troyunrau

joined 1 year ago
[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Cat doesn't do ebooks ;)

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Create a TV Tropes page for it and it'll live forever as Canadian Warehouse Sci-Fi.

Could sort of just go through this list and see what fits haha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_TV_and_radio_shows_produced_in_Canada#Live_action_science_fiction_television_drama_series

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Cleopatra 2525 is just something

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Funny story.

Two decades years ago, when I first started working in arctic exploration, we were limited to how much weight we could take with us to our exploration camps. Most of us would decided on a couple of books to bring with us. But I didn't want to bring books I wouldn't like, because then I've wasted my weight allowance. So I brought that gold-coloured LotR copy with me and read it over and over, year over year. Probably read it at least once a summer for seven consecutive years. Sometimes in environments even more desolate than Mordor. Imagine reading it here.

Later, I got a kindle and the weight problem sort of went away.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I've watched about half of that list. Well, when I run out of Grand Star episodes, I guess I have more warehouses to explore then haha.

To contrast this, see Vancouver sci fi, like the X Files, SG1, Smallville, The 100, Dark Angel, BSG, etc...

Or Halifax with... Lexx ;)

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I really loved things like Eros station docks in The Expanse. So yeah it fits this vibe haha. :)

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Forward slash doesn't throw a mental syntax error? ;)

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is the plural of mail? ;)

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

https://numerical.recipes/

The current version is in C++

But if you check the link above, the older C and Fortran editions are free to read. This is the gold standard for numerical algorithms and scientific computing, without getting into things like GPUs and such.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

That's a good idea. Better than my other ideas. Cereal box full of cereal and the modem.

For a moment I considered putting in a bucket with resin and letting it solidify, then removing the bucket and just shipping them a modem encased in resin. But they'd probably charge me for the modem they're just going to send to the landfill anyway. Maybe I should do that and turn it into a modem bowl on the lathe...

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Electron for physics apps? Yuck! that's basically just web dev with local hosting. Like, try six million datapoints and plotting them in electron.

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