zabzonk

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by zabzonk 9d ago
Thinking "I am in the presence of Satan" is quite common, though.
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by zabzonk 22d ago
Somehow "USS Dolly Parton" has a bit of a ring to it for the next US warship after the "USS Dorie Miller".
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by zabzonk 22d ago
> Sierra Ferrell does a pretty good rendition of that. Emmylou Harris does a great one also.
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by zabzonk 22d ago
that "i before e except after c" rule often gets taken too seriously
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by zabzonk 23d ago
Indeed, AFAIK. I've never seen an explanation for this. Most things that reproduce successfully want to do it again - or at least their DNA does. Perhaps octopuses are simply disappointed by the experience.
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by zabzonk 23d ago
Though FWIW, they do protect their eggs quite well.
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by zabzonk 23d ago
Hence one of the activities they are best known for - "cottaging".
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by zabzonk 24d ago
"Illuminatus!" I read this while suffering from the worst attack of flu (fever, hallucinations, the works) I have ever had, Edinburgh circa 1975. I thought I was going mad. Never dared to read it again. https://en.wiki
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by zabzonk 24d ago
Not exactly a cult, but... "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe. Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. It sounds like fun, until it doesn't so much. Soundtrack by The Grateful Dead.
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by zabzonk 24d ago
> language and style of speaking sentences Nabokov? His protagonists have very special styles of speaking. I'd recommend "Pale Fire" (which is also very funny and has an interesting hypertext-like structure) as a starter.
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by zabzonk 24d ago
> At the same time, the replicants are being perceived as becoming more human. Surely this is what the acknowledged replicants in the film do, particularly Roy Batty when he saves Deckard? I was a great PKD fan (collected his books), and
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by zabzonk 27d ago
Go for "Great Expectations", "David Copperfield" and "Bleak House". If they are not great novels, I don't know what are.
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by zabzonk 27d ago
As an ex-microbiologist, the thing I can't stand is how smelly life is. Be in the same room as gangrenous flesh and your intestinal fortitude will be severely tested. Other than that, I don't mind it, but I still prefer silicon.
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by zabzonk 29d ago
> exploring the entire city there were many sites, not just one city
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by zabzonk 29d ago
I honestly think the child would be far better served with Scratch rather than some half-assed adventure writing language (having created several such languages myself). Edit: To clarify, the languages I created were also half-assed - it&#x
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
> which they put on the bookshelf and never actually read. Much like the many unread copies of Knuth's TAOCP.
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
LTT did a very funny video on bad tech ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXVeSJ1WAt0
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
> beaver was rabid We don't have rabies in the UK, thankfully, and I don't think my bro got a rabies jab for his French coypu bite. Just naturally grumpy rodents, I guess.
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
My little brother was attacked once in France by a coypu. Needed medical attention. Beavers (we already have coypu) are being re-introduced into the UK, so maybe this sort of thing will increase here.
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
Trading systems? Most complex things I've worked on.
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
Well, I don't know. Most of the Myst games seem to be background, painted, with a bit of moving art. Comparing this with (say) an isometric RPG (think BG3, Pillars of Eternity) and those look a lot more expensive, but still capable of
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
Thanks, but I think that is more gardens that are owned by people with professional gardeners and other caretakers. The scheme I was thinking of was more individuals. I remember looking in to a small bungalow garden, where the owner proudly
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
Perhaps including one that is scooting across the universe (Dr Becky): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHLF6sgLdrs&t=4s
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
Too much web stuff.
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
I remember back in the mid 1980s there was a scheme in Lincolnshire UK where you could just turn up at a house and go into their back garden to admire their plants - only gardens owned by people taking part in the scheme, obviously. Doesn&
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
FORTH parsers are ultra simple - get the next space-separated token, if it is a number, push it on the stack, otherwise it's a word - look it up in the dictionary and (if it exists there) execute it.
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
but also much slower - people tended to be interested in speed (and the price of the hardware) not determinism
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
Never heard of Madge before. AFAIK, our token ring networking (at a big 6 accountancy) was all supplied by IBM, but I could be wrong. In any case, I despised it for poor speed and reliability.
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
Ah yes, back when caring about hardware was a thing. Early 90s, new top-of-line Compaq arrives, for me, project manager. We open it to install network card - token ring (yes, it sucked to be you - you could almost see the little tokens slou
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by zabzonk 1mo ago
Mostly in my life, it has been beautiful or not so beautiful women. But I do draw the line at pin-heads.

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