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David, a Bostonian in Tokyo.

djl@mastodon.mit.edu

<p>Retired translator hiding out under a rock in Tokyo, Japan. Interests includes photography, jazz guitar, juggling, Materials Science, Go, Japanese literature, Comp.Sci., and AI.<br />Programming experience in Fortran, Lisp, BCPL, C, C++, Python, and assembler on IBM, CDC, DEC, and Intel architectures.</p>

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    I&#39;d like to do some &quot;graphics&quot; programming, but a specific type. I want to display white dots on a black backround. Calculate a new set of dots, and spit them to the screen. Don&#39;t mind if I have to turn off old dots myself. SBCL would be optimal, Python OK, C/C++ no thanks city. Do any GUI toolkits support such a widget??? Any recommendations/experience doing this sort of thing??? #graphics #programming #lisp #python #gui

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    @b0rk@social.jvns.ca I worked on &#39;nix internationalization at AT&amp;T&#39;s Tokyo Office, 1988/1989. We thought we could make Unicode fly in 16 bits. Wrong. Hilariously, when Mickey$oft reimplemented VMS to create the first real modern OS for peecees (NT, OS/2 Warp doesn&#39;t count), they listened to us, and used utf16 for internal stuff. Now that even 32-bit unicode is a variable-width encoding, it doesn&#39;t matter. Working at AT&amp;T for an idiot boss wasn&#39;t fun, and I&#39;ve...

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    TIL: Wiki: &amp;quot;Davis earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from New York University in 1982. &amp;quot; Art Davis was a seriously great bebop bass player, who worked with Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner and Max Roach. Also with Art Blakey and Sonny Stitt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3f6L0KM4hQ&amp;amp;list=PL-5ntqb8ArlfW8UbP_mXPdJauzGUUHRe- #jazz #bebop #bass

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    Japanese trainfans (train geeks/otaku) can be something else. (As in Kurosawa&amp;#39;s first color film, Dodesukaden. (If you haven&amp;#39;t, you need to see it.)) But we Americans have our entry in said competition. The Tanner YouTube channel: it&amp;#39;s great fun if you are even a minor train geek. Today&amp;#39;s vid, &amp;quot;This is Japan&amp;#39;s UNIQUE Monorail Built By a Hospital!&amp;quot; is hilarious. Especially the reason the monorail got built in the first place. https://ww...

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    Ron Carter friggin&amp;#39; WALKS!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UenXvLuCRjg #jazz #bebop #monk

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    It&amp;#39;s not all in-your-face bebop: Emmet also does pretty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKcLLYYGg5s #music #bossa #jazz