a_gopher

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a_gopheron EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

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.

a_gopheron I use zip bombs to protect my server

apart from blind users, who are also now completely unable to use their screenreaders with your site

a_gopheron Understanding SIMD: Infinite complexity of trivial problems

my thoughts exactly - crazy to know all these arcane SIMD opcodes but not know basic maths!!

a_gopheron Butterflies flew 2,600 miles across the Atlantic without stopping

So the butterflies flew 2600 miles only to be killed for study by some curious entomologists?

a_gopheron Ray tracing on 8-bit retro hardware

An old BASIC program, with full explanation

a_gopheron Fizzygum

Looks dead. No release for +3 years

a_gopheron Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware

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...

a_gopheron TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream

OneTick, Kx, and QuasarDB

a_gopheron Transit Detection of a Starshade at the Inner Lagrange Point of an Exoplanet

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...

a_gopheron LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance

Using a yellow whiteboard marker, simply colour in the LED's face. Problem solved.

a_gopheron Useful Perl one-liners (2013)

fair. not quite so pretty now...

  perl -E 'for(@ARGV){say,unlink for<$_/whatever*>;push@ARGV,($_)x(-d^-l)for<$_/*>}' .

a_gopheron Useful Perl one-liners (2013)

  perl -E 'sub x{say;for(<$_/*>){&x;unlink}};x for@ARGV' *

  perl -E 'push@ARGV,<$_/*>for@ARGV;say,unlink for@ARGV' *