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Illustrates the importance of 'crossing the T' in naval warfare before there were turreted guns. :)

Alexa play 'Nena - 99 Red Balloons'...

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.

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...

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...

It's back in the main exhibit now AFAIK. They completed a 4th hangar some years back and towed it back there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WptDcLKTYSM

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's very strange - some people are lucid and mobile up until nearly the end, and others are 'out of it' for a long time. My mother was mostly delirious and bedridden for the entire last month of her life before dying from cancer.

I suppose if the person is able to find peace with what's happening, then maybe it's better to be lucid, but for others, maybe being 'out of it' is a blessing.

The article seems to contain a lot of hand-wringing about upper class' beliefs allegedly harming lower class families, but I don't see any mention about the main change in the labor force since 1960 - namely the participation rate of women. Men probably work less nowadays simply because it's easier to do in a two-income household vs a one-income household.

Relevant xkcd (and personal favorite of mine) since no one else posted it yet: https://xkcd.com/91/ :)

I think an aggravating factor in the software world (that's maybe not as prevalent in other fields), is that developers tend to want to use the latest and newest technologies, even if said technology is not really appropriate for the task. It looks good on your resume to say that you used the same technology Facebook uses - the ol' "resume driven development".

Interview from one day ago with the original author of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoYM_p3HX4

Interesting takeaways:

* The game was developed for the company that the author worked for in 1984 as a demonstration of the company's networking tech. It was supposed to only be for their clients. But it ended up being copied and passed around and by 1988 (at the latest) it was being distributed by shareware distributors.

* There is an Atari ST port that the author made around the same time as the PC version which apparently never made it onto the internet but might still be floating around somewhere (on disk or ROM cartridge) in his personal collection of stuff.

Oh definitely. Love Galactus.

The article seems to allege that Roth IRAs are being used as illegal tax shelters by using them to purchase assets at below-market value. It states:

"Thiel paid $0.001 per share — yes, just a tenth of a penny — for 1.7 million shares. At that price, he was able to buy a large stake for just $1,700.

In 1999, $2,000 was the maximum amount you could put into a Roth in a year.

Thiel’s unusual stock purchase risked running afoul of rules designed to prevent IRAs from becoming illegal tax shelters. Investors aren’t allowed to buy assets for less than their true value through an IRA. The practice is sometimes known as “stuffing” because it gets around the strict limits imposed by Congress on how much money can be put in a Roth."

Well 'year' can mean two different things though: 'calendar year' or 'solar year'.

Your calendar year birthday would be March 1 since one full calendar year has elapsed.

But Feb 28 is the nearest day to one full solar year, assuming you were born before about 6pm local time on Feb 29.

Two-day long birthday it is! :)

One of my favorite movie monologues of all time is the speech Slim Pickens' character gives to the crew when he realizes that their mission isn't an exercise. It's so delightfully absurd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ynY5NvYsZY

Very similar thing happened to me, except with Spectrum. Called to complain after they increased my bill. The only option they gave me was to sign up for ACP, which they said I was automatically eligible for strictly based on my address. They would not let me switch to a lower-tier plan ...unless I signed up for ACP.

I didn't feel right about it, so I cancelled my service, switched to AT&T, and filed a complaint with the FCC. The FCC then forwarded my complaint to Spectrum, who more or less claimed everything was hunky dory. Nothing really came of it at all as far as I know.

Oh man. There is this building in the city where I live. It's SO uncompromisngly gray and ugly that sometimes I think maybe it's actually a parody of this particular style. It kind of looks like a prison from the outside too... but it's actually condos! I hate it so much that I love it. :)

Anyway here's a great photo of it I found on Google:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipMKvYH4OHFU5o4gZlSZ...

I was told by the armchair generals on the internet that the infamous tank battle scene in the movie 'Fury' was totally unrealistic specifically because the opposing tanks fight at such close range.

Yet here we have a video from an actual war showing something very similar.

Just get an old car and buy some tools and teach yourself. There's a ton of information online. For a lot of cars, you can find step-by-step instructions or walkthrough videos of common procedures.

I would start with some easier procedures to get your confidence up, like maybe a valve cover gasket replacement or a serpentine belt replacement. Then move on to harder things.

Also, if you live in a rust-prone area (and you are using simple hand tools), your most important items will be penetrating oil, a big breaker bar, and a large sledgehammer. :) Getting rusty things unstuck is kind of an art in and of itself.

There was also Sente (another Go term) which was used as the name of another company founded by Nolan Bushnell (the founder of Atari). I think he was an avid Go player.

Oh boy, I can't wait to make my first 1au high div! (with overflow set to scroll of course)

Here's an interesting fact that I didn't know until very recently: the original 40-PIN DIP Z80 is still made today, by Zilog:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/zilog/Z84C0008PEG...

I guess we're still living in the 8-bit era, technically. ;)

This is a great example of basic functionality regressing due to the bloat of modern technology stacks.

Blinking cursors have existed since the original IBM PC and before. Yet for some reason, now a blinking cursor is a problem that causes CPU spikes on modern gigahertz level machines.

This shouldn't even be possible.

I took this same port (SDL Sopwith) and ported it to Gamecube a number of years back [1]. It was surprisingly not that hard to do. As you said, most of the work was in the porting to SDL. The guy who did the SDL port was Simon Howard, by the way.

[1] https://code.google.com/archive/p/gamecubesopwith/