kbr2000

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by kbr2000 6y ago
Good times, I've done this with DWD (German meteorological service) in the 90s, using HamComm [0] This project in the article however, listens directly to satellites, and not to a LF/HF ground-based station like we used to do. [0]
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Looks like they give a short overview when you follow "Read the docs" (just under the "Star us" ;)
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Hey, I'd like to read more about this integrated PostScript support for Xorg, can you point me in the right direction please? Tnx
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Try looking up 'blum' on urbandictionary :)
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by kbr2000 6y ago
And here's a new one that seems very interesting, just out: Bit Player [0] (about Claude Shannon and his work) [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7WmMSAxq8s
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by kbr2000 6y ago
I've found many good (mostly black-n-white) historical snippets by searching on YT for persons related to computer history (for example Von Neumann, Hopper, Feynman, ...). A lot is related to wartime efforts, as there seemed to be a re
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Yep [0], after been bought by Dice (they also drained off the Freshmeat and Slashdot communities around that time, then froze the former "as a result of low traffic levels"). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by kbr2000 6y ago
I guess like any other second-level domainname: Fetch your piggy bank, and then go out to look for it. Peculiar things that pop in my mind right now: - given their length, know that they are scarce; you can expect that scarcity to drive the
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by kbr2000 6y ago
It's been done using Tcl [0] in the nineties, in the EtLinux [1] project for embedded systems. One of the goals was to shave off memory usage by implementing tools under a single scripting interpreter (instead of each of them having th
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Heh, that depends on how many "minutes of real, actual work" done [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iiOEQOtBlQ
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by kbr2000 6y ago
You might be specifically talking about Wayland here then, but with X on the other hand, it's not difficult for example [0] [0] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/170596/is-it-po...
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Undoubtedly it was a species at risk!
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Mmmn, it's just a promise... Doesn't mean it cannot be broken. Not sure it will survive a change of management, too. Here's a primer for you ;) [0] It's in your power to do your own mangling before uploading. The same wi
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by kbr2000 6y ago
I've also been reading your source out of interest (and time ;)). Must say you have quite a consistent style, and you found a good balance what concerns writing comments. Not an OO connaisseur myself, what I'm a bit puzzled about
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Expect is a Tcl extension. You can also put Tk in the mix if you want, to create graphical Expect-based applications. You might know Tk from Tkinter (a Python binding to Tk). Undroidwish [0] is a Tcl/Tk binary that apparently has exper
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Hey, well done! For these kinds of tasks, myself I regularly use the venerable Expect [0]. [0] https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Cool project, well done! Reminded me also of the Jesusonic [0] FX processor, by Justin Frankel [1] of Winamp, SHOUTcast, REAPER, ... [0] https://www.cockos.com/jsfx/ [1] https://1014.org/
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Not sure that is how the cookie crumbles, rather: it will be decided that chemical X is harmful at a certain dose, which leads to some permissible concentration Y of X, and that Y can then be used for regulation of disposing X. A place that
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by kbr2000 6y ago
I'll be eager not to correct you: it's such a complex tangle that it's a liability. Also, it is huge, and full of inconsistencies that sweep through the documentation, code, interfaces... It guarantees that anyone that wants
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Lol, amen to that. A popular management fad. People suddenly start to feel important when they get labels like that stuck onto them. Oh boy...
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Yes, it's called the "baby duck syndrome" [0], and it's stopping lots of professionals from even looking up when it comes to trying something different. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Ha, you got me confused there for a bit, because of: https://wiki.c2.com/?ThreadedInterpretiveLanguage Anyway, thanks for sharing your tips!
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by kbr2000 6y ago
True, but it's probably not so important. After all, it's just more human centered talk. It might be useful now for everyone to take a step back, consider we share this planet with other living things, and maybe someone is brave e
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Cool! Made a "light" attempt at this when I was a kid, hooking up a matrix printer to my MSX computer [0], and learning BASIC's PEEK and POKE from my dad, to make a kind of typewriter: type a character, it prints at the curpo
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Well, good luck! Remember it's never too late to learn something ;)
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by kbr2000 6y ago
I can recommend to get a copy of * Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution, by Lamont Wood. * The Soul of A New Machine, by Tracy Kidder. * Books by George Dyson (son of ...): Darwin Among the M
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Datapoint's ARCnet (token bus) similarly also had to make place for Ethernet [0], while initially less expensive. An interesting networking technology still used in industrial fieldbus applications (wind turbines & robots for examp
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Thanks, first time I've heard of them, will be going through those (they seem to be available at archive.org [0]) soon! I'd like to point out another interesting 18-part series of videos about prototyping (in his words "a sho
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Takes a deep breath: can anyone explain how costs of maintenaning a fleet like that on the ground, would way up against flying empty? At what point would it make sense to "mothball" airplanes for longer term storage?
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by kbr2000 6y ago
Yes, that would be a worthwhile choice! Shelter and fire first, probably :)

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