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Re:QModem 4.51 Source Code on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:52PM (#43884341)
This brings back lots of fond memories dialing into The Forbin Project and HITS BBS in the 90s. Met lots of people in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls (319) area and I feel the BBS scene contributed to my eventual major and multiple careers in IT.

And it all started with QModem..

What happened to copy editors? It seems like half of every article I read online has some grammatical error
Re:Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes on Saturday October 17, 2020 @09:47PM (#24814960)
The 4 letter word you are looking for is “core”
Re:ISRO to launch record 104 satellites on Feb 15 on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:02PM (#13625378)
This is exactly what is done to spread the satellites in their orbits.

https://support.planet.com/hc/en-us/articles/212641458-How-d...

This paper covers diff drag in more detail. https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03270