paleBlue @paleBlue@social.cleverlibre.org
loves trying linux distros and everything open source.
Joined Feb 2019
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"People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. [...] Man's desires must overshadow his needs."
It's embarrassing, frustrating and angering to realize how many times I fell for this.
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FlightGear is a free, open-source, cross-platform flight simulator.
https://www.flightgear.org
Mac download is 1.8 gigs, expanding to 2.72 gigs. Waiting for that expansion as I type this.
https://www.flightgear.org
Mac download is 1.8 gigs, expanding to 2.72 gigs. Waiting for that expansion as I type this.
Took 7 minutes to write the code in C.
#include<stdio.h>
int main(){
for(int i = 99; i > 0; i--){
if(i > 1){
printf("%d bottles of beer on the wall, %d bottles of beer.\n", i, i);
printf("Take one down, pass it around.\n");
}
else{
printf("%d bottle of beer on the wall, %d bottle of beer.\n", i, i);
printf("Take one down, pass it around.\n");
}
}
printf("No more bottles of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer.\n");
printf("There's nothing else to fall, because there's no more bottles of beer on the wall.\n");
}
#toyprogrammingchallenge
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I want to propose a programming challenge. This could be fun for beginners and experienced programmers as well. It is language agnostic. It might even be more about community than the programming part itself. The challenge itself should not take more than an hour. But it shouldn't be so simple that you don't have to put in a little effort. I will propose the first one, and those who participate are welcome to propose the next and as we can agree on it we can go off and knock it out.
Once you see other people's results you can modify your own, or even propose something to make someone else's better or faster or fix a bug that you find.
These can become toy programs for you to have around for testing concepts, and helping to try out other languages.
If you are interested or know someone else who might want to play too share this with them.
I guess we can use this thread to get started, and I guess i am supposed to use a hashtag for something like this so how about #toyprogrammingchallenge
I will try to work in Python at least in the beginning but you are welcome to work in whatever you are comfortable with.
#toyprogrammingchallenge
First challenge:
"Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall"
Generate the whole song from "Ninety-nine" to "No". The output should look like :
Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall.
Ninety-nine bottles of beer. Take one down,
pass it around... Ninety-eight bottles of beer.
(You know what the middle looks like)
Two bottles of beer on the wall.
Two bottles of beer. Take one down,
pass it around... one bottle of beer.
One bottle of beer on the wall.
One bottle of beer. Take one down,
pass it around... No bottles of beer.
I won't put too many specifics on how you get there, but the output should be words, not numerals :) Try to write clean, maintainable and visually understandable code.
Let see if I am alone or anyone wants to play along. :)
Here is my first attempt total time 48 minutes.
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If you post something on social media, you are explicitly inviting people to comment and share their opinions. If that is not your intent then set privacy settings accordingly.
Regardless if you post something and are offended by respectful differences of opinion, and go so far as to silence those opinions, then **you** are the problem.
If you expect people to listen to your views on blast without giving them the common decency to reply, and be listened to in return, its time for you to reevaluate yourself because you are likely the perfect example of why the world is falling apart right now.
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Site etiquette indicates my first toot should be by way of an introduction. Seldom comfortable tooting my own horn (pun intended)* I'll keep this brief(ish).
I am a philosopher and historian based in Sydney and currently a doctoral candidate at the #Macquarie Business School; researching Edmund #Burke and his implications for executive leadership.
I chose to undertake my study in a business school, grubby though commercial ends may seem to elevated minds, because Burke was an intensely practical thinker. As he noted:
'‘The End of learning is not knowledge but virtue; as the End of all speculation should be practice of one sort or another… [for] Knowledge is the Culture** of the mind; and he who rested there, would be just as wise as he who should plough his field without any intention of sowing or reaping.'***
In this context, it seems fitting to attempt to apply Burkean research to practical ends.
I am also a passionate advocate for technology reform, which drew me to Mastodon, as I do not think unrestricted access to an individual's data is necessary for the provision of services. #ProtonMail, #Signal, #Threema, #NextCloud, #Mastodon and co. are all demonstrating that FAANG methods are not the only viable way of providing digital connections.
N.B.:
*Thinking intended puns, I am always reminded of the joke about a man who entered a local newspaper's pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
**Culture in the original sense of ploughing for sowing later.
***Burke, A Note-Book of Edmund Burke, 82-83.
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Where is the Hall of Fame for developers that committed bug-free code? 🤔
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whenever I actually watch lobbyists speak at hearings I am reminded to work even harder on encouraging "oh do I really know enough to speak?" experts I know to call up the legislative staffers and ask for an invitation to give oral testimony at these things. #nysprivacy
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Good morning lovelies, may you have a nice day 
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What if your cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) defibrillator had a critical vulnerability? Well... https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSMA-19-080-01 #medical #vulnerability https://t.co/krELSx9t2f
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Hi.
You can buy the Kindle version of Neuromancer for $1.99. You might wanna do that. You know, if you like cyberpunk as I do.
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"We have enormous freedom. That’s not a gift that was given to us, it’s a legacy that was left to us by centuries of struggle. By centuries of people that most of whose names are completely forgotten, the ones who created the freedom and the rights we now have, and that will be taken away unless you constantly defend them."
- Noam Chomsky
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Latest on the beautiful Fritz!Box router: whenever a large airplane takes off from GVA it goes into the mode wherby it re-calculates the 5GHz channel on the basis that part of it is suddenly occupied by the airplane’s radar…
Net result: the whole network (i.e. wired too) hangs.
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imagine if the facebook outage was due to employee sabotage
wouldn't that be delicious?
wouldn't that be delicious?
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Or just do a taylor series with infinite terms, easy :)
loves trying linux distros and everything open source.
Joined Feb 2019
