Tags: flânerie, architecture, exercise, urbanism, openstreetmap Authors: D. Joe
I circumambulated the Mall at Greece Ridge today.
(map image and data © OpenStreetMap contributors)
Which is to say, I walked around it. Not, strictly speaking, in a circle. And not, strictly speaking, for ritual purposes, although that comparison did come to …
Several years ago, we observed the 50th anniversary of the US Supreme Court's historic, often referenced, Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, made during the first decade of the Cold War.
This ruling ending de jure racial segregation for schools in the incompletely Reconstructed, Jim Crow southeastern states.
While Brown …
A candidate installment of the mostly-only-imagined series Command-line arcana**
Perhaps the most arcane invocation I regularly direct into a terminal emulator window these last few years is:
mv !$??* !$
Those familiar with the intricacies of bash, particularly history expansion and parameter expansion patterns, probably won't be challenged by this very much …
From a putative but so far mostly just imagined series "Reading The Economist During Pandemic Confinement"
The Schumpeter column in the July 18, 2020 issue of The Economist, entitled When bits bite enumerates several problems with enterprise software, illustrated with recent examples.
The through-line example is VW's problems with the …
A basic concept in mathematical physics is the distinction between a scalar and a vector. The first has a magnitude only, the second has a magnitude and a direction.
The concept is broadly applicable but a typical example to illustrate the point notes the difference between speed and velocity. Two …
I went to startup vim just now because I wanted to see the charity
solicitation message that runs when it starts up. Turns out I don't have vim
proper installed.
$ vim
Command 'vim' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install vim
sudo apt install vim-gtk3
sudo apt …Previously I gathered some links about an idiosyncratic collection of storms that I was aware of because of some local connection, or because they had been big enough for me to hear about them when they happened even though they were remote from me.
I did not include anything about …
The bot in the #git channel on freenode holds links to recommended reading.
A couple of these were invoked in the last week or so not long before I
wandered into the channel (via Esc A in irssi) so I was able to notice them.
One of them is a …
(Karen and Bradley's talk about using proprietary software is a starting point for this.)
I repeatedly go through phases where I think I'm just on the cusp of sitting down and writing a definitive apologia for my approach to using free software and, in particular, how that approach handles the …
From Introduction: Getting Started of the TIMEX User Manual: TIMEX/Sinclair 1000
by Steven Vickers with revisions by C.F. Durang
© 1982 Timex Corporation
© 1982 Sinclair Research Limited
Welcome to the world of computing. Before you plug in your new Timex/Sinclair 1000, please take a moment to think about …