#Software 3.5

[lightstar23]

Volkswagen VW ID3 | Ausführlicher Test und Kritikpunkte

In diesem Video teste ich den neuen Volkswagen ID.3 Facelift, der in dieser neuen Version seit Anfang 2023 auf dem Markt ist. Im Facelift hat Volkswagen einige Änderungen am Design und der Ausstattung vorgenommen. So ist der Kühlergrill nun geschlossen, die Scheinwerfer sind schmaler und die Rückleuchten sind neu gestaltet. Im Innenraum gibt es ein neues Lenkrad, ein größeres Infotainmentsystem…

[zo1nkss]

i'm sure tumblr is generally UnBothered by the tiktok ban bc y'all don't seem to like that place, but I am currently very sad to lose it so suddenly :/

also i accidentally locked myself out of mobile tumblr for a couple weeks but its okay i fixed it

[betwixtyiff]

Tbh I'm gonna go back to an iPhone

[cryptocollectibles]

Star Wars Chess Software (1993) by Mindscape

Computer Gaming World declared Star Wars Chess the 49th-worst computer game ever released stating: “Proof that there really is no intelligent life (or AI) even in a galaxy far, far away”. GamePro magazine however praised the game's action scenes, sound, detailed animation and stating "Chess purists and Star Wars purists alike will enjoy this one. Most impressive!" ( from the Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Chess )

[wimjee]

Basiliek O.L.V. v/h Heilig Hart (reedit). by Wim Jacobs Via Flickr: Stadswandeling Sittard. Basiliek van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van het Heilig Hart.

[robotbulls]

Beyond Digital Currency: How NFTs are Reshaping the Tech and Finance Worlds in 2023

In recent years, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have taken the tech and finance worlds by storm, with their ability to revolutionize various industries. While most people are familiar with the basic concept of NFTs - unique digital tokens that represent ownership of a digital asset - there are many lesser-known aspects and innovative applications that are reshaping the landscape. In this article, we delve into some uncommon tips and content to give you a deeper understanding of the impact NFTs are having in 2023.

1. NFTs in the Gaming Industry

While many are familiar with the use of NFTs for digital art and collectibles, their application in the gaming industry remains relatively unknown. NFTs are revolutionizing gaming by enabling the creation of unique in-game assets that can be owned, traded, and sold by players. This empowers gamers to have true ownership over their in-game items and creates new revenue streams for both players and game developers. Additionally, NFTs make it possible for virtual items to be transferred between different games, ushering in a new era of interconnected gaming experiences.

2. Smart NFTs

Smart NFTs combine the unique characteristics of NFTs with the programmable features of smart contracts. These next-generation tokens can be programmed to perform a variety of functions, such as royalty payments to creators or the ability to evolve over time. For instance, a digital artwork represented by a smart NFT could change its appearance based on the owner's preferences or the passage of time. This opens up a world of possibilities for more dynamic and interactive digital assets, paving the way for entirely new forms of digital art and collectibles.

3. NFTs for Decentralized Identity Management

A lesser-known application of NFTs is their potential for decentralized identity management. NFTs can represent unique digital identities that can be owned and controlled by individuals, rather than centralized entities such as governments or corporations. This approach empowers individuals to have greater control over their personal data and digital identities while also offering increased security and privacy. Furthermore, NFT-based identity systems can enable seamless interaction between various online services, removing the need to create multiple accounts and remember numerous passwords.

4. Fractionalized NFTs

Fractionalized NFTs are a novel concept that allows for the division of ownership of a single NFT into multiple smaller portions. This enables a group of people to collectively own a high-value digital asset, such as a rare piece of digital art, and share in its potential appreciation or revenue generation. Fractionalized NFTs can also facilitate more liquid markets for high-value digital assets, making them more accessible to a broader audience of potential investors.

5. NFTs in Real Estate

Although the real estate industry might not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about NFTs, they are poised to create significant disruption in this sector. NFTs can represent ownership of digital property, such as virtual land or buildings, within virtual worlds and metaverse platforms. Additionally, NFTs can be used to tokenize physical real estate assets, enabling fractional ownership and increasing liquidity in the property market. This can make real estate investment more accessible to a larger number of people and create new opportunities for income generation through virtual property development and leasing.

