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Issue One May 2021
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===========================[ PREFACE ]=============================
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Back in February, Anyone who has had The strategy of this
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around the time of the pleasure of first run has been to
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the ogre incident, perusing the many just get it out
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Jone wondered out phlogs and gemlogs there. Rather than
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loud on the here at prematurely
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circumlunar.space circumlunar.space exhausting our energy
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BBS, telem, about the will be aware of the on determining what
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possibility of a CS impressive diversity it should be, or
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zine. The idea was of interests, pidgeonholing
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well-received by the talents, and ourselves into a
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rest of us sundogs, backgrounds of the niche or format
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and for some time, sundogs residing without actually
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talk of the zine here. It will be having produced any
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flooded telem as we interesting to see content, we elected
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proceeded to howl at how these influence to first just give it
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the moon in the zine over time, a go and see what we
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excitement. Amidst but currently what get. So for this
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this jubilee, I the zine is and how first issue, we have
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somehow ended up it will be produced what has been
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wearing the is largely still up endearingly termed a
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proverbial editor in the air. It's "topic salad." And I
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pants--for this really just a fun believe it has turned
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inaugural issue, at experiment, and this out to be quite a
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least. first issue is a kind nutritious one at
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of pilot episode. that.
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Circumlunar printable formats have otherwise. It is
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Transmissions will be that readers can with profound
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distributed easily print-and-bind gratitude and pride
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exclusively over for their own for this habitat and
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Gopher and Gemini by enjoyment offline its inhabitants,
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whoever would like to or to distribute and the smolnet
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host a copy on their locally. ecosystem at
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own gopherhole or large, that I
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capsule. That is, It has been a present to you
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anyone can clone the pleasure to this first issue
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git repo of the contribute something of our smolzine,
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project and serve its to this wonderful Circumlunar
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contents from their community of Transmissions.
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own smolnet space. thoughtful and
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This kind of creative individuals
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"newstand" method of whom I respect and
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distribution solves a admire sincerely.
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lot of the logistical During my relatively ~mieum
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issues of where and brief inhabitation of April 25, 2021
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how to bi-host such a the Zaibatsu, I've Incheon, Korea
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thing in an learnt a great many
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accessible way. In things and have been
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addition to Gopher inspired to create
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and Gemini editions, and wonder about
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we intend to provide things I would not
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======================[ TABLE OF CONTENTS ]========================
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[title] [line no.]
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The Circumlunar Mixtape..........................................97
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by sloum
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Ask Jone........................................................159
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by joneworlds
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Manifesto of a Granular Ideologue...............................227
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by tfurrows
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What's the Deal with Leap Seconds?..............................279
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by solderpunk
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The Hearth of the Matter........................................596
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by durtal
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Why I Still Game Proprietary....................................668
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by wholesomedonut
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===================[ THE CIRCUMLUNAR MIXTAPE ]=====================
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- - -[ sloum's covid-year playlist ]- - -
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The Circumlunar Mixtape is an ongoing series for Circumlunar
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Transmissions where one user per issue shares 10 tracks they have
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been listening to. .------------------------. Y'all have all
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kinds of ways to | CT001 | stream music, or
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otherwise find and | __ ______ __ | listen to music, so
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tracks are just | /. \|\.....|/ \ | listed and it is on
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the reader to locate | \__/|/_____|\__/ | them. As a court-
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esy, when a weblink | sloum | to streaming is
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available, playlist | ________________ | curators may choose
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to supply it. |___/_._o________o_._\___|
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These are songs I have listened to at various points throughout the
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last year. Some are old some are new. It has been a weird year and
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this is a kind of weird mix. I provided Bandcamp weblinks for each
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track except the Charlie Parr, which is a Youtube link because I
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like this song live and this is my favorite performance recording
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of it and the recording doesn't appear on any of his albums.
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Enjoy!
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Forward Becons Rebound Adrianne Lenker Songs
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https://adriannelenker.bandcamp.com/track/forwards-beckon-rebound
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Catamaran talons' Songs for Boats
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https://talons.bandcamp.com/track/catamaran
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Possessed by the Devil Charlie Parr N/A (live)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P46hGYUycoE
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Some Voices Pinback Some Voices EP
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https://pinback.bandcamp.com/track/some-voices
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Get To Know You Tomo Nakayama Melonday
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https://tomomusic.bandcamp.com/track/get-to-know-you
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Just a Cloud Lusine Sensorimotor
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https://lusine.bandcamp.com/track/just-a-cloud-feat-vilja-larjosto
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Good Morning Captain Slint Spiderland(Remastered)
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https://slint.bandcamp.com/track/good-morning-captain-remastered
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Step Into You Hum Inlet
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https://humband.bandcamp.com/track/step-into-you
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Kingfisher Windhand Grief's Infernal Flower
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https://windhand.bandcamp.com/track/kingfisher
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Nue Nils Frahm Wintermusik
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https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/track/nue
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===========================[ ASK JONE ]===========================
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Do you have a problem? Send your questions to:
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joneworlds@mailbox.org
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W. asks:
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"I have a strained relationship with my sister.
