sodaplayer

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by sodaplayer 4mo ago
It'll be Brian Reynolds in this case. It's a quote from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
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by sodaplayer 5mo ago
>Many of our maps' routes would be laid out in a predominately east or west-facing track That's fascinating to find out! I grew up a fan of Nova Logic, so I'll have to pay attention to this the next time I revisit their ga
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by sodaplayer 6mo ago
There's custom firmware project for the Novation Launchpad. I had a fork of this at one point where I made GoL for it and had mapped the lit cells to a MIDI output. https://github.com/mat1jaczyyy/lpp-performance-cf
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by sodaplayer 1y ago
Oh this is cool. I did something similar with a modded Launchpad by programming GOL on it and converting the positions by column and row to octave and degree and then outputting MIDI to a synth. https://photos.app.goo.gl/os4
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by sodaplayer 1y ago
> That's where I got my first taste of programming - writing a PID controller for a tank turret so I could point the tank's gun using my mouse. Yeah, same here! I had done a couple of simple personal Flash games previously, but
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by sodaplayer 1y ago
It's easy for me to quickly idolize the authors of books and blogs I have read—yours included (thanks for writing GPP)—and it's often I think I fall into the trap of feeling like I need to dedicate all my free time into practicing
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by sodaplayer 2y ago
I got a soft spot for SUSE. In the late 2000s, Novell partnered with my highschool to teach a certification class, so it became the distribution I cut my teeth on if you don't count my time playing with compiz window effects on a free
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by sodaplayer 2y ago
Scroll through the extension docs: https://phobos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/New-or-Enhanced-Logi... They have recordings of most of the different features Phobos enables.
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by sodaplayer 2y ago
I just came across my old Palm Tungsten E2 last week while doing some cleaning. If I can also find its charger, I'll report back on running it.
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by sodaplayer 2y ago
And in Windows it's `shutdown /r /fw`.
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by sodaplayer 3y ago
I remember there was another story here about Google returning bad results for what to do for a particular medical emergency. The page had a list of "Do"s and "Don't"s, but Google had grabbed the list of the "D
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by sodaplayer 3y ago
During my CS degree, I had an opportunity to take a course which sought to bridge these two cultures. The class was described as a kinetic art and embedded systems class opened to EE, CE, CS and art students. We'd study some essays lik
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by sodaplayer 3y ago
Yup, bought an old, used point-and-shoot last year, and the low stakes of it have me using it more than my DSLR. Much easier to slip small P&S is my pocket for a vacation or hike. It's got the CHDK firmware on it as well, so it sti
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by sodaplayer 4y ago
Oh this is kinda funny for me. I just bought a 2009 model PowerShot for $10 last summer so that I could experiment with the Canon Hack Dev Kit, [0] and use it to get RAW photos on my trips without having to lug around or risk my DSLR. Some
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by sodaplayer 4y ago
Thanks for starting it! I dabbled with Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE in highschool and would occasionally see things from the Arch Wiki when troubleshooting problems. Learned about its philosophy when at a highschool computing competition and my
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by sodaplayer 4y ago
When people ask me how I learned web, I'm usually at a loss remembering what path I took. I often say it was some Dreamweaver and osmosis through reading a lot of A List Apart and Smashing Magazine after being introduced to those websi
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by sodaplayer 4y ago
Oh wow, this is awesome! As you can see by my username, this was influential enough to me as a kid that I named my online presence after it. My whole 6th grade class got into it―particularly making Line-Rider-equse roller coasters with the
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by sodaplayer 5y ago
The font's designers did create a video and a page explaining their choices if you're interested. I wouldn't necessarily call it haphazard as it seems there was intention behind the choice to use script for the italics. http
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by sodaplayer 6y ago
Make sure to have a QR code reader on hand as you watch this. The video is full of Easter eggs hidden in the dramatizations.
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by sodaplayer 6y ago
Yeah, Kongregate was also one of my first chatroom experiences as a kid. The community had many friendly people, and now as an adult, it's nice looking back and feeling I had a good environment to learn how to interact on the web. It a
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by sodaplayer 7y ago
I have a budding interest in ML-languages and was seeing a couple of references to category theory in this article and the linked slides. Are there any good resources for learning category theory applied to ML programmers or is there a list
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by sodaplayer 7y ago
Yeah, I’m wondering the same. I thought of that talk too when I saw this post. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by sodaplayer 7y ago
On that note, does anyone have a favorite cli Bible reading program?
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by sodaplayer 8y ago
Hey, this is pretty neat! One quick bit of feedback: In the audit log, I noticed oauth tokens being issued even though I didn't recall granting any. I had a moment of pause worrying I was breached until I realized it was the various s
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by sodaplayer 8y ago
I’ve tried repurposing a three-button guitar footpedal for FPS games before. The connection for the pedal is TRS, with one button being ring, another sleeve, and the last both—so it ended up being useful for only two commands as the last bu