Posts by Bebu 2075 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2022
>Zyliss slice-o-mat thingies
I propose a mandolin as a better analogy for C :)
If you ever have seen Rick Stein's effort (and hubris) https://youtu.be/w6TJ88PiKdo you might agree ;)
I like C pretty much because like an adze one can, like Odysseus, build a boat or (like Rick) chop ones foot off.
Its said an adze is the only sharp tool that one draws towards oneself - not sure this is true I imagine possibly some of a coopers planes draw a naked blade towards the body.
Princeton's IAS' Springdale Linux [SDL] (was PUIAS) is a decent replacement for SL/SLC
Packages from the computational base repo can also be installed under RHEL/CentOS/Alma/Rocky as they generally install under /usr/local/.
Bloody Stupid Johnson (Bergholt Stuttley Johnson) or the late UK PM but one?
Don't suppose it matters.
I was thinking more John Lumic (Pete's World.)
Reported here on a local a news site that he (Musk) would eventually have the implant so he could directly interface this his tech. Good luck with that upgrade.
At this rate I think learning to knap stone might be an investment in the future.
you must be BORN in the United States
Not quite - you have to be US citizen at birth.
The alternate requirement of being a citizen at the time of the adoption of the constitution would account for George Washington and other early presidents who clearly could not have been natural born citizens.
So I supposed not being born at all is a pretty basic disqualification which would imply clones/replicants are also disqualified.
"Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols" 2/e
Radia Perlman
Pearson Education 1999
> "Everyone who does any i.p level network programming should read it."
Also really interesting for the non-TCP/IP networking eg Decnet phase iv which I assume is now ancient history.
I recall another coauthored that was to me just as lucid-
"Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World"
Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, Mike Speciner
Prentice-Hall 2002.
(Might be updated by "Network Security" by same authors Addison-Wesley 2020?)
Even a quectoGoogol is not within cooee of a quetta :)
How much porn is there? Abstractly probably not that much once you take into account the limitations of anatomy,physiology and laws of physics. Even allowing for the unlimited capacity of human beings for perversion I can imagine a recent bit of AI(ML) kit, a couple of thousand rules and some state of the art computer graphics could give the industry a run for its money. How much of the output would land you in quad is another matter. "Max Headroom does...."
Hate to think what in this line awaits braver souls than mine in the metaverse.
Strikes me for these driver dependent feature specific printers that never had and never will have a Linux driver the reverse recipe is equally workable (LSW? :)
viz on your Linux box install under a VM a the Windows poison of your choice that does support your printer's driver. Share the printer under Windows and install the now shared Windows printer under Linux.
Personally I never had any need for more than black text on white A4 paper. After having to ditch a decent brother printer for the lack of a centronics port on my PC have subsequently only purchased network capable printers - currently (~5yrs)
FujiXerox Docuprint P265dw which doesn't have a Linux driver but is actually a rebadged Brother which does have a driver. The driver is 32 bit but can be made to work on the latest Ubuntu LTS.
"electrolytic capacitor (which had been pinched from the production line) between two filing cabinets and wiring it up, in reverse, to a 25-amp power supply. The capacitor usually expired quietly"
I would not have thought that even a small electrolytic would give up the ghost quietly when AC is applied.
Get a lab group of students to wire up full wave rectifier on protoboard - 21 gun salute :)
Oddly today the better half wanted to know how many hours she had worked from 9.45am to 4.15pm with 30 minute break as she was getting different answers on the fingers.
So 16.15 - 9.45 - have to borrow 1hr for the minutes = 16.75 - 10.45 = 6.30 then less lunch 6.00.
Sexagesimal isn't so hard but HP calculators have/had degree.minute.sec to decimal degree and back that could also be pressed into service.
I would assume anyone who could use a sextant wouldn't raise a sweat.
I sometimes feel a bit like the Catweasle character in the '70s TV series who was transported from the 11th century into the 20th. While he was taken by "elec~trickery" he would often complain to his familiar "nothing works, Touchwood."
