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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
Dollars -- whether created by the Fed or fractional reserve banking -- are debt with interest due. Coinage is the exception but it is very small quantity-wise.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
What is this ASCII of which you speak? Real programmers learn on UNIVAC 1100 series. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nssdc/formats/UnisysFieldata.htm
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
An easy way to understand what is going on with signal reflections is to consider a very long wire -- say, to the moon. When you put a voltage on the wire current starts flowing, but that current has nothing to do with what is on the other
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
I recall a hydrofoil on Lake Garda -- obviously lots of power required -- it was much louder than the normal ferries on that lake.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
That's one way to run DPDK processes under LINUX -- you get the whole processor for doing whatever network processing you want to do -- no interruptions from anything.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
At the University of Maryland in the late 70s we put the FORTRAN program on punched cards and wrapped some sort of batch language around it all to compile and run it -- as I recall -- has been a long time -- then output was on fan-fold pape
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
read Gatto
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
Seems apropos to mention the works of John Taylor Gatto on the origin of the American public school system and in particular its motivation: social control of the lower classes by the elite of the country. You can find interviews on the we
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
I have read that before the French Revolution there was some sort of advertising ban in France -- creating needs where none really existed I guess. Would welcome comments from someone who knows more about this.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
http://pricedingold.com
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
check out ham radio WSPR for an indication of the sorts of things that can be done
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
Against Stupidity, the Gods Themselves Contend in Vain
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
Ah Borders, that was a magic time.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
AT&T 5ESS switch had a similar atmosphere back in the day (no idea about now). The rule was no function deletion so you delete the code in the function instead. I remember reading about a very talented guy from Bell Labs being on the
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
my recollection of SNOBOL from college is that it has awesome pattern matching capabilities, much better than the usual regex stuff
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y ago
go read "The Creature From Jekyll Island" -- great book with lots of information about how we got where we are with American "banking"
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 4y ago
HP did this back in the 80s also, we were working 9 of 10 days to avoid layoffs
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 4y ago
Novus Ordo Missae 1968/1969
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 5y ago
A Benedictine once put it more or less this way to me: community life causes the monks to round off each other's sharp edges over time. A solitary life is generally not good for people. Check out "Into Great Silence" for a f
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 6y ago
How many are caused by Windows? :-)
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 6y ago
I was able to observe in a tugboat in a major harbor once -- amazing technology. Not just the propulsion -- they have displays that show where the ships are and where they are headed.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 7y ago
gold
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 7y ago
look up papers by Dr. Klenner on the use of intravenous vitamin C see also "living proof" a New Zealand 60-minutes segment
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 8y ago
Learned APL in a college linear algebra class long ago and loved it (still have the books). Best story: circuit synthesis class assignment to perform matrix exponentiation -- two lines of APL while the rest of the class was struggling with
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 8y ago
Blast from the past, I did a lot of work on 3B2/600's at Bell Labs back in 85-93... UNIX on Amdahl and VAX 11/785 those were the days.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 10y ago
I worked on a product at AT&T Bell Labs back in the 80's/90's that had a config file that had tabs and spaces mixed on the same line -- and it mattered.
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 10y ago
I am no expert but my recollection is that European handwriting had a large degree of standardization for long periods. Perhaps we have an expert here who could tell us more. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspeci
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 10y ago
Odin? That rings a bell. Aha -- here it is, an essay defending the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles as a genealogical record compatible with the Genesis table of nations. It rang a bell because Odin is one of the persons in the tree. http:/&
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by KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 11y ago
I have written many cross-platform shell scripts over the years. The -print option may have been made standard by the GNU implementation and then spread -- I don't know -- but at least on some older versions of UNIX you do indeed ne