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Have you ever seen or heard of the Altair 8800?

Tech historians and people know. Important, fist personal computer ever.

Original at his post : mastodon.sdf.org/@jebug29/1034

Jess is rebuilding one, and I just found a pic, cropped here for size (Bytes, I save them).

What is the plural form of the First Name Tony?

Oh shit, an earth directed Solar Storm ejecting in our direction! Looks like there is some Solar Weather news this week!

youtu.be/HKqDr7GKcxQ

Math books be like this. Stared at this a long time before I realized it was just basically saying that the product of a matrix with its inverse is the identity. Lol why

I am so far down the Spacemacs / Vim / Emacs rabbit hole right now... I'm converting to org mode for all my notes!

Just finished the three episode Dracula Miniseries. It was really good I liked it!

This is pretty much the mental imagery I get weekly in the fediverse. Granted that's less than on FB where I witness this hourly.

so i'm pretty new here. it seems a lot nicer that twitter. lots of gentle leftist wishing going on. almost no self-promotion. and is it just the neighbourhood i've stumbled on or does nearly everyone has some sort of furry anime- or spooky halloween-themed persona?

#introduction

The deeper I dive ito Spacemacs (Vim + Emacs) as an IDE the more I'm loving it. Im learning org-mode now and its pretty epic.

With that said only thing im struggling with are some of the hotkeys. The ones that start with space are easy since they provide a guide on the bottom. the ones that begin with : are easy enough too mostly because I already knew those from using vim in the past, at least the basics. But all the other that dont have a lead-in key I have no idea what they all area. I cant find a good complete cheatsheet either.

Anyone want to trade access to libraries? I have a rather large one (half a terrabyte) of high quality flacs, mostly discographies. Will trade access for access.

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

-- William Butler Yeats

I think i need to do a calligraphy of this one soon.

Trumps credibility with me lost major points this week with the drone attack (not that he had many to begin with).

With that said I have to admit, at least he isnt as bad as Obama when it comes to misuse of drone attacks.

Sadly I'm running out of parties I find acceptable to vote for...

A computer made from DNA can compute the square root of 900
newscientist.com/article/22284
Chunlei Guo at the University of Rochester in New York state and colleagues developed a computer that uses 32 strands of DNA to store and process information. It can calculate the square root of square numbers 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 and so on up to 900.

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