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541.
by zabzonk 2y ago
In denial about what? Did I mention social acceptability? I questioned that one drink a day was harmful.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> Heavy drinkers who have eight or more alcoholic drinks per week So if you have about one drink a day you are doomed (and a "heavy" drinker)? Experience tells that this is simply not the case, and is crap promulgated by mad
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Anti-tourist yes, but not necessarily anti-American.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
People are still stupid and willing to be misled, wherever they are from.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Ah, Tetris. I remember stripping out the copy protection from the MSDOS version with a debugger. Not because I wanted to resell it, which would have been difficult back then, just because I found it irritating. I also added mouse support, o
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> would it not be better to look at news from all perspectives Probably, but who has the time or the news resources?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I loved hearing then in Hampstead Woods in North London, and also the trees along the New River (artificial canal intended to bring fresh water into the city, built in Tudor times) - but it was quite difficult to see the little buggers. I
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by zabzonk 2y ago
We connected our two IBM 4381s (VM/CMS) to our BT mega/kilostream serial network using VT200 (and VT00 & VT52)-emulating terminals via an IBM 7171 protocol converter. I had the somewhat unenviable task of programming this bea
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by zabzonk 2y ago
It is completely possible to write C code which does attempt to write to string literals.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
At runtime, yes. But I want to know about errors like this at compile time.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Yes, but C (or C++, for that matter) has no concept of .rodata. This is something that needs to be enforced by the compiler, as it is in C++, and why C programmers should probably simply use a C++ compiler, with its much stronger type chec
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by zabzonk 2y ago
How can you say this about my experience? For example, in Wood Green, North London, I can only remember seeing a single billboard, on the side of an off-license. Where have you lived where they are all around the place?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Thanks for that - very informative. I must admit I haven't done anything with wired networks for many years! But I still like twisted pair, and wifi :-)
554.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Lived in London for about half my life - very few billboards.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Most unreliable network I ever had the misfortune to use (not to install) was coax thin ethernet when I worked at the BBC - termination problems were terrible. Twisted pair for the win as far as I'm concerned or better, WiFi. I do
556.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Do you think that calling people "normies" is at all useful?
557.
by zabzonk 2y ago
I used to have a zebra jumping spider living on my office windowsill - kept me amused for hours.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I don't think "ideal" would be the exact word - I used to shudder at it in FORTRAN.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Back when I was about 12 (so 60 years ago, or so) you could get Phillips kits with a couple of transistors which allowed you to breadboard things like an amplifier, a radio, or a moisture detector. Had fun with them, but didn't real
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I love books about writing/creating new software/hardware. One I can recommend, about Windows NT is: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Windows-Gene... Does anyone here know about any book(s) on the V
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by zabzonk 2y ago
And I was just thinking - wouldn't it be cool to write a Dec10 emulator on a modern CPU? Actually, one of my programmer colleagues did try to buy our Dec10 when it was decommissioned, with all peripherals, and install it in his garage
562.
by zabzonk 2y ago
I misguidedly thought this was going to be about Chef in Apocalypse Now. Don't get off the boat!
563.
by zabzonk 2y ago
i think the other parts are probably Chinese
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Well, I found it a bit hard on my Dec10-based emulator. I never got the memory-mapped stuff to work properly - I just mocked up some of the I/O instructions. But it was actually a spare-time project, intended to let my students do stu
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I've never understood floating point :-)
566.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Yes, but tax and other stuff? And which comparable ones? The UK is paying more than most EU nations into NATO (I think Poland the only other one), for example.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
UK citizens have ALWAYS been "less satisfied than ever with the NHS". It's a service - no one likes services. But it still goes on looking after us, pretty well.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Have you actually been to the poor states in the USA? And where do you think those very poor people are getting health care and other benefits from?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I live outside of London (I did previously live there for 30 years or so), in Lincoln about a 100 miles or so away to the north. It's OK. Got two universities and all sorts of other stuff. Certainly not "poor".
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by zabzonk 2y ago
It's not so bad. Yes HS2 is a disaster, yes military procurement is beyond a joke (those daft aircraft carriers, and the horrible US F35s!) and other stuff. But pretty much what nonsense happens compared with other places. I still l

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