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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 2mo ago
A primary reason for the Catholic Church changing the calendar was to bring the date of Easter back into conformance with the decree of the Council of Nicaea on the topic. There was a controversy in the early Church on this, there were eve
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 1y ago
There is a time to buy, a time to sell, stocks and gold go through clear cycles where one outperforms the other, currently stocks have been outperformed by gold for 25 years. My kids bought silver recently and are up 17% in about 2 months.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 1y ago
45 year cup and handle patterns playing out in gold and silver, both going much higher -- governments cannot borrow their way out of debt, current paper currencies going to zero value over time -- Dow down over 70% measured in gold over las
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 1y ago
The company I work at originally did TDM test eqpt, there was a mad scramble around 2008/2009 to switch over to Ethernet, which is what the US telcos use now for customer call traffic.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 1y ago
There was a curses-based todo program that was totally awesome MANY years ago, source code posted to usenet I believe back in the day, but I have never been able to find it again. Anyone have a pointer?
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 1y ago
yes DLL hell is the issue with dynamic linking -- how many versions of given libraries are required for the various apps you want to install? -- and then you want to upgrade something and it requires yet another version of some library -- t
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 1y ago
Ah, APL. I remember a network synthesis EE course in the 70s where we had an assignment to implement matrix exponentiation. I had just finished a matrix algebra class and learned APL in the process, so my implementation was 2 lines of APL.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 1y ago
I've heard it was from Haskell?
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 1y ago
I moved to ZFS to get some guarantees regarding long-term storage of important data -- e.g. family pictures.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 1y ago
There was once work on metalized optical paper tape of very high density for archival purposes -- what happened to that?
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 2y ago
Britannica: "The Council of Nicaea in 325 decreed that Easter should be observed on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox (March 21). Easter, therefore, can fall on any Sunday between March 22 and Apri
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 2y ago
His boat is famous for being balanced in its sailing characteristics -- holds course without him at the helm.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 2y ago
There is a classic book about the effects of sugar named "Sugar Blues" for the interested. I have a bad reaction to sugar so have to avoid certain foods -- e.g. bananas are a no-no for me.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 2y ago
I recall many years ago hearing that a mathematician had invented something and was very happy about the fact that it had absolutely no practical use. I may remember the details incorrectly but I believe it was one-way functions -- which a
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 2y ago
I have been wondering where I read this story for some time now -- thanks.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 2y ago
I was under the impression that we now know how to do low-fuel paths through the solar system using gravity. It's more a question of how long do you want to take to get where you're going.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 2y ago
I worked with a guy once back in the 80s who did the radar preamp on Pioneer Venus I believe it was. Very bright individual.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 2y ago
Peter and Paul founded the church of Rome -- an inscription was found in the necropolis in proximity to a bone box during the excavations in Saint Peter's in 1950 as I recall -- "Peter is here". It was always a point made fro
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 2y ago
does indeed seem rather unhinged
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 2y ago
One binary to rule them all, one binary to find them, one binary to bring them all and in the darkness bind them; in the Land of Lennart where the shadows lie. Bwaahahaha.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
all caps is (was?) typically considered SHOUTING so README gets your attention
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
4 trillion transistor wafer-scale integration https://www.cerebras.net/blog/cerebras-cs3
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
It has tunnels because the Navy did not want the bay blocked if the bridge dropped into the water. Which is exactly what has happened in Baltimore.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
high logical intelligence doesn't imply common sense
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
Bell Labs had a very nice portability framework also -- there was a Cygwin-like product called U/WIN that made extensive use of it -- might find it associated with ksh93 maybe. Speaking of Bell Labs, there are some great ideas for a bu
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
There is a certain irony in these buildings not using indigenous construction techniques.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
FORTRAN is easier to optimize than something like C so is much used for numerical computation
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
my recollection was that the P51 wing used a NACA airfoil and it had low drag properties not commonplace at the time
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
bingo -- the whole system is bankrupt -- they have been papering it over with more and more printing since 2008 but check out curves of M2, national debt, etc. -- isn't going to work, something is going to break
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
It is not well-appreciated that the whole dollar system is destined for implosion because of the way dollars are created. The dollar is a debt instrument, there is always more owed than there are dollars in existence. It's an exponen

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