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Earth's oldest asteroid impact 'may have ended ice age' - BBC News[^] - 43 miles / 70Km across, 2.2 billion years ago, it hit a Km thick ice sheet as part of a "Snowball Earth" and may have been partially responsible for our very existence by ending the ice age ... precarious place to live, planets, aren't they?
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OriginalGriff wrote: precarious place to live, planets, aren't they?
I haven't lived anywhere else yet so don't know.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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yeah but the earth being flat many pass safely above or below.
those big ones that come from other directions are a bit of a nuisance though,
it's hard to get the plug in without it going crooked.
but it's the space dogs that scare me more, at least those that like to play frisbee.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Shouldn't the dome save us?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Quote: Shouldn't the dome save us?
The Turtle's shell.
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This is the sort of thing that makes me not worry too much about climate change. It could all end a lot quicker with basically no warning. 
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Or, is it a coded guide to different types of programmers ?
From Lucy Cooke's description of tropical latitude penguins in "The Truth About Animals" [^] :
These birds have evolved creative strategies to avoid getting overcooked. Some species stand around panting like dogs, others are forced to seek out shade. Yellow-eyed penguins trek over half a mile inland (quite a marathon for those little legs) to raise their chicks in the cool of the New Zealand rainforest. Galápagos penguins avoid the brutal equatorial sun by nesting in uncomfortable-looking cracks of coastal lava rock. Humboldt penguins arguably have it even worse. Living on the barren coast of Peru they are forced to improvise shade by carving castles of crap from piles of their own mature manure. Fairy penguins solved the problem by shunning the sun altogether and becoming nocturnal. I have to admit that "improvise shade by carving castles of crap from piles of their own mature manure" reminded me of someone here, but, I decided not to mention that for fear of raising the temperature of any current brooders 
«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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It covers a heck of a lot of QA querists as well ... 
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That sounds like something i would do.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Quote: improvise shade by carving castles of crap from piles of their own mature manure.
Quote: That sounds like something i would do.
I am not coming to your place for dinner! 
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I'm a shut in, you're not invited. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Well, I would never think of you as a penguin  If I had to choose a metaphor for you ... as programmer ... it would be: Dante, standing at the mouth of Hell, with the "shade" of Aeneas at his side, reading the sign that says: "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" (abandon hope, all ye who enter here).
And, overcoming fear, pressing forward into the chthonic inverted hierarchy of the infernal domains, following his passion for knowledge in spite of the great risk, and the remoteness of the chance he will ever find his lost Beatrice's salvific beauty.
cheers, from Tralfamadore, Billy Pilgrim
«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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That's very sweet of you.
And a bit graphic, as is your wont. 
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BillWoodruff wrote: improvise shade by carving castles of crap from piles of their own mature manure
Sounds like a vision statement for marketing.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Sander is a master of it.
"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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Tiny picture for endless pleasant family outing(6)
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Nice and simple! 
Like it - but I've done two this week, so I'll leave it to others.
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That's the one I got:
Tiny picture PIC
for endless (lose last letter)
pleasant NICe
family outing
I suspect you are up tomorrow!
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yeah, you are up tommorow
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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(Reference source provided below)
So optimizing my lexer machine is slow going, but i'm feeling clever.
Introducing a new switch/case instruction worked, cutting the lexing time for the DFA version of my simple test lexer to as little as half what the NFA version costs
NFA lex: fubar bar 123 1foo bar -243 0
Lexed in 0.0217 msec
DFA lex: fubar bar 123 1foo bar -243 0
Lexed in 0.0134 msec
The trouble i'm having is
A) loading lazy quantified regexs into the NFA graph. I don't know how to represent them
B) Doing a partial, opportunistic transformation from NFA to DFA. I am running into trouble due to my use of a rangeset as my basic input alphabet element among other things.
Once I can do that though, I'll have significantly optimized this little machine. And I'll have what will be pretty close to a "real" optimizing compiler for it.
NFA version:
jmp id, int, space, error
id: ; [A-Z_a-z][0-9A-Z_a-z]*
set "A".."Z", "_", "a".."z"
id_loop: jmp id_part, id_done
id_part: set "0".."9", "A".."Z", "_", "a".."z"
jmp id_loop
id_done: save 1
match 0
int: ; (0|\-?[1-9][0-9]*)
jmp int_zero, int_nonzero
int_zero:
char "0"
jmp int_done
int_nonzero: jmp int_neg, int_pos
int_neg: char "-"
int_pos: set "1".."9"
int_loop:
jmp int_part, int_done
int_part: set "0".."9"
jmp int_loop
int_done: save 1
match 1
space: ; (\t|\n|\v|\f|\r| )
set "\t", "\n", "\v", "\f", "\r", " "
save 1
match 2
error: ; anything not caught above returns -1
any
save 1
match -1
DFA version:
save 0
switch case "A".."Z","_","a".."z":id_part, case "0":int_done,case "-":int_neg,case "1".."9":int_digits,case "\t", "\n", "\v", "\f", "\r", " ":space,default:error
id_part:
switch case "0".."9","A".."Z","_","a".."z":id_part, default:id_done
id_done:
save 1
match 0
int_neg:
set "1".."9"
int_digits:
switch case "0".."9":int_digits, default:int_done
int_done:
save 1
match 1
space:
save 1
match 2
error:
any
save 1
match -1
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honey the codewitch wrote: but i'm feeling clever.
That can't be good
Everything else from your post seemed like unintelligible witching gibberish.
I tried to read it to a coworker, but I summoned a demon who is now getting me tea 
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