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macmac··on Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)
>But it’s also due to the chance intersection of one man’s hobby with his unrelated professional and educational background.

I wonder how many great inventions can be traced to this type of circumstances. I suspect more than we realize.

macmac··on l: A new runtime for k and q
Interesting, references?
macmac··on Show HN: Rust but Lisp
To get proper macros.
macmac··on Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
I agree. Probably a cost issue as all interviews appear to be done in person.
macmac··on Show HN: Mail Server Builder – Deploy a Full Mail Server on Ubuntu from Windows
So you would like me to give my VPS root password to your internet connected Windows app? no thanks. I really hope this is well intentioned, but nobody should use this.
macmac··on Parametric CAD in Rust
Aren't a few definitions missing from the examples (e.g. base_holes and wall_holes)?
macmac··on EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'
Greenland is not a country, it is a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.
macmac··on How to Teach People SQL
UNION is not a type of JOIN
macmac··on [dead]
The man is clearly mentally ill, and the ethics of interviewing such a person, is the only reason this interview is interesting.
macmac··on Learning Music with Strudel
I love this approach to learning music.

A nitpick: Isn't the below statement wrong? I thought "RolandTR909" was the name of the soundbank which is used for both bd and sd?

"bd is bass drum (also called kick-drums), sd is snare drum. RolandTR909 is the name of the sound."

macmac··on The R47: A new physical RPN calculator
Already Out of Stock. I want one :-(
macmac··on Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client
I use Halloy on a daily basis and could not be happier. It is super smooth in use and highly configurable using the config file. Halloy is also a great show case for the iced GUI framework and Rust for desktop apps.
macmac··on Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
With Datastar your front end logic (if any) is minimal, and you can use any typesafe (or not) language you want for the backend. If you build webcomponents for your Datastar frontend you can use TS to your heart's content.
macmac··on Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
So your answers is no, you cannot provide any arguments.
macmac··on Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
Could provide actual arguments for why these aspects of Datastar are "crazy", "even more crazy" and "wrong"?
macmac··on Zippers: Making Functional "Updates" Efficient (2010)
Zippers are part of Clojure API (clojure.zip). They take a bit of work to get used to, but once you get it they are an amazing way of making "transactional" "changes" to immutable data structures.
macmac··on Timesketch: Collaborative forensic timeline analysis
Thanks, I thought I was the only one baffled by this.
macmac··on ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway
Our "minister of Justices" is a scared little boy, deeply traumatised by a childhood characterised by the lack of a basic sense of safety. This trauma has never been addressed and with age he has unfortunately become a politician and earned a law degree. His rational faculties and academic degree are of course a faint echo compared to his childhood trauma, so he has no reservations destroying any personal liberty in the name of safety. I feel deeply for the boy, but fear the man.
macmac··on Tech execs are joining the Army – no grueling boot camp required
Utterly, utterly pathetic. An affront to the uniform.
macmac··on Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth
This looks neat, unfortunately the dependency on AWS is a show stopper for many European companies these days.
macmac··on Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown
No they did not, Firefly did.

UPDATE, my bad did not read properly.

macmac··on Why Fennel?
Clojure
macmac··on Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?
Oh I know what happens, the todo app was removed from the front page.
macmac··on Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?
Link?
macmac··on Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
Does anyone know why the beautiful covers disappear when I import these books in standard format into Calibre?
macmac··on Rust Is Indeed Woke
From the 2nd line.

"Of course, as ever, dissing something for being woke is nasty and fascist-adjacent."

Thank you for sparing me having to read the rest of the post.

macmac··on What Elon Musk Should Learn from Larry Ellison
This seems pertinent: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113930010311998246
macmac··on What Elon Musk Should Learn from Larry Ellison
Having tried both separately I also feel fairly confident I can predict my reaction to the rare Surströmming & Century Egg combo.
macmac··on What Elon Musk Should Learn from Larry Ellison
See my comment above. I have spent many hours in negotiations with Oracle. I might be anthropomorphizing the organisation, but I always had a strong sense that all it's many, many ethical failings were directly inherited from Ellison.
macmac··on What Elon Musk Should Learn from Larry Ellison
I cannot think of a living, non-incarcerated business person that would be able to contribute less to the betterment of Musk.
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