zabzonk

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901.
by zabzonk 2y ago
feral chickens in the uk - in woods if not up trees: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/26/out-...
902.
by zabzonk 2y ago
my little brother ran his own pirate station in lincoln uk in the early 1970s - it was based about half-mile from the police hq. when my dad discovered what was going on there were .... ructions.
903.
by zabzonk 2y ago
back in the early 1990's i worked for a commercial training company (The Instruction Set) and the first day of our "Programming In C" course normally went something like this: me: we are using these beat-up terminals trainees
904.
by zabzonk 3y ago
you are right. still, i don't think cp/m was used so much until the very late 70s, simply because microcomputers were not used so much until then. and at that time vms was far more powerful. i remember the first time i used vms co
905.
by zabzonk 3y ago
> “CP/M got the slash from VMS”, which is simply not possible because CP/M is older than VMS surely not - i used cp/m 1.x back in the late 1970s and by that time VMS was a well-developed and sophisticated OS, unlike cp&#x
906.
by zabzonk 3y ago
you are living in an ex-ww2 bunker? here in the UK it would have gone right through the roof tiles and the plasterboard of the ceiling. same for the several dutch houses i've lived in.
907.
by zabzonk 3y ago
are you saying that europe has a structure that supports much better military tech than the us?
908.
by zabzonk 3y ago
indeed!
909.
by zabzonk 3y ago
grant's autobiography is well worth reading - quite funny at times. but when it gets into the battles it kind of loses me, having only a vague grasp of geography and topology. possibly why i am not a great general?
910.
by zabzonk 3y ago
the london tube map is a classic of this - the map is all about how to navigate the tube system, not about distances above or below ground. i moved to london about 40 years ago, and it took me a while to work this out.
911.
by zabzonk 3y ago
gothmog, lord of balrogs? not in lotr though.
912.
by zabzonk 3y ago
ah, no. that's a working-class crime.
913.
by zabzonk 3y ago
the greedy can never have enough
914.
by zabzonk 3y ago
as i said, hip replacement normally works very well. my 80+ mother had two after two bad falls, both worked really well physically, but she went off the rails mentally after the second. apparently there is a theory (sorry, can't find l
915.
by zabzonk 3y ago
hip normally works very well - it's just a ball and socket joint. knee is a bit more tricky.
916.
by zabzonk 3y ago
a great 80s game. there are other versions of it out there, which i would list here if i were not feeling as lazy as i am, and if my carer had not just plonked my lunch in front of me!
917.
Who Owns a Meteorite?(theguardian.com)
3 points by zabzonk 3y ago|0 comments
918.
by zabzonk 3y ago
to be honest, if you are in marketing and you don't understand the market you are trying to sell into i don't see this going too well.
919.
by zabzonk 3y ago
i don't see those languages as being "simple". quick to program in, yes. but assembler is really pretty transparent, once you get into it. heck, i used to program in machine code (i don't recommend it) without too many p
920.
by zabzonk 3y ago
you could probably say the same about the east coast, and NY in particular - pohl, bester et al.
921.
by zabzonk 3y ago
> Completely anecdotally about sums it up
922.
by zabzonk 3y ago
why? says who? assembler (about as simple as you can get) better than (for e.g.) C?
923.
by zabzonk 3y ago
i don't actually use ints much in my c++ code. iterators for looping over things. using ints for accumulating is a problem in most languages.
924.
by zabzonk 3y ago
certainly not active, but back in the 1980s i got dumped on a program that used algol, bcpl, fortran and cobol to drive a phototypesetter to do ... something. this took advantage of the fact that the dec10 allowed you to mix & match lan
925.
by zabzonk 3y ago
quote from standard where it says that?
926.
by zabzonk 3y ago
i said "if a type has a constructor". but if you are fiddling around with ints and chars and the like, then you will need to initialise them. i have been writing c++ since the mid80s and have never found this to be a problem, or a
927.
by zabzonk 3y ago
the c++ standard does not specify an ABI.
928.
by zabzonk 3y ago
> Now we are on the other side. C++ people saying "bro I totally promise I'll initialize this data member before it is used, stop making me initialize it in my constructor" C++ has never said this - if a type has a constru
929.
by zabzonk 3y ago
yes - i switched from C to C++ a long, long time ago (late 1980s) because C++ was so much more strongly typed (i still don't understand why other C programmers have stuck with C). i'm less than convinced with the promises of rust
930.
by zabzonk 3y ago
well, i would not recommend shared_ptr except under rare circumstances, but i don't see what can be wrong with RAII. in fact, it is the languages thar don't have RAII that have the problems, IMHO.

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