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by Tor3 2y ago
When I was young and had just finished my EE training I ran into a guy working with electrical systems in cars.. he claimed that wires are resistance (true enough), but also that the thicker the wire, the more resistance.. so when he wired
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by Tor3 2y ago
Turbo Pascal was fantastic when it arrived. A revolution. And not just the affordable price, there was also the "book license". The compiler could be used by any number of people, anywhere, just not at the same time. And suddenly
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by Tor3 2y ago
That's great advance in the general, modern case.. however, I want to write small compilers for an archaic minicomputer where no llvm or similar exists or can exist, and for that purpose articles like this are inspirational and very us
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by Tor3 2y ago
No, the opposite. If I take a long-haul flight (intercontinental) without using noise-cancelling headphones I'll have increased tinnitus for the next month. That problem is greatly reduced if I use the headphones. When that's said
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by Tor3 2y ago
When I wear Bose noise-cancelling headphones on airplanes I can hear the female flight attendants much better than when I'm not wearing headphones. The noise-cancelling filters out lower frequencies and constant hum (wind, engines), bu
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by Tor3 2y ago
1 - Is there scientific consensus that there are 260,000 year old Homo Sapiens fossils in China? Other fossils, yes (after all, Erectus and possibly more left Africa nearly two million years ago) 2 - Are you saying that Australo-Melanesians
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by Tor3 2y ago
I don't see why the early Levant migration should in any way be contradicted by what you list. As for the list, all of that is consistent with the accepted interbreeding with Neanderthals, Denisovans and possibly other (related or unre
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by Tor3 2y ago
In my grandfather's and great-grandfather's time it was common to spell names in lots of different ways, at the same time. Made for interesting research for my father when he took up genealogy.
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by Tor3 2y ago
That seems to be "Sven" - first name, "Magnus" - middle name, "Øen Carlsen", a combination of two last names, "Øen" from his mother and "Carlsen" from his father.
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by Tor3 2y ago
The main point of the article was that the Hittite spoke an IE language (evidence from their cuneiform writing), but their DNA doesn't have any Yamnaya ancestry. So, two conflicting points. What the article describes is that they have
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by Tor3 2y ago
English is a bit special in that it's a relatively modern mix of Old English (aka Anglo-Saxon) and what the invading Normans spoke (a Romance language), plus some more. So when you compare words it's maybe better to look at the or
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by Tor3 2y ago
It's been known for a very long time that there were earlier migrations out of Africa, specifically to the Levant. That happened at least a 100k years ago. From all evidence they simply didn't get any farther than that, and eventu
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by Tor3 2y ago
"people often find it hard to accept the findings and much preferred the multi-regional hypothesis" Why would people find it hard to accept out of Africa? Why would people prefer the / a multi-regional hypothesis? Is
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by Tor3 2y ago
It's indeed hard to imagine that the first programming language taught at any university would be Ada. That would at least mean that the university started teaching programming and computer science very late. There's been a number
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by Tor3 2y ago
Same here, I hear a rumbling. I do occasionally use this to block or lower very loud (potentially hearing-damaging) sounds if there are no other means available.
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by Tor3 2y ago
I've never seen any pest problem in houses or structures built with or using turf in other ways. I have seen an old man picking lingonberries from a turf roof though. Not what I would call a pest..
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by Tor3 2y ago
Blue eyes and blonde hair wasn't connected historically (unlike today). The pre-Yamnaya Europeans (hunter gatherers) tended to be dark haired with blue eyes. Blonde hair and brighter skin came from the east then. https://www
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by Tor3 2y ago
Grabbing the handlebars is the absolute worst way to try to teach someone, no wonder the author had problems. I can't believe that this is "the usual manner" either, or at least I hope so (for the sake of the children)
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by Tor3 2y ago
Note that I did say "a bunch of kids". That was essentially all the kids in the neighbourhood. I only mentioned myself's experience elsewhere in my post. As for the "teacher".. I forgot to mention that: The kids did
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by Tor3 2y ago
That's true - we didn't have them when I was young and the first time I saw one was in Germany, and indeed very young kids can use them. The one I saw that first time had some kind of spring/suspension system so that the litt
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by Tor3 2y ago
That article is weird, for me at least. I very clearly remember when a bunch of kids around the age of six and seven learned to bike, all at the same time. All it took was a woman's bicycle, the old type (I should say "very old&
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by Tor3 2y ago
Not always true. I have devices with GPS which not only relies on a network for getting ephemeris data for the satellites, but they can't function without it. In other words, they don't even try to get ephemeris data through the G
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by Tor3 2y ago
Chapter 4.1 (installation of BCPL, before you can start coding) is indeed somewhat(!) more complicated than how it was for the BBC microcomputer (or any other back in the day) - just power it on, enter 10 PRINT "HOW ARE YOU"
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by Tor3 2y ago
>Who needs 16GB ram on a PI! Like what are the actual use cases? If you use it as you would a PC then it's actually not enough RAM. I have 16GB on my laptop and desktop computers both, and as I always keep browsers running they&#x2
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by Tor3 2y ago
It works fine in Opera on an old Android tablet.
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by Tor3 2y ago
The first time I didn't move at all (except for targeting), and before I knew it it was "solved". Just a few seconds.
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by Tor3 2y ago
I admit to not understand how the trick was done when I read the beginning of the article. I of course realized it was a trick, it's just that it didn't occur to me how it was done. Then I continued reading and of course the resol
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by Tor3 2y ago
I go to a lot of choir concerts. What I've found is that I much prefer (good) choirs singing without accompanying instruments, because when there are instruments involved the harmonies always fall into equal temperament. There is a qua
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by Tor3 2y ago
Presumably that was sarcastic..
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by Tor3 2y ago
(Just to add - I also don't use an inner voice when I read, unless I decide to. And when I do, reading slows down to a crawl, obviously. So in general I don't)

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