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1. stop looking on CP for easy answers.
2. stop looking.
2a. stop muttering mantras like "just do it."
2b. ignore what other people say.
3. spend a month with no internet, observing, and writing down, what your friends and co-workers do with net/technology. spend another month with people who do not use net/technology.
4. take a week-long vacation.
5. be prepared for the "answer," to both what and how, appearing suddenly, and seeming as obvious as ...
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 26-Jan-20 12:40pm.
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Any existing app - that is written / designed poorly - is a candidate. Take a look at any of the available productivity apps in the app store and see which one is horse crap, and is a kind of project you'd enjoy working on.
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I need an app that reads my shopping list and alerts me when I close to it in the mega-store.
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I'd like to see an app that can make sound visible. It might not be a mobile app though.
Think along the lines of night vision goggles making infrared visible, but using sound waves and their frequencies instead.
Does anything like that already exist?
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I've been hammering all day on trying to get NFA->DFA via powerset construction to work with large ranges introduced by unicode characters.
Before I thought it was impossible, then I found some libraries that did it.
This is good, because DFA is the fastest possible way to lex text
I FINALLY DID IT. I think. None of the sample projects I found were much help. All they did was demonstrate that it was possible.
In the end I had to figure it out on my own.
I've been coming at this wrong for over a year.
One day (today), I just sat down and came at it right.
Funny how that works.
Reminds me of when I played Ninja Gaiden sigma and I got so frustrated with a boss battle i put the game down for 6 months.
One day I went to show a friend how tough it was, so i put the game on and fought the boss, beat him the first time after not playing for half a year.
This feels like that.
Edit: My hubby's reaction when I showed him my resulting DFA graph - I was super excited. He's like "it looks like a monkey" - in his defense, it did.
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 24-Jan-20 19:23pm.
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So we have to ignore everything you've posted, over the last 12 months?
Okidoki, if you say so.
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And it's not what I expected. No spoilers, but I think it could be very interesting: unlike "Canon" Star Trek in most ways. I think I like it.
Anyone else? And please - no spoilers for those who haven't watched it yet!
And only a week to wait for episode two ... I'm not used to this old-style "TV Schedule" viewing any more.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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yeah, it looks interesting. It definitely has a different feel than other Star Trek properties...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Patrick Stewart is a pleasure to watch, and I was surprised to discover he's also one of the Executive Producers. But as he has admitted, I think "Picard" will be a hard sell. I'm not exactly taken by the plot so far, and the previews for the next episode left me less than inspired.
So, given my "meh" reaction, I think I'll wait until the full season has transpired so I don't have to drum up the motivation every week and I can get more of a feeling of continuity by watching 2 or 3 episodes at a time.
I hope they have put something together that at least captivates me like FireFly or Dark Matter did, and I would be truly impressed if they can attain the quality and nuance that I experienced with the first two seasons of ST Discovery.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I would be truly impressed if they can attain the quality and nuance that I experienced with the first two seasons of ST Discovery Tastes can certainly differ.
The two female leads killed discovery for me; they were both dreadful characters -- and Fred/Jimmy/Albert/whatever-her-name-was was awfully acted (my guess is that she took the direction "look confident" to mean "act like an arrogant b@st@rd").
Also, I don't recall seeing many loving relationships featured prominently in ST (in fact, I can't think of any at all -- Spock's folks hardly qualify). How woke of them to give pride of place to a passionate gay relationship in every episode of discovery.
I didn't even bother watching most of the second season.
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not really looked into it yet.
just hope it's not going to kill Star Trek the way the dark knight utterly destroyed the batman.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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The idea of Data's daughter has my attention.
But I'm still on the fence.
Doesn't feel like Star Trek or TNG... Pocard IS TNG
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I also watched the first episode. The pace was quite slow, but they were setting up the 'scene'. From the preview shown at the end of the episode it definitely looks like it could be interesting
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Jacquers wrote: The pace was quite slow,
I thought I was about 25 minutes into it when the end credits rolled. Whereas I look at the clock every 5 minutes with most shows.
Yeah, I could handle some more of this...
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... because, well, sometimes the old ones are the best.
But it got me to thinking - he was 6 when the strip started way back in 1985 so now he'd be middle aged, in him prime ... what would he be doing?
And then I noticed:
Calvin aged 6[^]
Calvin in 2020[^]
It just explains so much!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Put him back in the transmogrifer!
The real site seems to be down, but another artist did a few comics with Calvin as an adult[^] that were pretty good (and I think I remember reading that Watterson approved)
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: few comics with Calvin as an adult[^] That's a relief!
All the C & H stuff I just found was complete lunacy. it's good to know that there's at least one sane person left in the world.
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I have The Complete Calvin and Hobbes and need to get it out again. Just brilliant.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Calvin aged 6[^] wtf is all this cr@p?
And have you seen this one[^]?
What is wrong with these people?
I'd suggest medication or incarceration as the remedy for such mindlessness.
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OriginalGriff wrote: he was 6 when the strip started way back in 1985 so now he'd be middle aged,
Bart Simpson's been 10 for over 3 decades now.
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I've been 10 for over 6 decades.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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That's a special case: Tomacco stunted his growth!
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That can't be it. Tomacco was introduced 11 years into the show.
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