I keep returning to Zachtronics games endlessly in my free time, despite doing engineering work for 8-10 hours a day for the last months. Sure they're a bit of a facsimile of a programming challenge, but they're pretty tough problems, especially in the ones that are basically using assembly. I even had someone reference that my latest Opus Magnum creation looks like cellular automata.
If you can simplify the problem/solution space into a puzzle, give me a leaderboard to compete against, more specifically let me compete against the people I care about, and give it the barest amount of polish, it's the kind of thing someone like me would obsess over.
Wow it's impressive to see that this page has remained up for so long!
I used to email the owner a long time ago when I was really getting into Pink Floyd in high school. It was one of the first times I can really recall about having long, ongoing conversations online about something I was becoming increasingly passionate about. I really enjoyed the debate and back and forth that they were willing to entertain with me.
Sadly it looks like those conversations have been lost to time/old email addresses. But the idea that people would be open and willing to chat about their hobbies is really what defined the internet to me of that age.
Is there a clear definition of 'typical' when it comes to the speeds/latency - e.g., should I expect this on a p95 level at my residence for the contract?
I ask because I'm paying for a service advertising itself as 500mbps down/10 mbps up/latency 14ms, but I have never in my 3 years of paying for it seen that level of performance.
Running a `networkquality` test right now on ethernet reveals about 159 down/2.0 up/latency 50ms, which is closer to what I've come to expect on any given run
On top of that, if the confines of 'typical' are broken on the side of the provider, would this just be an fcc complaint? More than happy to track this over the course of a month and provide data to back up my findings
I love this US box art so much it's so dreadful and left such a weird impression on me initially. My friends and I had a hell of a time trying to figure out who the characters were meant to be.
I think by the end of it, our conclusions were:
Left Side: Barbarossa, Ted, Windy
Right Side: McDohl (maybe Luc?), Leknaat, Three headed skeleton demon because ???
Flying on the dragon I always assumed to be Futch, but who knows. If it's Luc in the corner, I guess it could be McDohl in the center, (he is the main character after all.)
Was bummed to see it in the Eiyuden newsletter this morning. Suikoden and its sequel were formative for me and my immediate friend group growing up. His creative vision definitely left an impact on me. (Or at least as much as made it through the localization.)
It was always such a delight to get random notes from him in the updates. It'll definitely be sad to not get those anymore.
I'd imagine outputs along the lines of 'I cannot comply with that request' or stating ethical issues with continuing onwards in the conversation. This seems to want to catch what most would consider to be publically perceived harmful responses
It's not perfect, but it was great for getting into the habit 3 times a week. Now I often make up my own sets as I go, taking note of what's sore on me and what I feel could use some work. Doing that gave me the time to do research and get a bit more familiar with how to engage certain muscles, and what machines will do what for me.
Heardle was one of the games that we really enjoyed quite a bit, but definitely needed some sort of variation to the game itself other than 'first x seconds'
Usually we would get the answer in a single try, because it happened to be a song we knew by heart, or we wouldn't get it at all because we didn't know the artist/it was just not in a genre to which we regularly listen/the song was an obscure hit or one hit wonder before our time
Perhaps it would have been better as 'guess the artist' and give you 5 second clips from decreasingly obscure songs
I did some reading on this a while back, since I was also morbidly interested, and I believe that they said they found lots of evidence of shoes because they contained the only material that the sea life around them wouldn't eat
Unfortunately, did some quick looking up right now to confirm, and it looks like it's theorized that the shoes were more from luggage that was blown out. But any human body parts would definitely have been long consumed or dissolved by now
I personally remember when Soda taxes were being proposed in Philadelphia. I did and do see soda as a luxury, so it sounded reasonable enough to me compared to alternatives
A lot of otherwise reasonable people that I had known at the time told me that I shouldn't be racist by voicing my support for these policies
I asked them to explain, but they would not, (do your own research, etc.) so I never really got a hold of their logic since the research that I pulled up always seemed so tenuous at best. I don't really recall if the taxes went through or not
This sort of shines a light on all of it though. Shows how susceptible we all are to this kind of manipulation =\
Yes! My mother and I would play this quite a bit together! Though it would always crash on us during certain quiz segments. But it certainly was the first time I learned of the term 'Union Jack.'
I'll give your sequel a try! Thanks for the nostalgic reminder!
It's a reference to the second episode of the TV show Arrested Development. A recurring line about a boardwalk stall the company owns: "There's always money in the Banana Stand."
I think their early stuff (Piper, Saucer) had a structure of sorts, but it was kinda out there and probably only Syd really understood it
Ummagumma was throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck, and by Meddle they started actually developing a marketable formula (I'd say Atom Heart Mother is somewhere in the middle)
Then after Dark Side, they started their real structure and had piles of success until Waters was myopic enough to kick out the only person in the band that mattered
So it's not a video lecture on Go specifically, but I first started learning itbecause I saw how it looked and how fast it ran while watching a Dynamic Programming series that happened to use Go for its implementations.
And I've been using it and loving it ever since. There are one or two things that trip me up (slice manipulation can sometimes get me if I'm not paying close attention to my capacity and just pointing around, rather than copying) But for the most part, it's a fairly elegant language, and amazingly fast! For me, it's also been incredibly intuitive start working on asynchronous features.
The new inclusion of Generics is just icing on the cake.