The article kind of misses the forest for the trees: just as today, diet was associated with various conflicting theories and advice - some reasonable, some pure fabrication. In absence of much hard evidence food…
Around 1990 I had the fortune to learn Parallel-C - a language that was designed during the Transputer hype and was essentially C extended by a few features to support easy parallel programming. My favourite feature was…
I worked with QNX 4 at uni and we built a robot system based on 2-4 networked 486/Pentium CPU cards in a rack with it [1]. We fully used the OS to make our robot system both hard real-time and completely network based…
AND no dust, grime, etc. These tiny wheels get dirty and clog up pretty fast in human environments and then stop to work and need a good cleaning. Nice for demos but unsuitable for even normal research lab work. I hate…
Hmm, Kalkar, the only nuclear power plant I ever protested - in the late 70s when I was still in school and construction had just begun. It was finished in 85 but never even fueled due to safety concerns (liquid natrium…
> Philosophy at the end of the day is about arguing a point; it isn't about producing an aesthetic experience. I'd argue that point. Nietzsche's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) comes to my mind first.…
Erm, no, I don't think so. Can you give a source for that claim? Medieval wars were in general shorter, more regional, used much smaller forces and affected the civilian population less than in later ages. Of course it…
Athens-Sparta would be the Peloponnesian War, Punic wars were between Rome and Carthage. Sorry for the nitpick.
Hmm, but this is a very common problem particularly in history and archaeology and one that requires highly specialized expertise. Therefore almost always a modern unified calendar is used in new publications and the…
The term was also new to me. From [1] I understand it is a class of cryptocurrency scams starting by building a cordial relationship via social media or dating apps and then suggesting financial investment. [1]…
Interesting. I didn't notice the side notes at all because I immediately zoomed my view to only see the main text as I do with all web pages in this day and age.
best OS I ever had the pleasure to work with
To the contrary there is very good evidence that we pull arbitrary explanations whenever needed. See Gazzaniga's split brain experiments where people gave all sorts of reasons when asked why they did something and just…
Since it is tidally locked around a low mass star, axial tilt should be near 0 and seasons should not exist [1]. Tidally locked also means much higher temperature than the estimated average (231K or -42C for the hotter…
Actually Apple had to find solutions to some of the problems you mention when they transitioned to OS X: * multiple resource forks can be presented as files in a directory, the directory having the name of the…
C programming - luckily in my opinion - has a culture of very rigorous evaluation of programming techniques especially towards memory-unsafe programming, arguably the biggest weakness of C as a programming language.…
Yes, it is even pretty much a design principle for newer board games [1]. It started to become popular with games like Settlers of Catan. [1] https://boardgamedesigncourse.com/making-a-comeback/
Backpropagation was probably the most important step, but there was also the issue of workable training methods for many-layer networks. Fukushima did some very important - but rarely mentioned - work about this…
that's the way some embedded control systems are designed. with some (many) errors (can't read/write) being fatal and shutting down the system after an alarm is sent.
