Passano le generazioni, ma certi pezzi sono immortali. Mi piace così tanto che la cantavo a mia figlia appena nata…
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Passano le generazioni, ma certi pezzi sono immortali. Piaceva a me. Piace a mia figlia. Sia da bambina che ora che è adolescente….
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On laziness
Larry Wall had it right when he said that laziness is one of the virtues of a good programmer. But he was talking about in the sense of using existing code and not creating the wheel over and over. Laziness can apply just to a clean programming style. I visit old projects after several years…
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Third Clarke’s law. Many fantasy worlds where magic is real often have a “technological” backgroud: Mystara, Shannara and also Athas (in its pecualiar ways) have ancient, technological socities…
Also all D&D magic system is built upon the assumption that magic is “just” or “somehow” misunderstood technology See “The Implied Apocalypse of Dungeons & Dragons“.
Regarding Athas, I won’t spoil your surprise…
Fun, Javascript
Javascript insanity?
On Facebook they write I enjoy JavaScript but this is insanity Welcome to a language that has approximate math as the only math you can use. In fact 7110 / 100 * 100 is 7109.99999999 because the first division cannot be exactly represented with with a floating point representation. Sites like https://baseconvert.com/ieee-754-floating-point come handy… Those are…
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The Gaussian Integral, explained | Why does pi show up here?
Fun, Ingegneria
Non è il mio genere
Bellissimi, ma questi parapetti in vetro proprio non sono il mio genere. Primo, mi sentirei sempre esposto al pubblico ludibrio. Secondo, avete presente quando bisogna pulirli? Terzo, non potrei più usare il balcone come ripostiglio all’aperto 🙂
Fun, Tricks
I know them all
Linux Networking Commands That You Must Know | by Vikram Gupta | Nov, 2021 | Level Up Coding Fine, I know and use them all: ifconfig traceroute tracepath ping netstat hostname curl wget whois scp ssh
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Fantasy, Fun, Role Play Games
For lazy world creators
If you want to create an RPG world but feel lazy just pick some point in the past of Earth. It worked for Dungeouns & Dragon with the Red/blue box known world, later named Mystara (it’s explained in the italian version), so it may work for you too…