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I have been having a good time getting Claude to code in the unfashionable choice of Object Pascal/Lazarus. Fast compile times, native cross-platform support, and small statically-…

I have been getting claude to us free pascal/lazarus to write cross-platform (linux qt & gtk, windows and cocoa) apps as well as porting 30-year old abandoned Windows Delphi apps t…

I have settled on a way to do append only notes by having a "journal" user on my xmpp server, and I take notes by sending them asciidoc formatted messages. I have been too lazy to …

I had a very convenient setup using linked files stored in Dropbox that worked very well for 15 years. The Zotero 6 to 7 upgrade completely broke this, and modified the database so…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huf_Haus Construction of a Huf Haus in the UK featured in the 2004 series of Grand Designs.

In this context energy=wavelength=frequency, and hard x-rays means x-ray with energies > approx. 5 keV. I am assuming properties they are after in their particular context are tuna…

Lots of interesting experiments with solar collection here: https://www.youtube.com/@sergiyyurko8668/videos

Including one of the hardest of them all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocasuarina_luehmannii

McMaster-Carr seems to have done it OK

I have progressed from Dokuwiki -> Tiddlywiki -> Gollum. I can now write everything in asciidoc.

The core itself (Xtensa) is from a US company, Tensilica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensilica

I have also found this useful: http://brettbeauregard.com/blog/2011/04/improving-the-beginn...

Radioactivity of rocks is caused by only a few elements so is useful to consider the minerals in which those elements are hosted. i.e. the radioactivity is not evenly distributed a…

https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matri...

Does anyone have a reference for 'cutting it out and weighing it'?

From the link, on economic complexity [1]: Where does Australia rank on the global scale? Worse than Mauritius, Macedonia, Oman, Moldova, Vietnam, Egypt and Botswana. Worse than Ge…

There is hardly any water and the cities were designed around cars far more than any city outside Los Angeles. As a past/present resident of both LA and Melbourne, I would modify t…

5 years and 7464 references later Zotero has become an integral part of my workflow. The combination of Zotero and the custom renaming of Zotfile lets me store all my pdfs in Dropb…

I feel the exact same way. Codeine has been working for me since 1990, turning hours of pain into ~30 minutes of blurred vision. Is codeine abuse really a problem in Australia, or …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medipix After much searching I found the energy resolution here [1], stated as [1] http://dpnc.unige.ch/seminaire/talks/campbell.pdf Also: http://iops…

Mediatek is Taiwanese.

Both major parties have enthusiastically consulting but never quite getting around to passing second tranche of anti-money laundering legislation [1]. Some people say no one is int…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synroc

I am not sure if it does solve NIMBYism entirely. I note on the map of tunnels they would like to build there is no link between Santa Monica/UCLA/West LA and downtown LA. I assume…