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[^] Another wonderfully trans-disiciplinary Aeon article chock full of tasty factoids sandwiched between layers of history of science: Quote: Secondly, and more broadly, culture has changed significantly. Yes, computers have allowed faster and more powerful statistical analysis than what was possible with pen and paper. But even more fundamentally, they have changed how we ‘see’ data. In the earlier 19th century, graphs such as Bronn’s (or other kinds of visualisations, such as line graphs) were relatively novel, and their ubiquity not yet established. Yet in our own time, it’s taken for granted that the best way of understanding large, complex phenomena often involves ‘crunching’ the numbers via computers, and projecting the results as visual summaries.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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And now, courtesy of science youth has learned that knowledge can be consumed via Tide Pods.
Evolution...ain't it grand?
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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We know we are never fully worthy of their love, as their Divine Feline Manifestations (so often) remind us.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Maybe it is the parasite "Toxoplasma gondii" that's making you say these things.
Quote: Your brain is home to millions of protozoa, but one in particular, called Toxoplasma gondii, manipulates your behavior to force you to like cats.
This parasite, which lives in 30 to 50 percent of the world’s human brains, can only reproduce in the digestive tracts of cats. And, like many living things, it wants to continue surviving, so it has to continue reproducing. But if it lives in human brains, how can it reproduce? Enter cats.
Maybe this is why not all people like cats as much as others. I myself am a dog person. 
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Very little statistically significant evidence that T. Gondii can have a major behavioral effect in a large proportion of infected humans: studies suggest a difference in aversion to cat urine, some possible effects among schizophrenics (a category whose meaning is varied).
One thing sure, though, is that the treatment for T. Gondii, Pyrimethamine and sulfa-antibio, is potentially dangerous if not medically supervised.
in nomine cattus, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Yeah, we can only speculate without the stats.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Hi,
I had a question about some one trying to use Delphi in the Embarco frame work... Question A) I was under the impression that Borland made a return with Dev Studio 2006, went into the sunset again B) Embarcadero only did the C++ end of things, the was Delphi .NET (1.0) but thats all.![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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So, Delphi under the Embarcadero banner, have they dropped Borland or did it go bang again?
Micro Focus??
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As today Borland is part of MicroFocus, but a few years back Delphi was bought by Embarcadero...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Well that leave M$ the only way...
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MS the only way ?
ever heard of codeblocks ? mingw ? clang ? powerbasic ? purebasic ? xojo ? libre office ? python ?
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Or even better Lazarus/FreePascal. Just like Delphi, but with a better pricetag. And available for more host and target environments...
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1984 - Turbo Pascal 2.0 - $29.95
2018 - Delphi 10.2 - $1500.
Wow.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Wow indeed, though adjusted for inflation it's not quite so dramatic. Back in those days I was living off £30 a week...
.. and contrarily, I remember looking at PC adverts for systems costing over £1K, which you can get now for well under that.. and you can get the entire .NET framework for nothing.
Weird.
I quite enjoyed Turbo Pascal. Just never had a good use for it.
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I had a job coding in DOS/Turbo Pascal from 1988-1991. After that all development was converted to C++ and Windows. In 2000, the company was sold to an international company, and I just performed a cursory search, and the software does not seem to be available any longer. A million lines of code down the chute...
Does anyone remember the OWL framework? 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Does anyone remember the OWL framework?
I wrote my final project using it...
An almost heretic move those days not to use COBOL...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I worked at an automated manufacturing facility from 1986 to 1998; two years ago, they shut it down... all of the code written that was specific to that site... gone.
In the early '80s, the company invested $250,000,000 to upgrade the facilities.. I still don't understand the thought behind shuttering the place; I guess it wasn't making a high enough profit margin.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Does anyone remember the OWL framework?
Yes - thanks for reminding me how old I am 
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yes ... I tried to use Borland OWL in 1996-97 for one of my projects, but I finally went for VC++/MFC instead ...
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bcc and TurboDebugger. TWindow. Good times. And, again, thanks for pointing out how old I am.
onwards and upwards...
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Sure do. I remember stuffing like 35 3.5 floppies into the disk reader to install. You had to set aside one or two of the early disks because they had to be re-installed at a later stage. I used it to write a natural language parser in C++ in 1993, on OS/2 because that was the only operating system which could reach enough memory to do chart parsing.
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OWL was the coolest framework way ahead of MFC... I miss it...
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