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Monday, February 1, 2021
TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: Now—Your Text Can Rival the Copy-Editing Standards of The Grauniad!
13,000 Regular Expressions Make An Editor’s Life Easier
— hackaday (@hackaday) February 1, 2021
Being an editor is a job that seems deceptively easy until you are hauled over the coals for letting a textual howler go to print (or website). Most publications have style guides to ensure that th… https://t.co/888ci0Gqtz
Source code, including thirteen thousand regular expressions (!), is available on GitHub.
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CONTEXT: Forty-nine Years Ago Today: The Hewlett-Packard HP-35 Calculator
49 years ago #Today, Hewlett-Packard introduced the first scientific hand-held calculator, the HP-35 https://t.co/Rr1VBMIrYi pic.twitter.com/kjTuJVIGaP
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 1, 2021
This is the first item of personal electronic technology I really salivated over owning. I couldn't afford one, and didn't own an H-P calculator until I bought an HP-45 around 1974. If you want to savour the magic this was, here is a highly-authentic HP-35 Emulator in JavaScript that runs in your Web browser.
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CONTINUITY: Plate Tectonics: The Last Billion Years
Wow! New research reconstructs a billion (!) years worth of plate tectonics. Mouth watering research. Source: https://t.co/LbbQUpPJIy pic.twitter.com/b1IYZdpJom
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) January 31, 2021
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THE HAPPENING WORLD: Chinese Private Launch Company iSpace's Hyperbola-1 Fails
China’s iSpace suffers failure with second orbital launch attempt https://t.co/qcQLboE82a
— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) February 1, 2021
iSpace's Hyperbola-1 failed to reach orbit on its second launch attempt. Its first launch, in July 2019, was the first successful orbital launch by a “private” Chinese space company. Why do I say “private”?
Companies have also received support in the form of policy support, assistance from giant state-owned space contractors, provincial and local government deals and Military-Civil Fusion (MCF).
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CONTEXT: Which European Language Am I Reading?
What European language am I reading?
— Max Fras (@maxfras) January 30, 2021
The only flow chart you need pic.twitter.com/lyJdqT4uKw
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TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: Completely Fake Circuit Breakers
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