bregma

51 ms·

811.
by bregma 3y ago
I was on a length course of Doxycycline (for borreliosis). It had the side effect of acting as an antidepressant. I got better (from the borreliosis), the treatment ended, and so did the antidepressant effect. It may be a study of n=1 but a
812.
by bregma 3y ago
Seems normal to me, eh?
813.
by bregma 3y ago
Hmm. Looks like the classic piano roll notation.
814.
by bregma 3y ago
And the compiler determines how to implement your decisions.
815.
by bregma 3y ago
As a 60 year old C and Fortran coder since ~1980 or so, and who has spent the better part of the last decade supporting compilers and their internals, I say it makes a big difference when it comes to autovectorization optimizations. But tha
816.
by bregma 3y ago
It took me days one time to figure out why 0 had adopted the value four. The technicality is that Fortran is call by descriptor (not by reference, not by value). That's a powerful difference but a sharp two-edged sword.
817.
by bregma 3y ago
Fortran is column-major and C is row-major. That difference alone makes vectorization in Fortran much much more frequently used.
818.
by bregma 3y ago
After owning my 1988 Chevrolet Beretta for about a year, the paint came off in one big sheet one morning when I was brushing a light dusting of snow off with my wool toque. The first call to GM revealed that it was the acid rain (acid rain
819.
by bregma 3y ago
I was told never to eat fish and brewis at my desk again.
820.
by bregma 3y ago
When you wake up your liver start converting stored glycogen and pumping out glucose so your fasting blood sugar is high enough to function. Your body is actually adapted for morning fasting. Diabetics have to be aware of this and time thei
821.
by bregma 3y ago
Wheaties?
822.
by bregma 3y ago
If it microwaves in 5 minutes it's rolled oats, not oatmeal. Rolled oats are still pretty darned processed -- the milling and steaming process convert many of the complex starches and a good portion of the cellulose into easily-digeste
823.
by bregma 3y ago
Oatmeal is not oatmeal. There's instant oatmeal. The kind that comes in packets and you just add water. Often has sugar added, often slathered with sugar. Possibly worse than a bowl of corn flakes. Highly processes with most of the sta
824.
by bregma 3y ago
> What did I miss? Seven red lines, two with red ink, two with green ink and the rest – with transparent. One in the shape of a kitten.
825.
by bregma 3y ago
> You don't need a university education to do those things, just some curiosity. The same is true of any field. Medicine for example. Then again I have several acres of swamp behind my place to help me when lerning from my mistakes.
826.
by bregma 3y ago
Only if it's in the greenbelt. Of course all you need is a few rounds of golf and some Raptors tickets to make it legal for you and your friends.
827.
by bregma 3y ago
Looks like the photos were taken before the Gorn attack.
828.
by bregma 3y ago
"International Law". As if there is such a thing outside of a paranoiac's pipe dream.
829.
by bregma 3y ago
I have thousands of hours in, all vanilla. I consider launching the first rocket to be the end of the early game and the beginning of the midgame.
830.
by bregma 3y ago
"citizen journalism" is what we used to call rumour, gossip, and hearsay. It still is.
831.
by bregma 3y ago
The classic hardware engineering response of "we'll just fix it in software". Turns out fixing things in software is even more expensive because it's just so easy to make changes that a combinatoric number of changes sne
832.
by bregma 3y ago
This is a corollary of the phenomenon I've dubbed "spreadsheet reality". I have noticed that ever since the advent of the spreadsheet the numbers in the pivot table are more real to decision makers than what's going on o
833.
by bregma 3y ago
The Unix way is streams of bytes. How those bytes are interpreted is up to the endpoints of the streams. Sure, a lot of endpoints interpret byte streams as text. That's not Unix, that's a particular endpoint. You will notice that
834.
by bregma 3y ago
When I took a TV servicing class in high school in the 1970s we were told just to keep our left hands in our back pockets so the discharge will ground through our right side and not across our hearts. The biggest hazard was breaking our han
835.
by bregma 3y ago
This just in: if you heard it from some random person on the internet, it's not news it's rumour. Vlog at 11:00.
836.
by bregma 3y ago
Most [0] people have phones, so if food banks are well-used, they're going to be a WiFi attractor. This is a highly likely explanation. [0] My spouse is a social services worker who specializes in the homeless. She says having a phone
837.
by bregma 3y ago
Came here to read discussions on EN 50128. Was awfully disappointed.
838.
by bregma 3y ago
About as long as Harvard University has existed.
839.
by bregma 3y ago
'literature' is something written by people for people. That's exactly what a computer program is.
840.
by bregma 3y ago
The premise is wrong. Well, it's not wrong, its just that it's premised on the definition of 'literature' being 'high brow writing for the elite' in the sense of something that can be dissected and analyzed for

More ›