Laser printers (color ones) are (were?) required to have some sort of built in imperfection because they were too good and could be used for counterfeiting.
I wouldn't be surprised if this eventually is a requirement for cameras, you know, just because law enforcement wants it.
Trump is a tool. He didn't do this. He doesn't have the brain power to do this. This was the CNP, the Federalist Society, the Koch bruhs, etc. They've worked on this for decades. DECADES.
I can only read his short fiction with few exceptions. He got to the point where he would take 50 pages (exaggeration, but still...) to describe, I dunno, a room. Okay, so the room is important, but is it that important?
I've never read King, but do recall the hilarity of Goldman's "The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, The "Good Parts" Version" ""editorial' comments throughout ... like "with this and that, we move to chapter 4"
I mean… let’s not act like the 2nd amendment is interpreted in any serious way.
The Supreme Court invented a personal right to bear arms from a 250 year old amendment during my lifetime and is now not only ignoring words that are in there but adding words that aren’t
Anyone trying to apply logic to this is just facilitating nonsense because these decision are based in ideology not logic. Don’t launder it for them.
I put c:\tools in my path, then put shortcuts to all my tools in there (ie: shortcut to AgentRansack named ar).
Now, I pull up the run command (WND+R) type ar and agent ransack opens.
> I have a parallel term I use, jiggle programmers. They can jiggle code around until it works, often working off existing code.
We're all jiggle programmers then. Once the applications architecture is established, we hang new feature on it by following that architecture.
Very very few of us get to only write code from scratch every day. Most of the time, when I'm writing from 0, I'm working on a R&D PoC. If I'm not doing that, I'm jiggle programming a new feature into an existing architecture.
> With the rise of self-taught programmers, you will see more take this copying approach than the academic redistillation.
I was self-taught before university. I learned on a C=64 and then an early x86 back in the day. If you didn't figure it out on your own, you hoped you would see it in a magazine or book some place. I learned a lot about how computers worked at a fundamental level from the C=64. I don't think self-taught is the issue. I think it's how much the person really wants to know about computers and CS.
I read once that when we read, our eyes bounce along the tops of the letters. A demonstration removed the lower parts of the letters, and interestingly, I was able to still read the words. I would like to see this same test but with a font that removed the lower half of the words in each sentence. Just for kicks and giggles...
