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Comment Hooray for minetest! (Score 1) 58

by davidone on Sunday June 02, 2024 @09:45PM (#64518843) Attached to: College-Level Minecraft-Based CS Courses Approved for US High School Students

This is good news for all us minetest lovers

Submission + - Scientist recover text from charred scrolls of Vesuvius (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by davidone on Sunday February 18, 2024 @02:26AM

davidone writes: Thanks to X-ray tomography and machine learning, carbonized scrolls found in Villa of Papyri – an ancient Roman mansion destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius — can now be read, after being buried since 79 CE.

Comment why not the free options? (Score 2) 38

by davidone on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @09:52PM (#64111019) Attached to: US Department of Education Spending $4 Million To Teach 3,450 Kids CS Using Minecraft

Sorry to all my U.S.A. friends, but this kind of news makes me kinda proud to not be American (as in: proud to not be part of all that lobbying that is eating away at a great country).

Come on, if you really want to teach using voxels, there are plenty of FREE options (https://edu.ihom.app/en/, https://github.com/edu-minetes..., etc.).

But I guess this does not sit well with plutocracy, sadly.

Comment like in The Wrath of Khan (Score 1) 103

by davidone on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:56PM (#63807694) Attached to: Woman's Mystery Illness Turns Out To Be 3-Inch Snake Parasite In Her Brain

That scene from The Wrath of Khan suddenly makes a lot more sense

Comment Re:Tumblr (Score 1) 308

by davidone on Monday June 12, 2023 @08:53PM (#63597244) Attached to: Reddit is Crashing Because of the Growing Subreddit Blackout

Hi fellow slashdotter, my Slashdot ID is 12252, I am a proud member of the 5 Digit UID Club and this is my 15th post. Yay!

Comment Re:Sharp PC 1402 (PC == Pocket Computer) (Score 1) 523

by davidone on Monday September 19, 2022 @02:39AM (#62894031) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Computer?

I was the very proud owner of a Sharp PC-1401.
It got me hooked on programming, I even learnt to code in its assembly to get some tunes out of it instead of the default beep.
Good times...

Comment Just removed the 3 (Score 1) 124

by davidone on Thursday November 25, 2021 @01:21AM (#62019383) Attached to: Next Windows 11 Update Brings Back Clippy

They just went full circle and removed the 3 from Windows 3.11

Comment It's like in "Dune" (Score 1) 19

by davidone on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @09:04PM (#61912197) Attached to: Investors Use AI To Analyze CEOs' Language Patterns and Tone

I mean this is like Bene Gesserit stuff... without the Bene Gesserit

Comment The KITT stunt did this all the time (Score 1) 84

by davidone on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:26AM (#55193409) Attached to: Ford Disguised a Man As a Car Seat To Research Self-Driving

Hello! The 80's are calling, they say this is old news!
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/...
https://geeks.media/knight-rid...

Comment go for management (Score 5, Insightful) 592

by davidone on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @10:54PM (#28617543) Attached to: Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39?

Think about how many young people are being graduated all over the world today.
Think how are they eager to work for way less than you get.
Think how faster than you they are at learning new things.
Now where'd you put the only asset you have, i.e. experience?

Comment like in that book (Score 1) 52

by davidone on Sunday May 24, 2009 @08:46PM (#28079363) Attached to: Cells May Communicate Through Light

brr... just like "blood music", that book from Greg Bear...

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