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What are some things I can do to help repair it?"
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I remember my dad feels like eating Chunk'n'Dunk? Not
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and I went through anymore. Although great. And I guess
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this patch where that stuff is dad's thinking along
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we were both pretty just not very the same lines as me,
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pissed off at each nutritious. But because every time I
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other, not that I because I'm mad come by he leaves me
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remember why at at him, I don't another pair of snow
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this point. But bother to bring tires he found. But
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sharing is caring, his favorite, the I'm not selling tires
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right? So to keep meatball-carrot stew any more by then,
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things going, I'm one. Instead, I bring so I don't want
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still dropping off him can after can of them. And he knows
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cans of Chunk'n'Dunk turkey-a-la-king. You that, but he keeps on
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soup for him, because ever try getting tires anyhow.
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it's all he ever that one from
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And so we go on like of cans. And some it I find that
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this for weeks: falls on his head co-incidentally the
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I come by and put and he falls over, big pile of snow
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like 5 more cans of and the rest of the tires out there has
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turkey-a-la-king on cans come crashing also fallen over,
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his kitchen counter, down on him. Pretty and it's crushed some
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and he stacks a few bad scene. So I go unlucky little gnome
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more snow tires to help him up, but who must have been
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outside his door I slip and trip on a milling around by
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for me. And all can on the floor, and there. Those things
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this stuff is piling hit the ground hard are so bad at staying
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higher and higher and too. And if you've alive, I just can't
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higher, and we're ever fallen on a believe it sometimes.
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gradually getting pile of Chunk'n'Dunk
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madder and madder at turkey-a-la-king Anyways, if you're
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each other. Until one cans, you know that looking to patch
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day I go over there hurts pretty bad. things up with your
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with another box of sister, I would say
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cans, and he starts So we're both maybe don't do it
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screaming and yelling groaning on the with canned soup,
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about how he hates ground, and then or snow tires. It
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turkey-a-la-king. And there's this weird sure didn't help us
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he gets so mad he sound by the front any. It just wasn't
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accidentally knocks door. When I get a good result for
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over the stack out there to check anyone, especially
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for that gnome. Or
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if you have to
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go with soup, at ________________________
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least stick with |\ /|
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the meatball-carrot | \ joneworlds / |
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one. It's actually | \ @ / |
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not bad. | \ mailbox.org / |
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Thanks for writing | / \ |
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in. I hope that | / \ |
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helps. |____/_____________\_____|
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-JONE
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================[ MANIFESTO OF A GRANULAR IDEOLOGUE ]==============
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by tfurrows
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- - -[ Passing Thoughts of an Impractical Idealist ]- - -
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Our ancestors stood on Permanence dammed the This is not the
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the banks of the river, a logjam of manifesto to end all
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Euphrates and cast ideas tossed in as if manifestos. It is a
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their ideas into the each was a consummate message in a bottle
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inexhaustible current. standard. Life-giving that few will find. It
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First they cast in waters slowed, is a loose model for
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words, ephemeral. Then intelligence waned, dealing with the
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they learned the elastic mind mountainous dam of
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permanence; epochs seized and crumbled. manifestos that stop
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brought clay tablets The word manifesto the flow of
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and papyrus, script dates to the creativity, passion,
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and type, bits and fourteenth century, and progress. At the
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clouds. but the notion dates risk of making the
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to our earliest problem worse, I
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written conclusions. proffer:
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From a Message in a Bottle, Sitting Atop the Dam of Manifestos
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* Let your mind move freely, become a seeker
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* Accept that knowledge is scattered broadly
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* Find kernels of truth and germinate thoughts
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* Take something from every ideology,
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fear nothing
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* Subscribe to that which you find value in
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* Mistrust labels, they carry unimaginable
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baggage
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* Acknowledge all that came before, but accept
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the utility of your journey
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* Never believe that you have the best vision
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for the world
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* Don't try to fashion the world to your
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ideals; your ideals are cursory
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* Be a maximal minimalist, distill purity from
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immensity
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* Find, purify, share, repeat
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* To conclude means to cease to grow
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<tfurrows@circumlunar.space>
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<tfurrows@sdf.org>
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==============[ WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH LEAP SECONDS? ]===============
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================[ A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF TIMESCALES ]=================
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by solderpunk
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ASTRONOMICAL SECONDS
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Why is a second as didn't, so you're "why is a day as long
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long as it is, and not stuck reading this, as it is?" - one day
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a little shorter or a instead: a brief, is the time it takes
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little longer? This incomplete, possibly the Earth to complete
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is a seemingly simple slightly inaccurate a single revolution
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question which leads overview based on my about its axis. And
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down a deep and own characteristically since there are 60
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delightfully twisted obsessive reading on seconds in a minute,
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rabbit hole. It's the topic over the 60 minutes in an hour
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something that I wish past week or so. and 24 hours in a day,
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Neal Stephenson had a second is simply one
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written an epically For most of the time 86,400th of the time
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long, inexplicably that the concept of it takes the Earth to
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compelling 1990s Wired the second has been rotate once. Or, if
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article about, in the around, its length has you like, a second is
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spirit of his "Mother been defined the time it takes for
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Earth, Mother Board" implicitly by that of the Earth to rotate
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or "In the Kingdom of the day. Everybody one 240th of a degree,
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Mao Bell". But he knows the answer to out of the full 360.
