I bought a Pixelbook during the middle of their product lifetime, and it was one of the best laptops I ever had. I genuinely don't know how broadly that sentiment was shared, but the cancellation of the product line…
I am genuinely delighted that `dcc` (the system I play with my friends) is in the list of systems currently supported: https://rpg.actor/systems and I might participate as a result. Very cool.
Ghidra is a very impressive piece of software with a deep bench of functionality. The recent couple major releases that move to a more integrated Python experience have been very nice to use.
Kaitai is absolutely one of my favorite projects. I use it for work (parsing scientific formats, prototyping and exploring those formats, etc) as well as for fun (reverse engineering games, formats for DOSbox core…
Larry Smarr recently spoke at NCSA and they wrote up a fair bit about the history of the institution: https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/homecoming/ It has links to some of the panel reports that led to the founding of NCSA,…
That's the one! And all this time I'd been holding on to something I read on a mailing list or website back then, attributing the reading to Brian May "just because he liked that book."
I read this in high school, but not because it was assigned. At the time I was really into "rare" Queen MP3s, and there's a studio recording of the fast version of "We Will Rock You" where Brian May reads a passage from…
I do so love the TI-99/4A. I've been going through some TI-99/4A disk archives from the Chicago Texas Instruments User Group (which streams its meetings every month) and one of my favorite finds so far was this fun…
I don't think that it's fair to compare the rendering to what is currently in use in the scientific community, for two main reasons: The first is that different types of rendering have different uses; typically in…
This is really impressive.
Not a dumb question! Markwhen has a CLI: https://docs.markwhen.com/cli that I used.
I used Markwhen recently to make an interactive Gantt chart for a proposal to a collaborator and it went swimmingly. (We got the gig!) So, thank you! For the record, I used the Obsidian plugin to develop, then deployed…
One feature of DOSBox-X I've come to really appreciate when reverse engineering is that you can toggle the debug log on and off. Additionally, it can display the current VGA palette in the main window.
Sure -- the other comments have done a good job of explaining my usage of "sentence fragment" (which was what we referred to it as in my composition classes in high school, although I now see this may have been more…
My now-spouse, then-new-SO, proofread my thesis for grammar, clarity, etc. At the time, I had written my acknowledgments, but after the proofreading, I added a thanks to her to it at the end just before submitting it…
I've worked at NCSA (to one extent or another) for about a decade. It's pretty remarkable to hear (from people who both pre-dated and post-dated the browser work) about the suite of tools being developed around that…
The TI-99/4A community is really (and somewhat surprisingly) still very active. Among other things, the monthly stream from the CTIUG on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/@chicagotiug5404 ) of their monthly meetings at…
I was listening to the audiobook of "The Future" by Naomi Alderman, and it spent a fair bit of time talking about MENACE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_... which I had not heard of before.…
This has been my experience too, and it has reached the point that my (young-ish) children have commented on how poorly they understand and respond to things. I suppose it doesn't help that the Home devices used to be…
The answer to your first question is more philosophical, and I think outside the scope of what I am able to reply to here. But for the second, I think while there are similarities, the details are awfully important for…
I am genuinely surprised they did not even mention J. Allen Hynek [1], who was department head at Northwestern for a long time. There was even a TV show (sort-of) about him a few years back! [1]…
A project I work on is currently working through a bunch of performance issues that arose because we had inlined functions in `pxd` files that we did not declare `noexcept nogil`. So, heads up if you see similar…
I kind of dislike the "Google graveyard" discourse, but ... I started using Pocketcasts after the demise of Google Listen.
I mean, I guess I should have been more obviously self-aware in my original post, but yes, my intent in that comment was explicitly to bemoan that I was not able to take the deal they offer for education and that my…
I'll be honest and say that I - not even that long ago - held similar attitudes and slowly made a series of compromises (to myself) that led to this point. While I'm not sure I fully regret it I do think it was ... not…
I bought a Pixelbook during the middle of their product lifetime, and it was one of the best laptops I ever had. I genuinely don't know how broadly that sentiment was shared, but the cancellation of the product line…
I am genuinely delighted that `dcc` (the system I play with my friends) is in the list of systems currently supported: https://rpg.actor/systems and I might participate as a result. Very cool.
