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My kids played Minecraft, and one installed Lua to automate parts. Occasionally he would show me what he was working on and I could offer suggestions. We also set up a Linux comput…

You can use v then move to your start line and type y or d. This way you see the text marked before yanking or deleting. v is similar. And gv will reselect the marked area.

mapbox maps seemed to be down for a few minutes about an hour ago. I wonder if it is related.

myHetzner$ uptime 19:08:00 up 1709 days, 16:01, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 I'll probably just order a newer server and move over before rebooting now. There is no mone…

Yes, just paying for the between spots is exactly what I thought later in the day. Then check every month which areas cause costs and add those to the in-house polygons.

For reducing the number of points I've often used mapshaper.org. For deciding if a user is in Texas you could create a simple polygon completely inside Texas and one in Oklahoma. 9…

In 2001 in the small town of Hartsville SC, one of the youngest code breakers gave his last two public talks. He had been hired by Turing because he was one of the few studying bot…

:Lexplore opens a split window with a directory listing you can navigate. :33Lexplore opens the split with a slimmer, 33% width, window. :Lex to autocomplete if you do not want to …

To not load openstreetmap's servers, you could pull the tiles to your server and host them. Then only grab a tile from OSM when you are missing one. This would also let you set the…

I read it last year after it was mentioned here. Thought it was nice that pg had a cameo at the end of the book.

I worked at an investment bank in the New York area. Employees had a two week lockout each year.

"Molch" translates to "newt" or "salamander"

The site mentions owl poop, but it is really owl pellets which are coughed up fur and bones of the owl's food.

I had that. Back in now at 8:55 Eastern US.

I got a prescription for monitor distance, about 30in or 70cm, and ordered the glasses from Zenni. It makes my computer time much better.

I agree that I mostly want to see which rivers the drop flows to but really enjoyed the flight down the Savannah river and seeing how winding it is. Spent a week canoeing it a long…

I got an 8 with red-green color blindness.

That is something I have been working on. qquiz.com

One big advantage of low inventories is you do not have to fix or trash lots of parts if they were made out of spec. In the case of chips the odds are they are all good. It is just…

There were several in Stuttgart. One at a Uni building, which I've heard is now defunct. Two are in the Stuttgart Rathaus. They may still be in service. I was showing my son that t…

The maps are coming from mapbox. I set up a map style without labels. For the cell image, I cut the image into map tile layers by scripting imagemagick. These tiles are served from…

QQuiz, a map quiz where you have a few seconds to click on the correct country. https://qquiz.com/eu_med.html I started off making it for maps. Now I am trying to make a more gener…

We need a program that logs sessions and tells us where we could have saved keystrokes. I think something like the script command to record my session along with a list of rules to…

Stuttgart's Rathaus has two. Uni Stuttgart had one that I know of, but last I heard it had been stopped. I always make a point to go to the Rathaus and ride them when I visit. The …