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by todd8 4y ago
There’s already been some good replies to your comments, but I want to throw in one more simple suggestion. You can learn a lot about Emacs lisp by reading and modifying other developers config files. Pick a few of the more complete well do
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by todd8 4y ago
This was envisioned in a science fiction story or novel decades ago, but I can’t remember where I saw it! It might have been a novel by Robert Heilein. It was just mentioned in passing in the story, but since that time I’ve wondered if it w
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by todd8 4y ago
The affiliation of authors of academic papers is usually indicated by the footnotes associated with the authors names. You will see some small letters like superscripts next to the authors names. All of them list one or two affiliations wit
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A paper was recently published on the assembly of monkey pox virus through recombination technology in a lab. The work was done before the end of 2021 because that was when the paper was submitted for publication, see [1]. I don't unde
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I'm planning on purchasing an electric car when I replace the car I drive now. After looking into it, I was disappointed to find out that all of us switching to a battery electric cars won't make that big a dent in global greenhou
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by todd8 4y ago
> Today, you're never more than 100 miles from a DC fast charger ... As long as your road trip travels from fast charger to fast charger 100 mile separations aren't a problem. But in my state (TX) there are lots of places where
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by todd8 4y ago
This keyboard may seem extreme, but in my first decade as a programmer I had to load instructions or data into around a dozen different different computers through front panel switches. On most computers before 1980's there would be a
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Yes, and with more complexity comes more ways to fail to operate properly. I foolishly almost locked myself of my condo. I had a Medeco high security cylinder on the door and the condo was on the 22 floor so it was pretty secure. Foolishly,
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USA Today removes 23 articles says reporter fabricated sources(washingtonpost.com)
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by todd8 4y ago
Years ago, I had a partner that was a highly trained symphony musician (studied musicology and performance at a major university, PhD etc). After all these years of training and having incredible skills, she was unable to support herself. T
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by todd8 4y ago
Aircraft carriers sail with a group of support ships ringing the carrier miles away. These include destroyers and missile cruisers. A rear admiral manages them in close coordination with the carrier captain. Under a separate chain of comman
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by todd8 4y ago
I met a mechanic working on a jet engine pulled from a fighter in the repair facility of a US aircraft carrier (his biceps were as thick as my legs); I asked him why he was wearing a Marine pattern camouflage uniform. He explained that he w
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by todd8 4y ago
A bit off topic, but the actual geometry of a bike noticeably affects its stability. It is my understanding that the head angle (the angle from vertical of the pivoting part of the fork) and the fork offset (the distance between the front a
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by todd8 4y ago
My partner worked as a volunteer election poll worker in 2016. It was her job to take everyone's id and check it against a database to ensure that the person was on the voting rolls. 13 people came in to vote that either voted already
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by todd8 4y ago
> Well, maybe we should start by rolling back this common conception that when it comes to schools, everyone’s opinion matters an equal amount I have some thoughts about the education system, and despite not being a teacher or academic I
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by todd8 4y ago
At MIT in 1973 I had to use RTL logic (lower density, speed, and fan-out than TTL) for my digital design lab. I decided to design a circuit that played perfect Nim on a board of one to four piles of up to 15 stones in each pile. It took aro
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by todd8 4y ago
> .. the cheapest and most effective option for private transport for both individuals and whole society will be via flying cars .. When driving any distance, I frequently see cars stopped on the side of the roadway. They’ve run out of f
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by todd8 4y ago
I wrote my first program in 1967 or 1968, so yes I can program without the internet. Programming for a couple of decades before the internet existed got me into the habit of relying on manuals (like IBM 360 Principles of Operation [1]) an
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by todd8 4y ago
My interview for IBM back in the 1980s went well, and I got the job as a software architect. I don’t remember much about the interview; it must not have been stressful. The strange thing for me was a weird day of interaction with a group of
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by todd8 4y ago
Roughly the same thing happened to me on a much much bigger scale. I was making an estimated income tax prepayment (as required by law) on the ridiculous IRS direct pay site. There was no way to undo my error that I could find on the IRS we
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by todd8 4y ago
I've never heard of this perhaps because HN is about the only social media I use. However, there is an ADL page on this. See https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/echo
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by todd8 4y ago
I've been using the networkQuality command on MacOS (a command line tool). It has a few interesting options so see its man page.
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I always try to give cyclists a wide clearance when passing them on the street and slow down behind them if it’s not practical to pass at the moment. I don’t really mind sharing the road with road bikers, they seem to be thoughtful about th
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by todd8 4y ago
Everyone is different. I can't say what will work for you, but don't forget to exercise, preferably outdoors. I started jogging because I was feeling down; a friend called and asked me if I wanted to train for a marathon with her.
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by todd8 5y ago
From its earliest days, Unix has used a single hyphen to introduce command options or flags, like 'ls -l', which produces the long form directory listing, and 'cat -n', which numbers the lines that it outputs. Every auth
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by todd8 5y ago
> Its a red meat issue for republican politicians... Recent polls show that a majority (55%) of republicans support same sex marriage. [1] [1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/350486/record-high-support-same...
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GNU Parallel(gnu.org)
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There's an interesting graphic that shows how often the Justices vote the same or different, see [1]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/24/upshot/24up-s...
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by todd8 5y ago
There wasn't very good public transportation to Wellesley College from Boston in 1970 so I borrowed a friend's car to pick up my date. The car was old enough even then to have a crank handle stowed behind the driver's seat fo
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by todd8 5y ago
The article uses a game movement function as a possible motivation for needing the cosine. If object.rotation is constant as the spiral animation seems to suggest, there is an important optimization for rapidly computing the sequence: cos(t

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