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by whartung 3y ago
BASICs string handling is an underrated treasure of early programming languages. Notably MS-BASIC and relative. What folks take for granted, without really knowing it, is that the MS-BASIC system was a rather early system with built in garb
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by whartung 3y ago
I opened that URL. It opened fine in Safari (macOS), and it opened fine in Chrome. Firefox did not apply the XSL file. I tried to "view source" on both Safari and Chrome, and neither gave me the option. I could Inspect Element, an
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by whartung 3y ago
What are the current gaps for PWA? PWA should be viable for a pretty large percentage of applications nowadays, right? I don't know, but could Discord be a PWA instead of an Electron app? The biggest gap is something capable like SQLit
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by whartung 3y ago
No, just like the aircraft or aircraft carrier did not end surface sea power. It certainly changed the game, however. We've been "in the missile age" since the 60s. Well demonstrated during the Falklands campaign with the los
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by whartung 3y ago
I worked on this for a little while myself. It wasn't so much "pc board by code" so much, but it was more a "pc board by CLI" approach. And by that what my goal was, was to offer primitives and utility functions tha
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by whartung 3y ago
But is it $3500 nice? I mean, there was a picture of a pair of guys wearing them out in public, eating food or something. And, you know, that's almost $8000 (with tax) of equipment there in that cafe stuck on those heads. Make no mista
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by whartung 3y ago
I'm curious how much that will impact the device. I mean, will a lot of people do this? Transforming a $3500 device into a $2500 refurb over night? I wonder if they will get a lot of these. Of course, my problem is I can not test it. I
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by whartung 3y ago
A favorite anecdote, and I don't know anything, I could have misheard it, was about Tolkien. Apparently, he did not know the character Saruman existed. He was just working the story, and had this gap which eventually turned into Saruma
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by whartung 3y ago
Conceptually, yes, the CIWS could have been effective against the missile the struck the Moskva. The US had a similar incident, back in '87, with the frigate USS Stark. It was struck by two Exocet missiles launched by an Iraqi fighter
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by whartung 3y ago
I pretty much loathe paper straws. Their texture is nails on chalkboard to me. I hate that they get soggy. I hate that they collapse in anything thick like a milkshake or smoothie. I will more likely go without than use a paper (even the mo
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by whartung 3y ago
It's a radar directed gun. The dome thing is the radar. Once, a sailor was on top of one and the radar turned on, and it cooked the sailor. That radar has some real power. The Phalanx motto is "it flies, it dies". It has an a
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by whartung 3y ago
Arguably, all I have are a bunch of unfinished projects. Some are just "on hold", the subject still interests me, though the passion has dwindled. Some are just dead, they served their purpose. Some are "in production",
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by whartung 3y ago
The current design of the concrete dividers stemmed from problems with the guardrails of the day. The issue wasn't cars shredding them like tissue paper, the issue was that they were bouncing off the guardrails, and back into traffic.
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by whartung 3y ago
Well, the funny thing is that for base Common Lisp, it's less dynamic than you think. The functions and symbols in the core packages (e.g. COMMON-LISP package) are considered fixed and immutable. For example, out of the box, the compil
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by whartung 3y ago
As I understand it, the xref entries don’t require a carriage return, but they require a fixed line length. If you don’t want to use a CR, you can pad with a space. So CR/LF, space/LF, and space/CR are all valid endings.
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by whartung 3y ago
It seems germane at this point to paraphrase Steven Wright. “I have a map of the United States. It’s actual size. “
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by whartung 3y ago
Is the xref at the end of a PDF required or not? Seems like it is in the spec.
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by whartung 3y ago
I don't understand how this will work. The "magic", as I understand it, of the 192.x.x.x network is that the Internet "knows" to not route it. Networking isn't my strength, so I don't know where, or what p
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by whartung 3y ago
Back in the day I was flying back east and had some movies loaded on my iPod Touch. And I was casually watching one in my seat, the movie was “Blackhawk Down”. And it occurred to me how a neighbor might not enjoy watching blood, guns, and v
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by whartung 3y ago
...or don't use it. Scheme likes to tout it because of tail call optimization. Common Lisp can do it, but doesn't really shove it as a first principle of "Common Lisping" (and CL does not dictate tail call optimization).
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by whartung 3y ago
Regarding Guile, and, mind, I'm on macOS, but I found it not easy to get started with. I'm looking for a compiled Scheme or Lisp. By that I mean, I want "prog.ext" to create the executable "prog". I want this b
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by whartung 3y ago
Indeed. Just leave it. Document it, photograph it, leave it. There's no reason to lift it, to "restore it", etc. It's a wreck. Leave it alone. Go find a "modern" Electra, and make that as "close to Earhart
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by whartung 3y ago
Do not discount the car buying service available from Costco. It's well worth investigating, and can make things pretty easy.
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by whartung 3y ago
Because trailers are no fun to park, or run through drive thru for lunch. Trailers are for "occasional" loads, rather than daily loads (unless you're a semi-truck).
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by whartung 3y ago
We rented a Ford Taurus that had the camera in the rear view mirror. It works really well. With my camera, I have to sweep from the camera to the rear view mirror, to the door mirrors, as none of them cover completely, so they all have blin
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by whartung 3y ago
If you want a bare bones car, you would probably have good luck getting a 2 year old vehicle from a rental fleet. Those tend to be pretty bare bones vehicles. It was funny, I rented a truck from Home Depot. It was brand new, less than 100 m
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by whartung 3y ago
To each their own. I rate the “run for 6 hours each day” technology as a wonder of the modern age along with sliced bread and the Apollo program. We have about a dozen of these things throughout the house, running everyday. Some on tables,
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by whartung 3y ago
Can I use any of the information in this book to learn about reinforcement learning? My goal is to have something learn to land, like a lunar lander. Simple, start at 100 feet, thrust in one direction, keep trying until you stop making crat
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by whartung 3y ago
Honestly, the problem west of I-5 is not the real issue. By this I mean, were something like this to happen, west of I-5 suffers its devastation quickly, perhaps a lot of people are lost from quakes or tsunamis or whatever. But, once it&#x2
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by whartung 3y ago
And the problem here is the lack of agency of the individual people. Larger companies run everything through committees, even ad hoc ones (i.e. "meetings"). The approval chain is long and slow. My favorite anecdote was when the co

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