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841.
by zabzonk 2y ago
there was a bad time in the 1960s, when this article was published, but the pubs that are managing to survive nowadays (non-survival for a variety of reasons - covid, taxation to name two) are much better than suggested.
842.
by zabzonk 2y ago
have you read any of the arrant nonsense he comes out with?
843.
by zabzonk 2y ago
terracotta army?
844.
by zabzonk 2y ago
not to be horrible or picking on you, but it is "rogue". i would have thought that most people here would have come across games featuring a "rogue 5hp hit, 8 sneak" character to be able to spell this right, but almost e
845.
by zabzonk 2y ago
until the moonbases need moon-orbiting comms satellites?
846.
by zabzonk 2y ago
> do not believe that such a big teletype has existed. Decwriter II, according to wkipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECwriter . I've actually used one of these, but I can't remember the printing wid
847.
by zabzonk 2y ago
how, when and why can close() fail? and what can you do about it if it does?
848.
by zabzonk 2y ago
actually, some interior cabins really do this - big lcd screen showing camera views from outside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKgX8mKjmxU
849.
by zabzonk 2y ago
a few years ago there was a big thrust here for haskell. and now it has all but gone. i do get a feeling that the same will happen with rust - but we will see.
850.
by zabzonk 2y ago
well, that's like saying the compiler when it sees something like: int x; x = 1; it has to keep track of "x". of course it does. what programming languages don't?
851.
by zabzonk 2y ago
i may have missed it, but where does the C Standard say anything about access to a symbol table? or even if such a thing exists. and as for IBM i managed to use all sorts of OSs in VMs on IBM hardware back in the 1980s. Which did you have p
852.
by zabzonk 2y ago
in the UK it is typically fibre to the box on the street, and then copper from that to the house. providers would love you to subscribe to fibre to the house (so they can charge you exorbitant prices for it), but really YAGNI for most peopl
853.
by zabzonk 2y ago
but ... why?
854.
by zabzonk 2y ago
never diagnose family members, i had a friend who had a mild attack of polio as a kid, and his medic dad just ignored all the first symptoms because he couldn't accept them.
855.
by zabzonk 2y ago
quite funny and probably true
856.
by zabzonk 2y ago
is there an inverse for hypochondria? and if so, how would it manifest?
857.
by zabzonk 2y ago
don't see why you would you would use this over FORTH, which is IMHO much more readable and widely available on CP/M - or you can easily write your own.
858.
by zabzonk 2y ago
putting bad values into pointer variables in gc'd languages is arguably worse than doing so in non-gc'd ones. i'd say that gc'd languages should prevent you from doing it.
859.
by zabzonk 2y ago
I can't imagine staying in a job for 10 years - the longest i've put up with one is 6, and i hated every minute. that was the first serious one i ever had though, and it did net me some qualifications which may have been worth hav
860.
by zabzonk 2y ago
i don't think you are remembering the HOMM games, which were self-mapping. towns had no real interior structure, and there were no dungeons (there was an underworld which was self-mapping, like the overworld).
861.
by zabzonk 2y ago
must admit, i could never see the attraction. but better to read some poetry rather than none. another american author that seems to have vanished - richard brautigan, of "trout fishing in america" fame.
862.
by zabzonk 2y ago
please see the comment i was replying to: >but I don't remember the PC being too important in C coding circles until the 386, much later.
863.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Altho idiomatic that is perhaps slightly confusing because K&R 2nd ed uses the modern way of specifying parameters. I would prefer to say "pre ANSI C" or something of that kind.
864.
by zabzonk 2y ago
I did a lot of C programming on an IBM XT - 8088, 10mb hard disk, WordStar and DeSmet C. All worked very well.
865.
by zabzonk 2y ago
I did a shedload of programming in CP/M back in the 80s, and frankly I'd rather do it in Z80 assembler (assuming we were targeting Z80-based systems) than the rather poor compilers (not just C compilers) that were available. Using
866.
by zabzonk 2y ago
wikipedia "hobbes" and "leviathan"
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by zabzonk 2y ago
i did read it, with great difficulty - that does not make it basically unreadable
868.
by zabzonk 2y ago
horribly unreadable. i really don't know where to start criticising this, but "why is there poverty?" - really?
869.
by zabzonk 2y ago
A friend of mine in the mid 70s was reduced to burning furniture in his Edinburgh flat. Mind you, given the temperature in Edinburgh back then, and the quality of the furniture, you could hardly blame him.I always found the wardrobes inten
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by zabzonk 2y ago
This seems wrong - Tolkien was deeply Catholic.

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