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End of story, right? observatories tracking enough to notice
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the movement of this). In fact, the
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Well, no. This is a distant radio sources Earth's rotation is
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perfectly sensible way across the sky as the slowing down. Very
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to define time - for Earth rotates. This slowly, of course.
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some applications, is easier than making Every century, a
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it's the best way to precision measurements complete rotation
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do it. This of the sun, but is takes about 2
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astronomically still measuring the milliseconds longer
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defined time scale is exact same thing. than it used to. The
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still in use today in rate of slowing down
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certain contexts. The EARTH IS A NICE PLACE is not steady. Some
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official name of its TO LIVE, BUT IT'S NOT years the change is
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modern incarnation is THE BEST CLOCK more and other years
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Universal Time, or UT it's less. In fact,
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(technically, there The problem with an even though the
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are a few subtly astronomical overall trend is one
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different variants, definition of the of slowing down, some
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denoted UT0, UT1 and second is this: the years the rotation
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UT2, but we'll gloss Earth doesn't actually actually speeds up.
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over that here). The rotate at a perfectly The dynamics of the
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official determination constant rate (it process are
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of UT nowadays is wasn't until the 19th complicated, and we
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based mostly on century that we could can't make accurate
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measurements made at build clocks accurate long term forecasts.
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Gravitational small, random was going to be late
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interaction between fluctuations in their to lunch because of
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the Earth and the moon duration over long the Earth's unsteady
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is the primary driver, time spans. If you rotation. But by the
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but the movement of define the second by 20th century, sci-
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tectonic plates and looking into the entific and techno-
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friction between skies, no two seconds logical progress
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Earth's surface and are exactly the same. meant these tiny
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its atmosphere and fluctuations started
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oceans have their say, That's a pretty to matter, as we
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too. The Indian Ocean inconvenient property began measuring
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Earthquake in 2004 was for the official natural phenomena and
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powerful enough to definition of a building machines
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shorten the length of fundamentally which operated on
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a day by 2.68 important unit like very small time
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microseconds. There the second to have. scales. A 10 mega-
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are even periodic For most of the time hertz radio
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variations in the rate this definition was oscillator, for
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of rotation that we used, the fluctuations example, has a period
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just don't understand were smaller than we of 0.0000001 seconds
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the cause of yet. But could reliably --only 100 nano-
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the take home message measure. Certainly, seconds! Gigahertz
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is that, whatever the they weren't enough to radiation, which is
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causes, astronomical have an impact on important in radio
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seconds actually have everyday life. Nobody astronomy and was
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used for communi- Fortunately, in the The new atomic second
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cations and radar 1950s, atomic clocks was defined such that
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during WWII decades were invented which it had the same
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before it came to kept time better than length as the
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underpin modern any previous astronomical second
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technology like GPS, mechanism. I'll gloss in use before it, as
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WiFi, and mobile data right over the far as measurements
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networks, has periods details, but suffice at the time could
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measured in it to say, we came up tell, but it had the
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*picoseconds*. Even with a new way to added bonus that the
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very, very small define the second length of the second
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variations in the which involved was then fixed and
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length of a second are measuring the unchanging. Caesium
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enough to make the properties of caesium atoms at a given
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measured frequency of atoms instead of temperature "vibrate"
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radio waves change, looking at things (very loosely
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even if the *actual* moving through the speaking) at a
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frequency is fixed. sky. In 1967, the frequency which, as
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Modern technological relatively young far as we can tell,
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society simply International System is completely and
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couldn't be built (or SI, for the French perfectly stable, and
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using a wobbly clock "Système which can be measured
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like the Earth. International") of very accurately in a
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units redefined the sufficiently advanced
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With the arrival of until now is a little other hand, is
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atomic seconds, a new less than 40 seconds, fundamentally
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time scale was also but it will continue divorced from it.
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defined: International to grow, without Thousands of years in
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Atomic Time (or TAI, limit. And while the the future, there
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for the French "Temps perfectly uniform will come a day when,
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Atomique Inter- seconds of TAI make it according to TAI, the
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national"). At mid- the perfect tool for sun rises in
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night on January 1st some tasks, this drift Greenwich at
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in 1958, TAI and UT apart from UT makes it midnight.
