Howard Bussey

Certified Level 2 Dyslexia Practitioner. Co-creator of efficient and effective tools to build foundations of literacy. Recreational programmer. GitHub: at7heb

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

@esrtweet Maybe you know (of?) VJS who, when he worked at silicon graphics, explained why I needed 64 MEGAbytes of video memory. I think my Sun workstation had about 8 (?) megabytes of memory.

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

@esrtweet @zuhaitz_dev I am also old(er than I am young) and know that the NUL - ASCII 0 - has only the sprocket hole.

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@esrtweet @joemichels I often add left to right. I’m really good at mental arithmetic estimation. Exact isn’t my strength.

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@DannyDeraney Righteously conservative radio station KBOL, 1490 AM, in Boulder Colorado played the Brewer & Shipley version for a few days in a row.

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

@wxbywilliams @RepJoeMorelle And also Mr. Morelle would lament the loss of jobs and economic turnover in the healthcare industry.

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@RepJoeMorelle @HouseGOP @SenateGOP I think you’re criticizing because of Mr. Trump’s numerous successes. Perfect he ain’t, but good he is.

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

@esrtweet @PeterB585337060 I really liked the cdc 6600 console editor. It had just enough functionality - what would you expect of Seymour Cray? It was wicked fast, and the net utility was sky-high.

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Oxford University researchers have discovered the densest element yet known to science...

The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks.

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert.

However, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.

A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years.

It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.

This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass.

When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

@RepJoeMorelle What is my “private voter information”? Why is it bad if the department of homeland security gets that information?

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

In addition to celebrating about 250 years of not having kings, we should celebrate that since 1/2025, we have not had a president regent.

[Rachel Barnhart @rachbarnhart]

Today I will not be at No Kings protests.

Rather, I'll be petitioning to get candidates on the ballot so voters have choices.

That's the best thing I can do for democracy today.

[LifeHaxx101 @LifeHaxx101]

Pothole upgrade for a safer and more stylish walk path

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

@ChShersh Is "a BEAM-based language" part of a correct answer? Two follow up questions in the interview: "Can I assume each carrier can deliver each notification to each subscriber in 2 seconds?" "The same notification to each user?" There are more...

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

@unclebobmartin I disagree-principles change&increase. I programmed an SDS-940 at NOAA in Boulder. Our major engineering principle: 9.9 pounds of code must fit in a 10 pound container. When programming the O/S: don't enable interrupts too early&set up so non-interrupt code will handle it soon.

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

I did some vibe ImageMagick-ing with grok and the results were unsettling. It did not create a script to rescale a PDF plan from 1/8" = 1' to 1/2" = 1' and add 1/2" grid. It got several chances. Google search + AI, ImageMagick web pages, & manual "refactoring" --> what I wanted.

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

@esrtweet my WAG: 22,499. Did you include the portable languages that Prof. William M. Waite used and taught his EE-555 students at CU?

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

When there is no objective function measuring quality, bad politics overcomes good politics

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Further explanation which I think is insightful:

Washington DC is culturally liberal. The institutions that long-tenure senators interact with daily: the press corps, the think tanks both parties actually attend (Brookings, CFR, Aspen, Carnegie), the schools their kids go to, the dinner parties are all left-of-center. That creates asymmetric social pressure:

A Republican who drifts left gets rewarded. The press calls them a "statesman," a "maverick," a "reasonable voice." They get invited to the bipartisan events. Their kids don't get weird looks at Sidwell Friends. McCain got this. Collins gets this. Murkowski gets this. There's a whole media infrastructure that celebrates the "heroic moderate Republican."

A Democrat who drifts right gets... nothing. There's no equivalent conservative institutional establishment in DC that would celebrate them. No black-tie dinner full of journalists who would applaud them for being "courageous" by moving right. Their base would primary them. The press wouldn't reward them. So they don't.

The incentive structure is one-directional. DC's Overton window is set by the press corps and the permanent institutions, and it pulls left. Republicans face constant pressure to accept that frame as the price of being taken seriously. Democrats are already inside the frame.

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

Carmen Egido and I published this algorithm in our early ‘90s Passive Information Grazing System paper. I hope someone can find an earlier reference, because if not then we’re to blame.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This hits home

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

Require that all legislation be written with LaTeX and created with git in a public repository by people using personal logins and using their names.

[Lior Pachter @lpachter]

The perennial LaTeX vs. MS Word / Google Docs battle has ended.

LaTeX won.

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

A 2005 Bash manual in the Epstein files? What are your guesses why?

https://t.co/XmhxYpRpWp

[Howard Bussey @7hwrd]

How did I not think, until to day, to use “value in min..max” instead of “value >= min and value <= max”? Is an AI correct that this is fast and won’t test every value in the range until either a match or the range is exhausted?

#elixirlang