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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Collection of Lame Jokes.Yesterday, I came home from the secondhand store with an old janky 7 1/2" bandsaw for 50 bucks. It was missing a switch and a knob here... -
... and some are on a divine mission. :cool:
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.If the comments are sufficently succinct and well thought out, they will need updating less, if ever. (A function will generally not...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Collection of Lame Jokes.And some form a band simply because they think they will get girls.
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.I was going to bring that up. Glad someone did. Now you've got lines and lines of pseudocode that does not match what the code is...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.We had a rule that THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ANYTHING THAT BREAKS THE BUILD. The punishment was to be handed a scraper and have a go at...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Avatar (film): antigravity and unobtanium.Indeed. We humans have yet to demonstate that intelligence is a survial trait. A few tens or hundreds of thousands of years is...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Avatar (film): antigravity and unobtanium.No. eReader. Can't stand audio. I knew by the time I was was five years old that I was a visual learner not an audio learner. Story...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Avatar (film): antigravity and unobtanium.Emboughtened. Thanks.
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Sure. The Atrocity Archives. EDIT: But seriously. That Swarm story is a fast read and both deep and, as I said, dark. -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread Avatar (film): antigravity and unobtanium.A pity it doesn't seem to be available in Kobo Books. [ EDIT ] It was a lot shorter than I expected. And yes, quite dark.
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Avatar (film): antigravity and unobtanium.Cool. I've been in a dry spell sci-fi and have been trying to expand my authors and genres. Have read some of Lovecraft's required...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Avatar (film): antigravity and unobtanium.I've never heard of him. And I've read a fair bit of science fiction. What do you recommend as his top must-read?
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Avatar (film): antigravity and unobtanium.Yup. There are well-established Laws in the science fiction community that define this. "Any sufficiently efficient means of propulsion...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Avatar (film): antigravity and unobtanium.Films always do, but thats not the point. The point is: is this a plot hole? A major one - because if my supposition were true, the...
