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fantastic: [^] Quote: “In talking with the press, Joanna Aizenberg, a Bell Labs scientist and the lead author of the study, likens the brittlestar to a digital camera that builds up a picture pixel by pixel. In this exchange, one quickly loses track of whether the digital camera is a metaphor for brittlestar vision or the reverse, especially as the metaphor begins to take on a strikingly material form:
'Instead of trying to come up with new ideas and technology, we can learn from this marine creature .... The [calcitic] lenses surround the whole body, looking in all different directions and providing peripheral vision to the organism .... This is the quality we all want to incorporate in optical devices, in cameras in particular. Instead of having one lens pointing in one direction, you could have thousands of lenses pointing in different directions. This will give you perhaps a 360-degree view of the whole space.'
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Sailor posted missing (6)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nice and easy!
"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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OK OK this has gone on long enough...
AB Sailor
SENT posted
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I just came back to take it if nobody had, and ... well done!
"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 got it immediately I saw it, not long after your first reply to Pete. Decided to hold off for a while.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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YAUT
Sorry for late response I was driving
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The geographical center of Croatia is in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
It's a slow day, so I just thought I'd throw that out there.
"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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Is that why there is a city in Croatia named "Split"?
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Looking at a map it is clear why that is the case.
That region has been through all sorts of warfare and carving up since 1990's.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Well, the most recent round of warfare and carving up began in the 1990s's. It wasn't exactly pacific in the first half of the 20th Century.
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The warfare in the Balkans has been going on at least since the Moslems invaded the area in the 7th or 8th century. While the Christians in Spain pushed the Moslems out in the 15th century, the Christians in the Balkans were less successful, and the war is ongoing.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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So to the guy who invented zero, thanks for nothing.
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I got fired from the bank today.
A woman asked me to check her balance, so I pushed her.
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My dog accidentally ate a whole bag to scrabble tiles, so I took him to the vet.
No word yet.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Q: What do you call a busy waiter?
A: A server.
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Q: What do you call an idle server?
A: A waiter.
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I’ve been hearing news about this big boolean.
Huge if true.
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Q: Why was the developer unhappy at their job?
A: They wanted arrays.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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touche
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Here are a few more from ChatGPT...
Why did the programmer go broke? Because he used up all his cache!
Why do Java developers wear glasses? Because they don't C#!
I'm reading a book on anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down!
Why do programmers always mix up Christmas and Halloween? Because Oct 31 == Dec 25!
Why don't programmers like nature? It has too many bugs.
How do you comfort a JavaScript bug? You console it.
Why do programmers hate nature? It has too many branches.
Why did the developer go broke? Because he lost his domain!
Why did the database administrator leave his wife? She had too many tables and kept dropping his keys.
Why do programmers prefer using the dark theme? Because light attracts bugs!
Why did the computer keep freezing at the gym? It couldn't find its core muscles!
Why do programmers hate nature? It has too many branches.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Groan.
I haven't talk to my wife in seven years. I don't want to interrupt her.
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My wife got pissed at me cuz I accidentally overcooked the ribeye last night.
I told her we all make mistakes.
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What do you call a group of guys waiting for a haircut? A barber queque.
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I hired a handy man and gave him a to do a list. He only did #1, #3 and #5.
It turns out he only does odd jobs.
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If money doesn't grow on trees, why do banks have branches?
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My My geography teacher asked me if I could name a country with no R in it.
I said, "No way!"
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I met a microbiologist today – he was bigger than I expected.
"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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Now That's funny.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I thought Einstein was a theoretical physicist; turns out he was real!
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I only wear a watch for special occasions - so I joined a timeshare scheme.
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Mom Joke
Early one morning, a mother went to her sleeping son and woke him up.
Mom - Wake up, son. Its time to go to school.
Son - Awww, Mom! I don't want to go to school.
Mom - Give me two reasons why.
Son - One, the children all hate me. Two, the teachers all hate me.
Mom - They are not reasons. Come on, wake up. You HAVE to go to school.
Son - Ok Mom. Give me two reasons why I've to go to school.
Mom - One, you are Fifty years old, and I believe you understand your responsibilities. And ...
Two, you are the PRINCIPAL of the school.
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I had to re-read that in Skinner's and his mom's voices...
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