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i just took that pesky 's' out of https and it let me click thru.

It's not dead. It's included with every copy of Desktop Excel and probably will be for 20 years. Press Alt-F11 and away you go (enable Developer tab first i guess?). Forms, SQL con…

Surprised Wildberger’s youtube channel wasnt in here. People ask whats the point? For me the study of the infinitesimal vs finite has really helped me better understand issues of p…

have to ask the Maintainer of Time https://twilightzone.fandom.com/wiki/A_Matter_of_Minutes

Jaquard loom was one of the first machines that could operate based on a set of symbols / patterns encoded on a punched card. Computers ran on punched cards until the 1970s. Voting…

I had this feeling of alien math when I went thru his videos on ancient Babylonian math. They were very serious about the everything divided by sixty stuff. Good times.

The other thing it can give you is computationally exact results since rationals are closed over division. Sine is interesting because where the input is rational the output is alm…

thats so awesome. i wonder what a live forth interpreter would look like on NES.

Even bird watching. I try these apps and nothing sticks. Books ok. But I go for a hour walk with experts talking and I can remember the entire scene of the bird, what it was perche…

How I started. Once upon a time there was this magical kingdom called Radio Shack. But it's people left the Earth and went to Capacinor - the Unshorted Lands, a place where batteri…

I spent a while on an open source project debugging some bizarre crashes. Cant remember exact detail but something like Someone was throwing an exception inside a destructor which …

Ran linux in an 8 mb 486 in the 90s. X ran in 256 color mode and twm or mwm were the window managers. It was so hard to use though. Had to setup modelines settings for your monitor…

Floating point numbers are not closed under addition. They are not real numbers and not rational numbers. FP is on a grid whose size changes the farther you get from 0,0. For examp…