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by lebuffon 4y ago
No need to wonder The Top 10 Biggest Sources Of New Permanent Residents To Canada in 2021 are: India: 96,660 China: 24,995 Philippines: 13,310 Nigeria: 12,500 France: 10,510 United States: 9,525 Brazil: 9,270 Iran: 8,930 Pakistan: 6,625 Sou
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Predicting the future of technology seems to be difficult... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1923-envisions-the-tw...
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The LA-2A is great compressor. To be clear it uses a different application of "optical coupling" in that Audio is not passing through the optical connection. The light source is driven by a DC amplifier that generates a control vo
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Because the simulation maker patched those bugs. :)
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by lebuffon 4y ago
No. The phase differences for FULL localization are not in the incident sound. (There are phase and amplitude differences for left/right only) 3D phase changes occur and create comb filters at you ear and your ear is unique to you. Thi
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by lebuffon 4y ago
1. "That's because a human is not 1 microphone." true 2. "It's 2 microphones, with a known distance between the 2" 3. "which allows realtime 3d positioning and isolation of sound to an area" #3 do
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Left/right sound localization is partially a function of "shadow" created by the head. However more important to localization is the pinna, the outer ear. Sound enters the earhole directly AND reflects off the folds in the pi
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by lebuffon 4y ago
I say this as often as I can. We have a vaccine that prevents cervical cancer with ~83% efficacy. Following the "bread-crumbs" seems like a good strategy to me. We have this little beasty in wild. Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Fascinating different approach taken by Canada for workers from Mexico and Jamaica. Workers are flown in during the farming season, legally, under laws created for the purpose in cooperation with the governments of Mexico and Jamaica. The m
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Forth is very handy for this kind of new iron startup work. You can interrogate the hardware interactively for those really thorny problems and confirm your hypotheses immediately. You can write short test scripts and send them via the ter
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by lebuffon 4y ago
:-))))
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by lebuffon 4y ago
"I have never seen a square (Robertson?) screw in the wild, I assume that's regional." The way I heard it was that Mr. Robertson gave his new screws to Henry Ford for testing. Ford wanted to use them but Robertson insisted on
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by lebuffon 4y ago
This site gives some insights into potential tradeoffs between Swift and C++ in memory usage and execution times. https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/swift-vs-... It's really hard not to like reducing co
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by lebuffon 4y ago
I find this very concerning in an American city. In The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando Desoto; He makes mention of the bureaucracy overhead in countries that fail at capitalism
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Minor caveat on SEE. If the Forth implementation uses "threaded" code the resulting source code can be quite close to the original text. If the Forth compiler generates native code the one-to-one relationship with the source is lo
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by lebuffon 4y ago
And here we thought Russia was the only place that this kind of thing happened. Who knew? ;-)
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Interesting that you used that phrase on HN. Not sure if you ever heard that Fred Brooks said software development is also like this: "It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many women you put on the the job"
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"For the first time in recorded history the entire planet coordinated a response to an existential threat" Umm... - Smallpox eradication was a global effort. - Polio eradication was a global effort.(unfortunately delayed by religi
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by lebuffon 4y ago
I have heard that IQ measurements correlate very well with general success in society. Peterson says they correlate better than any other measurement in human Psychology. (Paraphrasing and I can't validate it) Peterson also says that i
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Parallel History? :) Circa 1968: "For fun, he [Moore] also wrote a version of Spacewar, an early video game, and converted his Algol Chess program into the new language, now (for the first time) called FORTH. He was impressed by how m
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by lebuffon 4y ago
Marmite is available in many grocery stores in here but commonly in the international foods aisle. My local store (rural Ontario) put in the baking section with the yeast. LOL
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Could a vaccine prevent type 1 diabetes?(timescolonist.com)
4 points by lebuffon 5y ago|2 comments
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by lebuffon 5y ago
I have thought for many years that "auto-immune disease" was a cop-out versus looking for the root cause. After developing Asthma at 35, after a "common" cold, viruses were top of my list as potential candidates because
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by lebuffon 5y ago
It's only Canadian money. :-) <$16 USD
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Old cities in North America have cores that were created pre-automobile. They were built on "human/horse scale" like cities in Europe. New cities in the mid west are spread out over wide distances assuming automobile transp
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by lebuffon 5y ago
As long as their is oxygen support and health care people show up for work you are correct. In Mexico and other countries with less access to modern health care the death rate seems to be an order of magnitude higher. (if the CDC data is va
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Probably not surprising but the 5500 had an impact on Charles Moore, inventor of Forth. https://colorforth.github.io/HOPL.html
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It's the "standard" system in both countries. :)
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"However this was the first time a bridge had displayed this type of pedestrian excited lateral motion." The first time? It seems we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes in every generation. Army officers have ordered troops to
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by lebuffon 5y ago
That is what what we do now. Controlled inflation by central banks is really controlled reduction of the value of the currency. ~2% per year is the target. The USA gets a free pass at the moment because USD is "the" reserve curre

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