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by lebuffon 3y ago
I don't follow. What species of females are you hanging with? :-)
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by lebuffon 3y ago
I recommend reading Fred Brook's Mythical Man Month. It's old but still has relevance and has been republished this century. My favourite: "It takes nine months to have a baby no matter how many women you put on the job.&qu
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Robocop... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REC-ZYWL1to
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by lebuffon 3y ago
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/interception-and-divulg... Does this law apply in the USA or is it moot because it's not about content?
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Select 1952 from the menu and see the Meola Glacier in the Himalayas. Then look at this 2009 photo looking directly up the same valley rather than from the side. https://www.indiamike.com/india-images/pictures/meo
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Legacy technology always "improves" when a serious disruptor enters the market. It seldom can overcome the disruption for very long. However this engine seems to be a great improvement on pistons if we want to continue burning din
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Sounds like the medieval equivalent of the legendary jackalope. https://travelwyoming.com/article/jackalope-amaze-visitors-o...
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Standard rules of business normally apply to anything sold. 1. Product gotta be good enough to compete with other similar products 2. Price low-price, middle or premium, but it needs to fit the category 3. Place make it easy to f
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by lebuffon 3y ago
"incentivized to catch fish by the *prophet" is a very funny error. "profit" is a different incentive than divine revelation although both have worked in human history.
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Is the use of "codes" in the article, versus "code" a sign that the author/editor is not "code" literate? Asking for a friend.
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Forth will echo your "Meh". How much of top-down is because bottom-up is so @#$%! hard in non-interactive languages.
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by lebuffon 4y ago
29% less transistors for similar capabilities would be good. How does the instruction set compare to 6502?
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Oh my. This surely falls under the category: G_d has a sense of humour.
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by lebuffon 4y ago
That's an interesting case and use of the word efficient. Developer time reduced by 5X CPU time increased by 500x When CPU cycles are cheap it's a logical tradeoff but it still grates against my sensibilities.
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Maybe we should bring back cigarettes. The are less lethal to young people... How depressing.
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Dr. Julian Noble (RIP) went down that road but realized it was overkill and switched to providing a "formula translator" for Forth. So it takes infix notation and translates it to RPN Forth code than is compiled interactively like
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by lebuffon 4y ago
I believe the first version of that interpreter was written by Charles Moore himself. "Lines" in Forth are rather fluid but I have a version here that is 154 lines when formatted as a text file rather than 1K disk blocks.
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by lebuffon 4y ago
To paraphrase Sarah Palin: Canada can see the USA from their front window. (A great deal of time is spent looking through that window)
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by lebuffon 4y ago
I don't think it is written into a piece (at least not one that I know of) but if you play the 32' pedal C and C# together you get a ~2 Hz beat frequency that is amazing to hear but probably didn't help the church building th
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by lebuffon 4y ago
I have long suspected that viruses are the underlying cause of most of the diseases that have eluded us for the last 50 years. HIV gave us insights into a novel way that viruses can operate. It makes sense to think that there are more ways
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by lebuffon 4y ago
This is a wonderful outcome and amazing science and all involved are to be commended for saving this girl's life. However would it not make more sense to try and prevent the disease in society, since there is a viral component to it? I
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by lebuffon 4y ago
" ... is often called the stack." " integers are cursed" These statements and a few others made me uncomfortable. They imply, to me, that the author has too little knowledge of computer internals to be programming in C.
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by lebuffon 4y ago
I worked in a Forth shop for a few years and attended a few conferences. The FEDEX story made its way around the community.
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Forth has not won any popularity awards since the end of the '90s but it is still used by a small group of engineers around the world to solve their custom needs. This can be for embedded projects or firmware yes, but it has crept int
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Commercial systems are also now available for free for trial or non-commerical use, that offer native code compilers and IDEs and Graphic interface tools. VFX Forth from MPE UK SwiftForth from USA
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Supposed quote from the middle ages: "Lute players spend half their time tuning and the other half playing out of tune"
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Thanks for the link. This put me on notice that EBV might also be responsible for other neuralgic disorders since it hangs around forever. It also points to investigating the rest of the Herpes family IMHO. If we could acknowledge/prov
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by lebuffon 4y ago
And right next door, Canada is #1. <rant> When you look at the geographic distribution of MS you would think there might be a pathogen involved. Clearly there are other factors (genetic, environment?) since not everybody gets it, but
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Don't tell anyone, but in the back of my mind I wonder if what we call quantum mechanics has something to do with the rendering engine in this simulation we find ourselves in. Is quantum collapse just us "catching" the engine
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by lebuffon 4y ago
My thought experiment question around Psychiatry is: How would pre-electricity age people explain the operations of a digital computer? They would probably invent some theories that bore no resemblance to the actual underlying technology. T

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