A primary reason for the Catholic Church changing the calendar was to bring the date of Easter back into conformance with the decree of the Council of Nicaea on the topic. There was a controversy in the early Church on…
There is a time to buy, a time to sell, stocks and gold go through clear cycles where one outperforms the other, currently stocks have been outperformed by gold for 25 years. My kids bought silver recently and are up…
45 year cup and handle patterns playing out in gold and silver, both going much higher -- governments cannot borrow their way out of debt, current paper currencies going to zero value over time -- Dow down over 70%…
There was a curses-based todo program that was totally awesome MANY years ago, source code posted to usenet I believe back in the day, but I have never been able to find it again. Anyone have a pointer?
I moved to ZFS to get some guarantees regarding long-term storage of important data -- e.g. family pictures.
There was once work on metalized optical paper tape of very high density for archival purposes -- what happened to that?
There is a classic book about the effects of sugar named "Sugar Blues" for the interested. I have a bad reaction to sugar so have to avoid certain foods -- e.g. bananas are a no-no for me.
I recall many years ago hearing that a mathematician had invented something and was very happy about the fact that it had absolutely no practical use. I may remember the details incorrectly but I believe it was one-way…
I have been wondering where I read this story for some time now -- thanks.
I was under the impression that we now know how to do low-fuel paths through the solar system using gravity. It's more a question of how long do you want to take to get where you're going.
I worked with a guy once back in the 80s who did the radar preamp on Pioneer Venus I believe it was. Very bright individual.
does indeed seem rather unhinged
One binary to rule them all, one binary to find them, one binary to bring them all and in the darkness bind them; in the Land of Lennart where the shadows lie. Bwaahahaha.
all caps is (was?) typically considered SHOUTING so README gets your attention
4 trillion transistor wafer-scale integration https://www.cerebras.net/blog/cerebras-cs3
It has tunnels because the Navy did not want the bay blocked if the bridge dropped into the water. Which is exactly what has happened in Baltimore.
Bell Labs had a very nice portability framework also -- there was a Cygwin-like product called U/WIN that made extensive use of it -- might find it associated with ksh93 maybe. Speaking of Bell Labs, there are some…
There is a certain irony in these buildings not using indigenous construction techniques.
FORTRAN is easier to optimize than something like C so is much used for numerical computation
bingo -- the whole system is bankrupt -- they have been papering it over with more and more printing since 2008 but check out curves of M2, national debt, etc. -- isn't going to work, something is going to break
It is not well-appreciated that the whole dollar system is destined for implosion because of the way dollars are created. The dollar is a debt instrument, there is always more owed than there are dollars in existence.…
What is this ASCII of which you speak? Real programmers learn on UNIVAC 1100 series. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nssdc/formats/UnisysFieldata.htm
An easy way to understand what is going on with signal reflections is to consider a very long wire -- say, to the moon. When you put a voltage on the wire current starts flowing, but that current has nothing to do with…
That's one way to run DPDK processes under LINUX -- you get the whole processor for doing whatever network processing you want to do -- no interruptions from anything.
At the University of Maryland in the late 70s we put the FORTRAN program on punched cards and wrapped some sort of batch language around it all to compile and run it -- as I recall -- has been a long time -- then output…
A primary reason for the Catholic Church changing the calendar was to bring the date of Easter back into conformance with the decree of the Council of Nicaea on the topic. There was a controversy in the early Church on…
There is a time to buy, a time to sell, stocks and gold go through clear cycles where one outperforms the other, currently stocks have been outperformed by gold for 25 years. My kids bought silver recently and are up…
45 year cup and handle patterns playing out in gold and silver, both going much higher -- governments cannot borrow their way out of debt, current paper currencies going to zero value over time -- Dow down over 70%…
There was a curses-based todo program that was totally awesome MANY years ago, source code posted to usenet I believe back in the day, but I have never been able to find it again. Anyone have a pointer?
I moved to ZFS to get some guarantees regarding long-term storage of important data -- e.g. family pictures.
There was once work on metalized optical paper tape of very high density for archival purposes -- what happened to that?
There is a classic book about the effects of sugar named "Sugar Blues" for the interested. I have a bad reaction to sugar so have to avoid certain foods -- e.g. bananas are a no-no for me.
I recall many years ago hearing that a mathematician had invented something and was very happy about the fact that it had absolutely no practical use. I may remember the details incorrectly but I believe it was one-way…
I have been wondering where I read this story for some time now -- thanks.
I was under the impression that we now know how to do low-fuel paths through the solar system using gravity. It's more a question of how long do you want to take to get where you're going.
I worked with a guy once back in the 80s who did the radar preamp on Pioneer Venus I believe it was. Very bright individual.
does indeed seem rather unhinged
One binary to rule them all, one binary to find them, one binary to bring them all and in the darkness bind them; in the Land of Lennart where the shadows lie. Bwaahahaha.
all caps is (was?) typically considered SHOUTING so README gets your attention
4 trillion transistor wafer-scale integration https://www.cerebras.net/blog/cerebras-cs3
It has tunnels because the Navy did not want the bay blocked if the bridge dropped into the water. Which is exactly what has happened in Baltimore.
Bell Labs had a very nice portability framework also -- there was a Cygwin-like product called U/WIN that made extensive use of it -- might find it associated with ksh93 maybe. Speaking of Bell Labs, there are some…
There is a certain irony in these buildings not using indigenous construction techniques.
FORTRAN is easier to optimize than something like C so is much used for numerical computation
bingo -- the whole system is bankrupt -- they have been papering it over with more and more printing since 2008 but check out curves of M2, national debt, etc. -- isn't going to work, something is going to break
It is not well-appreciated that the whole dollar system is destined for implosion because of the way dollars are created. The dollar is a debt instrument, there is always more owed than there are dollars in existence.…
What is this ASCII of which you speak? Real programmers learn on UNIVAC 1100 series. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nssdc/formats/UnisysFieldata.htm
An easy way to understand what is going on with signal reflections is to consider a very long wire -- say, to the moon. When you put a voltage on the wire current starts flowing, but that current has nothing to do with…
That's one way to run DPDK processes under LINUX -- you get the whole processor for doing whatever network processing you want to do -- no interruptions from anything.
At the University of Maryland in the late 70s we put the FORTRAN program on punched cards and wrapped some sort of batch language around it all to compile and run it -- as I recall -- has been a long time -- then output…