@wookieemark you need another cat.
hey!
i am sponsoring an atari 2600 game coding competition!
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/283199-4k-vcs-assembly-programming-competition/
entries must be in 6502 assembly. i have about USD$100 to spend in prizes - depending on what people want, i will either award money or manufacture a game cartridge of the winning entries.
TIME TO BRUSH UP ON YOUR 8-BIT ASM!
@Surasanji @Mrfunkedude an old friend has gone and that’s always hard.
RT @Abebab@twitter.com
How to make a racist AI without really trying http://blog.conceptnet.io/posts/2017/how-to-make-a-racist-ai-without-really-trying/
"... the sentiment is generally more positive for stereotypically-white names, & more negative for stereotypically-black names."
I urge you to read this if you do sentiment analysis of any sort.
computer education (modest proposal)
@ajroach42 a computer science professor at university of york always did just that. He collects big old machines. He’s recently got an old Elliot machine working again that has a loudspeaker to listen to the processor for debugging. So slow you can hear when it goes wrong.
This is the kind of news we need. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-lancashire-45536348/magpie-and-whippet-s-unlikely-friendship
@NeadReport hey fellow drummer. Welcome.
@aaroncolichia it’s tough. I think it’s ok to be angry/frustrated but how that works out is key. Recently is the first time I’ve been at odds with my folks. A balanced conversation has brought them much closer to my way of thinking that a tantrum that could let them see me (and their other kids) as... well, kids.
@earfolds it’s weird getting fit for the first time in late 30s.... who am I kidding, early 40s. Definitely takes longer that people who used to have a decent base level.
@thomasfuchs I know a chap with this collection: http://www.computermuseum.org.uk/
I think my favourite is Marconi TAC. No ICs in this 60s computer and the cabinets are huge. None of your standard racks here, these are much taller.
Wind power alone produced 115% of Scotland's electricity demand in August.
https://www.energyvoice.com/uncategorized/181274/scottish-wind-output-has-record-breaking-august/
@h3artbl33d There are a lot of ZFS myths that need to die. No filesystem is perfect, and yes, you can lose data with ZFS. You can get bad performance with ZFS. It's not a magic wand that makes your system flawless forever.
It's copy-on-write, flexible, integrity-checking, device managing awesome sauce. If you don't want that you don't have to use it.
But if you take the plunge it can also totally save your bacon. I can't understate the usefulness of ZFS: it really is better than anything else.
I keep networks running at a university for money, live sound and photos for fun. WiFi nerd: CWNA, CWAP, CWDP, CWSP, ECSE Design.