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I have found my cursive hand getting much better after spending some time with Gregg shorthand. The emphasis on curve and proportion in Gregg has made my cursive hand much more reg…

MakeCode allows you to begin with block code and slide into Python or Javascript. It has many resources available or you can make more sprites or tunes for your game. Even better, …

After a career in a science, engineering and IT, I am now teaching computer science and maths in high school and loving it. In Australia, any previous degrees would have a big impa…

> The lost capsule is a density gauge, commonly used in mining and forms part of a level sensor. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-30/how-wa-authorities-se... ... possibly like t…

My teens was my first jobs; pizza places and pamphlets. My twenties was travelling, hospitality and finance. My thirties was university, science and programming jobs. My forties ha…

Far from heavyweight, I was building innovative solutions for a small consultancy that became more successful and more practised at the same old solutions. Cue same boring problems…

I think that plane was lost soon after takeoff because a raincover was left on an engine. Perhaps this incident was something related to landing heavily, unless the pilot made a ve…

Yeah sure, there is too much momentum in current climate changes for Australian policy to turn it around. But the argument that Australian emissions are tiny in comparison to US, I…

Why would coral culturing specialists like Madeleine van Oppen be the best at testing atmospheric alterations? Do you mean that the ultimate effects on the corals are important, ra…

I would say that there is a lot of interest in some quarters for this sort of solution, as it might mean that we could save the GBR without curtailing the energy industry. I think …

Emacs Lisp is still dynamically scoped, no?

Can I ask if I understand your use of `tail` in tail variance? Do you mean tail as in extremes of a distribution, or tails, as in losses. I'm very interested in using MC techniques…

The google signin was the stopping point for me too.

It thought ChainMap might be useful (Python) but found out I need to be a lot more careful using it. from collections import ChainMap a, b, c = {'a': 1}, {'b': 12, 'c': 13}, {'c': …

My daily drive is spacemacs, all the tweaking is there.

My only vim customization is `:imap kj `. Takes 10s to write into a .vimrc on any new computer.

> Edge was disqualified because it seemed to bypass the hosts file and wouldn’t load pages from unique domains. I can do measurements so I might revisit this, but it wouldn’t have …

I don't think the bar would need to be stainless. The reinforcement cage in concrete weight coating used on subsea pipelines is relatively ordinary steel. The steel is protected fr…

At times, I have found some comfort in thinking about my personal travails from universal perspective. Can my upset really have any gravity, any impact upon a drifting continent, o…