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Hardware LISP machines didnt survive the 1980s because you could emulate LISP on a general purpose CPU faster than a special machine. That is because faster new general purpose CPUs cane out every year or so, while it took 3-5 years for the
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I wouldnt be surprised if this applies to other Hondas than listed, e.g. FIT, Accord ...
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As most professional developers know, coding is only a fraction of the total software process. There is team planning, debugging, sales, support, teaching, management, etc. A startup might spend half its hours on coding. At a mature softwa
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Coworking spaces were supposed be a compromise. Individuals and small teams could work in an office-like space without home distractions for a few hundred a month. In the early days coworking provided quality bandwith and printing for less
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Our Last Common Ancestors were 250 million years ago in the Triassic. Amazing how intelligence can evolve multiple times.
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A new book called The Genome Odyssey (Euan Ashley) has a large section on HCM and genetic medicine. The Stanford Med School research team has many disciplines bridging the medical and computing sides. He has several youtube talks about hiw
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DP Linpack flops is what counts in supercomputer ranking. Stuck at .44 Exoflops in 2021.
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I was at the old Roman Forum on the Ides of March. People had left flowers at the death site. Some people still admirer and mourn him.
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Perhaps a sound-pun in there, not surviving translation.
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Plus I strongly suspect Google search no longer gives the most accurate answer, but the one most profitable for Google ads.
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The are algorithms taught in numerical analysis class for re-ordering calculations to maximize precision. Computing in order you wrote on paper or the way you were initially taught may not be the best.
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I predict astronomers will observe and catalog all trillion observable galaxies in a century. It was probably inconceivable a century that we'd observe and catalog two billion stars in the Milky Way by now. But with improving technolog
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Its important that the Webb got this right because proposed 2030s successors to visible light Hubble or infrared Webb are considering as many as a hundred one meter mirrors due to the limited size of launch vehicles.
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These days you should require an accused cheater to wear a continuous GPS tracker like Strava.
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Refineries are like nuclear plants- no new ones in almost a half century (1976), but significant upgrades of existing ones. Both due to environmental regulations and cost.
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I wonder if there is an animal reservoir somewhere. Most mammals seem to be able to catch covid. Some specials like mink its more deadly than humans and kills many. Others like bats dont get sick.
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I suspect Putin would lose all his bank accounts under these rules.
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Colorado still has isolated rail lines with non-standard gauge. They are leftover mine feeders repurposed as tourist rides.
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In the old days C++ pre-processed into C. Then you had to run a special linker to handle how the preprocessor created class part names.
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Both the bookstores and 4-star appeared cluttered- a mixture of all kinds of stuff. And ordered by popularity, not by kind.
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In India the surname might indicate caste. Then easy to tell in States.
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The muon was the first WhatTheF particle discovered from cosmic rays. It and its associated quarks and leptons do not appear to participate in any physics necessary for the observable universe functioning. And the muon vexes us again with a
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A conservation think tank issued a report saying Denver spends about $400,000 per year per unhoused person. https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/the-economic-footprint-of... But drilling down finds 10% of that is direct budge
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SROs have returned as urban co-housing dorms for z-llenials. They consist of a cramped bedroom, sometimes with a private bath. But shared cooking, dining and recreation spaces.
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I visited that site on March 15th 2002, the 2045th death anniversary. People had left fresh flowers there, remembering after all these years.
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The 1980s movie Brainstorm had that plot. Only instead of a primitive EEG, it was helmet that recorded replayable brain experiences. It hypothesized near-death and early-post death. Ironically the movie's star Natalie Wood (of West Sid
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A bit like Knuth unhappy with existing mathematics typesetting programs. So he spent a decade writing TeX.
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A quarter of recipients die the first year after a bone marrow transplant. Survival taking AIDS drugs is much higher like 97%.
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Article says this is the 5th time. The headline is incorrect.
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Home computers where pretty dinky and broadband slow at the time of Toy Story 2. I wonder how they'd get 90% of the movie transferred home and saved to disk/tape?

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