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by trailbits 3y ago
I loved to go to the Hansen planetarium in Salt Lake City as a kid to learn about the night sky. I remember when they swapped out the star projector with the first digital projector made by Evans & Sutherland in the early '80s. The
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by trailbits 3y ago
When wages go up, rents go up. For rents to go down you either have to have more housing or less people in a given area.
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by trailbits 3y ago
It might make sense for older larger vehicles that primarily move forward to have backup beepers. But every commercial oriented vehicle seems to have them now, including the smallest of dock loaders. These smaller vehicles have clear visibi
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by trailbits 4y ago
Then there is the smell. Amazon packages delivered by private vehicle frequently smell strongly of dryer sheets or Febreze that make me nauseous.
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by trailbits 4y ago
> It's good to be passionate, but blind devotion is dangerous Agree with you there -- the data might be encrypted on Apple's servers but that doesn't mean Apple can't scan your data on your device and report the findi
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by trailbits 4y ago
I would think yes, if you can accept the performance hit. Always have to be careful of what files you share between guest and host. Even browsing as another MacOS user would offer much isolation from your main account if you make your main
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by trailbits 4y ago
You never had to use their IDE, and in fact the IDE didn't exist for the first 20 years or so. Being an interpretive language, no toolchain involved. You just write code in any editor and run the IDL interpreter, just as you do with pe
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by trailbits 4y ago
IDL is a much older established language dating back to the '70s. So GDL would appeal to anyone needing to run or develop IDL code but wishing to avoid paying the license fee.
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by trailbits 5y ago
Markor looks like a great way to view Zim files on android. Thanks for the tip! But it seems to access note files in the common filesystem space -- which for privacy reasons somewhat defeats why I prefer Zim over cloud-based solutions. Anyo
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by trailbits 5y ago
Great as a practical joke on colleagues when they stepped out of the room!
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by trailbits 5y ago
I've been using and loving qalculate for years as part of Debian but strangely it isn't in the current Debian stable package list (bullseye). So I just switched to SpeedCrunch and it seems like a good replacement for most quick ca
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by trailbits 5y ago
They seem to support the current version and the previous two before that. So Mojave is not getting support, but Catalina is at this time. But be careful what you wish for -- the last Catalina security update broke software using openGL acc
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by trailbits 5y ago
Why would the RTE of this salt solution be so much lower than the molten salts demonstrated in the DOE Solar Two project? According to the technical report at https://www.osti.gov/biblio/791898 they achieved round-trip
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by trailbits 5y ago
In many western cities, the air is heavily polluted with wood smoke. Walking around suburbs of Seattle I see many of the older homes emitting thick white woodsmoke from their chimneys. This is very bad for everyone's health. If it&#x27
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by trailbits 5y ago
I'm happy to see California do this and hope other states wise up to the damage being done by these pollution machines. Drives me bonkers every week as neighbors and their landscapers fire up gas powered leaf blowers, edge trimmers and
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by trailbits 5y ago
Thanks for the memories! Every time I try and recreate my old Solaris environment from the 90's I discover that I'm missing the Fortran shared library that much of my code was linked with. I saved my Solaris CDs over the years but
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by trailbits 6y ago
It's a fun exercise to work out the Gravitational Force between the Moon and the Earth and between the Moon and our Sun. It will surprise many that the Sun exerts more force on the Moon than the Earth does. So the Earth inflicts a stro
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by trailbits 9y ago
Best. Game. Ever. Tempest came out when I was in high school, and my buddy and I would rather skip lunch and play this instead of eat each day. We produced a little booklet of each level we kept in our wallets so we could jot down where we
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by trailbits 10y ago
The earth is bathed in radiation from GPS transmitters and these clever satellites are using doppler radar techniques to see how those signals are being reflected from ocean waves. From the doppler shift you can infer wind fields. Consumer