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Re:EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
on Friday July 17, 2026 @06:11AM (#48945438)
If reading aloud a children story, you may notice you are able to maintain an independent unrelated train of thought. While doing so, I notice that occasionally extra mistakes can "leak" into the story telling - e.g. you read a single word incorrectly, maybe substituting a word from your other train of thought.
Re:I Use Zip Bombs to Protect My Server
on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @10:25AM (#43845727)
apart from blind users, who are also now completely unable to use their screenreaders with your site
Re:Understanding SIMD: Infinite Complexity of Trivial Problems
on Friday November 29, 2024 @06:06PM (#42277913)
my thoughts exactly - crazy to know all these arcane SIMD opcodes but not know basic maths!!
Re:Butterflies Flew 2,600 Miles Across the Atlantic Without Stopping
on Sunday June 30, 2024 @05:21PM (#40840497)
So the butterflies flew 2600 miles only to be killed for study by some curious entomologists?
Re:Ray tracing on 8-bit retro hardware
on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @10:18AM (#39191069)
An old BASIC program, with full explanation
Re:Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware
on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:55AM (#25454435)
aka Sinclair ZX81. There was such a program in Your Computer that would toggle between fast and slow mode to generate tones. It was a actually a trivial 8 or 16 step tracker, so you could even make beats...
And here's the program listing!
https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1982-03/p...
Re:TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream
on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:16PM (#25297388)
OneTick, Kx, and QuasarDB
Re:Transit Detection of a Starshade at the Inner Lagrange Point of an ...
on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @12:56PM (#14745775)
Paper doesn't address what measures the aliens might use to disguise any obvious signature of the starshade.
You'd think that the aliens might not be too keen to create huge beacon advertising their presence to all and sundry...
Re:LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance
on Thursday January 05, 2017 @07:00PM (#13332679)
Using a yellow whiteboard marker, simply colour in the LED's face. Problem solved.
Re:Useful Perl one-liners (2013)
on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @06:20PM (#13075600)
fair. not quite so pretty now...
perl -E 'for(@ARGV){say,unlink for<$_/whatever*>;push@ARGV,($_)x(-d^-l)for<$_/*>}' .
Re:Useful Perl one-liners (2013)
on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:43PM (#13067222)
perl -E 'sub x{say;for(<$_/*>){&x;unlink}};x for@ARGV' *
perl -E 'push@ARGV,<$_/*>for@ARGV;say,unlink for@ARGV' *