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The once-ubiquitous open-source package manager for macOS, MacPorts, is basically a Tcl app. That is to say, its packages are Tcl. I haven't used it in many years, as is has been largely replaced by Homebrew, which uses Ruby. (I once m
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Maybe some people have only a handful of numbers: none, one, two, and "many". Maybe there are cognitive reciprocals of these numbers: "all", "some", "half", and "none". So when you ask for a
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What does the fox say?
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November 8, 2023
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He didn't choose to "expose" government fraud and waste. He chose to embark upon a ketamine-fueled, delusional disassembly of government infrastructure that will take decades to replace. The libertarian fantasy of rampant was
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I spent two weeks there, during the commissioning of the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Our team was designing the monitor and control system for an upgrade for another NRAO telescope, the Very Large Array in New Mexico. The team from the GBT
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Wish that JPL hosted public tours. There used to be a couple of opens house days each year. JPL has visited every planet in the Solar System. And Pluto!
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I used to have an association between screen colors and numbers from another Microsoft Basic, for the Tandy Color Computer. Long since forgotten them. There weren't that many. I love the mnemonic devices, though. A friend of mine chang
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I can't find evidence of Zelenskyy stealing hundreds of millions of dollars. I found multiple sources refuting this claim. It's a lie. https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/04/19/400-million-embezzle
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USAID purchases have been a significant stabilizer of domestic food market prices.
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Civil service work force is about 1/3 veteran - former military personnel. https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/share-of-veterans-in-federal... While there is certainly a wide range of individual viewpoint in the milit
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A textbook covering the physics of spaceflight, "Astronautics" by Ulrich Walter, was made available for free download by the publisher during the COVID lockdown. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978
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Typst is a re-flowable document description language; TeX spends more computation on the One True text justification and hyphenation paragraph builder. PDF has recently implemented a limited reflow feature by marking up text elements with m
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This is a phenomenal, 6100-word love letter to possibly the world's first industrial typeface.
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On my old iPad 4, this page is essentially blank. I try to apply principles of progressive enhancement when I want to communicate. I start with plain HTML, basic text block structure and images. Interactive data viz can be a sublime way to
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I recall my C++ class, via the University of California Extension program. In the 1990s Bay Area, there was a catalog of hundreds of classes, taught after business hours or on weekends. The classes for security certification, or BGP routing
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And implemented via legislation passed by Congress with bipartisan support. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/clinton-trump-federal-work...
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Research labs wholly owned and operated by large corporations were prevalent sources of innovation throughout the 20th century in the United States. Obvious, probably for Hacker News crowd: • Bell Labs • Xerox PARC • IBM Watson, Almaden Res
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> why can't we have a guy like this as president? Running for office has become survival combat reality TV. Who wants to put the family through something like that?
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The ADS-B Transponder requirement for non-commercial aviation took decades. And oh, how we howl at the expense! $2500 so your airplane pings out its position and heading. I stopped flying right about then, mid-2000s, so I never had more tha
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I'm surprised there's no mention yet of the incredible scene from the 1980 film "The Blues Brothers". https://youtu.be/QfN1GRqKXpM?si=-4Mwmipl5sCFtCWN This practical effect took weeks to set up. I can&#x
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Thanks for the press release link. My knowledge is outdated. So reading the linked research paper: The 2023 experiment with the single-dish Green Bank Telescope (GBT) demonstrated that Starlink beam-forming could reduce radio interference a
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On another piece of the electromagnetic spectrum, the ALMA radio telescope is also in the Atacama desert, north east of Paranal. The government agreed to a radio quiet zone in the areas surrounding ALMA. But now there's Starlink and ot
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Obligatory take on web design process from The Oatmeal: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell . I'm not affiliated with the Toast. But invoking this cartoon, I occasionally describe a web design as "Toast
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What new hardware category should they have released? Apple Shoes? (Yes, I have those motion sensors they released with Nike. 2010?)
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My dad worked for then-Governor Carter's administration. The state of Georgia at that time was mostly rural. A small town that needs to expand their water supply would often lack the specialized staff required. Under Carter, the state
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Procrastination.
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I would not be able to sustain more than a single academic course while working a 9-6 onsite IT job. I was able to keep up with an upper division undergraduate Maths class on a 30 hour per week IT job. The course was very challenging for me
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"Inside Macintosh" disciples would enjoy PalmOS app development. Clearly the "Classic" Mac API was an inspiration. In a good way. It was simple and fun. By 2007, though, the world had changed.
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iOS app Textastic features a similar swipe-to-key-corner feature. https://www.textasticapp.com/ It's wonderful. There's also a macOS version.

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