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where do you get satellite orbits from?

I have plenty of hours flying planes (unlicensed - while doing aerial work and playing around to kill time thanks to my instructor pilot), and have a limited amount of experience s…

Now every ship has a 1B potential liability when transiting. What a great way for Egypt to turn what was a near-disaster into a full disaster. They didn't lose out that much, every…

I got a visit when I was young (planned, agreed to in advance) from an officer from my countries national intelligence service. I was a reference for someone going to work for the …

A new FPGA company for anyone interested (well... 2012, but in chip world that's kind of new) https://theamphour.com/535-efinix-fpgas-with-sammy-cheung/

Those would. The Elixir style feels nice. I wonder if something like that could make it into Ruby 4

IRB the interactive ruby shell has _ which references the return value of the last command. So 10 + 10 puts _ # prints 20 but that isn't available in ruby itself

This is hilarious, and clearly a joke, but it does make one think. I've always thought that it would be nice to have variables which you don't name, which only live over a couple o…

I would love to hear more

four buh two

Why don't we have two sets of memory - the main, slow, cached memory, and a smaller set of super fast low latency memory, like cache, but that the programmer and compiler can use e…