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Good times, I've done this with DWD (German meteorological service) in the 90s, using HamComm [0]

This project in the article however, listens directly to satellites, and not to a LF/HF ground-based station like we used to do.

[0] https://www.pervisell.com/ham/hc1.htm

Looks like they give a short overview when you follow "Read the docs" (just under the "Star us" ;)

Hey, I'd like to read more about this integrated PostScript support for Xorg, can you point me in the right direction please? Tnx

Try looking up 'blum' on urbandictionary :)

And here's a new one that seems very interesting, just out: Bit Player [0] (about Claude Shannon and his work)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7WmMSAxq8s

I've found many good (mostly black-n-white) historical snippets by searching on YT for persons related to computer history (for example Von Neumann, Hopper, Feynman, ...). A lot is related to wartime efforts, as there seemed to be a real need there..

But there's certainly no shortage of books [0] about the subject, and I'd recommend to start there to get a list of names and key events first.

If you're looking for entertainment (although there's multiple good documentaries listed there too): [1]

HCF is something I'm planning to check out soon!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22907211

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_computers

Yep [0], after been bought by Dice (they also drained off the Freshmeat and Slashdot communities around that time, then froze the former "as a result of low traffic levels").

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Controversies

I guess like any other second-level domainname: Fetch your piggy bank, and then go out to look for it. Peculiar things that pop in my mind right now:

- given their length, know that they are scarce; you can expect that scarcity to drive the price

- some TLDs might have a minimum length for subdomains that are available to the public

- expect a lot of them already registered since longtime, or reserved by various individuals or organizations [0]; intuitively, the chance of those getting released soon feels slim

You can use DNS (check the dig [1] utility), in combination with WHOIS if you want to gather information. Or a website of a domain registrar like [2]. Keep in mind that you might be watched doing that, information that could be used to drive up the price again.

Or, if you really have good ideas, you convince one of the current registrants to use his domain (guessing here that a lot of those domains are not really in use).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_(command)

[2] https://shop.gandi.net/en/domain/suggest?search=b.xyz

It's been done using Tcl [0] in the nineties, in the EtLinux [1] project for embedded systems. One of the goals was to shave off memory usage by implementing tools under a single scripting interpreter (instead of each of them having their own binary). Kind of overlaps with BusyBox [2] philosophy...

[0] https://www.tcl.tk/

[1] http://www.etlinux.org/

[2] https://busybox.net/FAQ.html#goals

Heh, that depends on how many "minutes of real, actual work" done [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iiOEQOtBlQ

You might be specifically talking about Wayland here then, but with X on the other hand, it's not difficult for example [0]

[0] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/170596/is-it-po...

Undoubtedly it was a species at risk!

Mmmn, it's just a promise... Doesn't mean it cannot be broken. Not sure it will survive a change of management, too. Here's a primer for you ;) [0]

It's in your power to do your own mangling before uploading. The same with redundancy: don't put all your eggs in one basket (fancy promises or not). Good luck!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl8IVv4Y4bQ

I've also been reading your source out of interest (and time ;)). Must say you have quite a consistent style, and you found a good balance what concerns writing comments.

Not an OO connaisseur myself, what I'm a bit puzzled about are the long conditional constructs in on_press() and on_release(). Partly it seems to handle mapping of specific keys that might not exist in all layouts, but is the rest needed because of conversion between different classes that encode keys?

Expect is a Tcl extension. You can also put Tk in the mix if you want, to create graphical Expect-based applications. You might know Tk from Tkinter (a Python binding to Tk).

Undroidwish [0] is a Tcl/Tk binary that apparently has experimental support for Wayland (through SDL). It's a spin-off from Androwish [1], but more for desktop/embedded systems.

You might have something there, as Expect is supported for Androwish already.

[0] https://www.androwish.org/home/wiki?name=undroidwish

[1] https://www.androwish.org/

Hey, well done! For these kinds of tasks, myself I regularly use the venerable Expect [0].

[0] https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect

Cool project, well done!

Reminded me also of the Jesusonic [0] FX processor, by Justin Frankel [1] of Winamp, SHOUTcast, REAPER, ...

[0] https://www.cockos.com/jsfx/

[1] https://1014.org/

Not sure that is how the cookie crumbles, rather: it will be decided that chemical X is harmful at a certain dose, which leads to some permissible concentration Y of X, and that Y can then be used for regulation of disposing X.

A place that needs to dispose a certain volume of X with concentration >Y then pays a sort of a mixologist to dilute X to a concentration <=Y before dumping it all anyway (unless it would be less expensive and more practical to react X away).

I'll be eager not to correct you: it's such a complex tangle that it's a liability. Also, it is huge, and full of inconsistencies that sweep through the documentation, code, interfaces... It guarantees that anyone that wants to use this professionally needs help sooner or later -- and you can guess where that help comes from.

Lol, amen to that. A popular management fad. People suddenly start to feel important when they get labels like that stuck onto them. Oh boy...

Yes, it's called the "baby duck syndrome" [0], and it's stopping lots of professionals from even looking up when it comes to trying something different.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)#Baby_d...

Ha, you got me confused there for a bit, because of: https://wiki.c2.com/?ThreadedInterpretiveLanguage

Anyway, thanks for sharing your tips!

True, but it's probably not so important. After all, it's just more human centered talk. It might be useful now for everyone to take a step back, consider we share this planet with other living things, and maybe someone is brave enough to look at things from a perspective of non-human being. Who's the pandemic now? ;)

Besides, the planet doesn't care about our little problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHgJKrmbYfg

Cool! Made a "light" attempt at this when I was a kid, hooking up a matrix printer to my MSX computer [0], and learning BASIC's PEEK and POKE from my dad, to make a kind of typewriter: type a character, it prints at the curpos and advances the printhead; backspace moved the head one place back; return advances the page one line. Lots of fun :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX

Well, good luck! Remember it's never too late to learn something ;)

I can recommend to get a copy of

* Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution, by Lamont Wood.

* The Soul of A New Machine, by Tracy Kidder.

* Books by George Dyson (son of ...): Darwin Among the Machines, Turing's Cathedral. (unrelated, but also give Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship a go)

* The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, by Leslie Berlin.

* Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA

* Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing, by Thierry Bardini.

Datapoint's ARCnet (token bus) similarly also had to make place for Ethernet [0], while initially less expensive. An interesting networking technology still used in industrial fieldbus applications (wind turbines & robots for example), its deterministic nature making it well-suited for realtime requirements. Flexible wiring topologies and good signal resilience too.

It was used as a basis for Datapoint's minicomputer clustering technology (called ARCNET too, programmed using DATABUS), and later VAXcluster [1] as I just found out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNET

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_clusters

Thanks, first time I've heard of them, will be going through those (they seem to be available at archive.org [0]) soon!

I'd like to point out another interesting 18-part series of videos about prototyping (in his words "a short course on how to build stuff" :)), by engineer/inventor/professor Dan Gelbart: [1]

[0] https://archive.org/details/GingeryMetalWorkingShop/mode/2up

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMP_AfiNlX4

Takes a deep breath: can anyone explain how costs of maintenaning a fleet like that on the ground, would way up against flying empty? At what point would it make sense to "mothball" airplanes for longer term storage?

Yes, that would be a worthwhile choice! Shelter and fire first, probably :)