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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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A bit more here.[1] It's a MIPS-like CPU. The manufacturer is BYD Electronic, primarily a car/battery manufacturer. Their largest shareholder is Berkshire Hathaway. [1] https://ww…
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Timely. In Canada today, the leader of the federal opposition party talked about the possibility of ending for-profit care homes nationally[1][2] and some provincial parties are very bullish on the id…
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“The Nova Scotia propaganda training comes as the Canadian Forces spools up its capabilities to conduct information warfare, influence operations and other deception missions aimed at populations over…
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Great resource. Thank you. From his "Design of Edison" book: "programming languages cannot be expected to support complex abstractions, but should instead make it reasonably convenient …
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This may help you picture it. "In the A600 the CPU is soldered directly to the mainboard and cannot be removed. Thus the only way to install it is to clip it over the CPU, using a PLCC socket pla…
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Some of the docs suggest "xonsh" is pronounced "conch". i.e. a shell that's a shell. Snailed it. :-P Ref: See "TAGLINES" def in https://xon.sh/_modul…