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Some examples of flights without schedules: - A private pilot who departs their local airport without filing a flight plan and flies around for a while. - A charter jet that depart…

This is still very much the case. Although most new code is written in other languages, Tcl still has a substantial presence.

In general, this is actually done: there are defect detectors that are installed along tracks that monitor for several conditions as trains pass over/through them. Once the train h…

I wrote about how I decrypt TLS streams in Wireshark for debugging purposes here: https://www.benburwell.com/posts/intercepting-golang-tls-wit... It won't apply to every situation,…

The article mentions a takedown notice they received from GitHub instructing them on how to remove certain content from their repo. I'm guessing maybe this PR contains some of that…

How useful is this in practice though? I'd guess that far greater than 99% of the people using (most) products do not have perfectly color calibrated monitors. If it doesn't look g…

I really want to like GitHub Actions. But it feels like every time I'm trying to get something done, they are broken.

I also made something similar for Boston: https://mbta.benburwell.com Mine doesn't show the routes. Originally it did, but it was too visually busy. I like the way you did it where…

Your "state of the art" Go code is not really a good example of how that functionality would be written. If you want to check for a specific error condition, then just define a val…

Cool! I was expecting to see this implemented with the go/ast package, but I guess gofmt makes this easy enough to parse out by just matching lines.

Thanks! Hmm, that is odd. I'm currently seeing a few RL trains, but not as many as I'd expect... perhaps I've got a bug in processing the data somewhere. Edit: Actually, it's proba…

Hi HN! I wanted a way to visualize the MBTA system as a whole, so I hacked this together over the weekend. It shows the current position of each bus, train, and subway, including a…

Wouldn't clients then only become aware that they need to replace their certs after they've been revoked? I think the desire here would be for a mechanism to alert clients to obtai…

As a Go programmer, it doesn't really seem that notable or surprising to me that Go isn't considered the best language to use for implementing an operating system.

Of course it is their responsibility to take it back. Suppose I order a watering can from the garden supply store. When I get home from work, I discover that instead of a watering …

This is how it works in most areas. Mobile calls to 911 will go to the PSAP for a relatively large region, who will triage the call and if your address is in an area served by a mo…