You can find me at my brand new, shiny hackers.town account too, if you want. I'll still be posting here, but will likely stick to Canadian stuff.
Notices by Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2018 07:49:26 EST Geoff Wozniak -
Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2018 22:08:04 EST Geoff Wozniak @TheGibson It'd be appreciated. I wouldn't mind another account.
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2018 22:02:41 EST Geoff Wozniak @TheGibson Are registrations still closed?
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2018 20:02:24 EST Geoff Wozniak @ink_slinger For me, the tree is not allowed until Dec. 1. I made an exception this year because of the new cats. We put it up (without decorations) to see if they would wreck it. They did not. It gets decorated on the weekend.
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Monday, 26-Nov-2018 21:40:42 EST Geoff Wozniak I posted this elsewhere, but they're so adorable it's hard not to.
They wanted to hang out with me all day. They ended up sleeping on my desk in a little bed. https://mastodon.club/media/xMxe3pjtLt10QlmEDPk
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Monday, 26-Nov-2018 20:57:24 EST Geoff Wozniak @calvin Can you point me to that? I'm now curious.
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Monday, 26-Nov-2018 20:55:52 EST Geoff Wozniak @calvin Uhhh...
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Monday, 26-Nov-2018 20:48:29 EST Geoff Wozniak One example uses a floating point number X.Y to represent two ASCII characters (!). This is "patched" to deal with two special cases by just hard coding a string in the code. But then it's revealed there are only 15 cases in total. You might as well hard code the strings anyway since the data set is so small, thus avoiding the bizarre numerical representation of characters.
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Monday, 26-Nov-2018 20:45:53 EST Geoff Wozniak There is a whole chapter on patching. This is trivial in BASIC, but the examples are so contrived it's ridiculous. The argument is that you may not be able to rewrite or reload the program. But the scenarios presented are, laughably, less than 50 lines long.
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Monday, 26-Nov-2018 20:43:50 EST Geoff Wozniak If you don't want to read it (and I don't blame you), the examples are mostly badly designed programs -- even for BASIC -- with a stream of consciousness describing how to fix them. As you read it, you think, "Uh, maybe the design is no good?" This is never brought up.
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Monday, 26-Nov-2018 20:39:38 EST Geoff Wozniak As much as you may want it to be, this book is not very good.
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Sunday, 25-Nov-2018 20:24:09 EST Geoff Wozniak @JordiGH When I taught in grad school, the Faculty of Engineering had the CS department teach C++ to the first year engineering students. Just explaining cout was a pain.
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Sunday, 25-Nov-2018 15:20:53 EST Geoff Wozniak @FssOfDeath Yup. This quote:
"...the desire to infer someone’s moral character or hidden thoughts from physical features and behaviors has persisted."
The author forgot to add "by racists".
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Sunday, 25-Nov-2018 15:12:22 EST Geoff Wozniak @FssOfDeath "...Martin has claimed that the company’s proprietary analytical processes can determine someone’s risk level with greater than 97 percent accuracy."
Seriously, how do you even prove this at all. They're just making shit up at this point.
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Sunday, 25-Nov-2018 14:44:35 EST Geoff Wozniak Future motto for smug Lisp weenies? https://mastodon.club/media/q3pZsrNFcJrSt9_mGds
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Sunday, 25-Nov-2018 14:26:13 EST Geoff Wozniak Wow, this is terrible. Please don't work for or support these companies.
https://theintercept.com/2018/11/25/voice-risk-analysis-ac-global/
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Sunday, 25-Nov-2018 14:10:20 EST Geoff Wozniak @thomasfuchs Choose wisely, Haskell!
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Nov-2018 20:44:59 EST Geoff Wozniak Gin and tonic. And BASIC.
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Nov-2018 15:53:04 EST Geoff Wozniak Still hating the spay shirt, but loving the attention.
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Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Nov-2018 15:49:08 EST Geoff Wozniak 1000 PRINT CHR$(4);"OPEN";F$