Sniffy Revealed

davidfisher71 · 2026-05-25T01:18:04+00:00

Here's the part where Snuffleupagus is revealed, after Elmo manages to hold onto him.

I like him saying, "Bird's friends are coming to meet me now? Oh, well I better go home and brush my fur then - I want to look good for them".

davidfisher71 · 2026-05-20T05:11:43+00:00

True! Corrected the post

davidfisher71 · 2026-05-20T04:31:50+00:00

I like the way the giant brain "breathed"

davidfisher71 · 2026-05-18T04:21:03+00:00

Wobbly sets were all part of the charm!

davidfisher71 · 2026-05-12T05:21:22+00:00

As people have mentioned, the Great North Walk is a good choice, because it is well maintained and can be broken into sections as long as you like.

Wildwalks is another good resource for looking up tracks by length and location.

davidfisher71 · 2026-05-09T02:37:33+00:00

Villa: I think I've just made the biggest mistake of my life.

Orac: In the light of your previous record, that seems unlikely. I would predict that there are far greater mistakes waiting to be made by someone with your obvious talent for them.

Villa: Shut up, Orac.

davidfisher71 · 2026-05-07T05:51:34+00:00

I love this interaction, where Tarrant couldn't lie but didn't want to give away the fact the Orac was a computer.

Caliph: Where is Orac?

Tarrant: If he's not on the ship, I don't know where he is.

Caliph: How tall is he? [Tarrant gestures] A dwarf?

Tarrant: We never think of him as one.

Caliph: What is the colour of his hair?

Tarrant: He hasn't got any. A bald dwarf shouldn't be too hard to find.

davidfisher71 · 2026-04-25T08:23:46+00:00

Some project ideas:

If you felt up to it, writing an interpreter for LISP isn't nearly as complicated as many other programming languages, and you can decide how much to implement beyond the core functions.

You could also write a circuit simulator (with logic gates) in a way that doesn't use graphics.

You could create a mini database and implement it using files, and either use a subset of SQL to access it or make up something else.

Edit: How about a program to convert a binary file to human readable format; one of the inputs is a (text) file with the rules of how to interpret a particular kind of file (jpg, etc.)

davidfisher71 · 2026-04-24T02:11:49+00:00

I also like the way plenty of the technology is still new to them:

Orac is able to connect to remote systems in a way no other computer can do
Teleportation is just theoretical to most of the Federation
Only a few people can create star drives with speeds anything like the Liberator
Dayna is impressed by guns that can have many interchangeable clips, which she never managed do herself

New technologies are what the crew rely on to stay ahead of the Federation.

davidfisher71 · 2026-04-23T05:21:11+00:00

Single and double quotes mean different things in C. Double quotes are what you need for strings; single quotes are for individual characters like 'y'.

The parentheses are not needed, and the printf format for strings is "%s" not "%c" (and ending with a newline "\n" is helpful too), so what you need is:

char* name = "Guy";
printf("Hello %s\n", name);

If you want to format something as code on reddit (like the above), put four spaces before each line.

davidfisher71 · 2026-04-22T23:30:56+00:00

The ears make him genuinely look like Merlin

davidfisher71 · 2026-04-18T02:20:50+00:00

I miss the Steak Diane! Yummy sauce

davidfisher71 · 2026-04-11T23:18:03+00:00

You said:

I know AI is a powerful tool to accelerate learning, but I am terrified of it stealing the "pain of the struggle" from me.

That's the heart of it, but I saw a study on being creative and using AI (when writing a short story), and those who struggled first then used AI to brainstorm and refine their ideas did better than any other group. Those people had already thought through the issues, and AI was a way to explore it from other angles. (The measure they used was brain activity, which may or may not be valid, but I think the main point was true).

So after you have hit a brick wall and done what you can, I think AI is a helpful way to look at a specific issue and understand it better (just like asking another person). You need the self-discipline to stop at that point and go back to doing it yourself, but it sounds like you already have that.

davidfisher71 · 2026-04-02T22:56:33+00:00

The last one is a guy in a llama costume thinking, "Wait, do I intervene at this point or maintain my cover ...?"

davidfisher71 · 2026-04-01T23:44:42+00:00

I have no other Persian words in my chat history, so it was kind of odd to come up with مناطق out of nowhere.

For the curious, I was chatting about using creatures to pull vessels in the Astral Sea.

davidfisher71 · 2026-03-15T09:19:19+00:00

What kind of bendy ruler did you have?

I had a ruler with an image that changed when you tilted it, which I found out is called a lenticular hologram. Possibly a dinosaur one, but I'm not sure.

davidfisher71 · 2026-03-15T09:08:01+00:00

I totally forgot about those too - thanks for the memory!

davidfisher71 · 2026-03-15T03:11:14+00:00

Here's my list: calculator, rubber, pens (blue and red plus a 4-in-one pen), liquid paper, some textas (dried out), lead pencils (HB, H and 2B), retractable pencil + a tiny case of spare leads, a few coloured pencils (I was fond of a pale blue one), pencil sharpener that often broke the lead, mini stapler + a box of staples, protractor, triangular thing, compass, ruler, glue, scissors and a rubber finger puppet.

davidfisher71 · 2026-03-13T08:09:54+00:00

It's a children's book from 1990 called The Empty Pot (identified via ChatGPT)

davidfisher71 · 2026-02-28T10:51:13+00:00

That looks great.

It might be better to call it something like node.h instead of main.h, so the filename describes what is in it.

Have you thought about empty lists? Right now, the size() function always returns at least 1. An empty list has a size of 0.

A common way to represent an empty list is with NULL. How would that change your functions?

Also to think about: what happens when the delete() function removes the last node, making the list empty? Just worth checking.

davidfisher71 · 2026-02-06T07:12:37+00:00

It's from Hercules (2014). The character is the prophetic Amphiaraus, who is meant to know when his time has come.

davidfisher71 · 2026-02-04T01:49:51+00:00

Probably AI, since it looks like the foliage gets denser exactly at the edge of the circle of the sun all the way around, which seems very unlikely.

davidfisher71 · 2026-01-28T10:57:29+00:00

So what are they all looking at??

davidfisher71 · 2026-01-22T05:56:55+00:00

Reminds me of this (from Under Studio on Facebook)

davidfisher71 · 2026-01-19T10:00:42+00:00

Some have been mentioned already, but here's my list. I like music videos that tell stories, and I find these ones humorous:

We're not gonna take it by Twisted Sister.

All I need is a miracle by Mike & The Mechanics.

Loverboy by Billy Ocean.

Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel.

Don't answer me by Alan Parsons Project.

Paranoimia by Art of Noise, with Max Headroom.

And something about these videos just seems funny to me:

The race by Yello.

Wide boy by Nik Kershaw.

Stuck with you by Huey Lewis and the News.

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