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"A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong." - Mark Twain
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Virtual octopus could do: [^] Quote: Octopuses show all these well-organized, whole-body behaviors, but there’s another side to their actions: ongoing exploration by the arms. A crawling octopus that’s not in a hurry often allows its arms to roam a bit in many directions. When an octopus is sitting fairly quietly, a few arms often range out, like little eels, with their delicate, questioning tips. But this behavior is less apparent at Octopolis and Octlantis, perhaps because these octopuses are less relaxed. I think there is a kind of heightened attention at Octopolis and Octlantis, due to the social complexity, and ever-present question of sex.
A picture suggested by all this is that the octopus body is subject to a kind of mixed control. The body can be partially commanded and steered by the central brain, but the body also has parts that engage in their own ongoing exploration, reacting individually to their surroundings. Centrally coordinated actions can pass over to the exploratory tendencies of the arms. Watching octopuses sometimes results in a series of gestalt shifts, between seeing the animal as a whole whose each arm is a tool, and seeing an arm wander about, apparently in response to what it is sensing itself. Amoeba story: [^]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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yay cephalopods.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I find octopi wondrous, fascinating As an amateur student/amazed-onlooker of/at modern neuro-science/psychology in cognition and consciousness, I see a parallel between the increasing understanding of distributed processing in the human brain's regions.
If only I had neurons in my fingers
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Carbon number mixed with a short day is an example. (8)
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Example = Instance
Carbon = C
number = nine
mixed = (anag.)
short day = sat
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You are up tomorrow!
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If any one know this , please let me know
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I know a bit about this. Before you ask your next question though, you should be aware that there are no programming questions in the lounge.
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You know that in addition to google there is a search box in the upper right corner here too...
Search Coroutine c++[^]
don't you?
If youd didn't... you are welcome.
Additionally... if you still have more questions, use the C++ forum[^] or the Q&A[^]
And I strongly recommend you to do something you didn't here... read the instructions in the pages of the site.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Politics adjacent (for which I whole-heartedly apologize )
I think today may be the first (and possibly last) time that C# was mentioned during Senate testimony:
Transcript from C-Span (errors theirs):
Quote: ...and the election management system is coated with a programming language called c sharp there is no permission to bracket zero bracket is a placeholder for a parameter. so it may be that it just isn't good coding, but that certainly doesn't mean that somebody tried to get in there and zeroed.
And bonus marks (IMO) for him trying to explain 'log files' to people that probably think that's how you get saw dust.
TTFN - Kent
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Talking of elections:
The leader of a newly independent African nation was on a State visit to Beijing.
Over the State dinner, he told the Chairman (of the Chinese Communist Party) how in his country, they held an election with secret ballots and one-person-one-vote for all the eligible voters and that is how he became the leader of the country.
After about 5 minutes of this, he realized that he was doing all the talking.
Embarrassed, he asked the Chairman how often they have elections in China.
The Chairman replied, "Evely night".
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Kent Sharkey wrote: so it may be that it just isn't good coding
That Senator gets a 5!
(This is based on my experience, actually language agnostic, that good coding is a rare commodity.)
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Ah, but that's the Sci/Tech awards - the geek kids night. Still waiting for Tom Cruise to break out some VB code
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: om Cruise to break out some VB code
Wait isn't that what Mission Impossible franchise is all about?
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It is kind of a VB of action movies. Nice analogy.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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So we got there in plenty of time, and then waited - and ate lunch - in the car rather than enter early. Only to find the main entrance was shut because they are moving Covid patients around, so you have to enter via the old main entrance. Took extra time, but we got Brownie points for getting there right on time for the appointment.
And the first thing they did was send her for another test - A Lung Function. Which meant crossing the Main entrance as the only access to the Lung Function test equipment is via that.
So Security had a quick word, the patient transfer was suspended for ten minutes, a "clean path" was decontaminated through the affected area, and we were escorted through that and two sets of locked doors ...
Tests done, and we reversed our steps with another path being cleaned and back to the specialist.*
They are taking this seriously - even the elevators they were using were locked down, and have to be deep cleaned before returning them to "normal use".
* It's not cancer, it's not a fungal infection, it's a Long Covid effect that they are going to try treating with lots of steroids and a good amount of hope / guesswork. Looks like the weekly O2 deliveries will be continuing for a while.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I'm aware it is repeating what I post below, but what other can I do to wish you both especally to Michelle all the best.
That's why one tmie more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiXNIjGX1hY[^]
*sad* Bruno
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
Chemists have exactly one rule: there are only exceptions
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Best whishes
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Hope she get well soon. Wishes!
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Hopefully. It adds 9 pills to her morning pill loadout, and I've got to watch for side effects (depression / euphoria, Diabetes, Osteoporosis , ...) so I've ordered a blood glucose tester and we'll both stab ourselves in the name of science (so we have baseline to tell if she is increasing or decreasing given we both eat the same food at the same time, pretty much).
This thing just doesn't stop ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: Hopefully.
OriginalGriff wrote: we'll both stab ourselves
That's clever.
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Good luck and best wishes.
But I do have to ask - why all the precautions for someone who has already had it?
If the answer is you can get it again - then the question becomes - How will a vaccine work? - since it is based on the bodies reaction to curing itself from the disease in the first place?
( I will duck and cover now... )
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Having had it should mean that you can't get it again - not that you can't come in contact with it and become infectious for some period (just like you have a infectious-but-no-symptoms period).
And this isn't something I want to start spreading to anyone, even antivaxxers don't deserve that ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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