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I have a feeling that I may have to do some tinkering next time home.
The tinkering may have to push aside any Arduino / RaspberryPi tinkering currently in progress.
I have received notification that my Adapteva order has now shipped. This was the Kickstarter from over a year ago!
A minicluster kit consistening of 4x 16+2 core Parallella boards 
Parallella cluster kit[^]
http://www.parallella.org/Quick-start/[^]
Don't quite know exactly what I'm going to do with them.....but hey ho, it is all part of the adventure!
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very nice, says a little green-eyed monster 
have fun Dave
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Awesome would love to see what the unit can do and what you do with it.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Patron saint of England despite being Roman and never coming near the place, you can probably expect the usual round of jingoism today... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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"Happy Endangered Mythical Animal Slaughterer Day!"
Wsn't that easter?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I like St George. He's kind of a default patron for all those who cannot think of their own saint.
Some particular highlights for me are lepers and syphilitic.
Feel free to get involved Griff as he is also the patron saint of sheep and sheepshaggers shepherds.
Also, IIRC, the only Saint to be important to Christians, Muslimsw, and Jews with an interfaith shrine dedicated to him in the Holy Land.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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My partner and I have been participating in the Geno 2 project: https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/[^]
We bought the kits and sent away our dna for analysis. The results came in last week and were quite enthralling. When I'm accused of being a Neanderthal I can now put my hand up for 2.9%.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I thought "Yes, that sounds interesting." Then I hunted about the site to find how you participate...
$200!? Each!?  Are they extracting the urine?
Yes, I think they are...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yep. And like all on line purchases you find out the postage is 50 bucks at the very last step. Obviously participants are not a completely representative world sample.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Didn't get to that stage - I got to the (fairly well hidden) price and thought "no way José!"
So it's $250 each then? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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There are various places that do it, I knew someone who did years ago and thought it an interesting thing to do.
Then I looked up the price, and had a similar reaction.
I'd like to do it someday, but it is towards the bottom of a very large list of more important things to do with that sort of money.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Congratulations, Peter; I think we may be related, then: my ex-wife often called me "neanderthal" ... of course she used the word as an adjective, usually accompanied with a flurry of expletives.
cheers, Bill
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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We all have some Homo sapiens neanderthalensis DNA in us, but oddly the people of Portugal have the most.
A native Portuguese citizen can have as much as 4%.
When HSS started spreading out he pushed HSN further and further west until they were found only in the Iberian peninsula.
Having nowhere else to go they had to stay there.
Obviously love blossomed and there was a lot of interbreeding.
Not a problem as both parties were at least of the same species so the offspring were viable.
However it did mean the beginning of the end for the poor Neanderthal.
There is a theory, to which I am happy to think is possible, that there is at least one real Neanderthal mentioned in literature.
This is a real person who is so well described that it seems possible at least.
Enkidu, for it was he, has all the attributes and would have possibly been the last of his kind.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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The Enkidu tidbit is interesting. I guess possible but historically improbable. Indigenous Australians were making rock paintings while the Neanderthals were still around. I find that fascinating.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Dalek Dave wrote: We all have some Homo sapiens neanderthalensis DNA in us, but oddly the people of Portugal have the most.
I once knew a Portuguese girl like that.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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ugh ugh 3.8%
(and my friends responded 'that little ??' and fell about laughing when I divulged the info)
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I didn't even know we had Neanderthal DNA on hand to compare against.
So what is your other 97.1%?
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He was too embarrassed to say the rest was VB programer.
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Some comments definitely deserve more attention. 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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This tells how the Neanderthal dna was obtained. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal[^]
Most humans except in particular Southern Africans have some Neanderthal dna.
The rest is various bits and pieces that my ancestors picked up on their journey.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: various bits and pieces that my ancestors picked up on their journey.
They now have a shot for that.
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"Athhilezar? Watch Your Fantasy World Language" by Amy Chozick, New York Times, 12/11/2011 [^].
"The days of aliens spouting gibberish with no grammatical structure are over," said Paul R. Frommer, professor emeritus of clinical management communication at the University of Southern California who created Na’vi, the language spoken by the giant blue inhabitants of Pandora in "Avatar." While awaiting CodeProject's Lounge to evolve its own language (beyond "bacon," "elephant," and "sunshine" variants), I remain humbled by the complexity of human languages that evolved among groups of people living "more archaic" ways of life:
"There are Stone Age societies, but there is no such thing as a Stone Age language. Earlier in this century the anthropological linguist Edward Sapir wrote, "When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.
To pick an example at random of a sophisticated linguistic form in a nonindustrialized people, the linguist Joan Bresnan recently wrote a technical article comparing a construction in Kivunjo, a Bantu language spoken in several villages on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, with its counterpart construction in English, which she describes as "a West Germanic language spoken in England and its former colonies." ...
"The corresponding Kivunjo construction is called the applicative, whose resemblance to the English dative, Bresnan notes, "can be likened to that of the game of chess to checkers." The Kivunjo construction fits entirely inside the verb, which has seven prefixes and suffixes, two moods, and fourteen tenses; the verb agrees with its subject, its object, and its benefactive nouns, each of which comes in sixteen genders. (In case you are wondering, these "genders" do not pertain to things like cross-dressers, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, androgynous people, and so on, as one reader of this chapter surmised. To a linguist, the term gender retains its original meaning of "kind," as in the related words generic, genus, and genre. The Bantu "genders" refer to kinds like humans, animals, extended objects, clusters of objects, and body parts. It just happens that in many European languages the genders correspond to the sexes, at least in pronouns. ..." Steven Pinker, "The Language Instinct" p. 27 [^].
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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I just saw a short video segment of the House of Representatives hearing into concerns for the privacy healthcare.gov
In it, there's a comment in the code that states that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy - a statement that is in direct contravention of HIPA.
A representative of the contractor has admitted knowledge of its inclusion in the source, yet claims that the responsibility for it lies elsewhere, which it may or may not in a legal sense.
But my question is: If the programmer that inserted it knew it was at odds to HIPA, should they also themselves be held to account?
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I think the company that did healthcare.gov should be held accountable for this entire mess.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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