zabzonk

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931.
by zabzonk 3y ago
um, modern c++ has for at least the past 10 years advised people not to manually manage memory.
932.
by zabzonk 3y ago
they do address real problems - specifically those of people trying to write very efficient libraries. if you are not in that group, simply don't use those features.
933.
by zabzonk 3y ago
why do you think the designers of those new languages know what is good for you?
934.
by zabzonk 3y ago
you got a link to such inspiration? also, slightly over 100 years between the two.
935.
by zabzonk 3y ago
you can also write one using a 256-byte switch, which ain't so big. i wrote an 8080 emulator in fortran77 on a dec10 that way, back in the 1980s. but of course size wasn't an issue. it did prove to be quite portable - to vax and i
936.
by zabzonk 3y ago
I remember reading a saying that the Germans fought WW2 with the weapons of the 1950s, while the Allies fought it with the weapons of the 1930s. Guess who won.
937.
by zabzonk 3y ago
In Edinburgh Botanic Gardens. Beautiful for other species too.
938.
by zabzonk 3y ago
of course, it is not actually paranoia - the garbage men really are evil non-human beings!
939.
by zabzonk 3y ago
i never used win1 - did anyone? i did use win2, because at the BBC all our horrible Apricot IBM-compatibles (hollow laugh regarding compatibility) came with it installed. what we used it for was playing the othello game, and that alone. bas
940.
by zabzonk 3y ago
i can beat this. my dad was an RAF Vulcan captain and he and his entire crew fell asleep overflying Indonesia going from Australia to UK (they had being delivering to Australia a rocket component in the Vulcan's capacious bomb bay). th
941.
by zabzonk 3y ago
> catchy name Petunia?
942.
by zabzonk 3y ago
i remember fiddling with these in the late 1960s after reading about them in one of martin gardner's books. quite a lot of fun for basically no cost.
943.
by zabzonk 3y ago
thanks, i've just bought it on amazon!
944.
by zabzonk 3y ago
if you are considering switching to linux, presumably a clean install actually is an option.
945.
by zabzonk 3y ago
i think there is something wrong with your machine, probably malware of some sort, or whatever this "gesture" stuff is doing. clean install probably indicated.
946.
by zabzonk 3y ago
have you actually listened to "kind of blue"? or (for e.g.) "sketches of spain"? i can't see how either could be classified as "some mess", though everyone's taste is different.
947.
by zabzonk 3y ago
not sure what this means - perhaps 13 rather than 11?
948.
by zabzonk 3y ago
i don't think i've ever known anything as magical as developing my first wet-photography print.
949.
by zabzonk 3y ago
glad you enjoyed the howl, but, sorry, it didn't have afterburner (reheat). i still probably prefer merlins - the BoB flight Lancaster flies over me here in Lincoln occasionally. and also the Red Arrows!
950.
by zabzonk 3y ago
i remember making my own camera in the mid 1970s. the lens was one of those crappy macro things you could screw onto a proper slr lens, and the film was actually photographic printing paper. the body was cardboard and tape, and the shutter
951.
by zabzonk 3y ago
it was landing, so it wasn't much noisier than say a 747, but a bit noisier. or perhaps i was just used to it - my dad was an RAF vulcan captain (same olympus engines as concorde, minus reheat) and if you had a squadron of them taking
952.
by zabzonk 3y ago
i loved concorde. i can remember them flying over my flat in south east london on their approach to heathrow in the early 1980s. beautiful.
953.
by zabzonk 3y ago
anyone know if varda is named after the queen of the stars in tolkien's works? i couldn't find anything on their webpage.
954.
by zabzonk 3y ago
To be utterly nitpicking it is "Time", not "Times". I only point this out because it is probably my favourite series ever.
955.
by zabzonk 3y ago
in my experience, having done lots of programming with it, rs232 serial ports are always repluggable without problems, unlike ps2.
956.
by zabzonk 3y ago
oh god, i remember the irq problems - having your mouse play sounds when it moved because of conflicts with the sound card. young un's today don't know they are born - and get off my lawn!
957.
by zabzonk 3y ago
replugging a mouse via ps2 either crashed the thing or just simply didn't work. same with keyboard
958.
by zabzonk 3y ago
ooh, does anyone remember what it was like plugging in a device _before_ USB? even re-plugging a mouse (for example) would crash the whole system.
959.
by zabzonk 3y ago
seems mostly right to me: 1) ok, but should be staring at iphones 2) not this one perhaps, given our treatment of whales 3) john deere tractors - it's a thing 4) could see many of our overvalued billionaires going for this 5) drone str
960.
by zabzonk 3y ago
at one place i worked (big 6 accountants, back then) the final interview for new hires took place with the whole (small) team down the pub. no need to get drunk, or indeed to drink at all - just see how we got along. seemed to work well.

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