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were perfectly problematic for
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synchronised. Ever others. If you go This isn't just an
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since then, they have outside at noon UT in abstract concern for
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slowly but surely Greenwich, England (or the distant future.
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drifted apart. The anywhere else at 0 In the late '50s when
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seconds of TAI are of degrees longitude), TAI was defined, it
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perfectly unchanging the sun will *always* was still common for
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length (as measured by be high in the sky. ships at sea to
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averaging hundreds of This is true today and figure out where they
|
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atomic clocks all over it will be true in a were by using a
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the world), but the thousand years, sextant to record the
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seconds of UT Because UT is position of the sun
|
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fluctuate with the fundamentally linked above the horizon at
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Earth's rotation. The to the Earth's a certain time and
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accumulated drift up rotation. TAI, on the consulting a printed
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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table of conversions. increasingly less International de
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For this purpose, accurate as TAI l'Heure", but today
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ships carried the most drifted further out of the torch has been
|
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accurate clocks they synch with the Earth passed to a
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could afford, and and the stars. This combination of the
|
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compared them meant that the "new International Bureau
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regularly against true and improved" TAI time of Weights and
|
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UT time using time scale wasn't actually Measures, or BIPM,
|
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signals broadcast by an improvement for for the French
|
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radio stations all everybody. "Bureau International
|
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over the world. des Poids et Mesures"
|
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Celestial navigation COORDINATING CHAOS and the International
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works very well when Instead of Earth Rotation
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using a timescale broadcasting two Service, who have the
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which is tightly different time signals gall to abbreviate
|
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linked to Earth's for different the *English* version
|
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rotation, and hence purposes, which could of their name and go
|
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the position of things easily lead to by IERS) defined yet
|
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in the sky. But if the confusion, on January another time scale,
|
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radio time signals 1st in 1960 the powers in an attempt to
|
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switched to that be (back then achieve the best of
|
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broadcasting TAI that was the both worlds and make
|
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instead of UT, International Time everybody happy.
|
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celestial navigation Bureau, or BIH, for Enter Coordinated
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would become the French "Bureau Universal Time, or
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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UTC - at last, allowing scientists technical
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something normal and engineers around compromises, using
|
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people have heard of! the world to ugly hacks. It cannot
|
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calibrate their be any other way, as
|
|
The abbreviation UTC instruments and UTC is a stubborn
|
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is a strange reliably measure time attempt to reconcile
|
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compromise between intervals and two desirable but
|
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the English frequencies very fundamentally
|
|
abbreviation CUT and precisely. But incompatible
|
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the French whereas TAI is properties of a
|
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abbreviation TUC (for destined to drift timescale: perfectly
|
|
"Temps Universel ever further away regular seconds, and
|
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Coordonné"). This is from UT, to the synchronisation with
|
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somewhat fitting, chagrin of sailors a spinning globe
|
|
because UTC itself is and astronomers, UTC whose rate of
|
|
a strange compromise is kept synchronised rotation is
|
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time scale between UT closely enough with unpredictably
|
|
and TAI. Like TAI, UT that it allows irregular.
|
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UTC is an atomic time seafarers to perform
|
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scale. Every second celestial navigation The precise nature of
|
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of UTC is exactly as with sufficient the ugly hack
|
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long as any other, accuracy for safe underlying UTC has
|
|
using the SI standard ocean passage. This changed somewhat
|
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second based on synchronisation is since it was first
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caesium atoms, achieved, like all defined, but for
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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almost 50 years now, not absolutely fixed rather than removals.
