clamprecht

In high school our computer class was in BASIC. They taught us to swap two variables A & B like this:

  h = a
  a = b
  b = h

I should do an AMA at some point. There was a pseudo-AMA on reddit a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/1z0yx7/first_person...

The fact that you made a game on a device that "wasn't for games" is even cooler.

I'm not sure how much he actually used it after I wrote it for him, to be honest! But we did have access to daily newspapers, and some of us got weekly stock charts called "Daily Charts" by Investor's Business Daily (all paper, of course). Some of us were into trading stocks (this was during the Internet boom 1995-2000). Another weird skill I learned that is still useful to this day.

I served 60 months of the 70 month sentence. I had a computer restriction, so I couldn't be around a computer.

Since I wasn't able to use computers or the Internet for that time, I did/read/learned a lot of things I wouldn't have otherwise learned. Learned how to make hooch (prison wine), how the law works and how to maneuver the court system (useful for both civil and criminal cases), got more fluent in French by speaking with some native French speakers from Benin, learned how to work out & lift weights (which I still do), and learned the value of freedom.

My TI-85 story. While I was in prison, around 1996 or 1997, I found out a friend had a TI-85 calculator. I realized it was programmable, so I borrowed it over the weekend and wrote a program to track his stock portfolio. It was the first time I had programmed anything in 2 or 3 years.

Then I learned that the US Bureau of Prisons had a rule against any calculator (or device) that was "programmable". So I programmed the TI-85 so its startup screen read, "TI-85 NON-PROGRAMMABLE CALCULATOR". Problem solved.

At a glance, I'm a bit skeptical. It looks like they're cherry picking the high point for rent (the COVID spike).

"Rents fell. In December 2021, Austin’s median rent was $1,546, near its highest level ever and 15% higher than the U.S. median ($1,346)."

Of course having more housing should, all things equal, lower rent. But all things certainly weren't equal, especially during this time period.

I'd love it if the mouseover text would be these titles.

Is there a phone number associated with the account? How does GitHub want you to prove that you're you?

I wonder if it's analagous to spread spectrum[1] with radio comms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum

I'm wondering if there's a good way to trade on Bitcoin's volatility?

It is with options on MicroStrategy (MSTR). I think one strategy is holding MSTR and selling calls (i.e. covered calls). There are probably other strategies that don't require holding MSTR shares, like selling a call and buying a put, but I may be messing that up.

Check out the youtube channel called "Quant Bros" (cringe name, I know), and the /r/MSTR subreddit.

I went through similar crap with University of Texas at Austin when I wrote Classgrabber around 2002. Universities are pathetic when it comes to this stuff. If a CS student (or any student) does anything to show how incompetent their own staff is, they go berserk. And they still have the balls to ask me for alum money every year.

Wow, QModem! I wish a had a screenshot of my main QModem page with the top BBSs & dialups in my list. I never met John Friel, but his software changed my life.

Enforcement blocked today by a court:

https://www.cir-usa.org/2024/12/judge-orders-nationwide-inju...

Then I ask the same question you just sidestepped: how will the ex-CIA agents maintain privacy/secrecy after the Act?

I see no comments so far about the Corporate Transparency Act[1] and how it affects privacy with LLCs, etc. The US government will soon have a database of all (complying) beneficial owners. This database will eventually be hacked, leaked, shared with local law enforcement (further allowing it to be leaked).

How will the "rich people" maintain privacy/secrecy after the Corporate Transparency Act?

[1] https://www.uschamber.com/co/start/strategy/small-business-c...

Is this from personal knowledge? If so, can you explain how you know this?

I ask because I lived there for 5 years, and anytime I sold dollars for pesos, the cuevas (the place that does the exchange) were extremely picky as to which $100 bills they would take.

It's weird they mentioned something about how you can do 8K video editing with Premier Pro, but didn't mention Final Cut Pro X. Are they killing FCPX?

Does Coke Zero or Pepsi Black taste any better to you? I don't like diet coke or diet pepsi, but I do like the newer coke zero.

Why doesn't Google Maps (or Waze) offer 3 choices:

1. Fastest route

2. Shortest route

3. Safest route <-- this is the big one

The insurance companies would love it, and I'd love it. The data is out there... I've been asking this for over 10 years.

what was the strap thing?

The instructor in that video was poking fun of the other instructor (who will show up in the next video) because he has a gut, and the stick in the rear cockpit hits his gut. So there's a "bungee" strap to hold the stick forward when you're getting in and out. But at the end of the video, the stick ends up hitting the first instructor's gut, so I poked fun of him at the end.

Any reason to do IFR before aerobatics?

Nah, the order doesn't matter.

how tall are you, if I may ask? That cockpit is cramped.

I'm 6'2 or about 187 cm, but I've had passengers up to 6'6 in the rear cockpit. Size usually isn't a problem. And it's less cramped than some MiG cockpits I've seen.

I definitely plan to edit the remaining footage and put it on youtube.. I will try to find the time over the winter holidays. Editing takes me a ton of time.

My recommendation is, 1) get your instrument rating and fly IFR enough to get comfortable doing that, 2) get some aerobatic lessons, including some unusual attitude recoveries, in any aerobatic plane, even if it's a Cessna 152 Aerobat, and 3) get some hours in a fast, slippery plane that requires you to plan your descents from 30+ miles out; could be a Cirrus, a Columbia, a Mooney, a Lancair, or a Bonanza, etc. Retractable experience is a plus too (get 10-20 hours in a Piper Arrow or something). And be prepared to pay for it all!

Once you have 1000 hours of real experience (hopefully in different types, not all in the same Cessna 172), 20 hours should be plenty for an L-39 type. Guys with previous military experience may only need 10 hours. I had no military experience, I did my L-39 type rating in 2020 and it took about 20 hours. Before that, about 500 hours of my experience came from a Columbia 400, which is a fairly fast, slippery piston single. I also did about 4 aerobatic lessons in a Mudry CAP-10B. Here's my first day of L-39 training, if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DN_vMq-l9w

Matt Guthmiller also has some recent videos on getting an L-39 up and running, and his first flights in it.

I was visiting Monaco once and noticed that no one had laundry hanging on the balcony. In Beausoleil, France, literally on the other side of the street from Monaco, they had hanging laundry. I'll bet there was a law against it in Monaco. Maybe someone on HN who lives there can confirm.

This may be a dumb question, but could it be to help deaf people who know sign language but can't read/write?

I've always thought it would be a cool science fiction (or maybe reality one day), where someone figured out how to observe the light coming from Earth from 2000 years ago. They would be able to actually view what happened, in even better detail than we can with satellites today. The implications are what makes this interesting. We could prove whether Jesus existed, how certain events went down, all kinds of stuff that would shake current society to the core. Like I said, science fiction.

Do spammers not call Twilio numbers?

I'm curious, where did this happen?

How will California cities justify closing general aviation airports now?

https://archive.ph/4d4Pl