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871.
by zabzonk 2y ago
do we have the technology to build a meter of insulated copper wire on the moon? will we ever?
872.
by zabzonk 2y ago
i sort of maintained one them back in the early 80s and i seem to remember that it packed a wave generator as one of its inputs, which could kind of be used as a clock. but don't quote me - i'm strictly a digital guy!
873.
by zabzonk 2y ago
> everything is linked together and deployed as a single execution unit just what i said about cp/m
874.
by zabzonk 2y ago
i would say that is right - an OS should be managing multiple processes. cp/m certainly did not do that - but i know nothing about RTOSs.
875.
by zabzonk 2y ago
CP/M is a prompt one - doing something like DIR in CP/M is just like doing DIR in something in a directory listing in any other 8-bit platform.
876.
by zabzonk 2y ago
except it really isn't an operating system - i used it back in the 1980s, and it is really just a static library you can call into - same as msdos. there is no OS process running things.
877.
by zabzonk 2y ago
> 100 million times do you know how many bacteria, all mutating and swapping genes, there are out there? also, dual therapy, particularly for TB has been used for years, but TB is still with us.
878.
by zabzonk 2y ago
so can a night out doing just about anything
879.
by zabzonk 2y ago
at middlesex polytechnic (north london) back in the mid-80s, we had several PDP11 desktops that were very unreliable. the first fix was to drive them round the north circular in the back of a van, but we worked out that dropping them from
880.
by zabzonk 2y ago
overuse of long words also, how about use of an emergency button to contact relatives, carers and emergency services
881.
by zabzonk 2y ago
i had that back in the 80s - managed to move something like n,s,w and then gave up, good name for a game though, and about typical for me and infocom.
882.
by zabzonk 2y ago
oddball: "a sherman [tank] can give you a very nice edge" one of my favourite quotes. goodbye, Donald.
883.
by zabzonk 2y ago
A bit sad (I prefer hg.) But at least just about everyone is now using a VCS, which was very far from the case when I started programming seriously back in the early 1980s.
884.
by zabzonk 2y ago
unfortunately, one killed an RAF Red Arrows pilot at RAF Scampton when it activated unexpectedly - but this is very rare in the history of the seats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Sean_Cunningham
885.
by zabzonk 2y ago
the UK NI number seems to work pretty well. i rang up the DWP last year to claim my state pension, gave them my name, dob and NI number(and bank details) and got payments starting a couple of weeks later.
886.
by zabzonk 2y ago
practically impossible to do anything financially in the UK today without photo id (passport, driving license). this is supposed to prevent money laundering, but i suspect general control freakery.
887.
by zabzonk 2y ago
caesar ad sum jam fortea brutus ad sum too caesar sic in omnibus brutus sic in hat
888.
by zabzonk 2y ago
i believe that estridge was being head-hunted at apple as ceo before they eventually hired scully. sad thing is that if they had hired him, he might even be alive today, but he preferred to stay at big blue.
889.
by zabzonk 2y ago
it is so funny, and the poem is great. it is short, and easy to read. have at it!
890.
by zabzonk 2y ago
that was exactly my question at the time!
891.
by zabzonk 2y ago
i worked on a consultancy gig in Geneva CH, where they had both german and french keyboards - aaargh! i was slightly surprised they didn't have italian and romansh ones too! and my first encounter with unix back in the 1980s involved m
892.
by zabzonk 2y ago
me interviewing at big 6 accountancy firm as a software developer: hr: you have do the same tests as the accountants me: ok, hit me .....scribble scribble hr: you have simultaneously managed to get the lowest ever score on the arithmetic te
893.
by zabzonk 2y ago
to be honest, i think you have it all there - now write something useful using it
894.
by zabzonk 2y ago
happened to me in an interview: them: implement reversing a linked list me: your company spends a lot of time reversing linked lists?
895.
by zabzonk 2y ago
have you ever wiped your bum?
896.
by zabzonk 2y ago
actually, it was really easy to send in a simple to deal with. the NHS used a stool sample container that had a little spoon attached to the top (whole container is about 4 inches long and 1.5 wide, spoon about big enough to hold a pea) - p
897.
by zabzonk 2y ago
surely all of jane austen's novels can be considered to be romance? and i love them. also nancy mitford's. and i have read quite a few of barkers books (and liked some) but i don't see what being gay has to do with anything.
898.
by zabzonk 2y ago
from my memories, i can recommend gauze with embedded rotting flesh from a gangrenous wound. we used to get one or two of these a year at the microbiology lab i worked in, and there were few volunteers to open the container. exploding stool
899.
by zabzonk 2y ago
am i alone as a pretty literate person (my kindle is my constant companion) in having never heard of her? i don't mean to badmouth her - no doubt it is me missing out.
900.
by zabzonk 2y ago
the western allies certainly could and should have done much pre-war, and arguably in the war (mosquito strikes on the camps, for example). my point was that few can dispute that, as we see today, the whole imposition of israel on its neigh

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