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rdnielsen

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Environmental scientist (biology/oceanography), data analyst, data manager. Semi-retired.

Started programming in 1971 with FORTRAN and Basic. Started FOSS programming in the early 1980s. A trace of that work: http://www.kc85.info/index.php/magazines-mainmenu/morrow-owners-review-mainmenu-143/118-forever-z-scripts-a-loops-1.html. Now mostly working in Python; see packages 'mapdata' and 'execsql' on PyPI.

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Agreed.

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Donald Trump evidently learned a couple of things from Bugs Bunny. Just a couple--not the 'clever' part.

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Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective

Before smartphones, we had PDAs in our pockets. Palm did them best.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/palm-os-and-the-devices-that-ran-it-an-ars-retrospective/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Palm was one of the early notable victims of corporate mismanagement and .

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After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip

Z80 powered Game Boy, ZX Spectrum, Pac-Man, and a 1970s PC standard based on CP/M.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/after-48-years-zilog-is-killing-the-classic-standalone-z80-microprocessor-chip/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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RIP Z80. I did a lot of assembly-language programming for that chip.

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