In conclusion, while NFTs are already making waves in the tech and finance worlds, there are many lesser-known aspects and applications that are set to have a significant impact in the coming years. From revolutionizing the gaming industry to facilitating decentralized identity management and fractionalizing high-value assets, the potential of NFTs goes far beyond digital currency and collectibles

[adafruit]

🎄💾🗓️ Day 9: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - The Apple Lisa 🎄💾🗓️

The Apple Lisa, introduced on January 19, 1983, was a pioneering personal computer notable for its graphical user interface (GUI) and mouse input, a big departure from text-based command-line interfaces. Featured a Motorola 68000 CPU running at 5 MHz, 1 MB of RAM (expandable to 2 MB), and a 12-inch monochrome display with a resolution of 720×364 pixels. The system initially included dual 5.25-inch "Twiggy" floppy drives, later replaced by a single 3.5-inch Sony floppy drive in the Lisa 2 model. An optional 5 or 10 MB external ProFile hard drive provided more storage.

The Lisa's price of $9,995 (equivalent to approximately $30,600 in 2023) and performance issues held back its commercial success; sales were estimated at about 10,000 units.

It introduced advanced concepts such as memory protection and a document-oriented workflow, which influenced future Apple products and personal computing.

The Lisa's legacy had a huge impact on Apple computers, specifically the Macintosh line, which adopted and refined many of its features. While the Lisa was not exactly a commercial success, its contributions to the evolution of user-friendly computing interfaces are widely recognized in computing history.

These screen pictures come from Adafruit fan Philip " It still boots up from the Twiggy hard drive and runs. It also has a complete Pascal Development System." …"mine is a Lisa 2 with the 3.5” floppy and the 5 MB hard disk. In addition all of the unsold Lisa machines reached an ignominious end."

What end was that? From the Verge -

In September 1989, according to a news article, Apple buried about 2,700 unsold Lisa computers in Logan, Utah at a very closely guarded garbage dump. The Lisa was released in 1983, and it was Apple’s first stab at a truly modern, graphically driven computer: it had a mouse, windows, icons, menus, and other things we’ve all come to expect from “user-friendly” desktops. It had those features a full year before the release of the Macintosh.

Article, and video��

Check out the Apple Lisa page on Wikipedia

, the Computer History's article -

and the National Museum of American History – Behring center -

Have first computer memories? Post’em up in the comments, or post yours on socialz’ and tag them #firstcomputer #retrocomputing – See you back here tomorrow!

[cringefiend]

DIGITAL ART RAHHHH first ever drawing on ibispaint (and Timelapse)

I just got ibis paint after failing to bum a photoshop subscription off of someone for the past year. It’s only 3$ per month and super user friendly and easy to figure out. Hopefully there’s a way to animate at least a little bit too. But like there’s even manga panel settings, screen tones, backgrounds and a ton of other useful stuff. Lowkey wish I discovered this before Inukag week it would have made the stuff so much better and easier. Also the brush upload QR code system is so so easy and useful. Traditional art is kinda obsolete and takes forever so this is super useful bc I’ve been wanting to learn digital art for a while, but haven’t had a stable/easy to use way.

Anyways this is just an experimental thing to get to learn the software. Took 3.5 hours half of which was def spent on the hair. I can never figure out how to render hair bro. If you have tips please enlighten me 😛😛😛

Edit: accidentally made him too pale so I fixed it and replaced the pic

[fatalquiete]

La giovane donna che ha inviato il messaggio di supporto tecnico qui sotto (riguardo al suo rapporto con il marito) lo ha presumibilmente fatto per scherzo. Poi ha ricevuto una risposta così brillante che non poteva tenerla solo per sé. Il consiglio del supporto tecnico sull'amore è stato esilarante e geniale!

La richiesta:

Caro Supporto Tecnico,

L'anno scorso ho aggiornato il mio sistema da Fidanzato 5.0 a Marito 1.0 e ho notato un rallentamento significativo delle prestazioni complessive del sistema, in particolare nelle applicazioni Fiori e Gioielli, che funzionavano perfettamente con Fidanzato 5.0.

Inoltre, Marito 1.0 ha disinstallato molti altri programmi utili, come Romantico 9.5 e Attenzioni Personali 6.5, e ha installato programmi indesiderati come NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 e Mazze da Golf 4.1. Conversazioni 8.0 non funziona più, e Pulizie di Casa 2.6 manda semplicemente in crash il sistema.

Vorrei far notare che ho provato a eseguire il programma Lamentela 5.3 per risolvere questi problemi, ma senza successo. Cosa posso fare?

Firmato: Disperata

La risposta (arrivata settimane dopo, inaspettatamente):

Cara Disperata,

Prima di tutto, ricorda che Fidanzato 5.0 è un pacchetto di intrattenimento, mentre Marito 1.0 è un sistema operativo.

