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Exactly: it's really hard to tell if "the environment" took out the other hominids, or if the descendants of the 1280 took them out. "Hmm, this monkey looking thing isn't as tasty …

If you have an iOS device, KQ Dixie is a pretty good DX7 emulation. It’s an audio unit, so you can load it into a host (“DAW”) and add an effects chain, even though it’s on a mobil…

I suspect they will have a different naming convention after they get to M4. There might be some hesitance installing an M5. You should stay out of the way if the machine learning …

Maybe there were only 54, and that was one of the bugs to be fixed - exactly the sort of problem that lurks in that kind of repetitive code.

I like iOS, but I won’t buy their flagship hardware. It’s too expensive for something so fragile. I have 3 iOS devices, but I won’t pay a grand for a phone. I would rather replace …

Perhaps someone will start a “Speaker of the House” index fund which the officers from the Federal Reserve can buy, since they won’t be able to buy individual stocks.

More 9s. Closer to 24x7.

I picked up on that angle as well. “Ignition” isn’t about generating electricity. It’s about making fusion bombs which don’t emit neutrons or other radiation (from a fission trigge…

The smoke plume stretches all the way to the Dakotas this morning. It’s a startling visualization.

Sure. Orange man rushed out a shot. It must be bad. Gray man said get the shot. It’s good. I’m not saying that kind of “thinking” is valid, but it’s apparently widely accepted. (I …

“China Uncensored” on YouTube has covered this sort of behavior towards countries neighboring the China Sea frequently. China stripping unguarded Atlantic coasts was news to me, th…

We need to ban all assault computers with more than 8 CPUs now. Think of the subsidiaries, er, children!!! Does this fall under violating the First Amendment, or the Second?

Any numbers on China’s coal plants?

Ah, yes, the IBM PC. I think of it as the Permian extinction (Great Dying) of computer science. I’m joking, but... most higher level languages were tossed aside for “serious” app d…

I think you meant to say “tungsten rods”, rather than titanium. the composition of the drop weapons doesn’t change the gist though. Titanium is used in airframes for its strength t…

God-Emperor of Scrum. The code must flow.

We had different lunches in the 70s. Cooking on site, no fast food boxes brought in. I’m sure they were still too much carbs, but they had protein and real vegetables, though usual…

The “In & Out Burger” chain actually lists burgers without buns on the menu. They put it on an extra bit of lettuce.

I don’t think you can run something like Native Instruments acoustic instrument sample suite on Linux. I’m guessing they want orchestra sounds, and not just analog/subtractive, FM …

Perhaps “heavily influenced by”, based on a need to be able to sell their services overseas?

Bingo! It was apparently off limits to discuss how the family of one presidential candidate made so much money overseas for doing so little, and might this have something to do wit…

Meanwhile, Congress is working hard to ensure that we are all competitive. https://zeenews.india.com/world/relief-for-indian-it-profess... Into the arena for the glory of Rome, I g…

I spent the late 80s working in XBase, which also had a single numeric type, though you could enforce the desired precision by saving numbers in tables.

Thanks for pointing that out. Safe to assume views go in the “code” schema with procs/funcs/packages, leaving just tables and sequences (if needed) in the “data” schema? Considerin…

Presumably you can revert to a previous tag/label in source control and reload the previous procs/funcs to roll back versions. The apps I have been working on are monoliths which r…