Posts by mzan@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #AaEkTpVjxIMiAPNuhU by mzan@qoto.org
2023-09-28T20:25:10Z
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@freemoI took my data from “Statistics Canada”https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510006801&pickMembers%5B0%5D=1.1&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=1961&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2022&referencePeriods=19610101%2C20220101I saw them only in number, but if I use your chart view (that is compatible with the numbers of my link), I agree with this last your message. The spike is clear.My analysis was wrong because I saw only the numbers, not the charts. My fault.Remain the fact that also in USA in the same period there were a similar increase.Maybe the law introduced in 1966 does not affect the already sold guns, but only the new guns.@VoxDei @ihavenopeopleskills
(DIR) Post #AaEnBJhpla1wAwuCDA by mzan@qoto.org
2023-09-28T20:55:26Z
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@freemoas motivation of gun-ban, I remember having read in some place that the differences between homicide rate in USA and Canada nearby cities were very different, and in favor of Canada.During this discussion I tried to compare Detroit and Toronto, but there were no big differences. Rather similar.Then I found a comparison between a big USA city and a rather smaller Canadian city, and it is not fair comparing two different type of communities.Your data is rather convincing, in the sense that now I have doubts. So one more reason for not believing the media, without double-checking.For turning completely my mind, I need obviously to research more data, because stats can lie, also if taken in good faith. But initially, I believed that stats were completely in favor of the ban, but this does not seem the case anymore.@customdesigned @VoxDei @ihavenopeopleskills
(DIR) Post #AaEoozZI9ovLFzOO6y by mzan@qoto.org
2023-09-28T21:13:49Z
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@freemo > I feel like the Miss Universe beauty pageant will be a really awkward thing to explain to the aliens when they finally visit us for the first time....so can it be the case that Miss Jupiter will be more attractive than the most beautiful girl on Earth? 😃
(DIR) Post #AaGkSVjIPB8iqJ13su by mzan@qoto.org
2023-09-29T19:34:19Z
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@louis @RenewedRebecca I prefer the LispWork suggestion, but there is also Eiffel https://www.eiffel.com/eiffelstudio/https://www.eiffel.com/eiffelstudio/screenshots/I never used the portable GUI library, but the language is very nice to use.
(DIR) Post #AaMC1ttIEdQCSvajYW by mzan@qoto.org
2023-10-02T10:36:50Z
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@freemo I always dream that a modified version of recumbent bikes can replace many cars and electric cars. Here https://ace-shop.com/en/why-recumbents/speed/at 250w of human power, the speed of an aerodynamic recumbent is 69km/h vs 29km/h of a normal bike and 35km/h of a sport racing bike.Imagine one of these bikes with a trunk, some small electric unit, etc...
(DIR) Post #AaNDjqpfGJ1ypkNKcq by mzan@qoto.org
2023-10-02T22:30:42Z
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@freemo The fact that a large part of USA population think that it is fair to condemn Trump for sexual assault, given the proof on the trial, is not unrelated to the fact that a large part of USA population voted him. You had to be illogical in both the cases.@thatguyoverthere @cjd @georgetakei
(DIR) Post #AaNDszTGVr10ETFwvo by mzan@qoto.org
2023-10-02T22:32:21Z
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@freemo I were not speaking about Trump, but about the stupidity of USA population, or of the USA system. @thatguyoverthere @cjd @georgetakei
(DIR) Post #AaNzP2FcPNVHxyeg1w by mzan@qoto.org
2023-10-03T07:16:19Z
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@rml > same guy who was adamant that C and C++ are the only serious programming languages, The error is thinking that there can be only one programming language. Obviously, it is better reducing the number of PL and paradigms, but one is not the optimal 🙂 There are successful commercial software analysis tools written in Prolog. Many theorem provers are written in FP languages. Many workflow jobs that run on the cloud are written in Go. Rust is used for multithreading code with manual memory. Ada and Spark are used in operational software where there must be some proofs. Erlang is used for distributed services. Etc... These are serious systems, used in production. If you try to rewrite them in C++, probably you will fail, because the task is enormous without using the proper PL for the specific domain.@ramin_hal9001
(DIR) Post #AaOIlgt9tg4rVBfMWW by mzan@qoto.org
2023-10-03T07:32:50Z
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@hayley you can use one PL, but not one paradigm and not one run-time. At a certain point you had to introduce Actor semantic if you want to manage complex distributed systems, or logical programming if you want to specify complex business rules, and so on. In the end you have many PL paradigms, using more or less the same syntax. It is the Common Lisp approach.@ramin_hal9001 @rml
(DIR) Post #AaQ4ApkSz2XvDv3F8y by mzan@qoto.org
2023-10-04T07:27:40Z
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@freemo the question started as funny, but if I think better, I touch during the day/week nearly every part of my body. It is a sort of checkup. If there is something of strange, I will notice it. Said this, I agree that there is an excess of attention towards the junk 🙂
(DIR) Post #AaZ7Lio3XdlFWgNPYu by mzan@qoto.org
2023-10-08T16:15:38Z
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@freemo they found that: case A) the experiment costs zero; case B) the experiment halted because each twin tried to blackmail the other twin in an infinite loop of greediness.
