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Comment · 3 years ago
So many people learn that there is subtitles through the comments section after many years of watching all his videos, probably because the videos are so enjoyable even without the explanations.
Comment · 4 years ago
The one size fit all strategy I found when I played many years ago was to put all my crew in the infirmary and asphyxiate the boarding enemies by opening all airlocks :)
Comment · 4 years ago
>I feel like a lot of Spain's history (note, I am casual observer) mentions "fascist"

That's because the same guy, Franco, the dictator, stayed in power the whole time. He wasn't fascist one year and something else the other one, and the fascist history of Spain was when Franco was in power.

Comment · 4 years ago
Also on those pictures, the guy has is back all hunched and is holding the cat like a doll or a baby. Is it really the cat that give a less attractive vibe or the dorky posture of the guy on the picture?

Would the results be different if cat and man were posed differently?

I suspect that a picture of some guy going hiking with his cat would be seen different from some guy playing dolls with his cat in his apartment.

Comment · 4 years ago
I've eaten Octopus in the past but didn't knew how intelligent those creature were until a couple of years ago. Since I saw multiple documentaries about them and read about them, I would now feel like a cannibal for eating them.
Comment · 5 years ago
>The problem is that when the ZX, C64 etc were around there was no alternative. If you wanted to play games, you could either shell out for more hardware and purchase the games on disk or cartridge, or you could type them in from a magazine (several times) and hopefully save them to a cassette.

I agree. When there is no shortcut you find much more motivation to go the hard way. I was in that exact position when I was 10, and I kept messing up copying the basic lines from books so I got a book for kids that teached me basic, this way I was making my own code and could debug it. I made simple games completely from scratch that way it was how I got into programing.

I can understand that now with so many shortcuts available for kids the same motivation is not there anymore. It's like once you get access to cheat codes in a game that makes you invincible and gives you infinite money, the challenge is not there and you lose interest.

Comment · 5 years ago
>NASA is calling for applicants interested in spending a year in a 1,700 square foot habitat

For some people like me that is called an upgrade from last year.

Comment · 5 years ago
This youtube series of video, follow a group that restored an Apollo Guidance Computer that a collector basically pulled from the trash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSahAoOLdU&list=PL-_93BVApb...

My favorite part is when they needed the version of the software that was used for the moon landing but they only had the source code for a previous version (scanned from giant binder) and the hash value of the version of the landing. By a series of educated guesses, by reading memos and by analysis of the source code they modified the old code the exact way so it gave them the correct hash, confirming that they correctly and exactly recreated the original code.

It's being a while and I go from memory, I might have some details wrong. See this video for this story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JTa1RQxU04

Comment · 5 years ago
>Code can't prevent someone from using violence to force you to overturn a smart contract's decision.

You can hit the developers and the computer has much has you want but no amount of violence will fix the "_share_price > 0".

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C64, Apple II and others can still be enjoyable for retrogaming. So maybe not productive but still practical.
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Comment · 7 years ago
When first tried Windows 10 while is still was in public beta I though "Oh they are still working on the design, things are still pretty crude and indistinguishable from each other". Then a little bit latter I realized it was the final design all along.
Comment · 8 years ago
>DevEx code

I am trying to understand the meaning of this word through context and/or through Google but I only get some social media platform. What is DevEx.

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