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by jsrcout 5y ago
Start here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standard...
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Sad news. He was articulate and passionate, but very humble also. His book Carrying the Fire revived my interest in space as a 30-something adult who grew up dreaming of being an astronaut.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
I always used me@myhouse.org :-)
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Brings back some memories. On a similar note, does anyone remember the "earthquake screen" on the early Macs?
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Shades of neko [0] - a ridiculous amount of cuteness using a minimalist approach. I approve. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Does this caveat still apply when you only use a single short-circuit operator in a given command? As a long time shell scripter I'd honestly be a little afraid to use more than one at a time.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Sqlite is used in missiles? Would love to know more about that!
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Ultima music on the Mockingboard was the best. Thinking of the Ultima II-IV era IIRC. I listened to it hour after hour at my buddy's house and never got tired of it.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
> On Friday 22 May 1992, Goldin announced unexpectedly that the "worm" logo would be replaced by the traditional NASA blue "meatball" logo. It had been replaced in 1975 by the NASA red "worm" logo. By 1997,
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by jsrcout 6y ago
"If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, it will protect all of you." -- Larry Flynt
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by jsrcout 6y ago
I feel you. I made the mistake of looking up a paper on vision in cats once. Once was enough.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Fascinating model. Loved the random annotations on the individual pages. For instance, a brief spike on 25 Mar 1953 was labeled as "Press load following death of Queen Mary".
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by jsrcout 6y ago
There are multiple layers of encoding to mitigate this. CCSDS [0] is very widely used for satellite communications, and a Google image search for CCSDS protocols [1] will give you a quick view of the protocol stack (which can vary a lot as
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by jsrcout 6y ago
I want that code :-)
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by jsrcout 6y ago
One of my professors back in college loved to do that. "Shockingly effective" is exactly the right term. Learned a lot from that little exercise.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
> Wayland is in some ways actually better because it removes the massive central mess that is the X server... but then forces every other component to deal with those things, and does so in ways that to date play badly with composability
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by jsrcout 6y ago
> Some places the drivers are so polite to the point it really makes things dangerous I live in a small town that has extra polite drivers. It was really confusing for a while. Eventually I realized that it was a practical response to th
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by jsrcout 6y ago
This is the extension I didn't know I needed, thank you!
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by jsrcout 6y ago
That's impressive. And somewhat scary :-)
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Fantastic work - nearly perfect, as far as I can tell. Really brings me back to college days in the late 80s doing programming assignments on the computer lab VAX terminals. Maybe you can do the DECwriter font next :-)
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by jsrcout 6y ago
I agree completely, but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol#Toxicity
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Hunt for Julius Caesar’s Assassins Marked the Last Days of the Roman Republic(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by jsrcout 6y ago|1 comments
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by jsrcout 6y ago
> Except you could never un-see the embedded wires once you noticed them. So true. Seeing those wires for the first time was a major WTH moment. And you could sort of forget to notice them for a while, but they always came back.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Some of the Sun monitors were incredible, back in the day. I remember using a GIS system on, IIRC, a Sun 4 workstation with Sony Trinitron monitor. Just razor sharp and fast as hell.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
My very first assembly language program was exactly that on the Apple II. Didn't realize the DOS world had the same issue.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
> Emacs allows you to substitute any text for any other when viewing a document Do you have a reference or search term for that? My Google-fu is failing me.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
Looks nice, will try it out! Local variables in particular is probably the main feature I miss in rc.
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by jsrcout 6y ago
I used rc as my primary shell for many years. Day-to-day usage is pretty similar to sh honestly. It has an extremely "clean" syntax, and handles command arguments containing white space correctly - particularly useful for scriptin
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by jsrcout 6y ago
> http://buttplug.engineer Fantastic domain name. Too bad it's too long for a license plate :-)
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by jsrcout 6y ago
> atime doesn't quite work because it makes a read operation into a write. I remember discovering this little fact a lot of years ago. It really shook my confidence in the existence of a rational world. Then I learned about noatime

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