ratboy666

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by ratboy666 7y ago
Converting an exception into a return. Which loses the "have to deal with it; cannot ignore it" property that made the exception valuable. "The key takeaway here is that an exception cannot be ignored or forgotten; if we have
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by ratboy666 7y ago
I would wonder why. Why would wildfires get worse because of climate change? Wildfires need an accumulation of fuel. Climate change could produce the fuel, but that would be a process of decades. Indeed, bad fires in 1975 -- 45 years late
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Very nice animation! Data is suspect, though -- US 1937 should be bright red, not pale yellow. 1937 had record heat wave in US.
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Maybe not true: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232323/
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by ratboy666 7y ago
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101102131108.h... Indicates that baseline is 2T/year/human (in Spain). 840lbs to 6710lbs (resting to active) exhalation. Which means, not below 0.5T&#x2
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by ratboy666 7y ago
argos extension for Gnome 3. Compatible with BitBar
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Back in the late 70s, I did the bring-up of a Z80 system. I coded an EPROM (2708) with 1KB. Wrote a very small bootstrap monitor that did not require RAM to be operational. Drove a serial terminal (autobaud on CR entry). Display/Set me
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Argos is very useful. I use it to mount/unmount external drives, display power consumption, control VPN, a simple application launcher. Argos claims compatibility with BitBar. Argos claims to support JavaScript Gnome Shell execution -
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by ratboy666 7y ago
The article states that fewer people die of natural disasters. If you want to go to a pre-industrial state, I certainly support your decision. But, please, do not condemn billions of people to death. Of course, I will call out you "cli
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by ratboy666 7y ago
"Halting climate change"? Please -- the climate changes. It has ALWAYS changed. To think that we can "halt climate change" is hubristic.
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Thanks for your comments. A bit of fresh air. Really, I don't think that demonizing CO2 is the objective. Demonizing oil and other petrochemicals seems more likely. I think we are in a CO2 drought -- we know the planet (including coral
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by ratboy666 7y ago
I imagine that the "consensus" has been proven, sure. "scientific consensus" is not a thing. Also, "proven time and time again"? Just to let you know, water vapour is a much larger contributor. Sure, sue becaus
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Nicotine reduces stress and anxiety, and stabilizes mood. In that context, nicotine may be a useful drug for some people and help them function better. Nicotine gum may improve short-term memory. Nicotine may account for why smokers are le
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Juul is supportive of this -- and Juul is funded deeply enough (by Altria -- Marlboro, over 12 billion) to be able to go through the FDA review. Pretty much all the independents cannot. This means that the vaporizer business will be complet
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Of course, this doesn't (arguably) matter. In California, persons are allowed to change gender. At some point, Senate Bill 179 can be used to align government documentation, but that doesn't need to happen. So, prior to a board me
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Historically, you are wrong. Custody of Infants Act 1839. Prior to this, men both "made the money" and received custody of the children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custody_of_Infants_Act_1839 FredW
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Not remotely true -- the climate would still change. The question is "Is climate change a problem?". Personally, I don't like the idea that the expression of some latent genes may produce this monster: https://www.
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by ratboy666 7y ago
First, how many trees per capita are there: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/tree-density/?... From this, we determine that Canada has 8953 trees per person. Next, how much carbon does each tree
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by ratboy666 8y ago
Choice of E5 for a deleted entry: #1 E5 is a "sync byte" it cannot be rotated and mis-interpreted: E5 E5 E5 ... can be used to synchronize a bitstream. Note that floppy discs are read bit-wise. #2 Empty 8" floppy discs came p
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by ratboy666 8y ago
Sure, but COBOL:SNOBOL is like Java:Javascript
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by ratboy666 8y ago
The Apple ][ disk encoding was not done to allow "for a few extra sectors per track". Since the Apple ][ did not have a disk controller, the encoding from magnetic flux to bits was handled in software. A 1Mhz 6502 cannot handle th
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by ratboy666 8y ago
I am not sure how this would work. rsh/ssh may be involved. I wouldn't even know how to express: ssh carthoris ls /mnt/media/Movies | grep Spider (this is just an example). Note that in this example, we have two pro
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by ratboy666 8y ago
Always had a soft spot for WordStar. Last version used was WS 3. Took WordTsar for a spin... Fast comments: Seems to be missing N (non-document edit -- used that for editing program source). ^KH (hide block) is ^K> Not sure why (WS 4?).
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by ratboy666 8y ago
The original Word for DOS had a user interface (for command selection) similar to MultiPlan, which was (similar) to VisiCalc. Windows was not yet a thing.
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by ratboy666 8y ago
How is GNU APL not there? It is standards compliant, 99.9% pure APL2 (per ISO standards), and is actively maintained (bugs and issues are usually turned around in a day or two). It performs quite well, and can be easily extended. I have eve
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by ratboy666 8y ago
No. A vacuum doesn't transmit heat at all. The chips will get very hot. Liquids (generally) transfer heat better that air. You can completely immerse your computer in 3M Fluorinert. That will transfer the heat. Then, cooling fins to tr
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by ratboy666 8y ago
Since sqlite uses fossil for its scm, I thought that fossil drove the web site. It does for fossil. https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wi...
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by ratboy666 8y ago
It is trivial -- mostly, and for IBM APL2 and GNU APL. I have quoted the GNU APL manual below. Note that J, K, etc. are richer, and have different rules. APL is standardized (ISO), but GNU APL attempts to be IBM APL2 and ISO compliant (ISO&
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by ratboy666 8y ago
From GNU APL -- )help ≢ monadic function: Z ← ≢ B (Tally) Returns the number of elements in the first dimension of B. dyadic function: Z ← A ≢ B (Not match) Returns 1 if A has not the same shape and ravel as B.
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by ratboy666 8y ago
Reads left to right. Executes right to left. APL doesn't have precedence rules. 5 times 4 plus 1 is 25 (1 plus 4) times 5. Turns out reading left to right works. So the tree is trivial.

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