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by lebuffon 5y ago
And nostalgia is not as good as it used to be either. :)
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by lebuffon 5y ago
I am still wondering how many other cancers are caused by viruses that we have not isolated or maybe choose not to search for because "conventional wisdom" The trail of bread crumbs seems to be there. - HPV - Hep C - Human T-cell
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Doctor: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we have genetically modified you so that you will never get cancer. Patient: What's the bad news? Doctor: In about 8 months you'll be able to unzip your pants with you
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Krenshaw's classic version is available in C. https://github.com/lotabout/Let-s-build-a-compiler
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Everybody knows that CPU stands for: 'C' Processing Unit ;-)
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by lebuffon 5y ago
It's more involved than just left/right delay. We localize sound in the vertical direction and front and back as well. This is accomplished by the delays created between direct into the ear sound and reflections off the outer ear
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by lebuffon 5y ago
20% might be high but in the absence of oxygen support most people over 65..70 will expire if they stay sick longer than a week with this damned virus. I don't know the how big the senior population of Myanmar is but 10% is not unreaso
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by lebuffon 5y ago
I wonder if old CRT televisions could be convinced to become memory devices?
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Was it actually Pinochet who masterminded the coup? ;-)
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by lebuffon 5y ago
I think that's because in the early decades Paul had the impression that the messiah was coming back any time now. Who needs children. If you read his letters in chronological order (not bible order) you can see the wind come out those
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Last I checked Algeria has a bit of solar energy hitting it. :)
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Sounds like programming. :) ...having enough experience to know what unwritten assumptions the O/S author, language author, spec writer has made.
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Not sure we can say that. Recent history (from memory) Roman invasion 55 CE. Saxon invasion 400..500 ? Viking Invasions 900...ish Norman invasion 1066 All of these invaders made big changes to the country including place names, laws and
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by lebuffon 5y ago
For sure feeding wrong args to a function is never good. Experienced Forth users seldom have that particular argument count problem but all the other mistakes in programming are on the table. There is no free lunch. The Forth coding process
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by lebuffon 5y ago
I take your point that it is not perfect but it is simpler than factoring where named data is required. My experience is that when it doesn't work, it might indicate that the code is fighting with how Forth is easiest to use. I try to
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Forth is the grand-daddy I believe. Kitten is a new one and pretty cool. (search Youtube for a demo) Concatenative programming is interesting in that the arguments, in and out, are implicit because they typically reside on some form of sta
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Surprise. Fortran was used as well but Forth was used quite a bit by NASA. In some ways it is extremely auditable. A handful of assembler functions sit at the bottom the rest is Forth. Minimal numbers of variables in memory if code is writt
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by lebuffon 5y ago
There are references in the bible to the "un-penetrable forests of Lebanon". That's on the order of 3K years ago. I would think that the the cause is complex but humans removing trees until they are gone is probably part of t
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by lebuffon 5y ago
or Forth... :)
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by lebuffon 5y ago
I don't know much about naming viruses but if Covid-19 is from 2019, then we might be able say with some validity that we are now encountering Covid-20 and the delta strain is Covid-21. That might explain some of the second infections.
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Brief: Umbilical Development for Small Targets(youtube.com)
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by lebuffon 5y ago
An interesting development from Microsoft robotics team. They appear to have pulled together a lot of ideas together that have been in use in commercial Forth systems for 25 years and added some cutting edge Forth ideas. - implicit call bit
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition, Diamond Interesting overview
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by lebuffon 5y ago
There is a thing called a "tethered" or "umbilical" compiler in the Forth world where the target machine has nothing on it but a small comms program that is controlled by the IDE on the workstation. The IDE includes a wa
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Probably related to the way most people believe they are an "above average" driver. :)
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Guns Germs and Steel, Diamond. From wikipedia synopsis: "Diamond argues that Eurasian civilization is not so much a product of ingenuity, but of opportunity and necessity. That is, civilization is not created out of superior intelligen
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Observation IMHO This: :-) is an emoji. These new-fangled things on our phones are tiny pictures. As pictures they communicate differently than ascii characters because they are a different medium. But that horse has left the barn... ;
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by lebuffon 5y ago
I was implying that due to its Latin origin (?) it might be less familiar to non-native speakers.
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Or... You think I know f__k nothing, but I know f__k all!
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Amusing anecdote. I was in a class with a Japanese instructor. I had a great deal of trouble understanding him. A hand was raised and a person began talking with a very different accent (Finnish) and I understood very little of that. The Ja

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