otto2

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by otto2 3y ago
Cool functionality aside, it looks beautiful.
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by otto2 3y ago
I don't know where are you from, but imagine your country being under devastating economic sanctions, then bombarded by enormously more powerful armies, then annexing a part of the country, all of that against international law. Make t
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by otto2 3y ago
It was really "popular" in 1984 and 1985, and for hobbyists only. If you started being interested in computers after 1985 there was a big chance to never hear of it.
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by otto2 3y ago
It is not correct to refer to it as Soviet-Era. Using the logic from the title, Apple Macintosh is also Soviet-Era. Yugoslavia was never part of Warsaw bloc, it had its own political system and no USSR army on its territory.
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by otto2 3y ago
You can still optimize this. If the scan has to establish line-of-sight between bots, your engine can establish that, and when firing raycasts, to skip those that are known to be misses. It doesn't change anything for the bot that fire
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by otto2 3y ago
On the website of the Holocaust Museum in New York you can find interviews of the people who were in that concentration camp as kids. It is not easy to watch. The summary of the last one says: "the decapitation of her mother by a guard
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by otto2 3y ago
Catholic church has history of being the lead in genocide, as for example in Croatia, where priests participated in killings of Serbs, Roma, Jews and Croats. Church also ran the only concentration camp for kids (Stara Gradiška) with countle
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by otto2 4y ago
Western powers didn't give up their doctrine easy. There was entire movement of anti-colonialism and non-alignment, sometimes followed by the wars for liberation - French Indochina, Vietnam, Algiers, just to mention few. If there were
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by otto2 4y ago
The sixth unit had CP/M disabled, so accountants wrote it down as 0.7 units.
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by otto2 5y ago
In Canada/Quebec too.
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by otto2 5y ago
Probably getting smaller contracts, and not being employee.
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by otto2 5y ago
Back in time I was sorting records on disk using Atari ST and (probably) Omikron BASIC. I applied RADIX sort (or a variant) that I saw in one magazine. It worked as a charm on RAM disk, but once when I tried it on a floppy disk, it just too
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by otto2 5y ago
It might be. However, I am from these parts of the world, and never heard of it.
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by otto2 5y ago
Back in time I switched completely to left-handed mouse. It took about a week to get to a workable speed.
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by otto2 5y ago
I am sorry for your health problem. I don't know if anything like that exists, but could you use your legs/feet to drive a mouse-like device? When I was a child, a teacher told us of a woman who learned to type on a typewriter (it
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by otto2 5y ago
Me too. I suffered few years being called "Clive" and "Sinclair" by bullish peers.
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by otto2 6y ago
Me too. Due to some issues with right hand I retrained myself to use mouse with my left hand. Now I can use mouse by both hands, and in both button orientations.
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by otto2 6y ago
Voja Antonic, creator of this project, is also creator of the first widely built and used personal computer in SFRJ (Yugoslavia in communist period) named Galaksija, back in 1983. The very first computer magazine there printed complete manu
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by otto2 7y ago
As non-native speaker of Spanish and French, the text is easily understandable, more so than written Portuguese or Italian.
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by otto2 7y ago
I worked number of years in IT in financial institutions. Almost none of that work was very interesting on its own. A lot of IT work in finance is about moving data, transforming data etc. There is maybe some fancy work out there - algorith
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by otto2 8y ago
Resume: moving of a crowd can be simulated using fluid mechanics. Video is a video of researcher talking about it.
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by otto2 8y ago
I moved continents twice, starting 18 years ago. I feel your pain.
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by otto2 8y ago
Lenovo Thinkpads are in general well supported and have hardware that works out of the box. I run Mint on Thinkpad 450s and have no issues at all.
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by otto2 8y ago
This will cause people to start walking on the street in the same way as Fremen in Frank Herbert's Dune, by varying frequency and step length in order not to attract a (government) worm.
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by otto2 8y ago
Your visa is essentially a visitor visa. You are not authorized to work in USA - you can visit for business while being paid by foreign entity. It is very different from H1B visa that is tied to a specific employer.
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by otto2 8y ago
Coming from ex-Yugoslavia - it was not forbidden to OWN a computer - no one cared about it, it was forbidden to import computer costing more than some arbitrary sum, in order to protect domestic 'industry'. In Yugoslavia that amou
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by otto2 8y ago
I started to run to work and back, and during the weekend to run before anyone else at home wakes up.
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by otto2 9y ago
Kudos for 8-bit machines. And Microdrive! I understand your tabs behaviour - I am the same, but once when I come to 90-ish, I start culling session to cut it to more reasonable number.