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This has some resemblance to albeit the much simpler bread found in Pompei. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/07/07/ancient-bread/

The "no safety net" means that Forth is a low level language. You can touch anything in the machine. Many times it is used without an O/S. So if you push a random number onto the h…

Of course not. I was merely expressing that Forth makes interactively very easy. And like all languages, it is impossible to evaluate them if you don't use them for some significan…

On fingered strings the guitar sustains for about 10 seconds until the note is very quiet, but still ringing. On a Cello a fingered string is gone in 2 seconds.

I can play chords on a violin or viola and strum them. Keeping a four-finger chord perfectly in tune in rapid changes is really hard (near impossible) without frets.

Forth is very good in this regard, because the word names are short and there is no "fluff" around the syntax if you can even call it syntax. Also there is no need to name your dat…

I used Forth to explain numbers in different radices to my grandson. Being able to interactively try things at the console was really helpful. It also helps to separate the interna…

A related question for me is to ask when will lawmakers begin using AI to better integrate new law into the existing framework?

Excellent. I stand corrected. I was using published Chinese numbers.

And when we begin coupling solar to cheap sodium ion battery banks it gets very interesting. Sodium ion will even be compatible with a Minnesota winter!

The other big reason is the longevity. LFP life span gives you about 2000-5000 cycles depending on where your application can't tolerate the capacity reduction. Sodium Ion can go t…

India is kind of cute. In the late 90s I attended a Telephone industry conference while working for a telephony test equipment company. A rep. from the Indian government gave a tal…

There is also a steam engineers term called "high-balling" which referred the little ball in the steam pressure gauge used in the early days. So high-balling was travelling at high…

If De Soto is correct, and I am not qualified to judge, based on your statement about land ownership in Brazil, then capitalism was not fully developed to where it could have been.…

Sure at the "end game" stage you are correct. But on the way to that stage it does what it does really well, meaning it makes lots more capital. De Soto is talking about why it "ca…

This is well documented in the the book "The Mystery of Capital" by Hernando de Soto. When it was published I thought it would change the world, but apparently nobody cared. :-) In…

"Standards are great. Everybody should have one!" Charles Moore, author of the Forth programming language

And don't forget AMI Tabfunkenwerk from USA.

There were native horses, in fact the genus began in N. America and migrated out. Remains have been found in permafrost in Northern Canada. They went extinct about 12,700 years ago…

In southern Ontario where there are many ( the most?) greenhouses electricity is primarily produced by Nuclear (50..55%) Hydro power is about 24 ..38% of the total. I think the big…

Back in the good old days of analog audio we made differential audio inputs with Iron and copper. :-) Transformers are amazing at reducing common mode noise like induced hum, but r…

I look at culture, under which I put language as a component, as the O/S of the human brain. So yes a brain with no O/S can think but it probably will never replicate, in one life …

It's not a technology limitation as you say. The issue is a psychology problem. How do you keep a nation all playing on the same team, so to speak, when there are an infinite numbe…

I like to look back in history for parallels. In 1912 the USA required that all radio transmitters be licensed. There were classifications established for commercial and amateur st…

The way this wealth inequality is so common around the world. makes me wonder if the next time the pitchforks come out, it will be some kind of global uprising. Perhaps accelerated…