His technology - magic - largely didn't work in the 20th century and the contemporary technology was incomprehensible.
Even if you hang on to older tech like a Nokia 3G phone that never was able to be updated the Telcos just turn off the network (to free up spectrum for 5G) - as though I would want gigabytes a second streaming into my back pocket.
I can see that running a dead OS (Multics) or some fossilized mainframe OS might have its attractions - not much risk of an unheralded update I should think. Even update announcements by the more glacial Linux distros evoke an automatic "what fresh hell is this?" response.
At least wind-up watches are safe from updates. I was more than surprised that a modern (mumble)shock watch stores the time in UTC and that you have to set/guess the appropriate local timezone.
One might think that would make moving between timezones or onto/off daylight savings easier - it doesn't - its faster to just change the (UTC) time and leave it on LON(don) DST/off.
Even simpler - after killing a couple of mechanical watches by frequently changing the time between timezones - I permanently set it to UTC and just remembered the local offset (its modulo 12 so not too taxing eg AEST+10 = add 12 sub 2 ie just sub 2.)
Appears Grant+Naylor's talking toaster (Red Dwarf) is pretty benign by comparison.
At the time I thought Douglas Adams' talking lifts (Hitchhikers Guide) were rather fanciful but his "Happy Vertical People Transporters" are probably now "best practice." We are spoilt for choice were we required to identify a candidate for the "Sirius Cybernetics Corporation" but some chap at leading contender thought they had already created a "Genuine People Personality."
Actually Marvin (Android) would be an improvement on Siri, Alexa et al.
What a world!
>Still they saw fit to start a war of sedition over tea.
More likely over the imperial tax on said tea.
It never seems very clear in the various american "creation stories" that the war of independence was very much a rather nasty civil war.
So one might assume the loyalists were content to drink their tea and pay the requisite taxes.
> Did it get those weird bent ones that used to be found in British Beef at the turn of the century?
Good question.
Prions are basically two different conformations (shapes) of the same peptide (protein) - one naughty, one nice. Based purely on the sequence of amino acids in the peptide I don't see how this approach (Machine Learning) is able to detect or determine both conformations. Presumably picks up the normal (nice) one as I would assume it would fold like most other peptides in its training set.
Still calculating a likely structure first would likely expedite other techniques of structure determination - thinking x-ray crystallography, mass spec and nmr.
I would be interested in how accurately it predicts the structure of variants of the peptides with which it was trained
(ie modified with various amino acid substitutions.)
Curious.
If software were licensed with a few of CC0, GPL/3, BSD etc with the choice of applicable license made by the user (licensee) would that avoid the patent issue?
How much of the world has software patents? I thought the EU didn't but might now with various trade and IPO treaties requiring such.
I suspect if patents expired after 5 years (not the 17 I think now) no one would bother.
Obviously CP/M was supported on 8080 and Z80 (and copies)
and there was a CP/M-86 that shipped on some NECs I remember (were mainly used for pabx management I think.)
I believe the Atari ran a version of CP/M-68 - the Amiga had a proper OS.
I am wondering what other CPUs had CP/M ports? 6502/680X 2650 16032/32016...
I vaguely recall there were eastern block/soviet versions for locally fabricated processors.
Given the source has been available for a while its possible more recent processors could have ports - CP/M on an Arduino?
Great memories - subset C compiler, bootstrapping the compiler to emit relocatable (rmac) code using two 3" floppies but I was overjoyed when could afford a PC with 20Mb disc whch I could run a full C compiler and a proper editor. Oddly the cpu was a NEC V20 or V30 which supposedly could run 8080 code (and CP/M-80?) natively.
A problem with the cognitive load lying test in this industry is that too few have any cognitive facility to (over)load and those that do have a skerrick still wouldn't know that they were lying.
I had forgotten about Max H. - He would have loved Trump.
Must have been about the time of the Kenny Everett show. Would say different times but shockingly similar.
I would have thought mentioning Dr Johnson and Dante in the same column would disqualify the writer from linkedin. I did like the comparison between the Inferno and laser printer paper path.
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