Starwatcher2001

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by Starwatcher2001 7y ago
Scrolls fine for me. Firefox 7.0, uBlock origin.
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by Starwatcher2001 7y ago
Yeah, that sounds fun. Did that have the evil "alter" statement, which caused even more spaghetti with gotos?
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by Starwatcher2001 7y ago
I wouldn't call it beautiful, but COBOL is a fairly capable language. I used Microsoft COBOL on the original IBM PC (twin floppy) in 1985 to produce a realtime multiuser data collection system in a factory. This interfaced to various m
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by Starwatcher2001 7y ago
I met him in 2003 in the UK when he was doing a lecture tour. His colleague was translating into English for us, and every now and then they'd rattle away between themselves in Russian, causing my friend's wife to giggle. After th
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by Starwatcher2001 7y ago
"But here's the kicker: an atheist beleives that there is no god" Nope. A-theist simply means someone who lacks theism. I don't posit that there is no god, I simply don't believe there is any evidence or reason for
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by Starwatcher2001 7y ago
Am I misunderstanding something here? You want a car driver to pull into the outer lane so that you can undertake him between the cycle and car? I'm a biker and that sounds suicidal to me. The drivers next move would be to move back in
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by Starwatcher2001 7y ago
If the spelling of the product name is uncommon, that might be a plus on search engines.
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by Starwatcher2001 7y ago
"Today was my first day on the job as a Junior Software Developer..." And he has permissions to delete the production database? Heads much higher up the tree need to roll.
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by Starwatcher2001 7y ago
I quite agree with the problem of having to trade sleep for other necessities, but personally I didn't realise the actual cost of that trade, and the serious long term effects that 90+ hour weeks might have on me. In my case it wasn&#x
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by Starwatcher2001 7y ago
Yes, especially when driving. Sometimes it feels like I should be reaching for gear stick at the same time as I previously did. It does feel bizarre.
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by Starwatcher2001 7y ago
I love mind maps and still use them regularly. I find them particularly good for marshalling my ideas at the start of a project when it's just important to get things written down somewhere and bash them into a sensble order and heirar
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by Starwatcher2001 7y ago
Synesthesia is definitely real, my wife has it. She sees numbers and letters as having colours. We'd been married a few years before either of us realised there was something different about her, she just thought everyone saw the world
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
You might enjoy this game written in a single line of BASIC on a TRS-80: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWyZO-yPnvM For anyone not familiar with the TRS-80, who finds the code somewhat weird.. the BASIC implementation was
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
You can find a transcript here: https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/quotations/quotes/stephen_fr...
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
If the universe was created, it wasn't created to be friendly to life. I'd guess that more than 99.99999 % of it is hostile to human existence. On the subject of over reporting of church attendence, the discrimination against athe
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
I agree with that. There were a number of anonymous remailers [0] where you could send emails to others, or make posts to Usenet[1]. The remainers would strip all the headers from your post and replace them with a specific number. Other use
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
I concur. I used to work in a plastic factory in the 70's and at lunchtime there was a fair stream of machine operators who's make a beeline for the pub opposite. Pint or two of beer and a pie was the standard lunch.
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
I use a pink and green marker. If I put a pink splodge on something it needs attention, a green one next to it means "dealt with". Makes it very quick to skim through documents and see if there's anything I've not looked
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
You can find a copy here. Brings back memories. http://www.thecomputerarchive.com/thearchive/Manuals/Epson%2...
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
Still have mine in the loft somewhere, that and the ribbon cable to attach it to my TRS-80. Being able to print out program listings and annotate them revolutionised debugging for me. The "O" character and "0" number loo
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
Think of the billions of years that passed by before you were born. Were they bad for you? Was there any pain? Do you worry about them, or even pay any attention to them? Perhaps things will be identical to you after you've died, and t
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
You've got some great advice here, but I went the opposite way from paper to electronic notes. I had about five years of project notes on paper that became totally impossible to manage or search. I've been doing it electronic now
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
I still use ZtreeW64 almost every day. It's a clone of the old xtree and still very useful.
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
Please do educate us.
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
What an awful situation for you both. Would a change of career be possible/practical/helpful?
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
I built a memory dump system of my own for the TRS-80. The reset button on the machine launched an RST operation on the Z80 CPU, which was the only non-maskable interrupt (in other words, software writers couldn't disable or prevent it
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
This takes me back to the early 80s when "Personal Computer World" (UK) used to have a letters column called "Subset", where people would share short assembler routines for the 8 bit chips of the time. People would share
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
Does the date when a student hands in a piece of work (which seems to be what they are measuring) corrolate with when they actually did the work? It seems to me that a student who did the work early, but then sat on it for some reason (mayb
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
A few years ago I did a "hard hat" diving experience that gives a teeny, tiny view into what these divers experience, and wow did it increase my respect for them. It also included being compressed in the "pot" down to 50
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
Buying a "starter" dive computer makes a lot of sense as many divers quit after a year or two. As your skills and interests progress, you can aways upgrade to a better one. It's been a while since I bought my last dive comput

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