't actually vote for him but I don't think he should be forgotten and he should be mentioned in such a discussion. I would prob
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
It would be more accurate to say they are prioritizing the ears of the average person, HF hearing starts its decline in our teens. But this is an age old industry standard that had been the standard because of limitations of recording, the
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
Going from memory these are all pre OS8? Scrolling through I expected to see a massive change when OS8 hit but I don't think this ever gets there. My memory might be faulty, but I did recognize the various flavors of 7.x. Surprising to
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
How do you know he did not follow his own advice? Metafiction becomes a cheap trick if you are not upfront about it, you either make it clear from the start or end up in "it was all a dream" territory.
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William Gaddis and William H. Gass: A Literary Conversation and Reading (1995)(92ny.org)
2 points by ofalkaed 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
Second chapter becomes the first chapter if you throw away the first chapter, should you also throw that away? I guess Zeno would approve. Vonnegut's advice and most if not all of the common advice given to aspiring writers has truth i
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by ofalkaed 2mo ago
I go out of my way to avoid icons everywhere possible and mostly have lived icon free since sometime around the turn of the century. I despise icons, but these old Mac icons do tug some strings, I don't hate them and may even like them

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