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fatcow··on Visual Analysis of Binary Files
Who remembers seeing PSQR everywhere in .COM files?
fatcow··on Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass
What an incredible idea! Love it, will spend some monopoly money on it!!
fatcow··on New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm
Question: is the apple reboot seriously displaying a dmesg log?
fatcow··on Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
another perthian! w00t
fatcow··on A New Kind Of Dance Science (combinatorics of social dancing)
https://furius.ca/salsa-book/ is a previous attempt!
fatcow··on On hoot, on boot
Woot. JavaScript will be moot.
fatcow··on Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
You fight like a dairy farmer.
fatcow··on Bytecode VMs in Surprising Places
also: Delphine software Another World.
fatcow··on Easter eggs on Swiss maps (2021)
https://map.geo.admin.ch/

Herewith the map site.

I have to admit, the maps (at any zoom levels) are quite beautiful. Much much better than the likes of Apple or Google!

fatcow··on Lindenmayer Systems
Oh saw a lot of these when dabbling with fractint. Never could figure out how and why, but they were beautiful nonetheless on my mighty VGA!
fatcow··on Reconciliation is a knapsack problem
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/stable/gnucash/gnome...

This is something I'm familiar with! I refined the above algorithm to reconcile statements according to the statement end balance. It works well, and yes it's knapsack.

fatcow··on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide
You could and should discuss on the mailing lists. Agree scheduled transactions are not visible from bindings, and it could be a feature request. If you wanted to so depreciation of assets you could easily do your own calculations via scheme or python.
fatcow··on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/1794

Note the full API may be accessible via a cli interface.

The above work will be merged hopefully soon.

fatcow··on Hackers warn University of Manchester students’ of imminent data leak
Stopford Building!
fatcow··on C Strings and my slow descent to madness
while (t++ = s++) ;

You're assigning a char to another, relying on the return value being 0 to detect end of string.

You're performing the copy while also increasing the pointers with ++ in the same expression.

You're using the cryptic ; empty statement to signify nop, thereby confusing newbies.

Etc

fatcow··on Retiring a favourite C++ joke
Yes I get that, didn't quite understand why this switching of error message is relevant to the code...
fatcow··on Retiring a favourite C++ joke
Why is it funny, please explain?
fatcow··on GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
It orders transactions by (1) Transaction Date (2) Split Action (3) Transaction Num (4) Entry Date (5) Description
fatcow··on GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
Huh there's a Balance Forecast report which does exactly this. It considers the Scheduled Transactions applicable to your accounts, and shows the forecasted balances.
fatcow··on GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
You'll like https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/1371 then :)
fatcow··on GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
There's also a heavily worked-on upgrade to the importer. Just saying the developers are users too, and want an easier time for data entry.

https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/1371

fatcow··on GNU Nano 6.3
So much fun in this editor. I'm surprised it is getting so much regular development. A breath of fresh air, it has helped edit many config files on remote shells.
fatcow··on Beancount: Double-entry accounting from text files
There's an upcoming UI to input stock transactions and will explicitly request capital gains, so, there will be fewer opportunities for error.

https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/818

fatcow··on Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite
There's the EPC QR code standard in Europe which is underused...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code

fatcow··on Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language (2019)
Us old-timers may remember a PC one called PCROBOTS sent to UK to participate in tournaments in the early 1990s (30 years ago!)

http://www.pscs.co.uk/pcrobots/index.php https://programminggames.org/PCRobots

fatcow··on Brain implant provided immediate relief to a severely depressed patient
While I usually abhor reductionist conclusions, I find this comment refreshing and hopefully useful to others. Depression isn't simply "lack of serotonin" nor "a series of unfortunate events".

There's a theory of a strong association between clinical depression and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness and hopefully society will move forward to enable people to live better lives.

fatcow··on Father-son hacker duo is helping people crack into their lost Bitcoin
you could monitor the bitcoin address and watch if the funds deplete.
fatcow··on Working towards a source-based bootstrapping path to a GNU+Linux system
> Can somebody let me know why one cannot just take the assembly version of an existing compiler and carefully review its code to be happy with it and then build everything from that verified compiler? Why does it need so many steps?

Because your current OS to load the assembly code may have been poisoned to present you with a sanitized version on the compiler.

fatcow··on Show HN: Connect your bank account to Google Sheets
Thanks for mentioning GnuCash - it has a mature scheme backend.
fatcow··on ‘Insanely cheap energy’: solar power continues to shock the world
Very interesting -- currently in WA and quite interested too. What size house you're referring to?
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