|
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starting in 1972, the at 86,400 by They don't happen on
|
|
ugly hack of choice definition. There a regular,
|
|
has been the leap almost always *are* predictable basis,
|
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second. The way it 86,400 seconds in a like leap years
|
|
works is this. The UTC day, but 86,401 (which are an
|
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difference between and 86,399 are also adjustment for the
|
|
UTC and UT - a allowed when fact that the time it
|
|
quantity denoted DUT necessary to keep the takes the Earth to
|
|
- is carefully time scale locked to orbit the sun once,
|
|
monitored. Any time the movement of the defining a year, is
|
|
it looks like that sun across the sky. not perfectly
|
|
difference is on divisible by the time
|
|
track to exceed 0.9 So far, there have it takes the Earth to
|
|
seconds, in either been 27 leap seconds rotate once, defining
|
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direction, UTC is defined, although UTC a day). Because the
|
|
kicked back into and ATI are today Earth's rate of
|
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alignment by either exactly 37 seconds rotation fluctuates
|
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inserting or removing apart - the other 10 randomly, sometimes
|
|
a single second on seconds come from slowing down and
|
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one particular day. hacks applied before sometimes speeding
|
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This makes UTC the leap seconds were up, astronomers need
|
|
*only* time scale established in 1972. to be actively on the
|
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where the number of All of them to date lookout for excessive
|
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seconds in a day is have been insertions values of DUT. When
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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it's decided a leap precise time technology means that
|
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second is needed - synchronisation celestial navigation
|
|
it's the IERS who should be caught by at sea is now rarely
|
|
makes that call - surprise when a leap a matter of life or
|
|
they are announced at second rolls around. death (although some
|
|
least six months in In practice, it's not sailors still
|
|
advance. They're always so simple. appreciate the
|
|
allowed to occur on relative simplicity
|
|
either June 30th or INCREASING of the technology it
|
|
December 31st, and IMPLEMENTATION BURDEN relies on), removing
|
|
are inserted or AND AN UNCERTAIN some of the argument
|
|
deleted at midnight FUTURE for making sure UTC
|
|
UTC (which is the stays in lock step
|
|
middle of the day in Leap seconds have with the Earth's
|
|
some time zones, of always had their rotation. At the same
|
|
course) on those critics, but at the time, the internet
|
|
days. At the time of time they were has come along: a
|
|
writing, the last adopted, their massive network of
|
|
leap second happened benefits arguably computers talking to
|
|
on December 31st, balanced their each other, with the
|
|
2016. In principle, associated hassle. 50 frequent need for
|
|
six months is enough years later, this hack activity on one to be
|
|
advance warning that is starting to show synchronised with
|
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nobody doing anything its age. The advent of activity on another
|
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which depends on cheap and reliable GPS (hence tools like the
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|
|
Network Time Protocol, added to software as Some systems, of
|
|
NTP). Computer an afterthought - if course, forget to do
|
|
programmers *hate* they are added at all. anything at all.
|
|
leap seconds, for the Some systems represent Because all the leap
|
|
same reason they hate the extra second using seconds to date have
|
|
Daylight Saving Time: the timestamp been insertions
|
|
they complicate time 23:59:60, but others rather than removals,
|
|
calculations (you instead repeat the it's a safe bet that
|
|
can't accurately timestamp 23:59:59 there's plenty of
|
|
calculate the number twice (since some software out there
|
|
of seconds between two software will fail to which has worked
|
|
UTC timestamps without parse a timestamp correctly so far but
|
|
consulting a table of ending in :60). Other will fail the first
|
|
when previous leap systems "smear" the time a second is
|
|
seconds were inserted) leap second out over removed. And the
|
|
and are a frequent longer time periods, Earth's rotation is
|
|
cause of confusion and like 24 hours, to going through a bit
|
|
errors, when one avoid problems of a fast phase right
|
|
system implements them associated with sudden now, so the first
|
|
differently from discontinuities. This negative leap second
|
|
another its trying to just leads to a whole might be looming on
|
|
interoperate with. day of small, slowly the horizon.
|
|
varying errors
|
|
Affordances for leap compared to The software
|
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seconds are often non-smearing systems. interoperability
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|
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situation at the time option. It's one thing cause are only likely
|
|
of a leap second is to shut down the New to get worse. The
|
|
bad enough that York Stock Exchange atomic definition of
|
|
several major stock for an hour, but Air second likely isn't
|
|
exchanges simply Traffic Control has to going away any time
|
|
agreed to voluntarily stay up 24/7. It's no soon, though, and
|
|
shut down for an hour surprise that that means that
|
|
around midnight UTC in increasingly many getting rid of leap
|
|
2016, rather than risk voices in the tech seconds entirely
|
|
problems by continuing industry are calling means abandoning the
|
|
to trade during the for leap seconds to be millennia old notion
|
|
leap second. Given abolished. Plenty of that the way we
|
|
that a number of major people are very represent time is
|
|
web services, unhappy with that intimately linked
|
|
including Amazon, idea, of course, not with the natural
|
|
Instagram, Netflix and to mention there's no cycle of night and
|
|
Twitter, experienced consensus on what to day. Assuming we're
|
|
outages around this do instead. not willing to do
|
|
time, this was that, there are only
|
|
probably not a bad It's far from clear two alternatives:
|
|
idea. Of course, what the future holds coming up with a new
|
|
simply shutting time for the leap second. ugly hack which is
|
|
critical services off As software continues somehow less
|
|
for every leap second to eat the world, the problematic, or
|
|
isn't always an headaches leap seconds giving up on a "one
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|
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size fits all" time recommend the article time scales like
|
|
scale. "The leap second: its Ephemeris Time (ET),
|
|
history and possible GPS Time (GPST) and
|
|
BUT WAIT, future", which you can Terrestrial Time
|
|
THERE'S MORE! easily find on the web (TT), and discover
|
|
(full citation below), that the SI system of
|
|
If you think this along with, as always, units defined the
|
|
story has been following Wikipedia second based on
|
|
needlessly fiddly and links wherever they something other than
|
|
complicated, rest take you. Along the Earth's rotation when
|
|
assured I have skipped way you can learn the it was established in
|
|
over a tonne of difference between 1960, seven years
|
|
details. If you're UT0, UT1 and UT2, meet before the caesium
|
|
actually interested to other exciting definition was
|
|
learn more, I highly astronomic and atomic adopted.
