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Strangely, estrogen bathes the male brain in the womb to remove connections and make it masculine. To think of it as "the female hormone" is to misunderstand physiology.

She changed the ending of Star Wars IV : A New Hope. She decided that Han Solo should return to save Luke at the last minute when Darth Vader was closing in for the kill. This abso…

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Google now wants $30,000 a month for customsearch (minimum charge), up from 1c per search or thereabouts in January 2026...

This article is about FAFO for MAGA loyalists in the USA. Well, MAGA has FA'd with US-European relations. Now they get to FO where it takes us (i.e. over the waterfall, isolating t…

$3 a day, $100/mo to run your own github actions (which is a programming language based atop json ... sheesh). Ugh!!

Dijkstra was silly because everybody knows that Computer Science is the parent field of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of all O(1) algorithms. Computer Science is all other …

OMG you lived my dream. In 1976 I was 14 years old and started programming for the first time on the PLATO SYSTEM (university of illinois), the first computer with plasma screens, …

In high school (late 1970s) I inherited (from my deceased father), a white book with red/yellow titling as "The Basic Programming Language" (the lettering on the front appeared to …

Red States are the biggest leaches off the federal government. Out of the top-10 states that take in more subsidies than they pay out in taxes, only 2 are blue states, 8 are red st…

It makes Linux more robust. Since Microsoft is the king of vulnerability, making Linux more robust is NOT in their best interest. I actually think Microsoft did a GOOD THING. This …

The difficulty in learning a language is proportional to the SQUARE of the number of BNF rules! Let that sink in. When last I looked, C had 120 rules and C++ had 250. C++ was alrea…

When I was in high school I learned about BNF and so i wrote a program that let you type in BNF rules and then it would run a recognizer on an arbitrary string to decide if the str…

gfx1101 : https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/amd-navi-32.g1000 gfx1100 : https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/amd-navi-31.g998 gfx1030 : https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/a…

I had been programming profesionally for 3 years (since age 15) when I took "SICP" at MIT in 1980 (we used LISP; Scheme would come a few years later). The course is designed to app…

This is every telco evil empire's ultimate dream. Charge all customers twice! Let the second charge be pure profit which you can direct to the critically important expenditure of e…

I dont really believe this crazy tutoring theory AT ALL. What has changed is that education has become widespread. It is well known that standardized education destroys creativity.…

This is all Avago. They bought Broadcom, eviscerated America's #2 communications chip company, and renamed Avago Broadcom to hide their crimes against humanity ...

Intel was infected with marketing people who diseased the entire C-Suite and drained the company for 8 years without doing anything other than make up new marketing names for the 5…

I have no interest in learning how to program a mistake. By this I am not talking about the z80 or 6502, but rather, the Atari 2600.

You're a fool if you think the EPA is at fault. A 2022 Ford F-series catalytic converter costs $824 at retail, much less in volume. The average car in the USA is 12 years old so th…

Ford is so stupid. Is it no wonder America has lost its competitive edge with blue collar workers driving $100k Ford Raptor trucks?

In my lifetime the memory hierarchy has grown from 3 levels (register, main memory, disk) to at least 8 levels (register, L1 Cache, L2 Cache, L3 Cache, VM, main memory, disk, web).…

It's probably much worse than this. Once the earth stops rotating IMHO it's likely the magnetic core stops rotating. Then the solar wind strips our aosphere in only 1000 years ...

"Different Poses" section - the hands are all cut off in these pictures except for one single picture where the index finger is the longest finger on the right hand!