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A primary reason for the Catholic Church changing the calendar was to bring the date of Easter back into conformance with the decree of the Council of Nicaea on the topic. There wa…

There is a time to buy, a time to sell, stocks and gold go through clear cycles where one outperforms the other, currently stocks have been outperformed by gold for 25 years. My ki…

45 year cup and handle patterns playing out in gold and silver, both going much higher -- governments cannot borrow their way out of debt, current paper currencies going to zero va…

The company I work at originally did TDM test eqpt, there was a mad scramble around 2008/2009 to switch over to Ethernet, which is what the US telcos use now for customer call traf…

There was a curses-based todo program that was totally awesome MANY years ago, source code posted to usenet I believe back in the day, but I have never been able to find it again. …

yes DLL hell is the issue with dynamic linking -- how many versions of given libraries are required for the various apps you want to install? -- and then you want to upgrade someth…

Ah, APL. I remember a network synthesis EE course in the 70s where we had an assignment to implement matrix exponentiation. I had just finished a matrix algebra class and learned A…

I've heard it was from Haskell?

I moved to ZFS to get some guarantees regarding long-term storage of important data -- e.g. family pictures.

There was once work on metalized optical paper tape of very high density for archival purposes -- what happened to that?

Britannica: "The Council of Nicaea in 325 decreed that Easter should be observed on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox (March 21). Easter, ther…

His boat is famous for being balanced in its sailing characteristics -- holds course without him at the helm.

There is a classic book about the effects of sugar named "Sugar Blues" for the interested. I have a bad reaction to sugar so have to avoid certain foods -- e.g. bananas are a no-no…

I recall many years ago hearing that a mathematician had invented something and was very happy about the fact that it had absolutely no practical use. I may remember the details in…

I have been wondering where I read this story for some time now -- thanks.

I was under the impression that we now know how to do low-fuel paths through the solar system using gravity. It's more a question of how long do you want to take to get where you'r…

I worked with a guy once back in the 80s who did the radar preamp on Pioneer Venus I believe it was. Very bright individual.

Peter and Paul founded the church of Rome -- an inscription was found in the necropolis in proximity to a bone box during the excavations in Saint Peter's in 1950 as I recall -- "P…

does indeed seem rather unhinged

One binary to rule them all, one binary to find them, one binary to bring them all and in the darkness bind them; in the Land of Lennart where the shadows lie. Bwaahahaha.

all caps is (was?) typically considered SHOUTING so README gets your attention

4 trillion transistor wafer-scale integration https://www.cerebras.net/blog/cerebras-cs3

It has tunnels because the Navy did not want the bay blocked if the bridge dropped into the water. Which is exactly what has happened in Baltimore.

high logical intelligence doesn't imply common sense

Bell Labs had a very nice portability framework also -- there was a Cygwin-like product called U/WIN that made extensive use of it -- might find it associated with ksh93 maybe. Spe…