It'll be Brian Reynolds in this case. It's a quote from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
>Many of our maps' routes would be laid out in a predominately east or west-facing track That's fascinating to find out! I grew up a fan of Nova Logic, so I'll have to pay attention to this the next time I revisit their…
There's custom firmware project for the Novation Launchpad. I had a fork of this at one point where I made GoL for it and had mapped the lit cells to a MIDI output. https://github.com/mat1jaczyyy/lpp-performance-cfw I…
Oh this is cool. I did something similar with a modded Launchpad by programming GOL on it and converting the positions by column and row to octave and degree and then outputting MIDI to a synth.…
> That's where I got my first taste of programming - writing a PID controller for a tank turret so I could point the tank's gun using my mouse. Yeah, same here! I had done a couple of simple personal Flash games…
It's easy for me to quickly idolize the authors of books and blogs I have read—yours included (thanks for writing GPP)—and it's often I think I fall into the trap of feeling like I need to dedicate all my free time into…
I got a soft spot for SUSE. In the late 2000s, Novell partnered with my highschool to teach a certification class, so it became the distribution I cut my teeth on if you don't count my time playing with compiz window…
Scroll through the extension docs: https://phobos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/New-or-Enhanced-Logi... They have recordings of most of the different features Phobos enables.
I just came across my old Palm Tungsten E2 last week while doing some cleaning. If I can also find its charger, I'll report back on running it.
And in Windows it's `shutdown /r /fw`.
I remember there was another story here about Google returning bad results for what to do for a particular medical emergency. The page had a list of "Do"s and "Don't"s, but Google had grabbed the list of the "Don't"s…
During my CS degree, I had an opportunity to take a course which sought to bridge these two cultures. The class was described as a kinetic art and embedded systems class opened to EE, CE, CS and art students. We'd study…
Yup, bought an old, used point-and-shoot last year, and the low stakes of it have me using it more than my DSLR. Much easier to slip small P&S is my pocket for a vacation or hike. It's got the CHDK firmware on it as…
Oh this is kinda funny for me. I just bought a 2009 model PowerShot for $10 last summer so that I could experiment with the Canon Hack Dev Kit, [0] and use it to get RAW photos on my trips without having to lug around…
Thanks for starting it! I dabbled with Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE in highschool and would occasionally see things from the Arch Wiki when troubleshooting problems. Learned about its philosophy when at a highschool…
When people ask me how I learned web, I'm usually at a loss remembering what path I took. I often say it was some Dreamweaver and osmosis through reading a lot of A List Apart and Smashing Magazine after being…
Oh wow, this is awesome! As you can see by my username, this was influential enough to me as a kid that I named my online presence after it. My whole 6th grade class got into it―particularly making Line-Rider-equse…
The font's designers did create a video and a page explaining their choices if you're interested. I wouldn't necessarily call it haphazard as it seems there was intention behind the choice to use script for the italics.…
Make sure to have a QR code reader on hand as you watch this. The video is full of Easter eggs hidden in the dramatizations.
Yeah, Kongregate was also one of my first chatroom experiences as a kid. The community had many friendly people, and now as an adult, it's nice looking back and feeling I had a good environment to learn how to interact…
I have a budding interest in ML-languages and was seeing a couple of references to category theory in this article and the linked slides. Are there any good resources for learning category theory applied to ML…
Yeah, I’m wondering the same. I thought of that talk too when I saw this post. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
On that note, does anyone have a favorite cli Bible reading program?
Hey, this is pretty neat! One quick bit of feedback: In the audit log, I noticed oauth tokens being issued even though I didn't recall granting any. I had a moment of pause worrying I was breached until I realized it…
I’ve tried repurposing a three-button guitar footpedal for FPS games before. The connection for the pedal is TRS, with one button being ring, another sleeve, and the last both—so it ended up being useful for only two…
It'll be Brian Reynolds in this case. It's a quote from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
>Many of our maps' routes would be laid out in a predominately east or west-facing track That's fascinating to find out! I grew up a fan of Nova Logic, so I'll have to pay attention to this the next time I revisit their…
There's custom firmware project for the Novation Launchpad. I had a fork of this at one point where I made GoL for it and had mapped the lit cells to a MIDI output. https://github.com/mat1jaczyyy/lpp-performance-cfw I…
Oh this is cool. I did something similar with a modded Launchpad by programming GOL on it and converting the positions by column and row to octave and degree and then outputting MIDI to a synth.…
> That's where I got my first taste of programming - writing a PID controller for a tank turret so I could point the tank's gun using my mouse. Yeah, same here! I had done a couple of simple personal Flash games…
It's easy for me to quickly idolize the authors of books and blogs I have read—yours included (thanks for writing GPP)—and it's often I think I fall into the trap of feeling like I need to dedicate all my free time into…
I got a soft spot for SUSE. In the late 2000s, Novell partnered with my highschool to teach a certification class, so it became the distribution I cut my teeth on if you don't count my time playing with compiz window…
Scroll through the extension docs: https://phobos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/New-or-Enhanced-Logi... They have recordings of most of the different features Phobos enables.
I just came across my old Palm Tungsten E2 last week while doing some cleaning. If I can also find its charger, I'll report back on running it.
And in Windows it's `shutdown /r /fw`.
I remember there was another story here about Google returning bad results for what to do for a particular medical emergency. The page had a list of "Do"s and "Don't"s, but Google had grabbed the list of the "Don't"s…
During my CS degree, I had an opportunity to take a course which sought to bridge these two cultures. The class was described as a kinetic art and embedded systems class opened to EE, CE, CS and art students. We'd study…
Yup, bought an old, used point-and-shoot last year, and the low stakes of it have me using it more than my DSLR. Much easier to slip small P&S is my pocket for a vacation or hike. It's got the CHDK firmware on it as…
Oh this is kinda funny for me. I just bought a 2009 model PowerShot for $10 last summer so that I could experiment with the Canon Hack Dev Kit, [0] and use it to get RAW photos on my trips without having to lug around…
Thanks for starting it! I dabbled with Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE in highschool and would occasionally see things from the Arch Wiki when troubleshooting problems. Learned about its philosophy when at a highschool…
When people ask me how I learned web, I'm usually at a loss remembering what path I took. I often say it was some Dreamweaver and osmosis through reading a lot of A List Apart and Smashing Magazine after being…
Oh wow, this is awesome! As you can see by my username, this was influential enough to me as a kid that I named my online presence after it. My whole 6th grade class got into it―particularly making Line-Rider-equse…
The font's designers did create a video and a page explaining their choices if you're interested. I wouldn't necessarily call it haphazard as it seems there was intention behind the choice to use script for the italics.…
Make sure to have a QR code reader on hand as you watch this. The video is full of Easter eggs hidden in the dramatizations.
Yeah, Kongregate was also one of my first chatroom experiences as a kid. The community had many friendly people, and now as an adult, it's nice looking back and feeling I had a good environment to learn how to interact…
I have a budding interest in ML-languages and was seeing a couple of references to category theory in this article and the linked slides. Are there any good resources for learning category theory applied to ML…
Yeah, I’m wondering the same. I thought of that talk too when I saw this post. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
On that note, does anyone have a favorite cli Bible reading program?
Hey, this is pretty neat! One quick bit of feedback: In the audit log, I noticed oauth tokens being issued even though I didn't recall granting any. I had a moment of pause worrying I was breached until I realized it…
I’ve tried repurposing a three-button guitar footpedal for FPS games before. The connection for the pedal is TRS, with one button being ring, another sleeve, and the last both—so it ended up being useful for only two…