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Can you share more about where you took the class? Continuing education, or a vocational school? Did you take it purely as a hobbyist, or hope to get into the trade?

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To solve the wide-screen, narrow text problem, I once threw together a demo with a hacked up Chromium/WebKit to create a flowing, multi column view mode that created a long virtual scroll surface and scrolled it like newspaper columns: https://vimeo.com/59463521.

It wasn't super intuitive, but wish a modern browser had this.

I believe what you’re looking for is: https://www.telescopictext.org/ (demo is at .com)

This is essentially how a wingsuit works, although inflation happens in flight through inlets. That is in general how nylon wings (e.g. paragliders) work as well.

"I drive, I ride my bike, and I walk places, but when I do one, I hate the other two"

Did your degree help you with that decision?

You'd be remiss if you don't mention Binary Ninja[1]. A relative newcomer that's already extremely capable, has great scripting support and is under very active development.

[1] https://binary.ninja/

If you're healthy and using a normal, dynamic rope, no it won't. It won't even hurt. A factor 2 fall onto webbing or dyneema can totally mess you up though, even from a couple of feet.

Unsafe for what? Almost all of the fall forces should be dissipated by a dynamic rope, not the harness.

Man, talk about the ephemeral internet: One of my first projects[1] in Haskell was a small tool to go through my Google Reader favorites and download posts I tagged on ffffound.

[1] https://github.com/yan/hhhhoard

Something that made filling rentals cars easier: there's a triangle on the dash that points to which side the cap is on next to the "fuel" symbol on all the cars I've been in.

Moxie explicitly gave Zizek credit in his speech.

He addresses that in the book as well. His goal is to give rough estimates and a framework to reason about energy sources, not provide conclusions.

I recently started reading "Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air"[1], which is available as a free book, and it's been a wonderful introduction to reasoning about alternative energy. The author also gave a talk a few years ago that is very approachable[2].

[1] https://www.withouthotair.com/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFosQtEqzSE

When I first discovered Music for 18 musicians, it's all I'd listen to while working and commuting for weeks and weeks.

What most recent topic in the field of programming languages, or computing more broadly, have you changed your mind about in a substantial way?

I agree it sounds similar, I was just pointing out that it's likely a reference to the plasma device and not a comment on Mac computers.

How? Только != Тока

Slightly related, but I had a small epiphany when taking a class on DSP on Coursera. The kernel that is used to blur an image and that which is used to remove the treble/high frequencies from an audio sample are identical, except one is in 2 dimensions and the other is in 1. And this makes perfect sense! A low pass filter removes high frequencies, and sharp edges are high frequencies in the 2D plane.

TFA only mentions Gaussian blur, but a Gaussian blur is just a moving average, with "closer" pixels being valued higher, plus a smooth falloff. When you replace each value with an average of its neighborhood, you "soften" the transitions.

For anyone interested in DSP, the Coursera DSP class is superbly well done: https://www.coursera.org/course/dsp

It is. ssh-agent caches it though.

To paraphrase Jay-Z: he's not a C++ developer, he's C++, developer.