Comments by Steve Clark (@steevc) - STEMGeeks

Steve Clark

Arlesey, Beds, UK

Geeky guitarist, drummer, runner and not the only Hivian in the village

1 day ago

RE: How to turn any image into a 3D model As someone who grew up with computers that ran at single figure MHz and had kilobytes of memory I am amazed by what you can do now. My PC may not be up to this sort of thing as…

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3 days ago

RE: People are starting to talk like Chat GPT... I've not really noticed this yet. I have seen politicians talk a certain way over the years, but I assume that is down to being coached on presenting themselves rather than being…

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5 days ago

RE: Valuable, Practical Advice for Modern C Programmers I am not sure I did much pure C as I tended to use C++ at work. The lower level stuff does make you more conscious of possible mistakes as they can really mess things up. At…

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5 days ago

RE: Creating a New Retro Space Battle Game Inspired by Star Trek .BAS I think about 10k of that was used for displaying the graphics that mixed 2 modes, but they still squeezed in about 4000 systems to visit. Amazing bit of coding.

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6 days ago

RE: Creating a New Retro Space Battle Game Inspired by Star Trek .BAS I still have my copy of that book! I'm not sure if I played that game, but I know I tried to get some of them working on the college system we could access at work via Teletype.…

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6 days ago

RE: IEEE ‘Top Programming Languages’ I've used a fair few of those, but don't know what SAS and Apex are. I've heard people rave about Ruby and Rust so it might be fun to look at those. I quite like to have a course…

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8 days ago

RE: Browser-Based CP/M emulator — finally! My dad ran his business on CP/M. I wrote a game on that for my O level computing and I borrowed a machine from him to type up my degree project. Good old Wordstar :)

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8 days ago

RE: Browser-Based CP/M emulator — finally! I am always amazed by emulators and being able to run them in a browser is crazy. Our hardware these days is thousands of times faster so you can do a lot. I used CP/M a fair bit…

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12 days ago

RE: My Programming Journey The office stuff was various languages including C# on Oracle back end. The Python testing systems replace old apps written in Tcl. It's hard to find people who know that and…

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12 days ago

RE: My Programming Journey I've worked on a lot of back office apps and now on stuff for testing hardware. Anything public facing may need to be more polished and then there's all the security issues. I just like hacking code.

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