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by lebuffon 6y ago
Nobody has mentioned low-level programming in a REPL. Not as common to be sure. Forth works this way and even has REPL Assembly Language. It's been there for over 40 years. Testing Forth and ASM code snippets in the REPL before commi
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by lebuffon 6y ago
My evil side makes me wonder what myths we have today that will be de-bunked in 100 years. :)
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Since 23andMe can figure out your geographic origin from your DNA there must be differences. Studying the nature of these differences might make some people uncomfortable but just as with subtle male/female differences, these studies c
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by lebuffon 6y ago
"There is power in restraint. The less a language does, the more can be done to it." Assembler
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Something that I wonder about is the intersection (if any) of programming languages and natural languages. It could be that as in natural languages the final arbitration on what is used is the masses and all the academic discussion in the w
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by lebuffon 6y ago
RISC V Assembler :)
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Yes. It is used in the sense of the English statement: IF you go to the store get some butter THEN come right back. So THEN is where the program continues on a false condition. Typically Forth. It uses an alternative way of looking at thing
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Opto-isolators are an ideal way to interface to 20mA TTY IMHO. Keeps the old stuff away from the new stuff. Open collector transistor connected by light only. Love it.
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by lebuffon 6y ago
I am wondering if something like GTP-3 (or GPT-3+x) which has the beginnings of writing code from human language descriptions will be a useful thing. Creating working code to expand upon can be a significant part of the process of new softw
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by lebuffon 6y ago
"...that will wipe out the Australian ecosystem as we know it" You mean like Homo sapiens? :-)
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by lebuffon 6y ago
One of the simplest interpreters that also has a compiler built-in is Forth. It is somewhat heretical to conventional computer science but it can be fully understood top to bottom by normal humans due to it features or lack thereof. :) A q
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Wow is slow frequency speed variation. Flutter is fast speed variation. To an audio person they are distinct sound artifacts. It was common to listen to recordings of pianos in the past to hear these because the piano was the only common in
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by lebuffon 6y ago
The need to raise the BASS and reduce the Treble makes me think that the setup was missing the RIAA equalizer. If the AMP did not have a "phono" input that would be the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Or as you might call them in parts of South Africa... gravel.
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by lebuffon 6y ago
I know nothing about this area but this statement; "...the progression of Alzheimer’s disease is driven by a vicious cycle of the protein amyloid β (Aβ) inducing hyperactivity at the neuron level." makes me ask wouldn't it be
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by lebuffon 6y ago
I didn't get the 40 tons of fuel makes 120 tons of CO2. The optimum fuel/air ratio is 14.5:1 for a diesel fuel. Is bunker C fuel burnt at 3:1 ratio? Sounds wrong.
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by lebuffon 6y ago
There are classes of relays that worked like that in old portable broadcast video recorders. Essentially a coil around a magnet and the coil was used to strengthen or weaken the flux with a pulse of current. The armature was spring loaded b
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by lebuffon 6y ago
"pre-Roman Empire peoples" Do you mean the Bible? "Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. But you shall utterly destroy th
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by lebuffon 6y ago
To your point about transmissibility versus Flu there is this report: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6937a6.htm It looks like our protections for Covid-19 were very effective against Flu transm
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Funny (old) energy efficiency story that used to be published on- line but I can't find it. It's about the first handheld scanner for a large shipping company. The hardware was engineered and nailed down and a team was contracted
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by lebuffon 6y ago
It was not planned. I was extracted from the cubicle at the small company by the head of sales because I kept challenging the founder on what projects were important to make money. :-) Was moved to managing sales and marketing when the web
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Those are the parts of it. In a perfect world finance is a strategic partner. Tracks and manages the use of money. Sets projections for future revenues. Manages tax minimization. Optimize the cost of loans. Negotiate with bankers. Creates
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by lebuffon 6y ago
I moved from the cubicle as a coder with a 30 person company to senior executive in a Fortune 500. Here is what I have found. You are correct that after the product is ready the rest is ALL sales (closing deals) and marketing (getting the w
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by lebuffon 6y ago
As a official member of the "old fart" society I have a memory of something from 50ish years ago, probably in Time magazine, that documented the fact the US military found cases of rickets associated with low vitamin D levels in p
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Now more than ever because you can define it code. Here is a CPU written in 200 lines of Verilog. https://excamera.com/files/j1.pdf
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Wild guess here but his compiler probably can recognize that it can replace sy*128 with a bit shift instruction. :-) (thats what I would want) It can't know that with a named constant. (Same would be true for any value that's a po
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by lebuffon 6y ago
I have read that in the 1800s the upper crust were being told to not allow their children to pursue a career in Physics. The commonly held view was that Newton had uncovered all the good bits and there was really nothing left to discover. T
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by lebuffon 6y ago
How does it compare to liquified air storage? It might have a sweetspot somewhere but liquid air uses a lot of off-the-shelf technology. https://www.rechargenews.com/transition/liquid-air-storage-o...
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by lebuffon 6y ago
You might want to peruse the C sources for GForth which has been under continuous development for 20 years or so. It introduced a concept called super-instructions that speeds things up quite a bit. I am not an expert on the internals, just
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by lebuffon 6y ago
The TI-99/4 was Uppercase only. I think the lower case font for /4A was a rush job but I don't know that for certain. For the hobbyist playing with the machine today there are many 10s of different fonts that have been develo

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