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Rick Valenzuela Nov 9, 2018

Paid tribute this morning to actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, who was born on this day in 1904 in Vienna. This twoot uses 3 technologies she contributed to ¹

Danke für deine Erfindung, Hedy
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¹ Grab gefunden mit Wifi und GPS
Twoot gesendet mit LTE
alles möglich durch Frequency Hopping

Rick Valenzuela Oct 29, 2018

mathew 🦜☕Oct 25, 2018

I came up with a single pass O(n) sort algorithm I call StalinSort. You iterate down the list of elements checking if they're in order. Any element which is out of order is eliminated. At the end you have a sorted list.

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Rick Valenzuela Oct 16, 2018

That said, chopsticks are the supreme utensil for most pasta. And salads.

Rick Valenzuela Oct 16, 2018

Yesterday in the company cafeteria, I forgot all custom and context and slurped my spaghetti like it was a bowl of fried noodles. Inhaled with so much gusto it actually jolted me back to reality. Uh, oops. I caught a couple polite anti-stares, and quietly recalibrated Western re-entry

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Rick Valenzuela Oct 15, 2018

To clarify, I was hoping <number>shift-g would go to the page number. But I would be impressed if it went to the line number, and hopefully had a corresponding smarmy code comment

Rick Valenzuela Oct 15, 2018

TIL you can navigate a pdf in Okular with h,j,k,l. Pretty cool

I also checked for shift-g, gg and <number>shift-g, but alas, no

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Rick Valenzuela Sep 11, 2018

New math: Real VJ rate = day rate minus unhired assistant’s rate

Rick Valenzuela Sep 11, 2018

I always rationalized day rates for shooting as based on proficiency and efficiency with gear and editing. I think I willfully ignored the part about lugging around kit like a pack mule

#videojournalism

Rick Valenzuela Sep 11, 2018

My first laptop. I wish this was truly #retrocomputing, but this Tandy 200 was only in service to me 1996-2002. Most journalists didn’t have laptops then, but the T200 was already so dated that I wrote on the subway with zero fear of being robbed. Writing on it was a dream, with clacky keys and an editor that, legend has it, was made by Bill Gates himself. I believed it; it has all the now-common keyboard shortcuts. Once back in the newsroom, it was a simple serial connection to get my .txt file

Rick Valenzuela Aug 22, 2018

rixx Aug 21, 2018

Want to learn how computers work, by playing a not-terribly-long browser game? http://nandgame.com/ is where you should go.

NandGame - Build a computer from scratch.

An educational puzzle game. Solve a series of tasks where you build increasingly powerful components. Starts with the simplest logical components and ends up with a programmable computer.