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|
|
|
- - -[ REFERENCES ]- - -
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Nelson, R., McCarthy, D., Malys, S., Levine, J.M., Guinot, B.,
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Fliegel, H., Beard, R., & Bartholomew, T. (2001). The Leap Second
|
|
- Its History and Possible Future. Metrologia, 38, 509-529.
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|
|
|
"Time-nuttery 101" by Ole Petter Ronningen
|
|
https://efos3.com/TimeNut.html
|
|
|
|
"UTC might be redefined without Leap Seconds" by Steve Allen
|
|
https://ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/timescales.html
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====================[ THE HEARTH OF THE MATTER ]===================
|
|
by durtal
|
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|
|
It seems that Kepler Hobbes brought 'focus' life in unfortunate
|
|
first used the Latin into broader English ways.
|
|
word 'focus' in 1604 parlance nearly fifty
|
|
to refer to 'the point years later. I don't Ironically, the
|
|
of convergence' in the know if he did this political philosopher
|
|
mathematical sphere. with a magnifying who espoused that
|
|
It is possible that glass or not. But, humans are "all take
|
|
this is an analogical Hobbes is certainly and little give" used
|
|
use of the term and not my favourite a word that belied
|
|
may reference the philosopher. With its his contentions in
|
|
point of light created particular take on the original. Focus
|
|
with a lens. You human nature, he is the Latin
|
|
probably know what I published Leviathan equivalent of the Old
|
|
mean. I remember about the same time he English word
|
|
another child showing popularised a word 'hearth'. People
|
|
me a trick with a whose use is still used the latter
|
|
magnifying glass ubiquitous but whose term in my youth,
|
|
outside one sunny day. original meaning is especially in rural
|
|
He quickly adjusted too often unknown. regions. Phrases like
|
|
the glass's height Sometimes the "hearth and home" and
|
|
over my forearm to abstractions of "keep the home fires
|
|
effect a sharp pain as science and a specific burning" catch
|
|
the converging rays sort of philosophy something of its
|
|
burned a hole in my separate us from the ethos. The hearth was
|
|
skin. mundane realities of where household
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|
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members gathered to it is to wait in them and drink your
|
|
cook or to work by the anticipation for the morning coffee. You
|
|
hearthstone's warmth of a fire on a smile and share a
|
|
firelight. In its cold winter's morning. joke or two with your
|
|
warmth, children sat Others gather close to fellows. One of them
|
|
to hear the stories of you, hoping to absorb ruefully remembers
|
|
the family and a little of your that it is his day to
|
|
community after dusk. body's heat while they do the dishes; they
|
|
Kith and kin wait too. You each rub are piling up as
|
|
entertained themselves and blow warm breaths the others finish
|
|
with music and onto your hands and and go. This time,
|
|
drinking and dance comment on the cold, like its later
|
|
nearby. In some and you remark on the double, is
|
|
cultures, families day ahead. As the a short space of
|
|
kept ancestral bones kindling catches, hope intimacy before
|
|
beneath the builds and blossoms as separation.
|
|
hearthstone. Here was the flames devour the
|
|
a point of convergence larger pieces of wood. By analogy, sunrise
|
|
in the human habitat. The fire roars madly is like the birth of
|
|
as you back away, a child for whom the
|
|
The rising or setting waiting for the wooden family cares. Such
|
|
sun reminds me of a pyramid to collapse. brief familial
|
|
hearth fire as it When there are coals intimacy is still
|
|
converges on the left mostly, you cook most often the case
|
|
horizon. I know what your breakfast over for the young. But,
|
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|
|
not so for the members, nurse the that the world offers
|
|
elderly. We fill the frail and wash their in this day when
|
|
noon meridians of our bodies late in life hearth fires and home
|
|
lives so completely and at its very end. are all but
|
|
with striving and Frequently, there is forgotten. We now
|
|
drift so far from one only the intimacy of only focus camera
|
|
another that, too strangers who alone lenses
|
|
often, family members know where the bare (automatically).
|
|
no longer live near bones of our final
|
|
to one another at the days lie before we Did old Thomas Hobbes
|
|
sunset of a loved slip into the deep have a point?