(DIR) Post #Aahtyl918Grr8TXaeu by mzan@qoto.org
2023-10-12T21:58:14Z
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@freemo please... you used "stars" instead of "dots", and this can hurt the sensibility of astigmatic people! 😃
(DIR) Post #Aav6PnxFUudXgzIYa0 by mzan@qoto.org
2023-10-19T06:48:49Z
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@freemo the problem of a "deep nuanced quality conversation" is that it will be very brief: "We are destroying the planet, without an effective plan for avoiding this". We live in an hypocritical time. We are surrounded from lies, and we know they are lies. Journalists are like the musicians of Titanic.
(DIR) Post #AavmfPHpB2FJtT2p0K by mzan@qoto.org
2023-10-19T14:42:14Z
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@freemo I don't like the layout. In particular, I will put the most important info first, on the left.I will group sections by personal, work, project, hobby, etc... and not by emails, websites and so on.
(DIR) Post #Ab6uc7YaREKtSy9CL2 by mzan@qoto.org
2023-10-24T23:33:06Z
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@freemo We can choose between quick and self-proclaimed Hamas terrorism, or long-term, hypocritical Israelian one. :-/ I'm not an expert, but my 2cents are that without an external arbitration committee, this dispute will never be solved.
(DIR) Post #Ab6xTDvFhYaeStCL4a by mzan@qoto.org
2023-10-25T00:04:34Z
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@realcaseyrollins your reasoning can be correct if the building to reach is near the border with Israel. But, if the troups had to reach a palace in the center of Gaza, it can be a very long "journey".@freemo
(DIR) Post #Ab6yBYZgHLk7G3FQbg by mzan@qoto.org
2023-10-25T00:10:23Z
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@realcaseyrollins "Within Gaza City, the population density is over 500 people per 100 square meters in many sections, according to data from the European Commission." It is not credible that Isrelian soldiers will advance to the target, without self-defense. And self-defence in a city with this density, it is for sure a lot of civil deaths. @freemo
(DIR) Post #Ac1e3rMzHYHr0stbKi by mzan@qoto.org
2023-11-21T08:26:12Z
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@freemo it is a simulation, and there are hints of Moore's Law applied to Life-Hardware-Simulator!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_life
(DIR) Post #AcocoRmQSL0yhB9tXU by mzan@qoto.org
2023-12-14T23:33:03Z
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@freemo oh no, I cannot stomach another SJW debate about differences between male and female meat 🙂
(DIR) Post #AhJcqRYMVZYjboP3zs by mzan@qoto.org
2024-04-27T07:43:13Z
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@freemo I agree with @realcaseyrollins the question was not stated clearly. I'm not even sure, it was a multiple choice, as it should be.Personally, online I have no problems addressing someone also as "Mr. frog" if it likes it, but face to face I will have problems also addressing as "she" a male, dressed like a man and acting like a man, while I will have no problem addressing as "she" a trans acting like a woman. There should be some minimal viable compatibility between reality and what someone pretend it is reality, otherwise it becomes an exercise of Neuro Linguistic Programming.