Inserisci il comando: Pensavo che mi amassi.html e prova a scaricare Lacrime 6.2. Non dimenticare di installare l'aggiornamento Senso di colpa 3.0. Se questa applicazione funziona come previsto, Marito 1.0 dovrebbe automaticamente avviare le applicazioni Gioielli 2.0 e Fiori 3.5.

Tuttavia, ricorda che l'uso eccessivo dell'applicazione Lacrime potrebbe causare il reset di Marito 1.0 su Silenzio Imbronciato 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 o Birra 6.1. Nota che Birra 6.1 è un programma molto problematico, poiché scarica la versione beta di Russare Forte.

Qualunque cosa tu faccia, NON installare sotto nessuna circostanza Suocera 1.0, poiché esegue un virus in background che alla fine prenderà il controllo di tutte le risorse del sistema.

Inoltre, non tentare di reinstallare il programma Fidanzato 5.0. Queste applicazioni non sono più supportate e faranno crashare Marito 1.0.

In sintesi, Marito 1.0 è un ottimo programma, ma ha una memoria limitata e non può imparare nuove applicazioni rapidamente. Potresti considerare l'acquisto di software aggiuntivo per migliorare la memoria e le prestazioni. Ti consigliamo Cucinare 3.0, Sesso Sfrenato 2.3 e Non Rompere I Coglioni 9.1

Buona fortuna!

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

European X-ray laser explores a poorly understood state of matter

The properties of warm dense matter have until recently been little known. Now, thanks to the use of X-ray lasers, physicists are gaining more and more information about this important but still mysterious state of matter. The first comprehensive observations of ionisation processes in warm dense matter, carried out at the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL), have just been presented in one of the most prestigious physics journals.

State of matter with a temperature of a few thousand degrees and a high density, close to that of a solid, can be found, among others, in the interiors of brown dwarfs or gaseous planets. Although common in the Universe, it is very difficult to be produced and analysed in the laboratory. A new era in experimental research of this so-called warm dense matter (WDM) state began just a dozen years ago, when physicists launched the first free-electron X-ray lasers. At the forefront of this type of device is the nearly 3.5 km-long European XFEL laser. A series of experiments recently carried out there made it possible to observe for the first time how quickly a metal transforms into the exotic state of ionised WDM to become transparent (non-absorbing) to X-rays at the end of the process. The achievement of the international team of scientists – including those from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) in Cracow – is discussed in a paper published in the journal Nature Physics.

X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs) are used to generate high-intensity X-ray pulses lasting single femtoseconds, i.e. millionths of a billionth of a second. These can be used to study the structure of matter at atomic length scales and to track phenomena on extremely short time scales. One of only a dozen such devices in the world is the European XFEL in Hamburg, built in cooperation with the DESY research centre.

“In our experiment at the European XFEL, we illuminated copper samples with X-ray pulses lasting 15 femtoseconds, using different, gradually increasing intensities”, Prof. Beata Ziaja-Motyka (IFJ PAN, DESY) introduces the experiment. The first author of the paper in question, Dr. Laurent Mercadier from the European XFEL, adds some physical details: “When a single X-ray laser pulse reached the material, it caused strong ionisation. The electrons released in the process were characterised by high temperatures. Under these extreme conditions, the copper was transformed into a state of warm dense matter. We meticulously recorded how much radiation passed through the matter and from this inferred the ionisation changes in the observed system.”

Simulations carried out using the BOLTZMANN SOLVER software, developed since 2004 at DESY by Prof. Ziaja-Motyka, were particularly helpful in interpreting the measurement results. This tool was used to simulate changes in the electronic occupancy of individual energy levels in WDM depending on the intensity of the incident laser radiation.

By confronting experimental data with simulations, it was established that when the X-ray intensity becomes sufficiently high, atoms of WDM become strongly ionised. As a result of this phenomenon, new energy levels appear which can be occupied by excited electrons – making WDM opaque for photons resonant with transitions to these new energy levels. These states had already been observed previously with optical lasers, however, the lasers’ energy limitations did not allow them to be studied in more detail. Now, thanks to the European X-ray laser XFEL, it is possible to characterise them accurately also in response to various intensities of X-ray pulses. In accordance with theoretical predictions for X-ray absorption spectra, prepared by Dr. Joshua Kas (University of Washington, USA) and Dr. Andrei Benediktovitch (DESY, Hamburg), it was further observed that with increasing the laser intensity the warm dense matter becomes first opaque and then – at highest intensities – transparent to the laser pulse.