|
|
one's life. Now dark of death's
|
|
others, not family night. This is all
|
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|
==================[ WHY I STILL GAME PROPRIETARY ]=================
|
|
by wholesomedonut
|
|
|
|
PROPRIETARY GAMING in the market. thou angereth me!" I
|
|
ISN'T ALL BAD hear in the imaginary
|
|
I agree with all of comments section
|
|
Since getting into the those observations. because this is
|
|
FOSS community, I see They tire me. They Gemini and you can't
|
|
a lot of pushback concern me. They do that. I am certain
|
|
towards the gaming frustrate me daily. you will find
|
|
industry as a whole. I peace through
|
|
can see why: DRM runs However! There are measured
|
|
rampant, terrible still reasons -not- to contemplation and
|
|
business practices go the route of some I a cup of whatever
|
|
regularly conflagrate see in the FOSS world warm or cold
|
|
internet forums, and eschew gaming liquid you enjoy.
|
|
anti-cheat programs altogether on anything
|
|
are basically but a FOSS platform, WHY DO I USE STEAM?
|
|
consensual (and with FOSS games,
|
|
mandatory for official because.... FOSS. That Well.... everyone
|
|
online play in some argument is just as else that isn't a
|
|
cases) trojans, and to dumb in practice, computer nerd
|
|
make it all worse it because it's an usually does too.
|
|
costs a mint to get artificial limitation And the overhead
|
|
into the hobby that stands on for getting
|
|
nowadays due to somewhat subjective, people of minimum
|
|
scalpers and crypto opinionated reasoning. technical under-
|
|
miners running rampant "But wholesomedonut, standing (that like
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|
|
playing video games) PS/Xbox or some-other download, to playing
|
|
into FOSS gaming thing, there is a the game with their
|
|
generally is much more solid 90% chance I'm friends needs to be
|
|
costly in terms of going to lose that understandable,
|
|
mental and social argument unless they unobtrusive and
|
|
capacity than the are very specifically transparent. That is,
|
|
clout I usually have interested in that if the overall
|
|
with my friends or particular kind of userbase is to
|
|
family on such game, its' content, grow and sustain
|
|
matters. or have a better itself on a
|
|
socially-driven higher magnitude
|
|
King's English: If I reason. This comes than current.
|
|
have to instruct them from years of trying
|
|
to download the latest and f'nagling with GIVE PEOPLE THE
|
|
version of the game people from many BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
|
|
directly from Github walks of life; the UI
|
|
in the Releases tab, and UX of FOSS gaming People are
|
|
or from some random needs to be on-par intelligent,
|
|
website they've never with modern generally. They're
|
|
heard of (even if it commercial offerings; very skilled in a
|
|
looks nice and is this means all the multitude of things
|
|
HTTPS secure) instead way from landing on a that aren't
|
|
of just adding it on page, to funneling computers. But asking
|
|
Steam or Epic or through a sales someone who -isn't-
|
|
Microsoft Store or conversion or free tech savvy to figure
|
|
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|
|
out how to pull down mentality commercial combined-arms
|
|
the right version of systems have strategy on a hex
|
|
a FOSS game from a fostered. board that involves
|
|
code repo (or heaven groups of multi-ton
|
|
forbid build it ENTER THE MECH MAN robots, tanks,
|
|
themselves with cmake airplanes and
|
|
or whatever) is like A good example of a infantry taking and
|
|
asking ME to diagnose FOSS game that has giving damage to
|
|
a car's problems plenty of good and individual
|
|
using nothing but a bad would be MegaMek. components, weapons
|
|
flashlight and a It's basically a and armor locations
|
|
screwdriver. I have fully computerized in a somewhat
|
|
no idea what the hell version of the realistic and highly
|
|
I'm doing anyway in Classic Battletech detailed simulation
|
|
that department. rules, which is a of 31st-century
|
|
Without the proper board game that's warfare.
|
|
tools and education existed since the
|
|
too? I'm screwed. 1980s and is going on To alleviate the
|
|
Therefore I urge 40 years of issue of significant
|
|
empathy and patience conniving, calculational
|
|
in introducing others number-crunching overhead for
|
|
to FOSS gaming. It's tomfoolery that only every-single-action-
|
|
a bit more finicky a particular subset attack-or-damage-
|
|
than the of people even enjoy. roll-ever, this
|
|
plug-and-play All in the name of program does all
|
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|
|
of the math, the game in their in that regard. A
|
|
calculations, and head: they're game of Classic
|
|
rules proofing for obviously not the Battletech that could
|
|
you. So you can enjoy target of this easily take 5 or 6
|
|
the game with others, article. hours in person
|
|
wherever they may be, without any sort of
|
|
instead of reaching I shiver at the calculator apps or an
|
|
for your G.A.T.O.R. thought of doing all otherwise breakneck
|
|
card for the that stuff manually pace of gameplay and
|
|
tenth time to if I don't have to. rules-lawyering will
|
|
show the newbie That kind of only take an hour or
|
|
of the group what tedium takes away two maximum with
|
|
happens when an from the Megamek. It's a
|
|
SRM-6 missile moment-by-moment godsend for a hobby
|
|
spread hits a gameplay, forcing that would otherwise
|
|
light vehicle everybody to get be relegated to local
|
|
whose armor is ox-in-the-mired play over
|
|
already exposed over details that predetermined days,
|
|
on its' left don't matter not a "Hey want to
|
|
flank. There are overall instead play a match? Sure!"
