We are all made of furries
Did you know there's an open source project along the lines of Wolfram Alpha? SymPy Gamma awaits. ^_^
Very old, and furry, cave artwork found in Indonesia; at some 44,000 years old, the earliest of its kind discovered so far. '"The portrayal of multiple hunters confronting at least two separate prey species possibly suggests a game drive, a ( Read more... )
Very old, and furry, cave artwork found in Indonesia; at some 44,000 years old, the earliest of its kind discovered so far. '"The portrayal of multiple hunters confronting at least two separate prey species possibly suggests a game drive, a ( Read more... )
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Actually, that sounds interesting, but my phone doesn't offer /dev/diag. I have a rooted Samsung S4, which uses Samsung's own Exynos SoC rather than Qualcomm part. Oh well.
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Still sort of surprised how few makers engage in their own SoC design, vs just taking something off Qualcomm's shelves. But then, I suppose it's an expensive exercise, especially doing it well, and most aren't really competing at the front of the pack, as it were. Samsung has the benefit of even having their own fabs, at least for some stuff, like all the flash chips they produce. (Not sure - do they have bleeding edge stuff à la TSMC and Intel? That race seems fearsomely expensive, but damn, the challenges they're having to overcome to push to 7nm and beyond are quite astonishing)
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That sounds neat. I hope it's going to be more useful than Alpha, which not only inherited Mathematica's weird syntax but also often fails to correctly parse the simplest queries (something you can sometimes rectify by rephrasing them until they work, but not always - and you won't know if it's possible until you've wasted at least ten minutes trying...)
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Here - well, I'd planned on ox cheek in red wine and marrow, but when I went to the one supermarket that sells both, they were out of both. Which sort of left that plan a bit bare, although that does admittedly leave the wine. =:) I opted for some silverside instead, which was marked down to a similar price, and found some sobrasada de Mallorca to lend its richness - it's sort of a spreadable chorizo, though unfortunately very mild. But, I can compensate for that with a little of the smoked hot paprika I have, and I may try long pepper with it as well. That'll all be going into the slow cooker sometime tonight, for a nice, gentle braising. Tempted to try making gnocchi to go with it, and parsnips - probably roasted, as I'm not really seeking to turn this into a stew, though it'd definitely work very well as one. =:9
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I’ve always suspected that. Too bad we were cast out of Eden... though some of us found our way back home :o)
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And The Lauren Bug - what a great story! The worst things that I did was wipe out the payroll database - fortunately I had good backups and knew how to get it back, and then at a different job managed to lock myself out of a SQL Server instance! I still had physical access, but no logical access to the database system. Fortunately I had remote access from another server and was able to get myself back in.
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Ow! Definitely time for one's favorite Anglo-Saxon invectives. ^_^; I've been lucky with such accidents - the closest that comes to mind is one time I was working on the hard drive controller, and reconnected power afterward, turned the supply on, and saw.. all the status LEDs come on, quite brightly? That didn't seem right. Again, same thing. So, I thought I'd just leave it on to sort itself out..
Think that's the only time I've literally seen the magic smoke escape. ^_^; Unfortunately, as I wasn't using a proper Molex connector, just the hollow pins pushed onto the PCB pins, I'd swapped +5 and +12V..
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I’ve only had one Magic Smoke moment, and it didn’t really escape, just popped an IC, but an extremely important one. I had an old 3Com headless server whose motherboard had failed and had to swap it out. No big deal. It was preferable to swap the chip that gave it its MAC address, but I accidentally put it in backwards (DIP package). And my memory is fuzzy as it was 30 years ago. I think the chip popped but (A) there was a new one from the new board, and now I knew the proper Pin 1 orientation, and (2) the server maintaining the same MAC address for the network wasn't important. It was around 1990, and we didn't have the WWW at that time, I don't think that network was connected to the internet. All of the local workstations were turned off at night, and since we were rebooting the servers, all the addresses refreshed and it was copacetic the next work morning.
I did once have 5,000 VDC discharge through my hand once, that was an experience. Very low current.
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