FarmerPotato

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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
To see what decisions they made. Like any historical document. Aim to understand the people of the time.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
I see the article argues that this new policy is NOT following the law ("faithfully executing Congress' intent".) So any further spokes-person-ment is just more of the same -- no rule of law, just what we decide today or tomo
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
In Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell narrates just how little fighting there was. It was trench warfare where both sides had precious little ammo and guns that couldn’t shoot straight. He sat in the mud at the front rotting with the rest.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
I worked in DRAM salvage from 1987-88. It became niche profitable to harvest 4116s from years-old boards (4164s if you could get them) and put them right back into 256K memory expansion boards for PC ATs. 256K bytes of RAM that way made us
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Dot is Forth convention for "print" where a single . means print integer. .S (pronounced "dot S" or "print S") is for strings. Both expect input from the stack. ." Begins a literal string you want printed
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Consult "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell. In the Spanish Civil War, Orwell soldiered with anarchists and socialists and the rest of the worker's parties, against the fascists.. until the inevitable purge.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Trying to validate my favorite band, 6061, but I can't find its genre. Went through a phase of listening to Beryllium and Fortal.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
I just received from a retired engineer, a binder of 8” floppies that says Jan 1984, AEGIS 6.0 / Mentor 3.0, Full Backup, WBAK. The owner got them from a dumpster 40 years ago, but suspects someone just reused the binder to store blank
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
I appreciate your contribution. In high school chem/physics, we had an assignment to arrange element flashcards (no atomic number!) in some kind of periodicity, and then defend our choice. I imagine we were exploring dead ends that di
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
That's one path to take through life: it's called "engineer". They learn a little about every power of 10 of space and time.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
There's friction.. and then there's human-created obstacles.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Much of our complicated, built environment has mediocre user interface design. If thought were given to that, it would yield humans more agency.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
The author criticizes also English cards for not having letter shapes. Also, "foreign" is always relative. How about an Ancient Greek referring to the barbarians who have no Greek? And, the author's using Greek while living
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Kids aren't born knowing the Roman alphabet either. These cards are for four-year olds!
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
There was a hilarious illustrated book "Greek to Me". It is a thorough (English) introduction to koine Greek, mainly Bible as well as classical from Herodotus, Arrian, et al. It uses the silly-picture mnemonic approach. For inst
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Wow, what a way to write off something "foundational to western literature". I studied koine Greek with my dad. Today, I study Aristotle alongside half-a-dozen English translations (the latest, Adam Beresford's Ethics, is hi
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
I had a native Italian professor who said "β" more like "vita". One day he tried to write "ξ" on the whiteboard and said "whatever the hell this is?". I was the only person who spoke up.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Two videos tomorrow at 5:56!
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Here's another heritage apple site: http://www.westonapples.com
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Supposing you're right, I can think of some reasons: apples have spread from Kazakhstan in their thousands of varieties adapted to climates from cool to frigid (the original liked the slopes of a breezy river valley.) So since the colo
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
thanks again. Watch out, those forests are ursusferous.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
In a saucepan, boil 2 c. brown sugar, 1 can condensed milk, corn syrup, 2 sticks butter. Stir constantly, cooking 25 min to firm-ball stage. Dip apples in caramel. Sorry, couldn't resist.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
I'll have the pure unadulterated philology, please! I hear 'pom' as coming to English through French, so that works for me. Now technically "pome fruit" is the fruits from Rosaceae that encase the multiple seeds, so
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
maybe it's the apple you use in the pig roast? the apples that are so far gone with worm/larva frass I called "deer apples". Because I could make a pile and the deer would take them. I've also seen deer "climb
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
I don't think those factors are left to chance with an apple like Honeycrisp that had a 20-year rollout plan. (or whichever the new hotness is, Cosmic Crisp? I'm partial to Pink Lady.) Rather, think about all the apples picked tha
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
pomiferous looks like a labor of love. Labor is finite. I use this site for many years: https://www.orangepippin.com
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Oh yeah. I slinged it into a high-floor garbage chute. Then I felt it was wiser to bag the whole thing.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Wow, no comment yet for https://xkcd.com/768/
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
The encyclopedia of TI calculators is http://www.datamath.org Joerg Warner has been collecting them exhaustively, and peering inside for date codes and such.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
> We used to spray DDT everywhere. This isn't exactly a resounding recommendation. Perhaps there's a case for using as little additives in farming as is possible It's not relevant to glyphosate, but there is such a thing.

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