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841.
by boznz 9y ago
Agree 100%
842.
by boznz 9y ago
Funnily enough I was looking at the title and just thinking in 25 years time I will still be programming in the same three languages C, Pascal/Delphi and SQL I learnt 25 years ago.
843.
by boznz 9y ago
>The Analyzer contained just short of a million vacuum tubes and needed a team of five hundred technicians to maintain and operate it Sounds almost like an F-35 :-)
844.
by boznz 9y ago
All a bit laughable considering Americas current "enemy" drive pickup trucks and shoot AK47's
845.
by boznz 9y ago
I haven't tried it either but I'm pretty sure there is no legality issues outside of the US, probably dubious legality inside the States but I wouldn't want to go up against their lawyers to prove it..
846.
by boznz 9y ago
Press F9 and you get a self contained exe which was not dependent on any libraries in about a second.. I think that was what the poster was getting at.
847.
by boznz 9y ago
Wow, using pascal for 30 years and diddnt know this.. I am actually thankful its not that well known. Pascal is still readable where as #defines in C libraries give me terrible headaches decoding.
848.
by boznz 9y ago
I have a turbo pascal game from the 80s that still sort-of-works on the command box of windows 10. Unfortunately it starts, does a demo loop in which all the pacmen get eaten then exits, all within about a second. I thought it was broke for
849.
by boznz 9y ago
Ahhh Uber, the leading light on how to do things right.
850.
by boznz 9y ago
30 years ago we had blitter chips dedicated to moving memory around without using cpu, pretty sure most memory controllers would have something similar these days
851.
by boznz 9y ago
Seriously, this was pretty horrific and I'm glad they are out, but who the fuck takes their pregnant wife into a war zone.
852.
by boznz 9y ago
Not calling BS but I sleep much better now in my 50s than I did 20-30 years ago. Healthier eating, low stress and average exercise are more important than how old you are I think.
853.
by boznz 9y ago
Not sure I see the problem, Fortran compilers are quite efficient these days by the sound of the comments. If its not broke, don't fix it. Just because it's not as "cool" as the language your currently using is not a rea
854.
by boznz 9y ago
The Fold - Peter Clines - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23164927-the-fold Well written, without too much hand-wavery and awesome twist in the middle.
855.
by boznz 9y ago
Lack of gravity also means there will never be a permanent presence in space. Making a big station and spinning it is the only way anyone is going to survive in space for more than a few years. I guess if the costs of sending something into
856.
by boznz 9y ago
Like moving to electric cars and using solar power...
857.
by boznz 9y ago
Tell me again, why has NASA budgeted $30 billion for SLS?
858.
by boznz 9y ago
Nothing on Moon Base Alpha except a picture. Would be nice to have a timeline for this (maybe the gap years where Mars transit is too long?)
859.
by boznz 9y ago
There are a few already out there ( https://hackaday.com/?s=cell+phone ) for proper open source mobile comms, the real problem is the mobile spectrum, I had a similar whinge on my blog a few weeks ago http://rodyne
860.
by boznz 9y ago
What about a shared key (like launching a nuke) so long as everyone in the key-list distrusts each other wouldn't something like that work ? (Totally outside my technical comfort zone here so forgive stupidity!)
861.
by boznz 9y ago
Just wondering, is it possible to design software where the data is visible to the software but not to a human (the programmer). I could see a system where the private key is generated and stored in RAM and all the data is encrypted but the
862.
by boznz 9y ago
Excluding the odd road works, there are no traffic lights anywhere in Marlborough, New Zealand, they use roundabouts everywhere. Driving is actually fun here.
863.
by boznz 9y ago
Very droll, but I could somehow find my (yet to be born) grand children finding it quite factual.
864.
by boznz 9y ago
A responsible contractor should ask the right questions to make sure the customer is not asking the impossible and are not going to be stuck with a useless solution at the end, they should not just milk the fuck out of them and cover their
865.
by boznz 9y ago
Bit stupid IMHO setting yourself up as a high value target like that. Same goes for any idiot who posts how much they have on a public forum
866.
by boznz 9y ago
Why there are two versions.
867.
by boznz 9y ago
Same "noise" has to be at receiving crypto otherwise no key to decode it.
868.
by boznz 9y ago
Encryption for low data rate systems is actually a very easy problem. I have sensors in the field which transmit a 64 byte package once a day only 18 bytes of which is data and is encrypted. the encryption an one time pad in ROM which lasts
869.
by boznz 9y ago
I actually agree. People are applying rational thought to an irrational person and we know how well that usually works out.
870.
by boznz 9y ago
Considering most CPU cores (Arm/X86/etc) are optimized for C/GCC its an unsurprising result

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