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It was declared untrue in 1818 by Johnson’s dictionary. But that’s just 1 vote. ;)

Because alchemists were afraid of people stealing their recipes. Jabir bin Hayyan (aka Geber) the father of chemistry wrote in his own shorthand which is named after him—-gibberish…

I think there was a bbc documentary where they showed a manuscript of Newton or Kepler with a geometric proof and compared it to one by Al Jazari. They were identical. In fact even…

We have YouTube plumbers. Has destroyed the industry? No. But it’s made plumbing accessible to a whole range of DIYers. Maybe AI will be just as productive. Seriously YouTube has b…

Expensive quixotic adventure. Perhaps that is the experience he was after for his billion node graph.

The length of common LLM responses is perfectly able to fit on a sheet of paper.

If you had a ham radio connection and wanted to broadcast emergency bulletins to people, radio fax would be quite useful. It’s push rather than pull like the web. Email works too, …

They talk about so little because that’s what the fcc rules limit them to. Can’t blame people for behaving like Elmer the safety elephant all the time. What can you do with a licen…

Yes, discussing politics or broadcasting music is not allowed over ham radio. Basically all we can do is exchange call signs, locations and details about our signals and stations. …

Does it have to be pneumatic? Electric propulsion would be simpler and not need a tight fit in the tube.

Maybe we need scientific sculptors. 3D printing and cnc machines will allow some interesting 3d forms to be generated.

I spent my life looking for such an elegant tome. If I had discovered it when I was 15 maybe my life would have been happier. Utilitarian programming is like utilitarian food. Prog…

If I could look down mid-flight and see what was happening below…ancient battles, modern news events…that would be a truly educational inflight experience.

So is that what all the visual cues are in real life, things like fashion accessories, uniforms etc.?

Not everybody understands English 100%. The guy in the old west who drew his gun and said “them’s fightin’ words?” He probably didn’t enough English to understand the whole sentenc…

If they had used polygonal mirrors instead of flat ones they would not have lost any data.

And how does a stampeding herd coordinate to move around a fence? Buffalo will run off a cliff in the hundreds because those in the back can’t see what’s in the front.

How to you make a fenced off ranch when 30 million buffalo decide to stampede through?

Actually the grasslands of the Great Plains had immense amounts of carbon sequestered in their roots which extended several feet down. Buffalo, by grazing and fertilizing, helped t…

Now the USA has 87 million cattle. Private cattle ranches could never have competed with 30 million bison owned by nature, free for anyone to take.

Wrap it in a second function that parses out quotes and bit-stuffs the commas with something else.

Assassins are a step too far, but maybe advertising…let the public choose whether to buy the real deal instead of the parasitical imitators.

That’s still multiple lines of code. Here’s one in c++ that uses only a single line of code (excluding function headers) // How do I format this as code? vector split( const string…

I think Compute is a gerund (a noun derived from a verb, like “swimming” as in the activity.)