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by thangalin 5mo ago
* Time trackers https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/timeivy An unfinished spreadsheet-based interface for entering time. Meant for consulting, but never got around to persisting the data. Mostly created it because I couldn&#
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by thangalin 5mo ago
Canada's largest single-leaf bascule bridge, on Vancouver Island, is a remarkable and stunning piece of engineering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Street_Bridge
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by thangalin 5mo ago
http://autonoma.ca/calculators/rocket/antimatter/ Given a distance, an allowable time to reach that distance, a payload to send, and an expected exhaust velocity, how would you calculate the time required to
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by thangalin 5mo ago
In raw C, I like to use the "open"/"close" metaphor and when developing, invoke the routes in parallel. For example: https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/mandelbrot/blob/HEAD/main.c Whe
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by thangalin 5mo ago
When developing KeenWrite[1], I opted to support only plain TeX. This is because I wanted math typesetting to work for either LaTeX or ConTeXt[2]. To render TeX in the preview panel, I forked NTS[3] into a highly optimized Java version. The
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by thangalin 5mo ago
Hey ouli, your hello email bounces. See also: https://amandahinton.com/blog/creating-a-color-palette-from-...
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by thangalin 5mo ago
https://repo.autonoma.ca/treetrek My free, open-source, bare-bones, caching-free, dependency-free, authentication- and authorization-free pure PHP raw Git viewer. I developed it because GitList blew out my shared host'
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by thangalin 5mo ago
> I truly love GitHub, and I hope they find their way. I jumped ship as soon as they added MFA. I vibe-coded my own raw Git repository reader to help consolidate my other repos (BitBucket, GitLab), which inevitably started to impose mor
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by thangalin 5mo ago
> a comparison of all these tools/markup languages It can take a long time to draft such comparisons; I crafted one for my own Markdown editor, which uses ConTeXt instead of LaTeX: https://keenwrite.com/blog/202
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by thangalin 5mo ago
https://i.ibb.co/qM5xgPZ6/fascism-five-stages.png The NSF is an independent federal agency that funds roughly a quarter of all basic academic research in the US, laying the groundwork for technologies like the Internet
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by thangalin 6mo ago
> you are fine with it. Why not ask me my motivations instead of assuming them? I'm not fine with the range; I bought an EV to stop burning fossil fuels, my 24-year-old RAV4 was on its last leg, and there was a $6K bonus for trade-i
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by thangalin 6mo ago
While this is a good step forward, it feels like complaining about the 0.025% of plastic from straws in the ocean while ignoring the 75% of plastic from fishing nets. I own a 2020 Kona EV. The battery cannot be upgraded. Eventually, I'
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by thangalin 6mo ago
Sent to Benn Jordan: https://i.ibb.co/WWWYznHX/flock-future.png See also a poster from IBM’s German subsidiary, circa 1934. The approximate translation: “See everything with Hollerith punch cards.” https://w
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by thangalin 6mo ago
> It's dangerous. For millenia. See https://www.jlab.org/news/releases/jefferson-lab-tapped-lead... > Partitioning and recycling of uranium, plutonium, and minor actinide content of used nuclear fuel ca
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by thangalin 6mo ago
https://i.ibb.co/rKgkrVy7/flock-future.png
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We Don't Know: A Case for Mars(dave.autonoma.ca)
1 points by thangalin 6mo ago|2 comments
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by thangalin 6mo ago
I'm building something from scratch, with no existing code base, and no requirement to integrate with or extend an existing implementation. The only constraint is Git's raw file format. Brownfield, to me, means constraints from ex
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by thangalin 6mo ago
Related: My FOSS tool allows uploading PDF files to a private server for annotating within a browser. Annotations are saved server-side in JSON format, which can be viewed and modified by anyone with the URL. https://repo.autonom
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by thangalin 7mo ago
Claude has neither a soul nor a warbleflupper.
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by thangalin 7mo ago
How is it not? You can trace the back commits to the first to show that it was started from scratch: https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek/commits/c7742cb3c580d...
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by thangalin 7mo ago
> LLMs are not actually doing a great job of translating ideas into tangibly useful software Here is the source code for a greenfield, zero-dependency, 100% pure PHP raw Git repository viewer made for self-hosted or shared environments t
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by thangalin 7mo ago
On Tue, Oct 3, 2023, 1:18 PM, I wrote: How many apps must people put on their phones, or payment cards people must carry, to pay to charge their vehicles with the convenience of a petrol station? * https://parking.ubc.ca/are
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by thangalin 7mo ago
> documentation is considered a "first-class citizen" How exquisitely Knuthian!
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by thangalin 7mo ago
The linage can be traced back to Basile Bouchon's paper tape invention in 1725. The article doesn't mention the role of punched cards in The Holocaust, though, which my blog post goes into: https://dave.autonoma.ca&#x2F
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by thangalin 7mo ago
I'll bite. Here's a 99.9% vibe-coded raw Git repository reader suitable for self-hosted or shared host environments: https://repo.autonoma.ca/treetrek There's still some work to do on the rendering side of mo
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by thangalin 7mo ago
> difficult to keep [...] docs updated with actual code I used my software and R Markdown documents to help address such problems. In the source code, you have: // DOC SNIPPET BEGAN: example_api_usage /** *&
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by thangalin 7mo ago
Syntax highlighting rules, initially vibe-coded 40 languages and formats in about 10 minutes. What surprised me is when it switched the design from a class to the far more elegant single line of code: return \file_exists( $file ) ? re
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by thangalin 7mo ago
> Is this kind of facial reconstruction from a skull legit? What did you search for when you tried to verify this yourself? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klxUyd3CgrE Aside, a similar approach was used in a MacGyver epi
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by thangalin 7mo ago
How Cosmic Ray Influenced an Election: https://scotopia.in/journal/journalbkend/paper_list/v-4-i-1(... Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs M
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by thangalin 7mo ago
Of possible interest: * https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2022/01/08/logging-code-smell/ * https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2026/02/03/lloopy-loops/ Both of these

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