“The appearance of ‘transparency’ – i.e. lack of absorption – in WDM is a consequence of the high ionisation of WDM atoms occurring at sufficiently high X-ray pulse intensities. The energy of the X-ray photons available in the experiment then becomes too small to excite further electrons. As a result, these photons cannot be absorbed by the warm dense matter at all,” explains Prof. Ziaja-Motyka.

Knowledge of the properties of warm dense matter and the processes taking place within it is not only of astrophysical, but also of practical, engineering importance. Matter in this state plays an important role in certain types of controlled nuclear fusion (ICF – Inertial Confinement Fusion), and also appears during the ablation of metallic heat shields of spacecraft returning from orbit to Earth.

The team of physicists at the European X-ray XFEL laser, led by Prof. Nina Rohringer (DESY, Universität Hamburg), intends to continue research into the electron and ionisation processes occurring in WDM and their dynamics. On the Polish side, the work is co-financed by the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

IMAGE: Warm dense matter occurs inside Jupiter-type giant planets (where it surrounds the rocky core as a metallic liquid at a temperature of many thousands of kelvin) and in the interiors of small stars – brown dwarfs. Credit Source: IFJ PAN / NASA

[vriheddiyev]

Sims 4 horse body override tutorial

This is a simple tutorial on how to make a body override for the sims 4 horse ranch ep. I'll be using the adult body here but you can also do that for the foal one. Needed software:

sims 4 studio (link)

blender can be 2.7x-3.x (link)

optional: my blender files -> set up for easier editing (press z and select "solid" to see the seams)

Blender Files: patreon drive

First you need to know that the body is split in 3 parts (better than ts3). The head, body and legs from the fetlocks down each have their own entity. You can't pack those three into one package so you need to make separate packages when editing. After you're done you can always merge those packages with the s4s merge tool. S4S PART 1 (you can skip this if you know how to use s4s)

In Sims4studio select "override" in the CAS column. Select "horse" in the species box, select desired age, then scroll down to the bottom and select one the three files. First one is the head ("ahHead), second one is the body (ahBody_nude) and the third are the legs (ahShoes_nude).

Okay now you gotta make a package file for your mod. Write a name for your file in the highlighted box. You can name it whatever you want but I suggest you use some markers that'll tell you if it's the head/body/legs. Also I usually don't use spaces, instead I use underscores. It's good practice to save it in a folder that's strictly made for your mods, don't save it in your actually game mod folder!!

Congrats! You created your package file. S4S opened the studio for you where you can make your edits and save them there. Select the "meshes" tab so that you can access the import/export utilities.

There's also the 3d preview window where you can check your edits later. Use your mouse scroll button and the right click to navigate it.

You can export the mesh if you're used to the way the s4s creators set up blender exported files or you can use my own file which is edited a bit. (personal preference really!) If you're exporting the file you have to name it again like the package file.

BLENDER EDITING (editing geoms)

Okay, we're done with the first part. Now open blender whatever version. I'll be using 3.5 for this tutorial as it's the one I have installed right now. It will look like this probably so just click wherever aside from the window to close it.

Use the File -> Open option in the top left corner, find your .blend file and open it.

Once opened it should look like this! *or like the s4s exported file

The name of the mesh that you're editing will always be "s4studio_mesh_1" so it has to be selected. It's already selected in the files that I provide but just in case.

If you're using the s4s exported file you need to press the "sculpt mode" option

We did it, the blender file is set up. Now onto the fun part :D

I mostly use the grab brush (shortcut is G) at around 300-400 strength. You can change the size with the shortcut F on your keyboard and the strength with shift + F. Once the green circle appears, drag it outward or inward to set the size then left click to confirm.

From here on it's up to you! You can edit the horse how you like but be careful not to go close to the neck!! It's where the seam is so you might get those visible seams like me if you're too ambitious haha

You can also experiment with other brushes on the left bar (long one) or the brush settings in the tab on your right.

Seriously try to not edit around the seam, it will leave holes where the red line is.

Also another advice, start small! Tiny edits go a long way, you can't fully change the appearance because of the rig limits. The animations are made for the vanilla mesh so it might be tricky to edit so that you won't break them. You've got this tho, once you'll learn it won't be too hard. You just gotta experiment a bit.

Once you're happy with your edit go ahead and save your file as a .blend file (native). Go to "file" -> "save as" and create another one so that you can use the base file for another time. Name it whatever you like again.

