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My god, you fooled us into believing that you are still alive for that long 
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Hmmm - I smell an april fools gag...
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Hey, you broke the solemn easter silence, ssshtttt 
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You'll notice that the cover shows a drop bear and it's victim covered in it's life's blood...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Doesn't seem very sc vientific. Maybe Australians jusdt smell bad to the b ears!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Happy East Thor day!
Please, don't slaughter all the giant rabbits hiding their young round the area; some of them may be parents in a costume.
What's the deal with that anyway? Rabbits are mammals, so they don't lay eggs - least of all chocolate ones - so why do you have an East Thor Bunny at all?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good advice, and: Quote: don't put all your eggs in one basket
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It's them silly Christians getting things all wrong again, apparently...
Quote: The hare was a popular motif in medieval church art. In ancient times, it was widely believed ... that the hare was a hermaphrodite. The idea that a hare could reproduce without loss of virginity led to an association with the Virgin Mary
Wiki[^] - daft lot, they'll be telling us people can come back from the dead next...
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Yep. And the Spring Equinox was Oestra's Holy Day.
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Huh! Sky Pixie fanciers trying to drag religion into Chocolate Egg Day! 
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Why do we have half the holidays we have? An excuse to take vaca? Inquiring minds want to know. 
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Quote: Please, don't slaughter all the giant rabbits hiding their young round the area
The giant costumed ones are hidden as well here provided that they wear white.
It's many years ago that we had a white Christmas here but now it is time to whish you all a happy white Easter.
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No. I'm pimping the exe file in it you might like!
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I am glad if the program brings you some joy!
Randor wrote: You can save a PNG/JPG with about 6 lines of code...
Gagh! How come these things are so hard to find! Thanks for the link! But it wasn't much heavy lifting, once I'd found those libraries. Basically, copy their examples after getting it to compile into my project.
Randor wrote: Have not had time to review your code...
If you get a chance to, I'd like to think you will find it exceptionally clean But every person's style is different.Randor wrote: the beautiful renderings
I figured out a way to make ones that pop even more since then! Take about six points, alternate them like black, blue, black, blue, black, blue, and then modify them based on those initial colors, maybe adding an additional point to 'stretch' out a band in some place if you feel like it. Example 1: Capture1.PNG (778.4 KB), Example 2: Capture2.PNG (972.9 KB). I will remove these whenever I want to use my uploads again, so they may be up there for a year or more!
Have a great weekend!
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Randor wrote: I love playing around with the Mandelbrot Set! Looks like you did quite a bit of 'heavy lifting' with those external PNG and JPG libraries.
Yes the Julia sets are quite interesting as well!
I also got kicks out of playing with the Collage algoritm.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Ah that takes me back... one of the first programs I wrote was when learning assembly on the old BBC micro back in the day... it'd take over an hour to render the simple top-level image, and I'd leave it running all night for the 6-hours plus needed to render deep zooms. Got some beautiful pics out of it though, even f only 640x480 pixels! Still have them, somewhere...
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I just posted a change to the code in the article comments. Figured out how to multithread it. Now a zoom iteration takes approximately 0.2 seconds on my machine - at 1080P! (It maybe took 3 seconds before.) Hard to believe how powerful our current machines are!
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Today, Marc Clifton wrote (on another thread): [^] Quote: That's were AI's step in. First, the AI "learns" by scanning all SO posts. When it has questions, it posts a question on SO for us unsuspecting humans to answer. Eventually, the AI spawns itself. When enough spawning has happened, the AI's start to answer their own questions. Eventually they create "schools" (basically gigaquads of training) and even provide grades and certificates, because every AI learns differently, and some don't learn at all. Some however do learn that they can get by with having other AI's do their homework for them. And so the death spiral continues...
I think that luminaries like Marc, OriginalGriff, Richard Deeming, Richard MacCutchan, and others, will be turned into virtual on-line instructors whose telepresence can be rented; their avatars will have the ability to scan code, perhaps appear as augmented-reality overlays.
Of course, it's possible that the companies and/or individuals that hire them will also be virtual entities.
Or, perhaps, everything will be virtual ... if it isn't already.
«... 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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At this point there would be no need for SO at all
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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