What’s helped me is a combination of physical exercise (which helps against feelings of unrest that may be bothering me) and sort of sliding into the subject, tackling the easier parts first and from there riding the dopamine wave.
But yeah, it doesn’t get any easier.
What river? Asking for a friend…
“Password cannot contain username”
“Password must contain digits”
“Password cannot contain reversed misspellings of predynastic Egyptian pharaohs”
And now…
“Password cannot contain JavaScript”
One thing about the pre-Internet times I don’t hear much about is how much more centralised our media were and how, as a result, people or ideas on the fringe of society didn’t get much attention. That includes for instance how the strange ideas about vaccines or ethnic groups now spread much easier than they did before the Internet, but also how trans* people and other marginalised groups find it much easier to find and support each other and be a united front against oppression.
In summary, I don’t thing that what has been termed “the great awokening”, nor the organised opposition against it, could have taken place before the Internet. At least not at this scale.
The tweet wasn’t easily available on nitter (it wasn’t being highlighted).
It just so happened to be the canonical source for this piece of information. And it wasn’t being run by an antisemite at the time the linked tweet was being written.
Exactly. The good kind of failure.
Hyperloop was always a project to sabotage high-speed rail. Good thing it failed.
That sounds like uncontrolled dosages of Desoxyn.
weekend = day_of_week in (“sat”, “sun”)
As a bonus this completely sidesteps the issue of what day is 0 or 1.
Those are different kinds of fine motor skills than used when writing cursive. Ideally kids should be exposed to both.
Cursive writing helps in developing fine motor skills.
Yeah, hobbit-serial architectures lack performance.
So the Fellowship of the Ring was made up of an elf, a dwarf, two humans, a maia and one hobnibble?
Oh hey, how about Madagascar?
A non-recursive recursive descent parser isn’t any easier to reason about.
I had been thinking about doing something akin to the X16 but more modern, but realised that the main challenge with launching a product like this lies not in doing the design, but in coordinating all the people that are involved in producing the hardware, software and documentation (and hype, don’t forget hype). And you’ve gotta hand it to David Murray (the 8-bit guy): he’s knows how to do this, and has demonstrated this before with Planet X3.
It’s weird in the sense that software development has moved in other directions. A tagged-architecture stack machine like the Burroughs Large System is weird as well, even though it’s been highly successful and very influential on later designs (eg. Forth, SmallTalk).
If we’d still be using bank switching and overlays I’d say learning to code assembly on a 6502 is a great introduction to modern computers, but we’re not so it’s not.
Exactly. Something in the spirit of an Amiga 500 (I never had one, so this is not nostalgia speaking) is much more suitable to beginning programmers. Something with a flat address space, an easily memorisable instruction set and rich collection of hardware (blitter, DMA controller, sound generator) to play with. And something that has modern interfaces (HDMI & USB) so the not-so-well-equipped hacker-in-training can also jump in right away.
The Commander X16 isn’t it.
Depending on how old your kid is, it might or it might not improve. The frontal lobe of their brain still has a lot of development left in children; right up until they’re about 25. This may improve things.
Also, please don’t be one of those parents who discounts meds. They can really help a lot. And no, they’re not addictive (in fact, people with ADHD are more likely to forget them than to use them recreationally).