I manually closed the eyes just for the sake of the tutorial to show an edit, don't close the eyes in blender like me tho it will clash in the game!

S4S PART 2

Okay by now you're supposed to have a .package file and the edited .blend file. Make sure you choose the edited one or nothing will happen!

Let's go back into s4s now and click on the "import" button. Select your edited .blend file and open it. If you did everything correctly you should see your edit in the 3d window.

So for now all that's left to do is press the save button in the bottom left corner.

Put your saved .package file into your ts4 mods folder and test it out! It should appear straight up in CAS.

Ta da!

You can do this for all three body parts. This is the basics of how I edit the geom for the horses. I wish we could do more than that but this is currently what we're working with :D

Also it's good to take into account that other mods might not work with your edits. You can always try to make it compatible but sometimes it just doesn't work out which is completely fine.

That's it for now guys, I hope it helps a bit. These are really the basics of how I do it but there's also some advanced tricks if you want to edit a bit more. Thanks for the read!

[blur-from-the-north]

Autumn 2000. Oulu, Finland. Wirgin Edixa Prismat, Porst Weitwinkel 1:3.5/35mm, IFI 200 film.

It's weird how few photos about my software development activities I have taken. Probably because I haven't bought an O'Reilly book in freaking ages. Hard to photograph intangible references. I suppose I could take more photos of coffee mugs tho? Relevant even outside of Java, you know.

[fractallogic]

“The legal team who wrote your severance agreement desperately needs to go back to Contract Law 101,” says dad the retired employment attorney after reading my severance agreement, containing references to Oregon employment statutes (correct), California employment statutes (incorrect but understandable, since it’s based in Palo Alto), AND Virginia employment statutes (… what the fuck?), and also noting that it tells me I have five days from my severance date, Jan 31st, to review it, and that I may not sign it before my severance date, Jan 31st, and that waiting past Jan 31st to sign them is also too late and will make the offer void

So anyway, the company I’m pretty sure will be mismanaged into the ground because the sloppy slipshoddedness goes all the way through legal/HR to the sales staff and account managers, who promise things the software isn’t actually able to do, and now there are 3-3.5 people doing the maintenance of the language models (one full time person in the role I had, the new hire who splits her time between engineering and the role I had, a college intern that changes every four months, and the manager, who has a lot on her plate to begin with since she’s in a leadership role), and it’s not like things were being maintained before, so… you know… good luck with that

Anyways also please get me a new job. Please. Please get scone a job. Also please give him the willingness to listen to me when I’m like “hey xyz needs to change to pqr on your resume/linkedin”. I just really need a job. We need to be at least a one-full-American-cost-of-living-income household. Plis.

Also if anyone has talked to an AI recruiter, please share your tips, because a firm I applied to is having me do that and I have no idea how it’s supposed to work

[wimjee]

Steenkoolmijn Waterschei (ZW). by Wim Jacobs Via Flickr: Thor Park Genk op het voormalige mijnterrein van Waterschei en Terril via de steenmannetjesroute. NIK Silver Efex Pro2 conversie.

[regretsretrotech]

Other Sides of the Coin

That phrase is the guiding philosophy for my computer collection: lets unpack it.

First off, I've been around PC's all my life. While I don't remember it, the family's XT clone, then a 486 and onwards. I know PC's in and out. While they are fascinating machines in their own right, they aren't the only computers out there.

So what is out there? Many systems, all shapes and sizes, commercial and enterprise machines that never see the light of day until they are scrapped and the consumer machines meant for the home. For me the commerical and enterprise machines don't hold that much allure, they are curiosities for sure and one of two of them may find their way into my collection but that's for later. I focus on consumer machines currently.

But wait, there are many of those machines!? How do I keep myself from drowning in silicon and rocks we tricked to think?

Representatives.

You'll see this more in the earlier systems that had a vast array of systems that either competed with the example in my collection or preceded it. CP/M systems were many in a vibrant competitive ecosystem, I simply cannot own an example of every kind that is out there, so instead I settle on a well known unit and say it represents what the other units are.

Lastly, I sort the collection into bittiness and while my decisions are arbitrary and subjective, there is method behind them:

8 Bit Systems: Everyone will think of systems like the C64 but I also class systems like the PC/XT and the TI99/4a in the same category.

Limited color palettes and sounds

expectation to load software from 5.25" disks, cassette tape or cartridge ROM's.

BASIC in ROM.

Majority of the IO or internal operations done in 8 bits.

Limited RAM to 1MB or less.