Ghidra is a very impressive piece of software with a deep bench of functionality. The recent couple major releases that move to a more integrated Python experience have been very nice to use.
Kaitai is absolutely one of my favorite projects. I use it for work (parsing scientific formats, prototyping and exploring those formats, etc) as well as for fun (reverse engineering games, formats for DOSbox core…
Larry Smarr recently spoke at NCSA and they wrote up a fair bit about the history of the institution: https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/homecoming/ It has links to some of the panel reports that led to the founding of NCSA,…
That's the one! And all this time I'd been holding on to something I read on a mailing list or website back then, attributing the reading to Brian May "just because he liked that book."
I read this in high school, but not because it was assigned. At the time I was really into "rare" Queen MP3s, and there's a studio recording of the fast version of "We Will Rock You" where Brian May reads a passage from…
I do so love the TI-99/4A. I've been going through some TI-99/4A disk archives from the Chicago Texas Instruments User Group (which streams its meetings every month) and one of my favorite finds so far was this fun…
I don't think that it's fair to compare the rendering to what is currently in use in the scientific community, for two main reasons: The first is that different types of rendering have different uses; typically in…
This is really impressive.
Not a dumb question! Markwhen has a CLI: https://docs.markwhen.com/cli that I used.
I used Markwhen recently to make an interactive Gantt chart for a proposal to a collaborator and it went swimmingly. (We got the gig!) So, thank you! For the record, I used the Obsidian plugin to develop, then deployed…
One feature of DOSBox-X I've come to really appreciate when reverse engineering is that you can toggle the debug log on and off. Additionally, it can display the current VGA palette in the main window.
Sure -- the other comments have done a good job of explaining my usage of "sentence fragment" (which was what we referred to it as in my composition classes in high school, although I now see this may have been more…
My now-spouse, then-new-SO, proofread my thesis for grammar, clarity, etc. At the time, I had written my acknowledgments, but after the proofreading, I added a thanks to her to it at the end just before submitting it…
I've worked at NCSA (to one extent or another) for about a decade. It's pretty remarkable to hear (from people who both pre-dated and post-dated the browser work) about the suite of tools being developed around that…
The TI-99/4A community is really (and somewhat surprisingly) still very active. Among other things, the monthly stream from the CTIUG on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/@chicagotiug5404 ) of their monthly meetings at…
I was listening to the audiobook of "The Future" by Naomi Alderman, and it spent a fair bit of time talking about MENACE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_... which I had not heard of before.…
This has been my experience too, and it has reached the point that my (young-ish) children have commented on how poorly they understand and respond to things. I suppose it doesn't help that the Home devices used to be…
The answer to your first question is more philosophical, and I think outside the scope of what I am able to reply to here. But for the second, I think while there are similarities, the details are awfully important for…
I am genuinely surprised they did not even mention J. Allen Hynek [1], who was department head at Northwestern for a long time. There was even a TV show (sort-of) about him a few years back! [1]…
A project I work on is currently working through a bunch of performance issues that arose because we had inlined functions in `pxd` files that we did not declare `noexcept nogil`. So, heads up if you see similar…
I kind of dislike the "Google graveyard" discourse, but ... I started using Pocketcasts after the demise of Google Listen.
I mean, I guess I should have been more obviously self-aware in my original post, but yes, my intent in that comment was explicitly to bemoan that I was not able to take the deal they offer for education and that my…
I'll be honest and say that I - not even that long ago - held similar attitudes and slowly made a series of compromises (to myself) that led to this point. While I'm not sure I fully regret it I do think it was ... not…