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I was learning make. I couldn't get the example in the Make book to work. Then someone explained that the line after a make heading HAD to begin with a tab. Nowhere was this explai…

A few years back I re-implemented a microcode assembler that I had used in a silicon valley startup in the 1980s. I used some of the features of Haskell to do it. See metalasm on S…

Something useful like bitcoin etf gets rejected. But look at some of the stocks that are allowed to trade... Magnegas for example has been an ongoing fraud for 17 years. Fake deliv…

Something useful like bitcoin etf gets rejected. But look at some of the stocks that are allowed to trade... Magnegas for example has been an ongoing fraud for 17 years. Fake deliv…

The exit ramp I have for Hillary supporters is the death of Vince Foster. Hillary fought an FBI investigation of this but made sure there was on one of Billy Dale who stood in the …

Just wait to you get older and face job discrimination. The wonders of unenforced feel good laws.

Well a lot of "seniors" like me have used computers since they were programmed by punch cards. Bought my first PC in 1983 and have built my ever since. Ubuntu user now. Back when I…

Have you seen anyone interview Norm Mineta about what really happened in the Situation Room on 9/11? He was fired and exiled practically when people started to point out his damnin…

The mental model from economics that is widely misinterpreted is comparative advantage. Most think it means you/a country etc should specialize in that which you are best at. And t…

My take on driverless cars is that they should solve a few other problems first. Like our crazy insurance system. I should pay much less for driving on uncrowded rural highways tha…

100% gold back deposits. Would only loan money to people who can prove they do not need the money.

It reminds me of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court after the Interdict came down and stopped all that progress. Our Interdict is the PUC, regulation, lobbyists and corrupt…

The inequality is more apparent than real. I enjoy watching videos of Dallas from the 1980s. They were the richest oil men in Texas. But look real close... They are using dial tele…

Cool stuff. We've come a long way since I ran around the office at night upgrading everyone from a version of Windows that didn't allow a user to type Format C: return when they me…

Had a friend that collected legos and put them all in his basement. Unfortunately, the basement had moisture problems and all his lego boxes got mildewed. Last I was him, he was cl…

That the poor in Africa can have a cellphone... I get a kick out of watching reruns of "Dallas". The mega rich oilmen depicted in that series did not have cellphones. But because s…

In that jobs are inversely proportional to the amount of productivity in an industry, one would conclude that coal mining jobs are very productive and solar not so much. This is no…

A lot of times, the code you are writing does distance comparisons to determine overlap or intersection. But if all you are doing is this, then you can use the square of the distan…