Yes, it is derived from the saying. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabellumpistole
The programming language Occam, in its time the primary language to program Transputers, did not have operator precedence, so you had to use parentheses for anything. It was a huge pain, but probably still better than…
Completely agree, except I'd say physical electronic instruments have a lifetime of about 20-30 years now. Several synths I own are now non- or half-working because of fading displays, broken floppy drives, power…
I worked in a big lab of about 100 engineer and scientists in the early 2000s. 2000-2005 more and more high-end SUN workstations were replaced by up-spec Linux machines. Only a handful of mostly CAD SUN workstations…
The Apple II was hardwired to run on 60Hz AC and used a limited character set. Minimal hardware design has its downsides. In countries that run 50Hz AC games and other real-time software ran slower or had wrong timing.…
She gives very good advice for us non-designers though use color templates. They are available as book or webpage and by trying out just a handful that seem to fit your needs you can quickly get to a reasonably good…
The article kind of misses the forest for the trees: just as today, diet was associated with various conflicting theories and advice - some reasonable, some pure fabrication. In absence of much hard evidence food…
Around 1990 I had the fortune to learn Parallel-C - a language that was designed during the Transputer hype and was essentially C extended by a few features to support easy parallel programming. My favourite feature was…
I worked with QNX 4 at uni and we built a robot system based on 2-4 networked 486/Pentium CPU cards in a rack with it [1]. We fully used the OS to make our robot system both hard real-time and completely network based…
AND no dust, grime, etc. These tiny wheels get dirty and clog up pretty fast in human environments and then stop to work and need a good cleaning. Nice for demos but unsuitable for even normal research lab work. I hate…
Hmm, Kalkar, the only nuclear power plant I ever protested - in the late 70s when I was still in school and construction had just begun. It was finished in 85 but never even fueled due to safety concerns (liquid natrium…
> Philosophy at the end of the day is about arguing a point; it isn't about producing an aesthetic experience. I'd argue that point. Nietzsche's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) comes to my mind first.…
Erm, no, I don't think so. Can you give a source for that claim? Medieval wars were in general shorter, more regional, used much smaller forces and affected the civilian population less than in later ages. Of course it…
Athens-Sparta would be the Peloponnesian War, Punic wars were between Rome and Carthage. Sorry for the nitpick.
Hmm, but this is a very common problem particularly in history and archaeology and one that requires highly specialized expertise. Therefore almost always a modern unified calendar is used in new publications and the…
The term was also new to me. From [1] I understand it is a class of cryptocurrency scams starting by building a cordial relationship via social media or dating apps and then suggesting financial investment. [1]…
Interesting. I didn't notice the side notes at all because I immediately zoomed my view to only see the main text as I do with all web pages in this day and age.
best OS I ever had the pleasure to work with
To the contrary there is very good evidence that we pull arbitrary explanations whenever needed. See Gazzaniga's split brain experiments where people gave all sorts of reasons when asked why they did something and just…
Since it is tidally locked around a low mass star, axial tilt should be near 0 and seasons should not exist [1]. Tidally locked also means much higher temperature than the estimated average (231K or -42C for the hotter…
Actually Apple had to find solutions to some of the problems you mention when they transitioned to OS X: * multiple resource forks can be presented as files in a directory, the directory having the name of the…
C programming - luckily in my opinion - has a culture of very rigorous evaluation of programming techniques especially towards memory-unsafe programming, arguably the biggest weakness of C as a programming language.…
Yes, it is even pretty much a design principle for newer board games [1]. It started to become popular with games like Settlers of Catan. [1] https://boardgamedesigncourse.com/making-a-comeback/
Backpropagation was probably the most important step, but there was also the issue of workable training methods for many-layer networks. Fukushima did some very important - but rarely mentioned - work about this…
that's the way some embedded control systems are designed. with some (many) errors (can't read/write) being fatal and shutting down the system after an alarm is sent.
Yes, it is derived from the saying. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabellumpistole
The programming language Occam, in its time the primary language to program Transputers, did not have operator precedence, so you had to use parentheses for anything. It was a huge pain, but probably still better than…
Completely agree, except I'd say physical electronic instruments have a lifetime of about 20-30 years now. Several synths I own are now non- or half-working because of fading displays, broken floppy drives, power…
I worked in a big lab of about 100 engineer and scientists in the early 2000s. 2000-2005 more and more high-end SUN workstations were replaced by up-spec Linux machines. Only a handful of mostly CAD SUN workstations…
The Apple II was hardwired to run on 60Hz AC and used a limited character set. Minimal hardware design has its downsides. In countries that run 50Hz AC games and other real-time software ran slower or had wrong timing.…
She gives very good advice for us non-designers though use color templates. They are available as book or webpage and by trying out just a handful that seem to fit your needs you can quickly get to a reasonably good…