 This article about the current decades-long work to recalibrate the notion of "height" in US geological surveys and so forth is fascinating and reminds me so much of like... in a video game engine when you get too far away from the origin and start losing precision in your floating point numbers and suddenly your physics starts to glitch https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/science/maps-elevation-geodetic-survey.html
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 @darius yeah, I got the noti and haven't opened it to read the article yet but what an absolutely short sighted politically motivated bullshit decision.   So basically the US used an embargo, with its explicit threat of violence attached (you can't embargo without a military to enforce it), to force abolitionist holdouts to join the United States. (Rhode Island of course was not a monolith and there were like, antidemocracy people in the mix who didn't want to join the US for their OWN weird reasons.)  In my ongoing quest for simple React setups, this article is mind blowingly good: https://kentcdodds.com/blog/super-simple-start-to-react It explains how to set up a react app with just HTML and JS files, no webpack or browserify or anything. It is fully a toy implementation BUT it helped me understand a lot of the "magic" underlying React in a way that I never had before. It even shows how to write JSX embedded in the HTML file (by including Babel in a script tag). @darius I absolutely shipped non-public-facing code this way when React was first taking off, in order to build a thing that would have been super painful to do in jQuery. The docs used to do a really good job of explaining this as a first-class option! I loved how it could be gently introduced into an existing codebase without having to rewrite everything. Then everybody went and rewrote everything using it. Does anyone else tense up and hold their breath between when they press the "print" button and when the printer actually starts to print  here's a thing you can do: pepper your code with comments that contain the text "<<<<<<< HEAD" (I did not encounter this in the wild, this is just an idea I had right now)
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   🎶🎶🎶 well fuck you, then (from the PDP-8 Small Computer Handbook, 1972 https://www.grc.com/pdp-8/docs/PDP-8_Small_Computer_Handbook_1972.pdf)
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  @darius _Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets_ by Peter van der Linden, ©1994 Sun Microsystems  Having a question about events being actors 'id':`https://${domain}/${eventID}`, I would rather expect "Service" See "The core Actor Types include"   I've been building a Facebook Events style event organizing system for the Fediverse. It's based on the simple, open source, privacy-respecting event organizing tool https://gath.io The attached video is a work-in-progress preview and shows compatibility with Mastodon. My hope is to get it working with lots of software, including stuff like Friendica that supports events and calendars. Check out more at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/organizing-on-32729070
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@darius @thisismissem The screencast was really nice. But yeah, maybe I shared that wrong. Try following the event! :) 
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What fool called it "Starlight Express" and not "Andrew Lloyd Webber Said 'Trains Rights'"? @darius we didn’t suffer enough from this joke the first time you just had to boost it huh  @darius Thanks for boosting this today; I had not looked at your RFC rereading project and it's so neat! The best thing about palindromes is you can always make them longer by adding the word "poop" at the beginning and end I should learn Perl so I can have a file called "stately.pl" which just outputs one of those two strings at random
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@darius This from the article: "Some Coloradans worry that a few of their mountain peaks will fall below a bragging-rights threshold under the new height system" reminds me of this movie starring Hugh Grant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Englishman_who_Went_up_a_Hill_but_Came_down_a_Mountain
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