Jeema101
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Comment · 4 months ago
Illustrates the importance of 'crossing the T' in naval warfare before there were turreted guns. :)
Comment · 8 months ago
Alexa play 'Nena - 99 Red Balloons'...
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't think people are 'more concerned' - it's just that the sinking of the Titanic was (and still is) a shocking and compelling story. It was the largest ocean liner in the world, on it's maiden voyage, supposedly unsinkable, sinking in frigid waters in a single tragic night.
Comment · 1 year ago
Okay but why stop there: why not also hand-wave a new operating system and hardware architecture into existence for it to run on while they're at it? I mean it's only 60 million lines of code [1] after all. Should be able to knock that out in a weekend.
[1] https://oig.ssa.gov/congressional-testimony/2016-07-14-newsr...
Comment · 1 year ago
Objects at the top of the screen are drawn after the mid-screen interrupt. Objects at the bottom of the screen are drawn after the end-screen interrupt. Thus the code and hardware work on different halves of the screen.
I'm wondering what the mechanism is here to avoid bus contention between the video circuit and the CPU both accessing the VRAM at the same time.
Might be evident from studying the schematic I would suppose...
Comment · 1 year ago
It's back in the main exhibit now AFAIK. They completed a 4th hangar some years back and towed it back there:
Comment · 1 year ago
I assume you're referring to old people when you say 'vulnerable populations', but the problem is that old people are not always the only ones that get affected during flu pandemics. During the Spanish flu pandemic, for example, half the deaths were in people 20 to 40 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Patterns_of_fatali...
Comment · 2 years ago
He is barely coherent most of the time, but several of his ideas do resonate with people and are easy to understand:
1 - Other countries in the world have taken advantage of the US
2 - Illegal immigrants have changed the country for the worse and are taking jobs
#2 in particular has been framed as being racist. There IS a good deal of racism mixed in there, but the truth is that low skilled illegal immigrants DO compete for many of the same jobs as lower-skilled Americans.
None other than Bernie Sanders said as much about the subject right around 2007. His stance at that time was that we needed to do something about illegal immigration specifically to protect the jobs of American workers, but then later he changed his tune to fit in with the rest of the party.
If you address the majority of people's concerns and worries, they'll vote for you.
Comment · 2 years ago
I recently ported an old Pascal game to Free Pascal. I had never really used Pascal before this particular project.
Learning the language was interesting, but there's a lot about it that seemed pretty irritating, the main one being the separation of variable declarations and code (similar to the original C spec). It also took me way too long to figure out how to properly construct an 'if-then-else' block without the compiler complaining about the syntax.
Can't say I would probably use it in a new project.
Comment · 2 years ago
The 'computed COME FROM' is even more interesting than the regular one due to it's ability to violate causality by coming from a place in the code before it was ever computed.
That of course makes migrating from Intercal difficult for a lot of organizations.
Comment · 2 years ago
For a while I kinda wanted to buy a used Buick Reatta as a project car because it had the same CRT touchscreen technology. It's extremely cool if you're into the 80s retro futuristic vibe.
Comment · 2 years ago
Cadmium was also widely used in the past as a galvanic coating on iron and steel parts to keep them from rusting. And unfortunately when and if it oxidizes, it can become powdery and easily airborne. I mess around with old electronics and it's unfortunately pretty common to encounter on old metal radio chassis and things like that.
Yes, and this has been known for a long time, since at least the 1950s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost-exchange_ratio
The problem is that a new generation of policy makers comes along every 30 years or so and thinks they know better than the people who came before them.