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by watersb 5y ago
Tcl was briefly used for the monitor and control system for the original 12-meter radio telescope on Kitt Peak in Arizona. The Tcl system was ported from the Very Large Telescope VLT, in Chile. So that's a couple of weird places. http
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by watersb 5y ago
The United States had a formal treaty obligation to defend Taiwan... that expired in 1980. But such a pact may soon be realized once more. https://www.cato.org/commentary/reborn-us-taiwan-military-al...
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by watersb 5y ago
Thanks! I wasn't aware of these, despite being a subscriber for a couple of years. This seems to be an online collection of these articles: http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/ddj.html
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by watersb 5y ago
How long before this brouhaha boils over into a hullabaloo?
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by watersb 5y ago
""" ...challenges and promises of the various MRAM family members (including spin-transfer torque (STT), spin-orbit torque (SOT), voltage-controlled (VCMA- and VG-SOT) and domain-wall MRAM). They highlight imec’s major role,
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by watersb 5y ago
Lovely work. I am always intrigued by the power of shaders. For scientific visualization, the typical paths for data presentation are very utilitarian, and we never progress very far from that. No time, I suppose.. but the tools should enco
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by watersb 5y ago
I gave my son the 2012 MacBook Pro when I purchased the M1 MBP this year. He uses it for everything now. I have tried giving older Macs to other family members, that didn't work out so well. So there are limits. In general, used Macs h
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by watersb 5y ago
I have a collection of RAVPower GaN chargers that are very solid so far. Been using them for about a year now. In fact, the Apple power brick that came with my M1 MacBook Pro is still in its original packaging; I have not used it yet. The 6
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by watersb 5y ago
Bartender was one of the very first apps on the Mac App Store, IIRC.
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by watersb 5y ago
MUMPS - that was it. The Sendmail-config of the healthcare industry.
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by watersb 5y ago
Yes: oops. Linear programming as constraint solving. Thanks! I have not actually done any ladder logic; it seemed to be like flow charts or network transaction diagrams... I should not post so much when tired. But your great comments got me
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by watersb 5y ago
Excellent... Ladder logic, or "Linear Programming" usually implements state machines for industrial control systems. Constraint systems like TKsolver! are sort of like Prolog, maybe. Spreadsheets: reminded me of a similar but diff
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by watersb 5y ago
Is a shader patch or modular audio synthesis a computer program?
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by watersb 5y ago
POSTSCRIPT, baby. Months and months of hand-written Postscript, before Illustrator was a thing.
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by watersb 5y ago
Close friend in college managed to do a lot of Snobol4; I got the impression that it was a language based around string transformations, like regex everywhere. Mathematica is essentially a transformation engine like that.. A standard Lisp u
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by watersb 5y ago
A degenerative brain disease, cause unknown, no treatment, dementia in early age 30s. Following a surgical procedure for heart problem, which was relatively easy for current medicine, it's as if his brain didn't come back, his per
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by watersb 5y ago
Possibly related, academic approach to video games and their potential as teaching tools: http://bogost.com/books/
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by watersb 5y ago
WPBT = "Windows Protected Boot"
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by watersb 5y ago
Dang. Still no brainf$ck support...
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by watersb 5y ago
FWIW, vscode as hosted by GitHub code spaces is hopeless on my ancient iPad 4, but is usable on the 2020 Amazon Kindle Fire HD that I got on sale for $100.
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by watersb 5y ago
An index of BYTE issues available via archive.org, which may be able to handle your collective enthusiasm: https://anarchivism.org/w/Byte_(Magazine)
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by watersb 5y ago
I learned a huge amount, just reading BYTE cover to cover in seventh grade. I still treasure those, although now I enjoy them on a tablet computer. It's how I got into this. Such great times. Thanks.
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by watersb 5y ago
This is beautiful. Perl could do this, but I have to think about it every time. Often, I don't want to think.
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by watersb 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand the significance of this library. Can it help implement something like a Visual Studio Code Language Server?
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by watersb 5y ago
I did use Fedoral Silverblue for a few months, but eventually decided it was about the same amount of work as using a fully siloed system like Tails or a build everything system like BSD. That's my bias showing, I suppose, but I have a
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by watersb 5y ago
Notebooks are really getting real. I am just trying to figure out some of the implications of VS Code notebook support, in addition to remote sessions and .NET Interactive. PowerShell, C#, F#, Python, in notebooks: https://devblo
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by watersb 5y ago
Oops. Your other great things in this series were written in 2018? I got so interested in reading the whole thread, that I quite lost track of time… Sorry about that! There are never too many shell lessons. It’s a painless entry into imper
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by watersb 5y ago
I think that's correct: Windows NT first. It ran just fine on my 486DX2.
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by watersb 5y ago
The post is from 2018. I always like seeing discussion of other people's shell setups.
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by watersb 5y ago
My first moments with BSD Unix as a college freshman were helped along by a group of four or five upperclassmen (juniors or seniors) who were at the computer center at the same odd hours as my friends and I. One of them created the Yggdras

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