Posts by Satsuma@wandering.shop
(DIR) Post #A4DnYrvFJnJhaX1DGa by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-02-13T05:35:44Z
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The one nice thing about the fact that this tag is seemingly used by exactly two people is that the autofill is still the correctly-cased version
(DIR) Post #A4JuGVkGJL7WaOTxEO by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-02-15T16:30:49Z
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Happy 75th birthday ENIAC! 75 years ago today, the ENIAC, the first electronic computer was revealed to the publicIt was designed by John Mauchly, a physicist and J. Presper Eckert, a mechanical engineer. The programs it ran were coded & implemented by a team of six mathematicians, Kathleen Antonelli, Jean Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Frances Bilas and Ruth Lichterman
(DIR) Post #A4JuGWoYKs99tzUtYe by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-02-15T16:33:38Z
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During its initial reveal, the team worried that no one would know what the hell they were looking at (reasonably, considering that up until now a ‘computer’ was a person who specialized in mathematical calculations) so they stuck a whole bunch of flashing lights on the front
(DIR) Post #A4JuGXtCL5SNEgg7RA by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-02-15T16:43:24Z
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John’s original dream for the ENIAC was weather prediction, but it being the middle of WWII, the only way he and Presper could get funding was through a military contract—the computer was primarily used to calculate ballistic firing tablesThe six programmers were all pulled from a pool of “calculators,” women who were calculating firing tables by hand. These calculations were tremendously complex, accounting for windspeed (in two directions), drag, the curvature of the earth, etc.
(DIR) Post #A4JuGYzcEiBUesgl4y by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-02-15T16:49:09Z
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The ENIAC’s main design flaw was its lack of memory — it could store about 20 10 digit numbers *total* in its initial designThe ENIAC’s main operational flaw was the radio tubes, which couldn’t be built to the specifications the ENIAC required so they burned out constantly. The longest continuous run without a failure in the ENIAC’s entire operational span was just under 5 days
(DIR) Post #A4JuGa8A0Qc6Bfh62K by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-02-15T16:57:14Z
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Still despite these flaws, the ENIAC was still completely revolutionary, proving the viability of general purpose computers & computer programming
(DIR) Post #A4aGn6olJmcaLstXpQ by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-02-24T01:46:16Z
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@pagrus @soft &/or lefthandedness
(DIR) Post #A4zfxat1jVMkJIz5Em by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-03-07T23:38:07Z
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bird observation station#cats
(DIR) Post #A59D5iNknI04mgTYum by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-03-12T22:23:04Z
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@soft @pagrus @Cyborgneticz @jacethechicken well i guess that explains why everyone was making superadmin jokes earlier this week
(DIR) Post #A5rCMYIhdrsSOKQcjI by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-04-03T03:29:32Z
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Huh apparently Andrea Mankoski, who developed the Mankoski pain scale was created by someone with endometriosis
(DIR) Post #A5rCMYmpppyptmWghE by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-04-03T03:30:12Z
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no wonder its so much better than the other standard options
(DIR) Post #A5rCMZGG4RW3N2IBYe by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-04-03T03:31:53Z
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here's the original source: http://valis.com/andi/painscale.html
(DIR) Post #A5rDYgCwAa80LN4upM by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-04-03T03:56:24Z
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@urusan i’ve been using it almost exclusively for a few years now, i think it originally came up in some support groupIts so much better than just pulling numbers out of thin air and hoping lol
(DIR) Post #A6thYRK4qdYTfYfPZg by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-05-04T01:47:47Z
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«A survey of the 1,000 most frequently used words in English found that only 61.7% had Old English (Germanic) origins.» this is actually much higher than I was expecting
(DIR) Post #A6thYSQqiwZB6qqKlk by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-05-04T01:51:12Z
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(I figured Norse/Norman french influence alone had to account for at least a third, and that's before you start in on all the stuff from when it was fashionable to steal from Greek and Latin, or all the food words.I was right about french--30% but scandanavian languages are collectively under 2%??)
(DIR) Post #A6thYTVqhq9ySeBqCW by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-05-04T01:58:50Z
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(look usually we don't borrow pronoun sets unless language contact is *really high* ok it's not unreasonable to think Norse woulda hit 5%)
(DIR) Post #A6thYUmXzF6wOj0gro by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-05-04T02:11:27Z
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Y'all apparently "penguin" is Celtic and didn't originally mean penguinThis textbook will just drop facts that raise 50 questions and then move on like nothing happened
(DIR) Post #A9IiljDM1cdxNw1rLU by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-07-15T03:29:12Z
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Man this essay is basically 50% socialist ranting and 50% me bitching about hyper-specific local issues tied together with a vague concept of a thesisHope the professor has fun with that I guess
(DIR) Post #A9r0mihtq6F8u67GL2 by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-06-19T16:11:04Z
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(DIR) Post #AAwo8ZJ6qsJC2zd6TA by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2021-09-01T23:46:20Z
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@Morphchic @chartier because amazon is driving your local bookstores out of business and then you wont have a choice anymore?