zabzonk

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811.
by zabzonk 2y ago
> Almost literally never been cheaper. Under £3 for 50 on AliExpress, Oh, good to know. Back when I played the most prized ones were steel ball bearings, which the NCO engineers filched them from the RAF Vulcan bombers. Us flight officer
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> Wouldn't that newton's-second-law Contradict/confirm/what? Please clarify.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Things from my youth, as well as conkers: - marbles (can you get them anymore?) - kick the can (where would kids get cans today?) - British bulldog/chain tig (far too dangerous) I can't remember the rules of these, but they were v
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by zabzonk 2y ago
When I was a kid (many years ago) me and a friend once went "conkering" down quite a posh road with several horse chestnut trees on it. We had collected a few good ones when a guy came out of his house and called us over. We thou
815.
by zabzonk 2y ago
As someone that played it over 60 years ago, there is quite a bit of technique involved - for example, aiming to hit the opponent's conker accurately and hard.
816.
by zabzonk 2y ago
> Simple: condense water out of the exhaust like the zeppelins did. Citation? Would not the condenser need to burn fuel, thus lightening the ship?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I remember installing a horribly expensive Ethernet card on an Altos SCO Xenix box, which required recompiling the kernel to install the drivers (on 5 inch floppies). I was convinced this would never work, but magically it did! Things were
818.
by zabzonk 2y ago
You have forgotten the dreaded ZX Spectrum Microdrive - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Microdrive
819.
by zabzonk 2y ago
What about UFO? Not puppets (though by the Anderson team) but live-action with sexy ladies in purple wigs and somewhat creepy vibe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(British_TV_series)
820.
by zabzonk 2y ago
How about: "We really like the work you have done on ABC. Now, XYZ needs some help. We'd like you to work with them, and we'll give you a P% raise." Happens all the time as a consultant/contractor - no need for hal
821.
by zabzonk 2y ago
The most accurate job description I ever had was when I worked at Middlesex Poly in the mid-1980s - "Analyst Programmer". Where did all the "Analysts" disappear to? They could be useful. And all those "System Archi
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> you don't get a job title created specifically for your social snowflake expertise I have never applied for a job based on anything "social" or "snowflake" - only on salary and tech stuff, such as "C++, W
823.
by zabzonk 2y ago
burning your house down?
824.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Yet more meaningless titles.
825.
by zabzonk 2y ago
OK, what is "senior"? And what is "next level up" in this context?
826.
by zabzonk 2y ago
> it's a different sort of job than being an individual contributor Well, I've never understood the IC thing either - and it is so horribly impersonal - why not just call them "components", or indeed "integrated
827.
by zabzonk 2y ago
> Is there a concept of Staff-level titles? Not anywhere I ever worked or consulted at, and the article never seems to explain what she means by it.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
depends on the premium, obviously
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Anyone who has to put up with Brutalist architecture in London (Hayward Gallery for example, or the NT, but there are many, many others) may think that being brutal to Brutalists is the only answer.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> "alfa", "bravo", "Charlie", "delta" Bit offtopic: As well as general use, a lot of thesed are used to classify Soviet/Russien submarines from a NATO point of use. Even more off topic:This is
831.
by zabzonk 2y ago
> most of C just compiles as C++ um, not unless explicitly written to so.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
First time I've seen it as coming from WE - I suppose due to the unbundling of Bell Labs. I actually developed business apps (and did sysadmin) on Altos Xenix machines back in the early nineties - they were quite nice.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I actually got nominated for an MS MVP by Jon Skeet, years ago when I was a front page "C++ expert" on StackOverflow (before it all went pear-shaped). I had to turn them down as at the time I did zero Windows programming, though l
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by zabzonk 2y ago
strangely enough, in the same paper: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/30/car-cd...
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> A sort of horrible soft stuff was oozing all over my tongue Of course, a lot of modern sausages are exactly like this. If you can, you want to get your sausages from a proper pork butcher. I can recommend Curtis in Lincoln UK, particul
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by zabzonk 2y ago
but under the hood (the implementation of an actual programming language) it is all pointers - not?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
as all programming comes down to pointer twiddling, either under or over the hood, is any language turing complete?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
A person ELECTED for president of the USA came from show business - Reagan.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
It was a dreaded feature of one job I had way back when, supporting a server for static trading data (counterparty info, and other stuff) for sites in London, Hong Kong and New York. We all hated it, until one day one of the guys "lost
840.
by zabzonk 2y ago
There is a pub called The Ranelagh in Bounds Green, North London which is near to what used to be a Middlesex Polytechnic site where the computer centre was located (DEC 10, two IBM 4381s, several VAXen and a couple of Primes) and where I w

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