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Artemis II Orion has been climbing to high earth orbit over the past 2 hours thanks to the apogee raising burn at T+01:47:57. It is currently over 38,000 km from earth, higher than geo-sync orbit and will continue climbing for several more hours.
It's ground track appears to have reversed direction, now going east to west, as earth is moving west to east at a relatively higher angular speed.
PEP 829: Structured Startup Configuration via .site.toml Files
This PEP proposes a TOML-based configuration file format to replace the .pth file mechanism used by site.py during interpreter startup. The new format, using files named <package>.site.toml, provides structured configuration for extending sys.path and ...
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Feb. 16, 1978 -- forty eight years ago today -- the first public dial-up bulletin board system or BBS went online.
Wired: "1978: Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch the first public dialup bulletin board system. The two unleash the kernel of what would eventually spawn the world wide web, countless online messaging systems..."
https://www.wired.com/2010/02/0216cbbs-first-bbs-bulletin-board/
I got my first modem in the summer of 1986, a Prometheus ProModem 1200A (modem on a card) for the Apple II. The first BBS I logged in to was OxGate, an RBBS/RCPM system the phone number of which I still can remember (my earliest BBS software -- firmware-based on that modem card -- had no phone book). I used BBSs avidly until sometime in 1994, when I subscribed to a local ISP's (Widomaker of Williamsburg, VA) dial-up modem-based PPP service that brought TCP/IP to my 486 PC with Windows 3.1. I could then browse the web from home, and that was basically the end of BBSing for me -- for the moment, anyway.
For those interested in experiencing this early form of online community, there are many BBSs online right now, accessible via telnet on systems old and new. I've enjoyed getting back into BBSing this way, especially when using vintage systems to login.
Most any computer can do it, today. Tips on how: https://bytecellar.com/bbsing
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PEP 818: Adding the Core of the Pyodide Foreign Function Interface to Python
Pyodide is a distribution of Python for JavaScript runtimes, including browsers. Browsers are a universal computing platform. As with C for Unix family operating systems, in the browser platform all fundamental capabilities are exposed through the JavaS...
The universe is full of natural magnifying glasses--gravitational lenses--pointed in random directions. By chance, this one points toward a galaxy cluster forming in the early universe, 11 billion years ago.
It's a rare peek into how the modern cosmos took shape.
https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/alma-and-the-nsf-vla-use-a-cosmic-lens-to-reveal-a-hyperactive-cradle-of-a-future-galaxy-cluster/ #space #science #nature
PEP 822: Dedented Multiline String (d-string)
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