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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 more appropriate title, and actually from the article, may be: "Weird and Innovative Chips". Loved this post, anyways. I think it's important to look at radical and strange computing …
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Re/ medicare for all ... Canada has universal health care yet a very similar suicide rate to the USA.[1] Canada doesn't have a livable minimum wage either. Each province sets its own. There …
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Scenario: Two people, quiet room, watching TV, each wearing their own Bluetooth headphones to listen together. As I understand Bluetooth audio standards, until now, this is impossible without addition…
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Ouch. Regular car share user here, sometimes multiple times per day. The sheer number of cars that Car2Go/"Share Now" had (approx 700 here in Vancouver, I think) usually made it my firs…
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The numbers: 15 million people in a country of 37 million had personal information "potentially accessed in this breach." In several provinces, LifeLabs is dominant and sometimes the only op…
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This is amazing. Now just FYI, for those curious, some recent "old guard" innovations by pro camera makers for astrophotography include: 1. Leveraging the multi-axis image-stabilizing moveme…
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Thoughts on towing. (I like to RV.) * Its capacity of 7,500+ lbs isn't too shabby. Not F150/1500 class. But Jeep Gladiator territory, which is another much-awaited domestic truck getting so…
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FWIW and for all its other shortcomings, Raku (nee Perl 6) handles common arithmetic in a manner that wouldn't surprise a mathematician. Or non-mathematician, for that matter. Witness: $ py…
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> if there was some specific target they could throw a lot of computing resources at it 1. Yes, for many (too many) values of they . "Your" government, all governments, so essentially …
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Indeed. It would appear all the necessary components for encryption are impossible to ban, by simple common sense if not by guarantees of very basic constitutional or charter rights. 1. public and pri…
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I've always enjoyed the word shenanigans yet I've never known where or how it originated. Rabbit hole. Merriam-Webster tells us: The history of shenanigan is as tricky and mischievous as …