This is fantastic! One of my favorite things about traveling is experiencing their media--it gives me that same feeling.

Also, as someone that studied Geography extensively, it's an excellent review in that respect as well. One can quickly jump from one place to another.

Bonus points for using a globe, and not a map!

Most companies don't take all public holidays; this ends up being primarily for Federal workers who do get each of those holidays.

If you make a table of holidays and then check on/off those applicable, then have the algorithm fill back in as needed, that would be helpful.

Thanks for the feedback! ChatGPT and I made the change to hide individual holidays for a country per year, click "edit list" :)

Exactly; some of these machines have an explicit purpose according to the author: "We feed children into this machine and it spits out teenagers."

Fucking troll user profile created five minutes ago. The site is for individuals who would like to engage in respectful discussion based in science. Get your political shit out of here.

Did the phrase 'knife fight in a phone booth' still apply to SF politics back then?

Very much. The more things change the more they stay the same.

After the post the last week about the DIY GPS receiver, I decided to get out my RTL-SDR and set it up. Took a couple of days of fiddling around with it, but now I've got SDRtrucking setup. Spent one morning listening to the public safety radio traffic. That was a wild ride on it's own with all sorts of things going on in this metropolitan area.

All hail Bentham!

Thank you so much for posting everything that you did. Long-form details are hard to find. In my truest contribution, I suggest you're a pleasure to work with. Rarely have I seen anyone willing to give the deep-digest of their determination and problems with a function. Consider writing more!

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I didn't see the other posts about brevity. Fuck that. Details matter and so does the human experience. Who hasn't on this site been the unfortunate recipient of trying to get some brilliant but shitty function to work?

Who can't love the commemorative poster as well!!

https://www.nro.gov/Portals/135/Images/Social%20Media%20grap...

4800bps! Back in my day we were happy to get 2400!

Sadly, I had a 1200 baud; my uncle told me his first was 300.

I remember a 110 setting, which might go all the way back to the '48 Berlin airlift!

I had a 300 bps modem that could do half-duplex 1200 bps with another of its kind, the coolest modem ever made:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novation_CAT#The_Apple-CAT_II

BTW baud != bps. A full-duplex 1200 bps modem is actually 600 baud:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#Evolution_of_dial-up_spe...

I heard Shoemaker or Levy once talk about the modem on Voyager...running at a blistering 10 bps. I keep our old 2400 bps modem around as a curio. The memories are interesting and fun for me, but I get that they may not be so much for some of the other engineers I work with.

My first modem was 1200 baud! This was back in 1988, I think.

I remember when I upgraded to 9600 in the early 90's. It was an incredible upgrade. I also ran my first SLIP connection on that machine (an Amiga), probably around 1993 or 94.

The 4800bps was directly attached to a computer, no modem. If both were set to 9600, the terminal would miss characters. But most dumb terminals were fast enough to keep up at 9600.