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by hwc 3y ago
The view gives me nausea; I don't want windows! I want my spacecraft to have thick skin and a Whipple shield!
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by hwc 3y ago
I suspect that all of those things happened at once. The trigger might have been the end of the gold standard on August 15, 1971. I suspect that we had been going too long without an increase in the gold backing our money supply, and after
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by hwc 3y ago
I have a couple of nice leather covers for my composition books. One for personal notes and one for a work notebook. < https://amazon.com/gp/product/B00ITXB8UQ >
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by hwc 3y ago
why not forward decare a struct type in `ifndef __cplusplus` and use pointers to that type instead of `void*` pointers?
65.
by hwc 3y ago
I'm looking forward to the log/slog package. I might start switching over from our homegrown solution next week.
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by hwc 3y ago
I have a script checked into a git repo so I can more easily sync between machines. https://gitlab.com/halcanary/config/-/blob/master/git_config...
67.
by hwc 3y ago
I had the exact same experience. The company in question is Epic Systems, maker of very popular medical records software.
68.
by hwc 3y ago
they should have built the roof with steel & glass so it can't burn!
69.
by hwc 3y ago
I've begun relying on building DOM trees and then using a render() function to serialize them. e.g. < https://gist.github.com/HalCanary/fd4ec75ae950196454f09051a5... > or < https://gist.github.co
70.
by hwc 3y ago
Also, wants to use C ABI in other software.
71.
by hwc 4y ago
Great! Now do an e-ink book reader!
72.
by hwc 4y ago
just started watching your lectures! they are great!
73.
by hwc 4y ago
I wish we could just buy DRM-free physical copies of ebooks, music, and movies on SDCard-sized ROM cartridges.
74.
by hwc 4y ago
If someone would build a Linux-friendly competetor to the ARM64 Mac Mini, I would consider that for my home computer. As it is, I either have to stick with x86_64, go to Apple, or have an under-powered RPi.
75.
by hwc 4y ago
Every note is a sum of harmonic sine waves, usually not just a single one. The first harmonic of 440hz is 880Hz. So plucking a harp string for A4 will also produce the A5 and A6...
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by hwc 4y ago
The Orion spacecraft can't even make it to low Lunar orbit. The SLS block 1 can put 95 tons into low Earth orbit. Compare to the Falcon Heavy, which can put 63.8 tons into LEO. Is it worth paying over ten times as much for only 1.4 t
77.
by hwc 4y ago
kill -9 $(pgrep vim)
78.
by hwc 4y ago
My contribution: https://halcanary.org/mathapplets/toadshuffle/#64
79.
by hwc 4y ago
What's wrong with just using `sans-serif`, `serif`, and `monospace`?
80.
by hwc 4y ago
My web site is black text on white background (or white on black if `@media (prefers-color-scheme:dark)` is set). If someone wants LESS contrast, they can change the settings on their monitor.
81.
by hwc 4y ago
Yes, this. Also, I wrote a small library that lets me programmatically generate SVGs with Python. This lets me create very precise vector images. This fills some of the same needs.
82.
by hwc 5y ago
Also, when using Go, use the time.Duration type in your API. It makes things unambiguous but adds no overhead.
83.
by hwc 5y ago
I just want to specify International Atomic Time, relative to some universally-agreed-upon epoch, in nanosecond units.
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by hwc 5y ago
If you simply assume that your spacecraft uses its own engines to accelerate to cruising speed, then the Δv to decelerate is approximately equal to the Δv to accelerate. Similarly, if the engines are operated at a constant acceleration, the
85.
by hwc 5y ago
Texas is without power at the moment.
86.
by hwc 5y ago
Also, his politics changed drastically over the course of his life, going from a New Deal Democrat to a Goldwater Republican.
87.
by hwc 5y ago
Arcosanti is a lot of concrete, as I recall.
88.
by hwc 5y ago
Or you can just buy a Nintendo Switch. I wonder why they don't have game-boy emulation yet.
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by hwc 5y ago
That is a problem to be fixed by the server, not the client.
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by hwc 5y ago
Could one make a system on a chip 386?

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