Notices by Trammell Hudson (th@social.v.st)

I guess that explains why many of the lines weren't being plotted correctly.

Almost got impressed into joining the crew of Alex von Humboldt 2 during its stop in Scheveningen

my keyboard is getting a bath for its thirty-eighth birthday.

@azonenberg have you seen this one weird trick to reduce the number of vias in your PCB design?

@jwz what do you have against "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; PalmSource/hspr-H102; Blazer/4.0)" or "Opera/9.80 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/4.0.9800/191.379; U; en) Presto/2.12.423 Version/12.16" ?

The US ASCII control characters have official symbols? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#Control_characters

🚂<zwj>⛰️ should produce a funicular emoji

Almost got pounced upon!

"Average user has two X1 Carbons" factoid is a statistical error. Thinkpad Georg who hacks on firmware and sleeps on a bed made of bricked laptops is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Following up on the original question... Concise Products in Japan seems to still be producing circular slide rules https://www.sliderule.tokyo/products/detail.php?product_id=7

The combined Latitude, Declination, LHA grid didn't work, so instead I've added the normal S/ST, and T/T1/T2 scales to allow computation of Hc and Z from the corrected sextant height.

Printed and laminated a prototype of my solar slide rule on 350g A3 at the local print shop and it works fairly well! Correcting sextant height for index error, temperature, refraction, height of eye and lower limb is fast, as is computing latitude from the noon sight. Computing Hc and Z is a bit more involved (using additional scales on the reverse side)

Using a nuke to take down a blimp seems like overkill, but it's the only way to be sure.

Meanwhile in Amsterdam

Moore's Law illustrated. #HPC

But FORTRAN is forever. #HPC

@quixoticgeek not everything is so evenly divided.

Is anyone manufacturing custom slide rules?

Now with solar declination and sine/cosine tables (in addition to height of eye correction, refraction, parallax, and upper/lower limb calendars)

although this arrangement for the solar declination correction might be better, even though it makes low d changes less accurate.