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Bazza Posted September 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2019 Scientists Confirm The Discovery of a Mineral Never Before Seen in Nature https://www.sciencealert.com/mineral-never-seen-in-nature-found-buried-in-heart-of-mysterious-meteorite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 3, 2019 Report Share Posted September 3, 2019 14 hours ago, Pariah said: FORTRAN, COBOL, ha. Real programmers use Assembly Language. I've done that, albeit on a hardware platform that is now a museum piece. I did learn how to read the octal dump from a failed Fortran program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 3, 2019 Report Share Posted September 3, 2019 12 hours ago, Bazza said: Nope. Machine language is the most real programming language, except for the received traditional commentary of the Torah in Hebrew. Actually ... en route to learning assembly, we did some dabbling in raw octal. The assembler converting assembly code into machine language was a pretty obvious thing, actually. Just easier for a human to read and write assembly, though I can see the attraction of using barenaked octal, as in the saga of Mel the Real Programmer. The thing I never learned was the underlying mechanisms in implementing virtual memory. I stopped learning close-to-the-metal programming when I went off to grad school. At least at the time, physicists often needed extremely fast response (which you only get with assembly and, maybe, custom instrumentation), while groundbased astronomy needed high quantum efficiency (and that comes out of the solid state physics of the detectors) so astronomers generally weren't as concerned with flat-out computational speed in their instruments. The analysis and theory codes, yes, but you aren't writing assembly then. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2019 Cheers for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2019 "Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month)." (https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend) Imagine if they all went in a year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2019 Unknown text by John Locke reveals roots of 'foundational democratic ideas' https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/03/unknown-text-by-john-locke-reveals-roots-of-foundational-democratic-ideas John Locke Breaks His Silence https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-locke-breaks-his-silence-11567201444 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted September 5, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2019 So another year wiser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted September 7, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2019 When Isis caught her hubby Osiris with her sister Nephthys, and wife to Set, she is said to have said to him: "You are dead to me". tkdguy and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 7, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2019 Deism: a believer in god but not a personal god; he created stuff then left it. Theism: a believer in god as creator of stuff, and personal god. Atheism: not a theist. Still, no word on whether a deist. A-deist: neologism, a hard-core atheist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted September 13, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2019 Lunch with songwriter Don Walker: “I live in a dream” https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/lunch-with-songwriter-don-walker-i-live-in-a-dream-20190905-p52o99.html Reflections from my favourite songwriter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 13, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2019 Why We Need to Study Consciousness Science has made outstandingly accurate descriptions of the world but has told us little about our subjective experience of it https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-we-need-to-study-consciousness/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted September 13, 2019 Report Share Posted September 13, 2019 Orange Juice isn't just for breakfast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted September 13, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2019 Roger Daltrey Says the New Who LP Is ‘Our Best Album Since ‘Quadrophenia’’https://ultimateclassicrock.com/roger-daltrey-new-who-album/ "Earlier this year, guitarist and cofounder Pete Townshend revealed that he didn’t even get a response from Daltrey after sending the singer 15 demos. "Just silence from Roger," Townshend said. "I had to bully him to respond, and then it wasn't the response I wanted. He just blathered for a while and in the end I really stamped my foot and said, 'Roger, I don't care if you really like this stuff. You have to sing it. You'll like it in 10 years time.'" The Who Announce New Album, ‘Who’ https://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-who-2019-album/ Top 10 Who Songs https://ultimateclassicrock.com/who-songs/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted September 14, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2019 Ever notice that on just about every crucifix Jesus has a six-pack? I can only surmise, the walk to Golgotha was the original crossfit. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 14, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2019 The Science Behind Why a Dog Loves to Be Called a "Good Boy" https://apple.news/AZSG2qmQxRAGEACywv2ajhw tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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