rzzzwilson
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Comment · 8 days ago
Comment · 9 days ago
They are extraordinary claims, beyond current science. So the claims they are true require extraordinary evidence, which is missing at the moment. It's not up to anyone to show evidence that the claims are false, those claiming they are true must show evidence that they are true.
Comment · 21 days ago
I've worked within the federal government and while there I met people who if they weren't on drugs maybe they should be.
Comment · 21 days ago
1 and 2 are fantasy. 3 might be true if you drop "and only you" part.
Comment · 1 month ago
... you are forced to love it. or live with it...
... or leave it.
Comment · 1 month ago
Backups? There are backups, right?
Comment · 1 month ago
A blast from the past! An IBM 1620 was the very first computer I programmed, way back in 1969, likely a model 2. As part of a second year Applied Mathematics semester we were given a block of coding forms, a McCracken book on FORTRAN II and a list of problems to solve. There was no instruction on how to do this beyond reading the book, as far as I can remember. Someone punched cards from our coding forms and put them into the machine. We never actually got to touch the hardware, but we could look at it through glass windows.
That was a life-changing experience as it led to me dropping out of my Physics degree and eventually going into a computing career.
Comment · 1 month ago
The sooner this guy is impeached the better. That's better than letting his term just run out as it offers more of a warning to other fruitcakes out there: the system _eventually_ works.
Comment · 2 months ago
Not just Canadians. Commonwealth English generally uses "Zed".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_in_the_Commonwealth_of...
Comment · 2 months ago
A blast from the past! Back last century I had tried multiple "pile of floppies" installs of early Linux, but they always failed. SLS was the first linux install that worked, possibly because it installed from a CD. Since then I've always been a primarily Linux user, moving from SLS to Slackware, Ubuntu and now Linux Mint.
Comment · 3 months ago
The "ASCII" page in the Jargon File gives a few names for "-". It even says that the official ANSI/CCITT names are "hyphen" and "minus".
Comment · 3 months ago
Getting the lucky break is only half of it. Recognizing a change as a lucky break and being able to take advantage of it is also important.
Comment · 3 months ago
I don't see how my comment about using python 3 rather than the obsolete python 2 has anything to do with Lisp.
Comment · 3 months ago
Python 3 is not ... what?
Comment · 3 months ago
Another vote for getting into the Arduino world, which includes the ESP32.
To learn the basics there's still no better route than getting an Arduino Uno (or clone) starter kit and learning about digital electronics. The boards are programmed in C++ through the Arduino IDE. As you progress you could program larger-memory boards with python. Some people use other languages like Rust. You aren't limited to small AVR microcontrollers, you can program other microcontrollers such as ESP32, STM32, Raspberry Pi, etc. If you get to the point of having PCBs made you can use KiCad to design the boards.
There is a huge amount of online information and help available. Companies like Arduino, Sparkfun and Adafruit also have online material, some specific to their products, some general.
Apart from the actual hardware all the software used is free. Microcontroller boards, while not free, are cheap but powerful.
I'm a retired software engineer with an out-of-control microcontroller hobby.
https://www.sparkfun.com/documentation
I'm going to have to quote Bugs Bunny here: what a maroon.