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@hankgreen The comparison I usually go for is the space of time between Glenn Miller's loss and the Beatles splitting up. So much changed in music in that short time.
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@danalderman@hostux.social Aren't you thinking of Colossus which was used for Tunny traffic, not Enigma? Colossus was a set of shift registers (using valves) plus a logic unit which was plug-programmable. It replaced the Heath Robinson machine which used two paper tape loops.
@liw@toot.liw.fi The day will be approximately 86400 seconds long. The period of daylight in a day in the northern hemisphere is at its shortest today. Sunset has imperceptibly been getting later in the day for a little over a week already. Sunrise is still getting very slightly later, before getting progressively earlier in the new year.
What an analemma!
@herrbischoff@mastodon.social Been there, done that. Was even checking the local rainfall radar charts. So annoying!