FarmerPotato

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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Thanks to the TMS9918, I know cyan when I see it! Years of seeing cyan on a composite monitor where hue is tricky to adjust. My tolerance for the amount of green allowed in cyan is higher. And if it's cyan, it's blue. I see I
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
I'll have to rethink what goes on in the ONES operation. The gate level schematic for the 74181 I found in a databook.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
I'm studying 4-bit-slice processors from the 1970s. This is all tangent to the x86 discussion. Minicomputer processors! I have two bit-slice machines from TI based on the 74S481 (4-bit slice x 4). Just like with the 74181, all ALU op
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
> For general-purpose computers, there have never been "4-bit ALU times". Well, consider minicomputers made from bit-slices. Those would be 4-bit ALUs with CLA. What drives me crazy about the 8-bit era is the lack of orthogona
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
I too want fewer bits of mantissa in my floating point! But what I wish is that there had been fp64 encoding with a field for number of significant digits. strtod() would encode this, fresh out of an instrument reading (serial). It would b
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Were you in an Econ program that required tons of Matlab, SAS, R?
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Yikes, they are pushing their low-level employees into the rocket nozzles and fuel tanks? There's no room inside an RTG to fit an intern... Hopefully it means welders, metrologists, inspectors, etc.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Technically, most stocks are registered in the name of a securities holding company, with you named as beneficial owner. That makes it frictionless for you to buy and sell. You enjoy all the rights of ownership, unless the broker lends yo
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
That's why real hackers refurbish dot-matrix printers. GDR
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Yeah, anachronism means 'not belonging to the time period'. If you made a 1980s movie and had the protagonist transfer cassettes to a laptop via USB interface, THAT would be an anachronism. I think the author meant "old-fash
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Yeah 1) is a very old technique. I forget whether the texture makes the part release more easily, or not. 2) This is what they look like now (90s or later) https://img.brickowl.com/files/image_cache/larger/le
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
You think this one is tough, imagine how they make screw tops for plastic soda bottles! I've seen a machine that makes 64 of them in one go. Inside the cap is a collapsible core, because the molded screw is all undercuts... the mold o
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Right. I had in mind an article I read about the "ur-metazoan" I propose the concept "Linnaeus-Years" to measure how outdated my taxonomical vocabulary is.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
One way to say this is "present company excluded" as when saying: culpability is general in the population, but not to accuse those you're speaking to.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Don't forget to end the conversation with "God be with ye". Or "A Dios".
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Certes, challenging to translate! "Our secret song" "Our shared song" is looser, though context helps. "They're playing our song" still captures the timeless feeling. But is wrong for the poem.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
I'm trying to parse the extra "not" in archaic holdovers vs plain modern English. It seems to carry a subtext. Modern "Are you happy now?" is said with sarcastic tone, to spoil happiness. Would be archaically "
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Light fantastic
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Yeah, but as Wordle fans know, some clues yield more bits than others. The search space is not balanced. The search space of hackers is a small subtree of all humans. So it's like a smaller tree of groups in Wordle that contains the le
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
You have to read the story in the original eshidilii. It just sounds so illogical in English.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Think if the metazoans had written down their reproductive anxieties.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Oh! good one. Here's a new twist: 1st generation stars seed the galaxies with carbon. 2nd generation stars are a sea of amino-acid comet soup. One bag-of-mostly-water lifeform evolves sentience. Its legacy is silicon intelligence, b
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Question: do the colors really matter? A 1970s ad from Lego played up how kids don't see a problem making their beautiful truck out of whatever pieces were available. I would have been a color snob, but all I had in 1979 were red bric
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
I think that idea is worth testing. Putting a symbol on top of each stud. There could be a tactile symbol per color. I imagine an aftermarket machine to heat-stamp this on. It would have to be very precise. Pressure would displace plasti
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
I know, right? Exceptions: 1. The texture on the top slope of roof bricks is a standard mold finishing (acid etch?) that works fine with mold release. 2. Headlight grille bricks in the 70s used to have texture, along with printing. I'm
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Injection molding manuals long ago suggested putting some text like the trademark around the point the sprue enters. Camouflage. I had a little Aha moment when I read that and recalled noticing the dimple on old bricks. With some exception
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
Trapper-Keeper!
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
It's great that your kids had none of the issues reported. Others have had lives disrupted by addiction.
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
There is the Stanford Persuasion Lab study on infinite scroll... rather than take it as a cautionary finding, tech has embraced the infinite scroll. Because incentives.
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
They absolutely decide whether to have people employed in moderation or safety. Or what gets done with what those teams learn.

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