marzetti

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by marzetti 1y ago
Through scientific collaboration mostly - HN now!
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by marzetti 1y ago
Age 77.. started with Fortran in '68 on an IBM1130, assembler on a Linc-8 in '70, then at UofWaterloo on IBM360/75 with (omg) 3MB ram. Then scientific programming mostly Fortran or asm, switched to turbo Pascal in 88-89, then
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by marzetti 1y ago
Some ideas here! https://www.martinogamper.com/project/a-100-chairs-in-a-100-...
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by marzetti 2y ago
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/I_Found_a_Digital_Camera...
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by marzetti 2y ago
Just tried 'lonely' and it returned Olivia Laing's The Lonely City, which I read a few years ago and loved... I'm now going to read it again.. thanks!
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by marzetti 3y ago
Noting your comment, I couldn't resist linking to some more CSS art: https://css-art.com/the-girl-with-a-p-e-a-r-l-css-earring/ Not sure how many centred divs are in it though...
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by marzetti 3y ago
The term 'paint pot' is perhaps confusing, the drawing represents the end of a 'tube of paint' out of which yellow paint has been squeezed. The 'y' word is indeed 'yellow'.
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by marzetti 4y ago
After a fairly exhausting search of alternatives, I ended up with Newscracker .. it copes well with a large number of feeds, has good capability for classification, and I can tolerate the single ad up front (on about 60% of starts).
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by marzetti 4y ago
er.. how long till humans show general intelligence without any apparent failures..?
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by marzetti 4y ago
Just spent a pleasant hour looking through machines and paraphernalia on AliExpress.. when my Silvia dies again (repaired twice now @ $500 a time) I'll get one from here.. didn't see any double boilers though (mine is single boile
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by marzetti 4y ago
Thanks for this article and the comments. Reminds me of a trick we kids did in the early 60s (yeah, sorry) with the British 'phone box' pay phones. We called it 'tapping the phone', but it wasn't spy style listening
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by marzetti 5y ago
'My Library' by Julien Keith, is great for Android users... Over 1m downloads and 4.6 star average... My own library is only about 600 odd books, but it was easy to use, interesting, and great now it's done!
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by marzetti 6y ago
I don't save many quotes, but that's going to be one of them! Thanks!
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by marzetti 6y ago
Sincere thanks to Ugur Sahin and Oezlem Tuereci for their dedication, hard work and incredible achievement.
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by marzetti 6y ago
US Presidents need a mandatory retirement age.. perhaps 70 is a suitable round number...
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by marzetti 7y ago
https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/surely-youre-a-creep-mr-fey...
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by marzetti 7y ago
"How not to die" by Michael Greger .. nearly half the book is the list of references...
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by marzetti 7y ago
Thank you! A beautiful article!