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Dr. Drang
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[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Yesterday morning, before Christmas got going, I read about the big Powerball win Wednesday...
Greg Pierce, top turtle wrangler at Agile Tortoise, posted this to Mastodon last week: Since updating to watchOS 26, about every third time I go to start a workout, I find later it didn’t start. The way the button animation swiping...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I planned to talk about this post from Mathew Ingram, but things went in a different direction,...
In the most recent episode of Mac Power Users, David and Stephen discuss Keyboard Maestro, a longtime favorite automation app and the main topic of at least three previous episodes of MPU. If you’re an ANIAT reader, it’s reasonably...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve talked about area moments of inertia in the past couple of posts. Today, thanks to Phil...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] At the end of yesterday’s post, I mentioned that axial deformations in framework members are...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve been meaning to follow up on the “sense of structure” post I wrote just after Thanksgiving....
I ran into an example of especially bad design on a web page yesterday. Not “how it looks” design; “how it works” design. Here’s an excerpt from an online payment page: Looks straightforward, right? Just click in the field, type in the...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Speaking of the equation of time, which I was in yesterday’s post, I wanted to extend some of...
Here’s a fun post by Andrew Plotkin. He’s a late riser, so the shortest day of the year, which is on the solstice, means nothing to him. He’s interested in the date of the earliest sunset, because that means his sunlight hours will be...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’m in the middle of a three-lecture series on the Wolfram Language and thought the puzzle...
Back in early 2023, I wrote about combining some of my simple command-line date commands into a single Keyboard Maestro macro. This became my go-to system for quickly getting the number of days between two dates. Around that same time, I...
I checked out Practical Approximate Analysis of Beams and Frames from the University of Illinois library a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t dug into it deeply yet, but I smiled in recognition of some of the early material. Here, for...
Thanksgiving is not the last Thursday of November. I mean, it is this year, and it usually is, but that’s not how it’s determined. Since 1942, Thanksgiving—the US one, not the Canadian one—has been set by federal law to be the fourth...
While I was putting together my recent post on Maya calendar calculations, I tried to get some information on the Moon from a NASA website. Specifically, a page with the prosaic name Moon Fact Sheet at the URL...