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baltimore··on Visidata 2.0
This is a game changer tool for exploring and manipulating tabular data. Give yourself 30 minutes to get the feel of how its wacky keybindings work (they are well thought out) and you'll be richly rewarded.

This takes its rightful place in the Hall of Very Good Tools alongside vim, htop, and multitail.

Watch the example videos to get a taste.

baltimore··on Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
From 2005: http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=8253
baltimore··on Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM
Why do I cringe when I see "at a high rate of speed" where "at high speed" should be?
baltimore··on ANSI Z535 Compliant Safety Sign Generator
https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/output/2020...
baltimore··on Things Unexpectedly Named After People
Start a new list for things unexpectedly NOT named after people. Silly example "Bilirubin"
baltimore··on Can electric cars on the highway emulate plane-to-plane refueling?
Because charging takes much longer than filling up with gas. If someone is willing to pay a premium for charging while driving to reduce total trip time, that's a business opportunity.
baltimore··on Amazon Retools with Unusual Goal: Get Shoppers to Buy Less
I wonder if one of the ways they are trying to lessen demand is by showing over-estimated delays in shipping. I've gotten every recent order delivered much faster than estimated at the time of purchase. (Sample size about n=5)
baltimore··on Lingua::Romana::Perligata — Perl in Latin
The original is gone, but there is this:

  sup 
  { 
    a be 1 bitch 
    slongas(a fearin 100) 
      b be 2 bitch 
      c be 0 bitch 
      slongas(b fearin a) 
        if (a videdby b time b sameas a) 
          propsta c bitch 
        fi 
        propsta b bitch 
      nomo 
      if (c sameas 0) 
        putou a bitch 
      fi 
      propsta a bitch 
    nomo 
  }

http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=8253
baltimore··on Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete
I'll see your Magic and raise you Nomic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
baltimore··on SCOTUS: Patent Rights Over a Printer Cartridge Are Exhausted When It Is Sold
Does this mean that printer prices are about to go up since HP/Brother/Lexmark will no longer be able to make as much money on the ink?
baltimore··on Qualities that I believe make the most difference in programmers’ productivity
Neither am I. Maybe that's one reason.
baltimore··on Qualities that I believe make the most difference in programmers’ productivity
Just a few to get you going:

"can imagine one good at doing its work": "its" → "[his|her|their]"

"who says there is no such a thing as the 10x programmer, who says it actually does not just exist": "who says" → "some say" (At this point I guessed, wrongly, that your native language might be Russian)

"a lot less efforts" → "a lot less effort"

"to do a much better work" → "to do much better work"

"graduated programmers" → "programmers with graduate degrees"

Just a little help from one non-native English speaker to another

baltimore··on Qualities that I believe make the most difference in programmers’ productivity
The quantity and quality of grammatical errors in the piece were finely calibrated to keep me reading it to the end. A curious effect.
baltimore··on Next Week's Bloodbath At IBM Won't Fix The Real Problem
How many people work at the US Post Office? About half.
baltimore··on Google Ordered To Teach America How To Put Passwords On Wi-Fi Networks
Aren't two issues being conflated here? (1) Securing access to your wi-fi with a password so that your neighbor can't free-ride on your ISP and (2) Encrypting your wi-fi traffic so that your neighbor (or Google) can't spy on you.
baltimore··on Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
Seriously? Why are you even here (HN)? This place does not suffer trolls lightly.
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