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amoroso

@amoroso@fosstodon.org

Astronomy, space, Android, retrocomputing, Lisp, coding.

No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests.

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xinayder, to Astronomy

Is there a way I can make a separate feed or timeline in Mastodon with toots from specific hashtags? Like, can I make a timeline that only tracks toots with the hashtag?

amoroso,
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@xinayder Yes, you can do this:

  1. turn on the advanced web interface in the Mastodon settings
  2. search for a hashtag
  3. click the feed settings icon at the top of the column with the hashtag results
  4. click the pin icon
amoroso, to emacs
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The rootwork v0.2 blog posted about the author's journey through text editors, from classics such as vi(m) and Emacs to tools I've never heard of. They explain what they use the editors for and why.

https://write.as/hobbsc/wandering-words-on-text-editors

cnes, to random French
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Vous êtes nombreux à nous rejoindre suite à l'appel de @amoroso, merci beaucoup ! L'occasion de refaire une courte #introduction 🥳

Bienvenue sur le compte de l'Agence spatiale française 🇫🇷 Vous trouverez ici notre actualité, des infos sur les grandes missions spatiales, de la vulgarisation scientifique, un peu de veille et des liens pour aller plus loin 🚀

Thanks to @amoroso you're now 1337 following us. We do mostly speak le funny language, but please stay for the memes!

amoroso,
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@cnes You're welcome, keep up the excellent job. And please say bonjour to this fine astronaut you might be familiar with.

amoroso,
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@grb090423 Me too!

dev_ric, to random
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Admittedly, my code isn't always perfect...

amoroso,
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@dev_ric Well, at least you got the planet right.

amoroso, to retrocomputing
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I watched a rehearsal and Andrew Sengul put together a great presentation for his talk "The Medley Interlisp Revival" at the European Lisp Symposium 2024. You can watch him live here on May 6, 2024 at 12:30 UTC:

https://twitch.tv/elsconf

The full schedule with the other talks:

https://european-lisp-symposium.org/2024/index.html#programme

amoroso, to random
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This old paper tells the history of early Intel CPUs and discusses their features and major design decisions: the 8008, 8080, 8085, and 8086. The paper provides interesting technical and historical tidbits, such as the reason why the 8008 was little endian and hence later CPUs.

https://www.stevemorse.org/8086history/8086history.pdf

billseipel, to random
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When I text you and I have known you for years is it necessary to say

"Hi Bill"

Or is this just politeness?

amoroso,
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@billseipel Or maybe just noise.

lispm, to Lisp German
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@amoroso AI (and history) in the new book by Masayuki Ida: "A Narrative History of Artificial Intelligence, The Perpetual Frontier of Information Technology"

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-0771-3

amoroso,
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@lispm Thanks but it's a bit expensive-ish. My hope is Springer is not the first choice of new Lisp book authors looking for a publisher.

amoroso, to Lisp
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Are you going to European Lisp Symposium 2024?

I have a favor to ask you. Please tell the Lispers there if any of them writes a Common Lisp book I'll be more than happy to buy it, back a kickstarter, spread the voice, and support the author any way I can.

This is just one data point but my hunch is many Lispers are like me.

amoroso,
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@galdor I'd like to see new Common Lisp books on designing large Lisp software systems (particularly CLOS), DSLs, and (Mc)CLIM.

amoroso,
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@rogersm In principle yes but the only non English language I can read is Italian.

amoroso,
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@rogersm The Connection Machine Lisp, cool.

astroptere, to random
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Today, I’m back in Mission Control for the 1st time since the landing of Perseverance on Mars. Now it’s as test lead and a Flight Director for our upcoming Operational Readiness Test of the Europa Clipper spacecraft! The team is simulating the Launch and I’m ecstatic! 🤩 🚀 🛰️

amoroso,
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@astroptere Godspeed!

Dodges, to amiga
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What was your first OS? Mine was amiga workbench 1.3 Didn’t have a hard disk though, so needed to swap diskettes every time I needed to boot into it. Otherwise I would just see the kickstart in rom boot screen 😁 Ah the days..

amoroso,
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@Dodges It depends on what you mean by operating system.

amoroso, (edited ) to space
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These unofficial Mastodon accounts of space agencies are bots that merely share news items the agencies publish elsewhere, yet the accounts have quite a lot of followers:

  • NASA: @nasa 71K followers
  • ESA: @esa 1.4K followers

There's an unfulfilled demand for public institutions to communicate on open and independent platforms.

amoroso,
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@gardenvarietylinguist LOL Fixed, thanks.

amoroso,
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@Fuzed You're welcome.

amoroso,
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@pkmngamer That's another plus.

amoroso,
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@deflockcom Good point.

amoroso,
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@llewelly Those are valuable too.

amoroso,
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@cnes 👆 The official Mastodon account of CNES, the French space agency, would like to grow bigger than the unofficial @esa account which currently has 1.4K followers.

We can help, right? This is not rocket science. Wait, it is! 😀

@futuresprog

amoroso,
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@cnes Let's try, the sky is the limit.

amoroso,
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@cnes After all Mastodon has boosts.

@shalien @futuresprog

amoroso,
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@grb090423 The fediverse is a space these agencies definitely need to explore.

amoroso,
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@knud Their being aware is a step in the right direction.

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