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ArcticCelt
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
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.
ArcticCelt
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
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 :)
ArcticCelt
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
>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.
ArcticCelt
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
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.
ArcticCelt
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
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.
ArcticCelt
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
>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.
ArcticCelt
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
>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.
ArcticCelt
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
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
ArcticCelt
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
>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".
ArcticCelt
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
7-year olds seams a bit young but Jason Roberts from Techzing through Math Academy has lead a program that got 10-year olds to get through calculus.

https://mag.uchicago.edu/education-social-service/can-fifth-...

https://outlooknewspapers.com/math-academy-multiplies-succes...

He told through the years his progress in his podcast (among other interesting things, like being one of the first developers at Uber and other fascinating stuff) https://techzinglive.com/
ArcticCelt
·قبل 6 سنوات·discuss
C64, Apple II and others can still be enjoyable for retrogaming. So maybe not productive but still practical.
ArcticCelt
·قبل 6 سنوات·discuss
Here some workaround

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9ahQ75...
ArcticCelt
·قبل 6 سنوات·discuss
>So sooner or later the economics will work out for a "RISC-V Pi".

There is already pretty cool stuff. Look at this developer board, you get a RISC-V Dual Core 64bit + an ESP32 (a full MCU for wifi + Bluetooth) on the same board and a camera for $24. That Risc-V chip is optimized for processing neural networks.

https://www.seeedstudio.com/Sipeed-Maixduino-Kit-for-RISC-V-...

(warning site very slow)