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Interesting connections with motion jpeg, animated gif and RFB (Remote Frame Buffer as used by VNC). The latter has me particularly curious, though all of them seem like mad hacks …

Earth time Sol time SagA* time

We don’t have much trouble yet with relativistic temporal distortions, but Earth’s motion causes us to lose about 0.152 seconds per year relative to the Solar system. Likewise we l…

Not at all, just a bit of word play. It's "officially" a meme even! Cheers https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/touch-of-the-tism

Here is the three original Postscript Books. They are the classic way to learn PS. The Blue Book (Tutorial and Cookbook) https://archive.org/details/postscriptlangua0000unse The Re…

As a language it is lovely, if you're a fan of minimalism -- being stack-happy, like FORTH. It is well worth learning even just to flex the mind, but especially if you need to make…

Haha! I used to do LOTS of work in PostScript. The biggest project was a system which was part Python for the management, but PS for the content of a database publishing engine, mo…

Check out Kroki for a multi-syntax wrapper around a bunch of text driven diagram generators —- including Mermaid, PlantUML, Ditaa, GraphViz, SVGBob, etc, etc https://kroki.io/

Back in 1992 or so the NeXT could distinguish (was it 16 or) 64 fixed, trained, phrases. Point being, it doesn’t take too much compute with a finite vocabulary.

Oh yeah, and I generally keep such a monster running in a GNU screen via mosh on servers too. Loverly! They can run for years.

I've gravitated to the use of a 43" 4K TV as my main monitor (and have a few others scattered about for auxiliary purposes) and when hacking hard have a full screen emacs window sp…

Exactly. One whale’s weight of antimatter

I came to the chat before reading the piece only to find myself confronted with my assumption that it was about going deeper into flow while coding — and this is how some innovatio…

Fascinating exercise and nice work! Adjacent (resilient, low-level, big-vision, auditable) projects include: http://collapseos.org/ Forth OS, bootstrapable from paper, for z80 http…

I lived in Inuvik, NWT (Canada) for a decade in my youth. It's above the Arctic Circle and has 30 days without sunlight, bracketed by months of near darkness. Each year a new crop …

My friend Colin Broughton completed the first full implementation of the Algo68 spec. Apparently there was some concern that it was not going to be implementable! https://en.wikipe…

I personally saw a rat cavorting quite vivaciously on a pallet of dogfood in the Bonnie Doon K-Mart (in Edmonton, Alberta) in around 2002. I have no basis for any claims about whet…

I see this discussion as failing to touch on two main points. This coverage does a poor job of conveying whether he could tell that the craft was climbing, though evidently it was.…

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Basically, if you're a coder and you make documents or images which are complicated, structured, data-driven or orderly enough to seem amenable to programmatic construction, then P…

Hey, that's a pretty handy document. Interesting to see it support PS in the context of LaTeX and Word. I used to dream in PostScript I was coding in it so much -- the experience w…

At first I thought "wow, they're so smooth" but then realized that the dynamics must be so incredibly fast that the fuzzy smoothness is really just motion blur. Amazing though....

Doubtless there are lots of other ways to get it running but I just tried it myself by: * 1990 * System 6.0.5 * Customize... * Machine: Mac II * Infinite HD > Multimedia > HyperCar…

Hi Hussam. I really like the hTime idea! The compelling perspective on this, for me, is to see it as a planetary frame of reference for thinking about time. Of course there is UTC …

It looks like one of the authors is on HN with us. Can you offer any insight into the cause of the confusing language in the "Science News" piece? It reads like it was written by a…