Examples in my collection:

Commadore C64/C128

IBM PC/XT

Apple IIeP (Representative for the Apple II line)

Kaypro 4-84(Representative for the CP/M ecosystem.)

Texas Instruments TI99/4a

Timex Sinclare 1000

Missing:

Atari 8 bit. :(

16 Bit Systems: Here the lines start to blur and you'll see why.

Enhanced colors and sounds

Expected to load software from hard drives and 3.5" disks, gone are cassettes and cartridges for computers.

Faster CPU's

Majority of the system conducts itself in 16 bit operations.

RAM expanding above 1MB.

Expected to run GUI's

Examples:

Commadore Amiga 1000

Atari ST520

Apple IIgs (16 bit CPU but does everything in 8 bits)

Apple Mac Plus

IBM PC/AT (HA)

Clone PC/386 (full 32 bit CPU but all IO is 16 bits)

32 Bit Systems (Early)

Why do I say early? The 386 is a 32 bit CPU, but it's in the 16 bit category. And to that, I say the 386 didn't have a standard 32 bit expansion slot for it to use, a CPU like the 486 had two.

High color resolutions, and high fidelity sound capabilities.

Hard drives are standard equipment now.

CPU's pushing mid double digit speeds.

Multiple megabytes of RAM are expected

GUI's and multimedia.

CD-ROM is the new hotness

Examples:

Gateway 2000 4dx2/66V

Apple Performa 630CD

Missing:

Commadore Amiga 2000/3000

Atari Falcon

32 Bit Systems (Late)

At this point we are seeing the foundations of the modern computers as we know them today.

Unlimited Colors and Resolutions

Hard drives pushing dozens of gigabytes

RAM in the hundreds of Megabytes

Advanced CPU's with SIMD instructions running at several hundreds of Mhz.

Advanced OS's

Examples:

Compaq Deskpro EN866

Apple Imac G3(750)

Missing:

To be decided

The tail end:

Here the lines blur to the point it's difficult to call, so it's here where I plant the end of my collection, at least for now.

The modern computer as we know it has been invented and we start to shed the legacy of decades of computers that came before them. It is here that the coin has become flat. Apple is still doing their own thing with the Power PC's but will soon drop them in favor of x86. Intel is scratching it's head at the Pentium 4, AMD is ruling the roost with it's wildly successful Athlon processor.

There may be a home for systems in this era in the future as memories coalesces into nostalgia. There is already a root forming with two systems that blur the late 32 bit system lines, a Pentium 4 XP box and a Sawtooth G4.

Perhaps I'll get a G5. That would really blur the lines.

Thank you for reading.

Here is were I will put my wish list. Some of these systems are my biege whales, I would love an Amiga 4000T but at the costs of these machines, it is unlikely without shelling out as much as a decent used car.

Commadore Amiga 4000T

This machine doesn't have a direct comparison with either a PC or a Macintosh, but there are contemporary machines that would be added to the collection with it.

IMSAI or Altair 8800

Mostly for it's front panel toggling goodness. I'd reasonably be just as happy with something like a modern clone for me to twiddle the switches but still have something usable afterwards.

[allaroundnerd]

Codetober Day #2

2. What programming languages do you know?

Depends on how we wanna define "know" but here are the ones I at least know the basics of:

-Python - my very first coding class was in this, then I proceeded to not use it again for a long time until recently when I tried my hand at writing a Discord bot for Pathfinder/DnD 3.5 -Perl - Please do not ask me to write anything in this. I did one semester and proceeded to never use it again. -MIPS - same as Perl -C++ - I'm not great with this one but my first college decided this was a great place to go once we learned Python. I hadn't used it in a long time unfortunately, till I tried to pick up Unreal Engine -Java - After leaving college #1 and a bit of community college, I first learned Java. This is what I mainly use in my 9-5 work since all of my corporate positions have required it, along with... -SQL - I picked this up in college as well and while I went a pretty long time after graduating without using it, I DO know how to do some scripting and queries. -Javascript - I didn't use this much initially until my first big boy job changed my role to that of a full-stack developer as opposed to a software developer. -C# - Aside from a single semester in college, I actually didn't use this all that much till my most recent job. They are moving away from it and towards Java, so this works out. I also used this to try to learn programming in Unity. Outside of the professional stuff... -LUA - I used to be a HUGE WoW fan and stopped playing around Legion. Before that, I aspired to write add-ons for the game and found out this was the scripting language for it. -GML - Aka "GameMaker Language," I tried my hand at this engine as well when I was bouncing around trying to see which engine was a good fit.