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400.000 years ago.
..did you meet a homo sapiens?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Even the most antisocial person would have at least met its parent one would think... But I also know my neighbor, friends from uni, shopkeepers, the list goes on, all homo sapiens!  
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Friendly?
No, not as a species.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: No, not as a species.
No species can afford to be friendly. Indifference if you are not a competitor or natural enemy is about as friendly as it usually gets.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Aaah yes easy:
{\displaystyle {\frac {\mathrm {d} N_{1}}{\mathrm {d} t}}=r_{1}N_{1}\left[1-{\frac {N_{1}}{K_{1}}}+b_{12}{\frac {N_{2}}{K_{1}}}\right]}
{\displaystyle {\frac {\mathrm {d} N_{2}}{\mathrm {d} t}}=r_{2}N_{2}\left[1-{\frac {N_{2}}{K_{2}}}+b_{21}{\frac {N_{1}}{K_{2}}}\right]}{\displaystyle {\frac {\mathrm {d} N_{2}}{\mathrm {d} t}}=r_{2}N_{2}\left[1-{\frac {N_{2}}{K_{2}}}+b_{21}{\frac {N_{1}}{K_{2}}}\right]}
Unfortunatelly did not found the correct code tags  
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I only had about 3 months of latex experience 25 years ago, I am afraid you lost me here... though I suspect you were trying to code the Lokta-Volterra equation here, for some unfathomable reason...
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same here. recognized it is only available in articles 
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Yes, of course. But that's actually a rare thing, compared to the total number of species around. Evolution always goes with whatever works. That means not harming the few that are helpful, not wating any time or energy on those who have nothing to offer, avoiding those who can harm you and possibly taking advantage of those who you can defeat. Plus, in our case, invent ways to get rid of any who we previously could not yet deal with.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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There's an alternate theory relating to the uncanny valley phenomenon. It suggests that we killed anything off that looked mostly like we did. The creep factor we have is leavings from that early genocidal impulse. poor Neanderthals, if true!
I can't recall where I encountered this, so YMMV but it stuck with me because I thought it was interesting.
Real programmers use butterflies
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There is nothing as uncanny as a competitor that is interested in almost exactly the same resources as you are and follows a similar strategy to get them. Still, the Neandertals were not exterminated. It looks more like they were pushed back over thousands of years before the last isolated populations could not sustain themselves anymore. It also seems that they were not great inventors or innovators. Their tools seem to display only little change over tens of thousands of years, unlike those of our ancestors.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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It's not just competition, we all got Neandertal DNA (about 4% IIRC)! 
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That could mean that only 4% turned right here, and the remaining 96% went left.
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I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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You got me there! 
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It will remain forever hard to really know...
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If so, explain why Mark Zuckerberg is still alive.
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In the same sense that my computer is "alive", presumably? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yes, but they didn't have chiefs. Undemocratic leaders are the ones who are destroying any good socialism.
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Too deep a thought for my frivolous topic. But I 102% agree.
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No leaders becomes total warfare.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Why not a compact, reliable, and easy to use radio protocol? Is that too much to ask?
Even BLE is just laden with UUIDs and various services and "characteristics" you have to "publish" just to read and write some data. I understand having to advertise, but they make it ridiculous.
And the power consumption and speed leave something to be desired even where BLE is concerned.
If that weren't enough, every single API i've been forced to work with to support bluetooth on every platform I've tried has been either murderous to use, and half documented, or rickety as heck, or both.
Why is this so difficult? And why in the heck Microsoft, did you make it so you have to thunk through to the Windows RT layer or whatever to get access to bluetooth? It's just nonsense. All of it.
*headdesk*
None of this had to be this way. Where did we go wrong?
Real programmers use butterflies
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To horribly paraphrase ACC, any sufficiently high-versioned standard is indistinguishable from a can of worms.
(Not quite universal, but damn close.)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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honey the codewitch wrote: Why is this so difficult? [...] It's just nonsense. All of it.
My thoughts while working on C# ExpressionTree API code right now. I've had to look at CIL and the .NET framework reference source to figure out what the purpose of some of this stuff is. I'm still not sure what Expression.RuntimeVariables does. All the documentation states is "This type is necessary to implement 'eval' in dynamic languages." And that lovely tidbit is on the docs related to the returned type, not even on the function, which says absolutely nothing /end_co-rant
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