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Unseen wrote:

jakelafort wrote:

But it bears mentioning that bacteria and viruses are kickass killers. Think about the plague…Spanish flu…malaria…yellow fever…newly evolved super bugs.

Indeed, the most dangerous critter on the planet is the humble mosquito.

Natural responses to the artificial overpopulation of our species fueled by technol…[Read more]

We are evolved to survive as are all animals.

We are way beyond that. We have evolved to dominate and destroy. Sharks swam the oceans for hundreds of millions of years without threatening the planet with mass extinctions, genetic manipulation for food production and health, thermonuclear devices and atmospheric collapse. We have done all off this…[Read more]

Well….we can toss out the old adage “You can’t have your pie and eat it too.

Slightly different measures of the relationship between the two.

In correlation analysis (r = 0.42) both Y and X are assumed to be random variables. In linear regression (Percent of Variation = 20%) Y is assumed to be a random variable and X is assumed to be a fixed variable.

When using hard and accurate measurement data…this is a weak…[Read more]

Using ‘Agile’ is just part of a plan; to help reduce risk in said plan. Requirements are also plans. Are you making a poor assumption that a plan cannot be flexible? I even mentioned flexibility and contingencies in my original post. Planning and estimating a project has nothing to do with what god’s believers may say. Thirty years of designing…[Read more]

I have had to repair and untangle very poor software written with little planning or requirements. It’s often better just to start over. Your understanding of “Agile” is different than mine. Implementation experience is used as planning tool.

China is ‘1984’ incarnate, just a bit late.

A depressing ass video that highlights the Darwinian survival of the fittest economy we have. The essence of any relatively free market is change. People who are complacent get caught. The idea that society will all share in the fruit of machines and enjoy a life of leisure was probably unrealistic. More likely is that only a few get to enjoy…[Read more]

In the Mediterranean arriving a little late is a way of life.

Do you find yourself intentionally being a little late because you know the others will be late as well? I used to tell this one girlfriend that the movie was at 7 when it was really at 8 knowing she was always late getting ready. After a while it became sort of a head game and I just…[Read more]

Oh yeah I programmed many 22v10 chips with ABLE and PALASM and then finally VHDL for big bad FPGAs. I installed ABLE from floppy disks, LOL. Sometimes we would use an EEPROM (without a microprocessor) with a counter driving the address lines as a code generator for logic circuits. PROMs were also use as converters…Polar to rectangular coordinate…[Read more]

My early days as an engineer was focused on writing embedded assembly code for 8 and 16 bit processors. I loved it. Over the years software became more and more abstracted and isolated from hardware so I switched to HW design. There are so few software engineers who understand systems and HW these days. That was evident when I reviewed their code.…[Read more]