lebuffon

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by lebuffon 25d ago
When you are forbidden to expand taxation on the people with money, because "ideology" and your country is accruing debt at historic levels, tariffs are about the only revenue source that you have that won't make the oligarch
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by lebuffon 29d ago
I have wondered if an option would be to have a state make it law that every 4 or 5 years they open the bidding for a health care insurance provider for the entire state. A state committee then takes the bid with best premiums to services r
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by lebuffon 1mo ago
Makes me wonder if this project is the reason for a slight downturn in Liver cancer from 2019 forward in the UK. https://crukcancerintelligence.shinyapps.io/CancerStatsDataH...
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
This has some resemblance to albeit the much simpler bread found in Pompei. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/07/07/ancient-bread/
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
The "no safety net" means that Forth is a low level language. You can touch anything in the machine. Many times it is used without an O/S. So if you push a random number onto the hardware stack you will get burned.
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
Of course not. I was merely expressing that Forth makes interactively very easy. And like all languages, it is impossible to evaluate them if you don't use them for some significant amount of time.
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
On fingered strings the guitar sustains for about 10 seconds until the note is very quiet, but still ringing. On a Cello a fingered string is gone in 2 seconds.
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
I can play chords on a violin or viola and strum them. Keeping a four-finger chord perfectly in tune in rapid changes is really hard (near impossible) without frets.
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
Forth is very good in this regard, because the word names are short and there is no "fluff" around the syntax if you can even call it syntax. Also there is no need to name your data. Literal numbers can be used just as easily eve
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
I used Forth to explain numbers in different radices to my grandson. Being able to interactively try things at the console was really helpful. It also helps to separate the internal number in the machine from how we display it, due to the
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
A related question for me is to ask when will lawmakers begin using AI to better integrate new law into the existing framework?
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
Excellent. I stand corrected. I was using published Chinese numbers.
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
And when we begin coupling solar to cheap sodium ion battery banks it gets very interesting. Sodium ion will even be compatible with a Minnesota winter!
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
The other big reason is the longevity. LFP life span gives you about 2000-5000 cycles depending on where your application can't tolerate the capacity reduction. Sodium Ion can go to 10,000 cycles (27 years) with a 70% capacity reductio
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
India is kind of cute. In the late 90s I attended a Telephone industry conference while working for a telephony test equipment company. A rep. from the Indian government gave a talk on their telephone system regulations. During the question
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
There is also a steam engineers term called "high-balling" which referred the little ball in the steam pressure gauge used in the early days. So high-balling was travelling at high speed.
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
If De Soto is correct, and I am not qualified to judge, based on your statement about land ownership in Brazil, then capitalism was not fully developed to where it could have been. Get the book. It's an interesting read. And yes I can
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
Sure at the "end game" stage you are correct. But on the way to that stage it does what it does really well, meaning it makes lots more capital. De Soto is talking about why it "cannot" get started in a place without gov
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
This is well documented in the the book "The Mystery of Capital" by Hernando de Soto. When it was published I thought it would change the world, but apparently nobody cared. :-) In his thesis, this is the reason capitalism cannot
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
"Standards are great. Everybody should have one!" Charles Moore, author of the Forth programming language
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
And don't forget AMI Tabfunkenwerk from USA.
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
There were native horses, in fact the genus began in N. America and migrated out. Remains have been found in permafrost in Northern Canada. They went extinct about 12,700 years ago, sometime after humans arrived.
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
In southern Ontario where there are many ( the most?) greenhouses electricity is primarily produced by Nuclear (50..55%) Hydro power is about 24 ..38% of the total. I think the bigger difference is the Canadian attitude about the "com
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by lebuffon 2mo ago
Back in the good old days of analog audio we made differential audio inputs with Iron and copper. :-) Transformers are amazing at reducing common mode noise like induced hum, but rather expensive compared to the price of these boards. Fun
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by lebuffon 3mo ago
I look at culture, under which I put language as a component, as the O/S of the human brain. So yes a brain with no O/S can think but it probably will never replicate, in one life time, the accumulated thinking skills of a brain g
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by lebuffon 3mo ago
It's not a technology limitation as you say. The issue is a psychology problem. How do you keep a nation all playing on the same team, so to speak, when there are an infinite number of contradictory voices screaming at them? My observa
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by lebuffon 3mo ago
I like to look back in history for parallels. In 1912 the USA required that all radio transmitters be licensed. There were classifications established for commercial and amateur stations. So at that time Feds understood the power of giving
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by lebuffon 3mo ago
The way this wealth inequality is so common around the world. makes me wonder if the next time the pitchforks come out, it will be some kind of global uprising. Perhaps accelerated by social media. Or are the elite better able to control th
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by lebuffon 3mo ago
That, in my opinion, is the question of the era for the USA. We were taught that the rule of law prevailed and there are "checks and balances" but it seems like there is no prescibed way to enforce the rules inside the system.
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by lebuffon 3mo ago
The RIAA equalization curve for recording and playback, was typically implemented with only resistors and capacitors. No DSP required. I know I know. It's so hard to believe you can manipulate signals without a processor. ;-)

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