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something arrived today, definitely a holy grail for me...
a Weather Star 4000! this is the box that at one point, among other things, generated the Local on the 8s graphics for the Weather Channel
(small thread)
Unicode tables were too big. Sorry every other language.
I've got a printed ASCII table next to every hard drive I own.
That way the alien civilization that finds our remains will have at least a clue what's going on there.
Frylock needs some help...
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No to .io, yes to .xyz
Post targeted at all the #FOSS developers out there. Choose your #tld wisely.
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@finity I'm splitting off the generically reusable part of my physics simulation. This should allow people to plug in any Object that returns an energy and get its equilibrium statistical physics.
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think of something you've tried to do or learn before and found pretty difficult, especially something from when you were younger. if you try doing or learning it now, there's a decent chance you will still struggle with it... but a surprisingly high one that it'll somehow be really easy suddenly because you've picked up some orthogonal skill or knowledge that inexplicably changed your brain to a subtly different and better brain without you noticing
And this is the amusing article that lead me there - key morse code via laptop lid.
https://hackaday.com/2020/06/20/key-that-morse-with-little-more-than-your-laptop/
Great HackADay article about learning morse code. Not new, but I just found it...
https://hackaday.com/2020/02/21/learning-morse-code-the-ludwig-koch-way/
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My encryption article is READY. look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair: https://blog.soykaf.com/post/encryption/
I immediately had to set it up and secure it on my local network, which meant I had to _learn_ how to secure it...
I'm finally on an ISP with ipv6 support! How cool! I feel like I live in a chunk of the US catching up with the rest of the world.
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The Alternative Big O notation:
O(1) = O(yeah)
O(log n) = O(nice)
O(n) = O(k)
O(n²) = O(my)
O(2ⁿ) = O(no)
O(n!) = O(mg!)
Georgia's primary was a mess - but they narrowly avoided a runoff! If they hadn't, voters would've needed to go back to the poll a second time. Would voters go through that hassle?
If they had #RankedChoiceVoting, also called #InstantRunoffVoting, this would not be a concern. It's equivalent to a normal runoff election, but without the second/third/fourth time at the ballot box.
Mandatory waiting period between home purchase lender disclosures and purchase: 3 days
Mandatory waiting period between choosing a gun to purchase and taking it home: ␀
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walking is not more efficient than driving.
calories for a group of four to walk a mile (as opposed to sitting): ~400 [1]
gallons of gas to drive one mile: ~1/25 [2]
the amount of energy used to grow food (not even including transportation) relative to the amount of energy the food contains is about 10:1 [3]
amount of energy in one gallon of gasoline: ~31,000 calories [4]
therefore, amount of gas energy to walk somewhere is 4,000 calories for four people. to drive, it's only 1,240. so driving is 3-4x as efficient as walking!
[1] https://www.verywellfit.com/walking-calories-burned-by-miles-3887154#calories-burned-per-mile
[2] https://www.epa.gov/automotive-trends/highlights-automotive-trends-report
[3] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/10-calories-in-1-calorie-out-the-energy-we-spend-on-food/
[4] https://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/weight-loss/calorie1.htm
calories for a group of four to walk a mile (as opposed to sitting): ~400 [1]
gallons of gas to drive one mile: ~1/25 [2]
the amount of energy used to grow food (not even including transportation) relative to the amount of energy the food contains is about 10:1 [3]
amount of energy in one gallon of gasoline: ~31,000 calories [4]
therefore, amount of gas energy to walk somewhere is 4,000 calories for four people. to drive, it's only 1,240. so driving is 3-4x as efficient as walking!
[1] https://www.verywellfit.com/walking-calories-burned-by-miles-3887154#calories-burned-per-mile
[2] https://www.epa.gov/automotive-trends/highlights-automotive-trends-report
[3] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/10-calories-in-1-calorie-out-the-energy-we-spend-on-food/
[4] https://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/weight-loss/calorie1.htm
