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by zabzonk 1y ago
I remember way back when (like about 50 or so years ago) about a crew of maths guys flying a ship through something like tensor space - an actualisation of maths. I cannot for the life of me (or google) remember what it was called or who it
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by zabzonk 1y ago
It's gone from the Royal Navy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_ration along (one perhaps hopes) with "sodomy and the lash".
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Kinky Friedman: https://www.google.com/search?q=kinky+friedman+homo+erectus+... Perhaps not very politically correct...
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Seems to confuse the internet (machines communicating via IP addresses) and the web (sites communicating via HTTP). And I found it really hard to read - but that is perhaps just me.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
The MS software environment is much larger and complex than that of the Mac? So creating tools to manage it is far more difficult?
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Anyone else remember messing around with inode fixing tools? Used to leave me with my bowels quaking. This would have been mid-80s, but can't remember unix version or the tool names now.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Ok, thanks - but surely this is the most sensible and readable way of doing things? Otherwise, why not make every member begin with "class A"? There probably is some language that requires this, I guess :-) Isn't language des
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by zabzonk 1y ago
If anyone can explain what he thinks C++ is doing in the "Modifiers section", I would be interested. As far as I can see, he doesn't understand C++ (or C). And why is "Eldritch" started with a capital?
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by zabzonk 1y ago
I think most everything in this post is wrong. The internet is not dying, and neither are websites or products distributed on it, for money or for free. And we can do without virtue signalling in any shape or form - and why do it here?
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by zabzonk 1y ago
as has odbc from way back when
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by zabzonk 1y ago
destruction (or nearly) via tidal mechanics happens in several of larry niven's short sf stories
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Anyone Remember Alan Turing?(theguardian.com)
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Yeah, I agree it must have something to do with the forces on the model. I loved playing with these things way back when (1960s) - the most frightening one was a model attached to a jetex rocket engine https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by zabzonk 1y ago
> Did they fly basically the same when chucked upside-down ? sadly, never occurred to me to try. > There's that stabilizer to complicate things. True, getting the tailplane right is kind of key to a successful aircraft. but these
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by zabzonk 1y ago
But they do fade away? (Blondie)
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by zabzonk 1y ago
When I was a kid I used to make small balsa-wood gliders who's wings were completely flat, and with no angle of attack. They flew OK, which has always made me wonder about both Bernoulli and Newton in this regard.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
That will not compile with javac, as it is not a method of a class.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
> You can literally write code that will compile in both. An example, please.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
> syntactically compatible with C++ Not. And certainly not semantically.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
> If you want a default value of 0, why isn't it ... It is.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Required reading when I was in my early twenties, now 50 years ago. I don't think I could stand it now - I found the prose style somewhat irritating back then (possibly some crappy translations are partially to blame).
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Humour, or at least the attempt at it, seems to be the main thing.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Not Pascal but here is something I wrote on the same lines in C++: https://latedev.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/simple-windows-dial...
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by zabzonk 1y ago
I draw these with paper and pen when I am extremely bored in meetings.
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by zabzonk 1y ago
I had a Dragon32 in the early 1980s. This had a (for the time) good keyboard, a terrible display, and was only uppercase. I bought it because I was interested in the 6809 processor (addressing modes gone mad!). But I think some effort betw
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by zabzonk 1y ago
> Embracer Games Archive is a part of Embracer Group - the parent company of businesses led by entrepreneurs in PC, console and mobile games, as well as other related media. very unclear who these people actually are
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Is this so they can say they are "Orion Arm", which is where we are in the Milky Way galaxy?
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by zabzonk 1y ago
It's a long time ago that I read about this, but I think he got money from his parents, who owned something of a tourist shop. I think they divested any shares they had in Burroughs long before this. In any case Bill (Naked Lunch) didn
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Um, why?
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by zabzonk 1y ago
For what it is worth, William Burroughs (Naked Lunch etc.) was the grandchild of the founder of the Burroughs computer company. As far as I know, the later Bill didn't profit much, if anything, from this.

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