WillAdams

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by WillAdams 3d ago
From uncertain organic memory royalty was a set percentage (7%? came out to a $1,000 check plus a fee $500?). Print $3,500 as two checks. Books sold for $70 ea. and if sold on Amazon had $12.83 for their fees. Sold a few in person, handed o
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by WillAdams 7d ago
Well, we should use Mercator for its intended purpose (only), which is to accurately show/determine angles for navigation....
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by WillAdams 7d ago
Yeah, I currently have a Samsung Galaxy Note 10+, Book 3 Pro 360, and a Kindle Scribe Colorsoft as well as a Wacom One attached to a MacBook and more styluses scattered around my house and bags than I could easily count, but this makes me a
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by WillAdams 8d ago
That's a divide which I've been curious about for a while --- what texts are suited for an app/interactive version? One which I usually bring up is: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements&#x
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by WillAdams 8d ago
That was not the impression I got from the Tolkien Estate and Oxford University Press when I asked.
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by WillAdams 8d ago
Most of the typos were linguistic, a couple of German words in the bibliography, Old English in the poem.
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by WillAdams 8d ago
There wasn't much to it --- I contacted the Univ. of Missouri Press, they set a price in terms of initial fee and on-going royalty payments, I returned a signed copy of the contract and they sent a DVD w/ the files. The only wrink
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by WillAdams 8d ago
This hits close to home. When Grayson's _Traditional Archery from Six Continents_ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1662236.Traditional_Arch... went out of print, I actually found it more palatable to buy t
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by WillAdams 9d ago
That is an interesting argument --- maybe there could be a tax credit for publishing specifications/keys when a product is end-of-lifed and support is cut off? Or, maybe a company could be required to pay for disposal if that is not do
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by WillAdams 10d ago
I'm actually rather fond of OpenSCAD --- it has the advantage of being completely safe in terms of security/execution, so no worries about downloading a random .scad file and wondering what it might do. If one wants a full-fledge
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by WillAdams 10d ago
For more on this in spades see boxes.py https://boxes.hackerspace-bamberg.de/ For my part, I've been working the CNC router angle, so have a much larger kerf to cope with (and the added advantage of controllable partia
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by WillAdams 10d ago
The best programming course I had in college was one on comparative programming languages (and not just 'cause I was the only student who was able to do all of the Lisp exercises solo) --- it was quite striking getting an overview of t
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by WillAdams 12d ago
Trying to outbright the sun on a battery-powered device is an approach I've always found questionable. E-ink, instead just lets the sun reflect off of it, does want some sort of light in the dark, but, perfectly visible in full-bright&
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by WillAdams 12d ago
Sure! Until the stack got too large, or one forgot the ID of the card one wanted to link to or the search text which would allow one to make it a target, &c. HyperCard was _amazing_ (and I still have my copy of _The Manhole: Where Alice
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by WillAdams 12d ago
There was a commercial networking product which addressed principle 13 as well --- Kerbango? I remember a couple of ads for it, the idea was that adding a computer to a network and installing this would increase available storage space and
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by WillAdams 13d ago
The other books on hardware from this timeframe such as Tracy Kidder's _The Soul of a New Machine_ or Jerry Kaplan's _StartUp_ or Andy Hertzfeld's _Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made_ (
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by WillAdams 13d ago
Visit any older cemetery and look for the tiny headstones and the matching very brief lifespans, or read an older obituary for someone from your great-grandparent's generation or further back, or watch a couple of seasons of _Call the
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by WillAdams 14d ago
Or, just buy the source for a dollar and bury it: https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html
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by WillAdams 14d ago
Not a PDF, the ePub --- each Amazon Kindle has associated with it an e-mail address, which when a file is e-mailed to it, will be automatically converted and loaded (once the sender is white-listed) --- that way, each new issue would just a
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by WillAdams 14d ago
I just noticed that too. Do they offer a facility for automatically mailing the epub file to a specified e-mail address (I'm thinking the Amazon Kindle conversion e-mail) --- that might push me over into a subscription.
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by WillAdams 15d ago
There are two sorts of folks working in the trades: the ones who claim to have multiple years of experience, but in truth have the same year of experience repeated, and those who for each year they have worked, have applied the past towards
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by WillAdams 15d ago
Yeah, my great aunt's bridge partner's husband had a cabinet shop which I used to hang out in after school when I missed the bus --- learned a lot by osmosis just hanging out and helping and doing odd chores. When he passed away,
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by WillAdams 16d ago
I dunno about fulfilling career, but I have to admit that I often use BlockSCAD: https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ to rough out designs as well as simple algorithms for OpenSCAD and ultimately, PythonSCAD for my curr
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by WillAdams 16d ago
Obviously I need to start with a far simpler and more basic text.
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by WillAdams 18d ago
A notable context where the the on-curve node placement rules do matter is font design where the node placements interact with hints and are useful for ensuring consistency and consistent rounding when filling in pixels. Further, these rule
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by WillAdams 18d ago
A more interesting question might be, "What would homesteading independence look like in the 21st century in terms of sustainability and so forth?" An interesting extension on this is that the pencil manufacture which made his fam
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by WillAdams 18d ago
I have been reading: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192405005-hypermedia-sys... and still having a hard time wrapping my mind around all of this. The thing which I would really like to see is a stand-alone ID
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by WillAdams 19d ago
The thing is, the problematic curves often violate the rules put forward as best practices: - place nodes at extrema (top/bottom, left/right) - place nodes at points of inflection (middle of an _S_ curve) - where possible/app
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by WillAdams 19d ago
Where possible, there should be keyboard shortcuts/navigation. Where appropriate, the labeling of fields and so forth should be such that it will work for a screen reader. Often, the expedient option is to use an HTML front-end so that
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by WillAdams 19d ago
Agreed. This is the stuff of magic and folklore, and neatly resolved by Ursula K. LeGuin in _A Wizard of Earthsea_.

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