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by bregma 1y ago
It's the same people mispronouncing "asphalt" with a "sh" that also use "nucular" energy to watch filums about athuletes in the artic. Some of them have even visited Warshington in the USA. I don't th
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by bregma 1y ago
That usage came about during the right-wing political swing of the 1990s, just as the phrase was becoming popular in connection with computers. Generally, costs and responsibilities were downloaded and revenues and control were uploaded.
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by bregma 1y ago
C -------- START OF FUNCTION ------- INTEGER FUNCTION INCREMENT(I) INCREMENT=I+1 RETURN END C -------- END OF FUNCTION -------
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by bregma 1y ago
FORTRAN IV, at least the version I used on the PDP-11 running RSX, did not have a DO-loop. Just IF and GO TO. But it did have both logical and arithmetic IF.
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by bregma 1y ago
FORTRAN had both functions and subroutines. A function returned a value and was invoked in an expression (eg. S=SIN(A)). A subroutine was invoked by calling it (eg. CALL FOPEN(FNAME, PERMS)).
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by bregma 1y ago
Pasteurization would also destroy the delicate honey taste. It takes almost nothing to do that, and heating honey above about 40 C even for 30 seconds will kill any honeyness and all you have left is the sweet. I'll bet only the import
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by bregma 1y ago
Yes. nobody had GB drives in those days. The drive I had on my ST was a 16 MB SCSI drive and the CPU ran at 8 MHz. The IBM XTs that were so popular at the time only had 10 MB hard drives and ran at 4.77 MHz.
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by bregma 1y ago
He was active on Usenet. I remember seeing his messages.
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by bregma 1y ago
You just wear your dirty clothes in the shower. No worry about shrinking or stretching either. They will even air dry while you're wearing them if carrying a second set of clothes is not an option. The big problem with traveling withou
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by bregma 1y ago
Take a look at the next T-shirt you put on. Or socks.
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by bregma 1y ago
MiNT and a 16 GB hard drive with all the GNU tools installed. It was just like the Unix at work. Linux came later after also going through AIX, HP/UX, A/UX, AT&T SVr4, SunOS, Solaris, OSF/1, ISC, ...
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by bregma 1y ago
Why do you ask, Two Dogs?
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by bregma 1y ago
No window? How can you see the friendly glow of the vacuum tubes?
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by bregma 1y ago
They have already captured federal regulation in the USA. If a federal agent decides to prosecute, it's one press of the "you're FIRED!" button.
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by bregma 1y ago
If you want to live forever don't do any of the things that would make it worthwhile.
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by bregma 1y ago
> The universe has a loooooot of stuff in it. In fact, technically, there's nothing here . It's all out there .
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by bregma 1y ago
If you're used to, say, VS Code or the GitHub online editor where the lag between pressing a key on the keyboard and a corresponding character appearing on the screen can be on the order of tens of thousands of milliseconds, then 100 m
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by bregma 1y ago
This ignores the fundamental equation T = kM where "T" is time, "M" is money, and k is some constant.
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by bregma 1y ago
He means fruits.
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by bregma 1y ago
Why the emphasis on the use of cartoons (graphical debuggers) for analyzing problems with the text of computer code?
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by bregma 1y ago
That kind of thing occurs far more often when someone has not used drugs. Logically, drug use should be mandatory to reduce the prevalence of such self-harm.
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by bregma 1y ago
Is he paid in dollars or in cigarettes?
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by bregma 1y ago
You are baffled by the western concept of justice. In western philosophy an offender is considered to have offended against society even if their crime is of a personal nature. As such, they are tried, condemned, and punished by society a
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by bregma 1y ago
The kid would have to have a pretty large glass milk bottle hidden under his coat for that to happen.
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by bregma 1y ago
Bicycle pedals at every seat. Maybe with a deadman interlock so that if you stop pedalling your seat falls out of the plane.
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by bregma 1y ago
It's imperative we maintain Purity Of Essence. It will bring Peace On Earth.
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by bregma 1y ago
You want to live a long time? Avoid any of the things that make it worthwhile.
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by bregma 1y ago
I experience the opposite effect. Where I live the forest effectively disappears every autumn, and then it gets really cold. Six months later the forest grows back and then it gets really hot. The ambient temperature is obviously intimately
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by bregma 1y ago
The difference is a classic off-by-one error that can lead to a security exploit.
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by bregma 1y ago
No, but golden Labrador icebergs are the friendliest of all the icebergs and can make a great addition to any family.

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