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by yardshop 3y ago
I like your idea, I could do it right in my front yard, but what I like about the image in the article is the very nice proportions and exact repetitions of the curves and even the little dove-head figure, and the fact that it was entirely
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by yardshop 3y ago
> Loopy star trails show the effect of Euclid's Fine Guidance Sensor intermittently losing its guide stars https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/10/Loopy_star... Now that's some bea
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by yardshop 3y ago
Or tie it as a double round-turn bowline, with an extra turn for both the "rabbit" going around the tree, and for the hole. In a previous job I had to constantly take my office master key out of my pocket and put it back. Before l
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by yardshop 3y ago
At at end of that sentence there is a "//todo".
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by yardshop 3y ago
It wasn't that, I'm pretty certain it was this: Casio Melody 80 https://suburbanrelics.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&... What I had was definitely a calculator that produced musical notes, not a keyboar
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by yardshop 3y ago
When I was in high school in the late 70s, I had a Casio music calculator somewhat bigger than the one in the article, layed out horizontally instead of vertically, but probably had similar musical capabilities. I found that by entering a n
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by yardshop 3y ago
Pear rhymes with pair and bear and bare and fair and fare, and not with peer or pier or beer or fear or here. So there.
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by yardshop 3y ago
I remember once in the early 80s typing in a very lengthy program listing from Byte or Nybble magazines on an Apple ][e. It wasn't BASIC or even Assembler, but machine code! It didn't run at first so I printed it all out (on 15&qu
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by yardshop 3y ago
You can type a u umlaut on a qwerty keyboard (and maybe many others) by holding down Alt, and typing 129 on the numeric keypad: ü That works on Windows at least, don't know about other systems.
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by yardshop 3y ago
I once had an old IBM-PC that the previous owner had upgraded with a 20MB hard drive. They said after a while it just stopped booting, which is why they gave it to me. I found that if I manipulated the axle of the read-write-head arm where
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by yardshop 3y ago
He's probably not from England because there they call them cramps!
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by yardshop 3y ago
I agree, we have been making our own kefir at home for a few years now and its got far more character than what can be found at the supermarket. This year my wife started separating out the whey more often. We drink this as is, and put it i
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by yardshop 3y ago
If it gets any better, then Matt and Trey can really say: Dey dook rr jerbs!!
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by yardshop 3y ago
Hi Charlie, is the Python music library something you have available somewhere? It sounds very interesting!
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by yardshop 3y ago
Two thoughts, one, his approach is orthogonal to that. This is a way to move yourself forward on any project, no matter where the design comes from. Two, he IS the user! His example is the terminal emulator he is writing for himself. He say
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by yardshop 3y ago
Wow, what a fun little system! Thank you for creating this!
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by yardshop 3y ago
I bought Comic Code ( https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code ) a few years ago and have installed it in many of my editors and consoles and even as the monotype font in some browsers. I giggle every time I see it! Looks lik
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by yardshop 3y ago
If you continue biking to work, over time you will probably become less sweaty by the time you arrive. It happened to me.
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by yardshop 3y ago
I saw an original copy yesterday in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, along with the 50,000 piece LEGO version! They have a large exhibit about Hokusai, along with many of his contemporaries such as Hiroshige, works from his students and teac
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by yardshop 4y ago
In another article there by Didier Stephens [0], he posts a link to his GitHub [1] where he provides numerous such tools. Very interesting stuff! [0] String Obfuscation: Character Pair Reversal https://isc.sans.edu&#
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by yardshop 4y ago
That's very encouraging, I will give it a go! And I have to ask, does a powersnail live in a powershell? =) (also a language I like that needs better GUI and EXE packaging)
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by yardshop 4y ago
AggDraw is an "anti-grain geometry" graphics library that works with Pillow for drawing high quality images. ReportLab is a very big PDF generating library, and OpenPyXL reads and writes XLSX format Excel spreadsheets. I use these
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by yardshop 4y ago
> high level of support of event the tricky things like the scientic and gui stacks Could it compile an app that uses Pillow and AggDraw and ReportLab and OpenPyXL with a TKInter GUI into a standalone app I can give to a coworker? That w
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by yardshop 4y ago
Haha, I had the same thought about the program and the opposite conclusion about the font! Many characters like g and p look similar, but the lower case t has a curl on the bottom in Excalidraw, and is straight in the article's diagram
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by yardshop 4y ago
Looks like something one could make pretty easily with Excalidraw ( https://excalidraw.com/ ) although the font seems slightly different.
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by yardshop 4y ago
Step 1: be great at drawing Step 2: DTROTFO! [1] Seriously though, these seem like good steps for getting started. Just start scribbling to get your hand warmed up, then redraw and refine and keep practicing. [1] https://www.redd
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by yardshop 4y ago
One could accompany this with the track "Looking Down on London" by the perfect pop band Komputer from their 90s album The World Of Tomorrow, if one liked Kraftwerk inspired electronica. It's not really about the same thing,
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by yardshop 4y ago
My company's LogMeIn subscription just recently got cancelled and we will not be resubscribing due to continual billing run-arounds with them. I found DWService as an alternative ( https://www.dwservice.net/en/home.
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by yardshop 4y ago
Could you tell me what other thread that is? I did a search and didn't come up with anything except very old threads, and recent posts with no comments.
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by yardshop 4y ago
I'm not who you initially replied to, but I just felt he wasn't being critical of something else, just promoting an idea that is also of good value. I think there's value in creating new things by combining existing ones as w

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