Technically, Passover ends at sunset / sundown on April 13. Installing Orbtimes then one can type nicks@johndenver:~/Documents$ orbtimes Sunset local day Wednesday 19:27.015425 April 12 2023 Sunrise local day Thursday 6:29.800781 April 13 2023 I can check this against Google search which says 7:37 PM which is a ten minute discrepancy. […]
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<2021-08-17 Tue> 24:21 azimuth 145 degrees calculated azimuth=188.408225 degrees clockwise from north and altitude 32.149676=degrees above horizon <2021-08-18 Wed> 23:56 local time, or 4.93 UT. Observed azimuth 160 degrees. calculation. ./orbtimes -vvv –saturn –location=”38.6N 90.2W” –date=”2021-aug-18″ -Z”4.93″ Saturn azimuth=179.058814 degree and altitude 32.602583=degrees above horizon Maybe this is Jupiter…. Jupiter […]
Get a Windows 10 (or other version) boot image (e.g. windows.iso) file by downloading from Microsoft. Insert the USB thumb drive. Note what device Linux has given it. (e.g. /dev/sdb ). Put a partition on the drive with fdisk. Put a file system on the drive with mkfs.fat -F32 Copy […]
In my youth, I was taken to an Atheneum. This was a private library which was an exclusive privilege akin to a golf course, swim club. I was introduced to the difference that privilege can give you. Later, I got a job working in my school library. I reshelved books […]
As usual, the default debian commands don’t do the job. I tried running pdflatex and got some indecipherable errors about a font not found. apt install texlive-latex-extra takes an inordinate time to complete, but it did the trick. pdflatex is now operative.
I thought about my privacy, but I really didn’t care. I just really needed e-mail, and they were giving it away free. A gift that keeps on giving, an offer I couldn’t refuse. The internet because of its machine to machine construction encourages one to feel anonymous. When you communicate, […]
As Don Draper says in MadMen — “I sell products, not advertising”. General Semantics (GS) is a philosophy developed by Alfred Korzybski, popularized by A.E. Van Vogt. The basic maxim of GS is “the map is not the territory”. It is the distinction between semantics and syntax. Meaning is communicated […]
I wrote vguitar as a ncurses application. So it has a terminal user interface. Running it inside emacs with M-x terminal allows one to copy/cut/print the visible notes using c-j and c-k modes. 00 ========================= O - - 0 - - - - - - - - - - X […]