mdonahoe

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I work for Skydio, building autonomous drones.

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Comment · 7 months ago
I had fun re-implementing antirez's "kilo" editor

https://github.com/antirez/kilo

There's a nice tutorial for it

https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/

Great way to learn more about terminal modes and write some raw C

Comment · 1 year ago
Copycopy?
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah she and I prefer the flash version too.

The music is great, and sitting together at a computer is a better collaborating experience than the mobile app.

Unless you're on a roadtrip.

Comment · 2 years ago
My daughter and I play "dadbot" where I'm the robot and she has to give me clear instructions on what I should do. It started after I showed her https://lightbot.com/ but we like the "screen-free" nature of dadbot better.

Eventually she jumps on my back and the game doesn't last much longer because dadbot gets tired.

Comment · 2 years ago
I went to Olin and took a class from Allen Downey. Highly recommended
Comment · 2 years ago
I think LexClips are a little better because they tend to have less Lex and more guest than the full interview.

But I’d prefer if he was edited out completely.

Errol Morris had some pretty good interview documentaries where almost all interviewer questions are edited out. It’s a great format.

Comment · 2 years ago
Do you work at Apple?
Comment · 2 years ago
The man/woman color inversion one was the most impressive to me. On the rotations, I can rotate in my mind and see the other view… but I find it very hard to color invert mentally
Comment · 2 years ago
I guess with Nazis, there is a chance that a revolt eventually happens and ends their reign. It’s less clear how humans come back from being paperclipped, so maybe that’s his rationale. But it’s a foolish question because of the antisemitism that looms in any discussion of nazis.

I prefer this variant of the question:

Would you rather all of humanity suffer in eternal Hell, or cease to exist?

That’s a pretty clear one for me.

Comment · 3 years ago
I’ll take an Irish Car Bomb please.
Comment · 3 years ago
Or ] if you want to make a red screen ;-)
Comment · 3 years ago
What’s the minimal program that actually draws something? I’m just getting black so far.

Edit: ah, it’s F

Comment · 3 years ago
Completely agree! The antagonists also dig tunnels and otherwise subvert city infrastructure. I feel like it was a perfect example of what the author talked about.
Comment · 3 years ago
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” —- Thoreau

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