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by smurpy 5mo ago
Interesting connections with motion jpeg, animated gif and RFB (Remote Frame Buffer as used by VNC). The latter has me particularly curious, though all of them seem like mad hacks in search of faint excuses. Imagining a bi-directional link
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by smurpy 1y ago
Earth time <> Sol time <> SagA* time
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by smurpy 1y ago
We don’t have much trouble yet with relativistic temporal distortions, but Earth’s motion causes us to lose about 0.152 seconds per year relative to the Solar system. Likewise we lose about 8.5 seconds per year relative to the Milky Way. I
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by smurpy 1y ago
Not at all, just a bit of word play. It's "officially" a meme even! Cheers https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/touch-of-the-tism
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by smurpy 1y ago
Here is the three original Postscript Books. They are the classic way to learn PS. The Blue Book (Tutorial and Cookbook) https://archive.org/details/postscriptlangua0000unse The Red Book (Language Reference) https:&#
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by smurpy 1y ago
As a language it is lovely, if you're a fan of minimalism -- being stack-happy, like FORTH. It is well worth learning even just to flex the mind, but especially if you need to make complex diagrams and value stable APIs.
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by smurpy 1y ago
Haha! I used to do LOTS of work in PostScript. The biggest project was a system which was part Python for the management, but PS for the content of a database publishing engine, motivated by the the need to generate crazily complicated re
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by smurpy 1y ago
Check out Kroki for a multi-syntax wrapper around a bunch of text driven diagram generators —- including Mermaid, PlantUML, Ditaa, GraphViz, SVGBob, etc, etc https://kroki.io/
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by smurpy 1y ago
Back in 1992 or so the NeXT could distinguish (was it 16 or) 64 fixed, trained, phrases. Point being, it doesn’t take too much compute with a finite vocabulary.
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by smurpy 1y ago
Oh yeah, and I generally keep such a monster running in a GNU screen via mosh on servers too. Loverly! They can run for years.
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by smurpy 1y ago
I've gravitated to the use of a 43" 4K TV as my main monitor (and have a few others scattered about for auxiliary purposes) and when hacking hard have a full screen emacs window split into lots of panes, vertically and horizontall
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by smurpy 2y ago
Exactly. One whale’s weight of antimatter
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by smurpy 2y ago
I came to the chat before reading the piece only to find myself confronted with my assumption that it was about going deeper into flow while coding — and this is how some innovations happen!
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by smurpy 2y ago
Fascinating exercise and nice work! Adjacent (resilient, low-level, big-vision, auditable) projects include: http://collapseos.org/ Forth OS, bootstrapable from paper, for z80 https://urbit.org/ standa
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by smurpy 2y ago
I lived in Inuvik, NWT (Canada) for a decade in my youth. It's above the Arctic Circle and has 30 days without sunlight, bracketed by months of near darkness. Each year a new crop of noobs would move in and there would be a little exo
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by smurpy 2y ago
My friend Colin Broughton completed the first full implementation of the Algo68 spec. Apparently there was some concern that it was not going to be implementable! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLACC
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by smurpy 2y ago
I personally saw a rat cavorting quite vivaciously on a pallet of dogfood in the Bonnie Doon K-Mart (in Edmonton, Alberta) in around 2002. I have no basis for any claims about whether said rat was in a committed sexual relationship so cann
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by smurpy 2y ago
I see this discussion as failing to touch on two main points. This coverage does a poor job of conveying whether he could tell that the craft was climbing, though evidently it was. A crucial detail in his situation was whether the vehicle w
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by smurpy 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231209174528/https://dougengel...
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by smurpy 3y ago
Basically, if you're a coder and you make documents or images which are complicated, structured, data-driven or orderly enough to seem amenable to programmatic construction, then Postscript really is worth learning. It would be no pro
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by smurpy 3y ago
Hey, that's a pretty handy document. Interesting to see it support PS in the context of LaTeX and Word. I used to dream in PostScript I was coding in it so much -- the experience was dreaming about stack-oriented coding, as opposed to
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by smurpy 3y ago
At first I thought "wow, they're so smooth" but then realized that the dynamics must be so incredibly fast that the fuzzy smoothness is really just motion blur. Amazing though....
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by smurpy 3y ago
Doubtless there are lots of other ways to get it running but I just tried it myself by: * 1990 * System 6.0.5 * Customize... * Machine: Mac II * Infinite HD > Multimedia > HyperCard > HyperCard
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by smurpy 5y ago
Hi Hussam. I really like the hTime idea! The compelling perspective on this, for me, is to see it as a planetary frame of reference for thinking about time. Of course there is UTC but we don't casually and habitually speak about UTC
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by smurpy 5y ago
It looks like one of the authors is on HN with us. Can you offer any insight into the cause of the confusing language in the "Science News" piece? It reads like it was written by a bot not a human. In the sentence "With the
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by smurpy 6y ago
Two thumbs up for Refactoring by Fowler. Exactly. Even if you already know know the 300 odd refactorings he documents... The fact that his names let you talk about them with your team or more easily treat them as abstractions is a powerful
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by smurpy 11y ago
Here is a version which uses OSX's say command for a spoken announcement of " github is up again ". It also checks once every minute instead of once a second. while true; do curl -s https://status.github.co