hasmanean

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by hasmanean 1y ago
It was declared untrue in 1818 by Johnson’s dictionary. But that’s just 1 vote. ;)
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by hasmanean 1y ago
Because alchemists were afraid of people stealing their recipes. Jabir bin Hayyan (aka Geber) the father of chemistry wrote in his own shorthand which is named after him—-gibberish or jibberish. So Lead, gold, and quicksilver were not the
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by hasmanean 1y ago
I think there was a bbc documentary where they showed a manuscript of Newton or Kepler with a geometric proof and compared it to one by Al Jazari. They were identical. In fact even the vertices were labelled the same, and followed the order
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by hasmanean 1y ago
We have YouTube plumbers. Has destroyed the industry? No. But it’s made plumbing accessible to a whole range of DIYers. Maybe AI will be just as productive. Seriously YouTube has been amazing for the world of self learning. AI could learn a
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by hasmanean 2y ago
Expensive quixotic adventure. Perhaps that is the experience he was after for his billion node graph.
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by hasmanean 2y ago
The length of common LLM responses is perfectly able to fit on a sheet of paper.
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by hasmanean 2y ago
If you had a ham radio connection and wanted to broadcast emergency bulletins to people, radio fax would be quite useful. It’s push rather than pull like the web. Email works too, but fax has more utility in an emergency situation. Beats ha
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by hasmanean 2y ago
They talk about so little because that’s what the fcc rules limit them to. Can’t blame people for behaving like Elmer the safety elephant all the time. What can you do with a license? Jam live music with other people over the air, in full
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by hasmanean 2y ago
Yes, discussing politics or broadcasting music is not allowed over ham radio. Basically all we can do is exchange call signs, locations and details about our signals and stations. I have wondered if you could use the fact that analog radio
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by hasmanean 2y ago
Does it have to be pneumatic? Electric propulsion would be simpler and not need a tight fit in the tube.
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by hasmanean 2y ago
Maybe we need scientific sculptors. 3D printing and cnc machines will allow some interesting 3d forms to be generated.
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by hasmanean 2y ago
I spent my life looking for such an elegant tome. If I had discovered it when I was 15 maybe my life would have been happier. Utilitarian programming is like utilitarian food. Programming should be seen as an act of worship to the god of si
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by hasmanean 2y ago
If I could look down mid-flight and see what was happening below…ancient battles, modern news events…that would be a truly educational inflight experience.
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by hasmanean 2y ago
So is that what all the visual cues are in real life, things like fashion accessories, uniforms etc.?
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by hasmanean 2y ago
Not everybody understands English 100%. The guy in the old west who drew his gun and said “them’s fightin’ words?” He probably didn’t enough English to understand the whole sentence but picked out a few words which meant to him “fight.”
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by hasmanean 2y ago
If they had used polygonal mirrors instead of flat ones they would not have lost any data.
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by hasmanean 2y ago
And how does a stampeding herd coordinate to move around a fence? Buffalo will run off a cliff in the hundreds because those in the back can’t see what’s in the front.
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by hasmanean 2y ago
How to you make a fenced off ranch when 30 million buffalo decide to stampede through?
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by hasmanean 2y ago
Actually the grasslands of the Great Plains had immense amounts of carbon sequestered in their roots which extended several feet down. Buffalo, by grazing and fertilizing, helped the grass.
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by hasmanean 2y ago
Now the USA has 87 million cattle. Private cattle ranches could never have competed with 30 million bison owned by nature, free for anyone to take.
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by hasmanean 2y ago
Wrap it in a second function that parses out quotes and bit-stuffs the commas with something else.
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by hasmanean 2y ago
Assassins are a step too far, but maybe advertising…let the public choose whether to buy the real deal instead of the parasitical imitators.
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by hasmanean 2y ago
That’s still multiple lines of code. Here’s one in c++ that uses only a single line of code (excluding function headers) // How do I format this as code? vector<string> split( const string& s) { return accumulate(s.b
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by hasmanean 2y ago
I think Compute is a gerund (a noun derived from a verb, like “swimming” as in the activity.)
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by hasmanean 2y ago
Stick the gps data in a binary file. Store then filename in the database record.
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by hasmanean 2y ago
And yet…somehow some other issue always manages to capture the lion’s share of worry. Sugar gets a pass all the time. Yes you acknowledge it’s bad. How long before you throw birthday cakes out the window?
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by hasmanean 2y ago
Well at least you can tell if there’s a party going on in room 106.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
21 +- 13 is stretching the definition of “almost constant.”
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by hasmanean 3y ago
You would need live routing of messages. And the ability to reroute, filter, inject messages dynamically into code. Why must everything be done as a function call? You can’t change anything without recompiling the code. Today everything is
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by hasmanean 3y ago
I remember being excited by the potential of apps when I heard about Symbian…but some part of me knew that any product named Symbian would never succeed. It’s the type of name you come up with in round 3 of a name-brainstorming session, whe

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