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by lebuffon 4mo ago
In my case it was around 1975ish. There was no digital circuitry in signal paths then. If you are asking how the thread pitch motor controller was working I have no in depth knowledge but it would likely be an analog envelope detector. (si
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by lebuffon 4mo ago
Old guy here. I brought a few masters into RCA in Toronto, just before dinosaurs went extinct. At that time they used a Studer A80 (if memory serves) 1/2 track machine, modified, with an extra playback head that was placed before the h
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by lebuffon 4mo ago
My observation after numerous decades is that people who invent technology don't control it because they seldom imagine how the rest of humanity will ultimately use it. I am thinking of printing press versus newspapers with advertising
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by lebuffon 4mo ago
As counter argument proposal; we should look into studies of children deprived of language until later in life. I have a dim memory of reading that one of these people never mastered complex language constructs. I could be that language an
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by lebuffon 4mo ago
Aside from the Jesus centered stuff what are the things in Gaudium et Spes that you find to be trash? (I only read a summary before asking)
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by lebuffon 6mo ago
By "back Illinois bill", does that mean they wrote it?
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by lebuffon 6mo ago
So the "checks and balances" we were taught in school was just nonsense?
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by lebuffon 6mo ago
... and we seem to be unable to make something that works without "turning it off and turning it on again" :-)
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by lebuffon 7mo ago
Forth does not specify threaded code. Implementation is left to the implementor. Internally Forth can be direct threaded code, indirect threaded code, byte code, sub-routine calls or optimized native code.
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by lebuffon 7mo ago
The 16K memory block is connect to the TMS9918 video chip and is accessed by port read/write. The TI-99 out of the box only has 256 bytes of RAM memory on the 16 bit buss. UNIX99 uses an after market card with 1Mbyte of RAM on an 8bit
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by lebuffon 8mo ago
Sure. But the emitted chemicals strengthen/weaken specific neurons in our neural nets. If there were analogous electronic nets in the bot, with analogous electrical/data stimulii, wouldn't the bot "feel" like it had
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by lebuffon 8mo ago
Probably worth mentioning that writing a big project in Forth is more like creating an OOP framework.(if you are disciplined) The end result of that is one doesn't write the program in "Forth" per se but in the domain specifi
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by lebuffon 8mo ago
Forth is a compiler but what it "compiles" is not standard. The implementor decides what they need. Forth can compile pointers to native code that are the VM's instructions, called direct threading. Forth can compile pointe
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by lebuffon 8mo ago
People who need to hit their revenue numbers make allocations decisions. That's not a conspiracy. It's what people have to do to keep their jobs in industry. And those decisions affect what gets the resources. And yes I know that
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by lebuffon 8mo ago
That is super news. Thanks for this.
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by lebuffon 8mo ago
We have one solid example of cancer caused by members of the HPV family. The disease can be transmitted via body fluids and/or contact. So there's that. My laymans take: Cancer is a disease of the DNA of a cell. Viruses survive
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by lebuffon 8mo ago
It seems like imagination was more common in those days. There was no "digital" anything to lean on.
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by lebuffon 8mo ago
An engineer at RCA in New Jersey told me that at the first(early) NTSC color demo the interference was corrected by hand tweaking the color sub-carrier oscillator from which vertical and horizontal intervals were derived and the final resul
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by lebuffon 8mo ago
Our station had an art department that used a hot press to create text boards that were set on an easel that had a camera pointed at it. By using a black background with white text you could merge the text camera with a camera in the studio
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by lebuffon 8mo ago
I was on a course at Sony in San Mateo in the 1980s and they had a 36" prototype television in the corner. We all asked for it to be turned on. We were told by the instructor that he was not allowed to turn it on because the 40,000V an
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by lebuffon 9mo ago
I quickly skimmed the instruction set and did not see anything resembling a sub-routine call or branch and link instruction. Did I miss it?
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by lebuffon 10mo ago
Wow 300mm chips. They must be huge! (I am sure they meant nm, but nobody is checking the AI output)
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by lebuffon 1y ago
The hard part I think is grokking the fact that the FORTH can compile and interpret inside the same definition. Also one must understand the operation of the Forth primitives HERE and comma (,) I will take a run at explaining IF ENDIF (endi
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by lebuffon 2y ago
IMHO that is a failed example of "Chuck Moore's stuff". He went down a rabbit hole to an extreme level because that's what he does. His earlier CPU experiments like the 4016 and Shboom were excellent examples of ultra-
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by lebuffon 2y ago
Programmers unsurprisingly want programmability. Users want a toaster. Input stuff, turn a knob, push something, -> output
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by lebuffon 2y ago
NEW LINK https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Fallacy-Artificial-I...
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by lebuffon 2y ago
I read this book a long time ago. It provided some insights on the role of Japan's difficulty with foreign languages in the 1980s and the desire to create AI translation. The "Fifth Generation project" was a massive governmen
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by lebuffon 2y ago
Depends how far back you want to go. I worked with guys a generation older than me. One clarinet/sax player worked in the "house band" at the Elmwood Hotel in Windsor Ont. Canada, in the 1950s. He had a wife and kids and a
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by lebuffon 2y ago
John to me as the youngest gospel, is an attempt to solidify what Christianity was becoming as it separated from the remains of Judaism after the destruction of the temple in year 70. It could have been written as late as 200 CE from what I
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by lebuffon 2y ago
ee by gum

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