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Darren Stone, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Once men turned their thinking over to
machines in the hope that this would
set them free. But that only permitted
other men with machines to enslave
them." - Frank P. Herbert, Jr., 1965
"The programmer, like the poet, works
only slightly removed from pure
thought-stuff. He builds his castles
in the air, from air, creating by
exertion of the imagination."
- Fred P. Brooks, Jr., 1975recent activity (1,004 total)
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Hm. Not so simple. In my province (BC), over 90% of our electricity is generated by dams on rivers.[1] I agree with you that some dams are mostly negative. And all dams have some negatives. Witness ou…
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There may be a faster or cleverer way to do it but here's a basic tail recursive fibonacci: (defun nth-fibonacci (n &optional (a 0) (b 1))
(if (= n 0)
a
(nth…
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1983 floppy user here. Small permanent and/or electromagnets would be driving the metal bell ringers of many telephones in those days. Don't store them under your telephone. But floppies wer…
8 pts
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I assume (?) Teslas have interior microphones. Maybe not in this case but how easily will cabin interior data be turned over to authorities to paint a picture of what goes on inside and outside a vehi…
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US and Saudi citizens who work for Twitter are allegedly involved in serious human rights violations because they have shared users' email addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses with the Saudi…
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Fantastic. Also a great, related, listen is the recent Corecursive Podcast with Richard Hipp as guest. He’s the man who created SQLite, with good technical stories to share. “The Untold Story of SQLit…
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Can confirm. I’ve had my Ural with sidecar (2WD) for 12 years. It was my daily driver for half that. It’s wonderful and practical, but I say that as a motorcyclist and bicyclist. Seats three adults co…
4 pts
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Very cool. Another piece of "massively multiplayer" Game Boy trivia that might be of interest: There is a Game Boy game published in 1991 called Faceball 2000. It's a first person shoot…
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This is quite brilliant. Here's another approach to tracking, employed by Pentax and maybe others: Use 5-axis sensor movement to track stars (i.e. use the motors which move the sensor for in-body…