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e3pi | 7 years ago | on: The Matrix Code Came from Sushi Recipes

Try: ..we live in a dystopia, confined to our coffins, fed with wifi and ethernet, and Mark Zuckerberg is Agent Smith constructing the Matrix on our metaData

e3pi | 7 years ago | on: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

Yesterday evening, "NTY, Mr. Pecker" was global headline news, blowing up more so this morning. Why is there still nothing on Google News?

e3pi | 7 years ago | on: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

Good billionairism or otherwise Jeff. Please don't enter a Saudi embassy, unless to hand out hearing protectors with a smile on them.

e3pi | 7 years ago | on: Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’

..predictably, angry Abbot RMS/openSource commandeers 'Medusa' into 'gnudusa' github forks to 'nudeusa', 'goregon', 'gone', vpn networks p2p, 'blockchain' likely tossed in somewhere, conflates concurrent user data/meta-data into noise, mass outrage wide adoption undermines, saps, destroys walled gardens.

e3pi | 7 years ago | on: The 1970s calculator race

Free 42S is my favorite phone app. I've the original 42S manual PDF -- not easy to find -- their `charity' pay-wall.

~35MB Download: original HP 42S 358pp manual: e3pi.org

I've many HP rpn's, Free 42S is better at everything, except keys haptic satisfaction.

If you're voyager/landscape 10C 11C 12C 15C 16C centric, rotate phone: rot90:HP-42S <--> HP-42C

yes, ballistically-black ruggedized Otterbox-ed, cost $0.00.

e3pi | 7 years ago | on: The HP-35: Consumer Electronics, an Origin Story

I've a SKB case filled with HP calculators. It is your android FREE 42s I pack in the kit. Other than 3-D just-so HP's haptic double-injected keys, it's fantastic! Thank you Thomas for your phenomenal RPN gift to humankind!

e3pi | 10 years ago | on: Why did Borland fail?

See Wikipedia on where Phillipe's successes have been and is doing today: a smart watch running 2 yrs per charge. His horolog tech is being pursued by at least two Swiss firms in the Jura. 'Phillipe the Phoenix` is a facile adaptor I admire.

e3pi | 11 years ago | on: Pi Day

In Significant Coincidences For Pi Day:

Get the 0-9 Dial Mitutoyo caliper:

The height of an HP 10c, 11c, 12c, 15c etc shirt pocket RPN calculator is 3.1415 inches.

Get that HP calculator to verify last night's dream:

There are 3.14 inches in 2^3 cm's.

And if you want to celebrate e day and pi day on the second of July, 2018, know:

(pi^5+pi^4)^(1/(3+2+1)) = 2.7182818

with

e^(3 x 2)/(pi^(2 x 2)+pi^(2 + 1)) = 3.141592

simplifies to:

e^(3 x 2)/pi^(2 x 2)-e^(2 x pi x i) = 3.141592

H|=D!

e3pi | 11 years ago | on: Terry Gilliam on the death of Hollywood

Nice to see billionaires can be creative artists and still have fun:

".. ..I love Matt [Damon] in the film. I think he’s fantastic as that character. I’ve never seen him do that before, and that’s great. I actually said, “Matt, I’ve got a small part. A few days work.” he said “Don’t bother, I’m in.”

e3pi | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: List of words – List of regexes tool?

If how to create these giant matchstick regexes interest you, there is a wonderful(famous?) perl script generating a regex 6,598 chars long, more optimized and faster than earlier attempt at 4,724 bytes, in Jeffrey Friedl's book, Mastering Regular Expressions, 1st edition, Oreilly, pp 312-316, Appedix B: Email Regex Program.

e3pi | 11 years ago | on: 10,000 Year Clock (2011)

Naw, steampunk confabulations are mere mechanics' electrolysis eroding permutations, dust to dust. I'm going with encoding human DNA. Humans are persistant and I'd wager they make it through the next arbitrary melleniums.

e3pi | 11 years ago | on: A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge (1984)

Reading this delightful blast in the past, made me realize how much I miss Borland's Quattro Pro editable keyboard macros, before becoming defanged by a competitor, Lotus?

That was a long time ago, Open Office still does not have this -- since I last looked. Think if emacs lost its elisp editable recording keyboard macros for some reason, what a loss. This is evidence progress is not monotonic increasing.

e3pi | 11 years ago | on: They’re Tracking When You Turn Off the Lights

Mr. Koonin would appear to be an excellent candidate for an analyst position with the intelligence community:

“It’s like when Galileo first turned the telescope on the heavens,” said Mr. Koonin. “It’s just a whole new way of looking at moons.”

e3pi | 11 years ago | on: Bracket Computing

Not open source? As many times as it's going to take, these people will get the message. I grabbed the "Bracket Computing Cell" transparency PNG to mash into something later. That's my take on it.
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