|
|
plenty of of letting their kind of casual pickup
|
|
grognards out big stompy robots on a boring
|
|
there who know blow each other up. afternoon.
|
|
these rules well
|
|
and can do half Megamek works wonders
|
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|
|
BUT IT ISN'T ALL progresses smoothly. that the much easier
|
|
SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS But it's still just and more recent Alpha
|
|
as much a spaghetti Strike ruleset isn't
|
|
Nope! Megamek is, in plate in terms of included at all by
|
|
my humble and user experience: default, to my
|
|
donut-shaped opinion, configuration options knowledge. You might
|
|
a terrible example of laid out in long be able to configure
|
|
UI and UX. I played a lists of check boxes something like that
|
|
round recently, and organized by multiple using plugins, but
|
|
another aficionado of top-window tabs; a we're already putting
|
|
the series played decidedly the cart before the
|
|
against me. Quoth my 15-years-old design horse at that point.
|
|
opponent: "This language that clashes
|
|
program looks like with modern TO BE FAIR
|
|
something out of perceptions of UI and
|
|
Windows 95." Neither UX (which is bad The project started
|
|
of us had played the considering that in 2000. It's 21
|
|
most recent version taking in new blood years old in some
|
|
of the game. I hadn't is crucial for both places, if only in
|
|
touched it in a year userbase and logic and not literal
|
|
at least. developer syntax. It's written
|
|
contribution in Java. And it's
|
|
Some changes were reasons); and the been a community
|
|
welcome, and the final nail in the effort by dozens of
|
|
development coffin is the fact talented people over
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the decades. The fact that does a better a relic of an earlier
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that it's alive at job, in proportion to time of online
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all is impressive, the complexity of the gaming, where dial-up
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but so's the fact physical source connections were
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that the franchise material and gameplay still common. That's
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whose boardgame it flow. a given. And it is
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emulates even has a what it is. I won't
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fanbase still. BT So considering it was waste time bemoaning
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fans aren't quitters, made in the waning those facts that are
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certainly. And this days of Win98 immutable in this
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is all considering (because Windows ME context. I'm only
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the fact that trying doesn't exist and you stating them to set
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to automate, can't convince me the stage.
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obfuscate and otherwise) it's
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de-FUBAR the mountain expected that it's I'M LEFT AT AN
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of minutiae that ugly as most things INTERESTING IMPASSE
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Battletech's rulesets were back then. It
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and technical data was written in Java There is no other way
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(on a per unit and (yea verily, begone I could ever play
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per variant basis no foul JVM!), which for Battletech with
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less) is a monumental all its' foibles friends from all over
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task. I can hardly makes a very easy the world in such a
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think of a video-game cross-platform great degree of
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adaptation of a more distributable fidelity. Megamek
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complex board game program. It's solidly serves its' purpose
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very well for what it So, I leave it to you make my hobby free
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is: a highly detailed to put the pieces and open if there
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computerization of a together here. I can isn't a platform for
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niche franchise that choose to play with those newcomers to
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has a fanbase average people that even stand on and
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spanning generations. A) aren't technically explore once (or if
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However, it also inclined, B) don't ever) they choose to
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stands out to me as have a heart that get involved in FOSS
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one of the prime beats for gaming of their own
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examples of a FOSS free-as-in-freedom, volition.
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project being and C) want something
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understandably opaque that "just works," or AT THE END OF THE DAY
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to newcomers. It's confine myself to a
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hard to use at first, much smaller content I encourage people
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hard to look at base with an even who play video games
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always, and sometimes smaller playerbase to which are also
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hard to find other share it with. interested in free
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people to play it and open source
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with. Those three Call me the gaming software to consider
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things will nail the nerd Whore of the prospect of
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coffin of any Babylon, but I don't inviting others into
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fledgling game shut. see the point in this world of
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That concept is true beating my head free-as-in-freedom/
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regardless of genre, against the wall beer/whatever
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art style, or UI/UX. overtly trying to with a grain of salt.
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Until we make it not be seen. And growth in production
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easier to onboard new therefore we will not quality, variety, and
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people from all walks see the requisite competitiveness in
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of life, significant uptick in talent, the market space of
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adoption of FOSS contribution and people's free time.
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systems or the games playerbase that will
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that run on them will consequently drive a
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external email: wholesomedonut at tuta dot io
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mastodon: at wholesomedonut at fosstodon dot org
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matrix: at wholesomedonut colon matrix dot org
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