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Daily Tech News 25 August 2024
Top Story
- Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, has been arrested in Paris on charges of... Fuck charges, he's a libertarian and this is France. (Ars Technica)
Durov founded Russian social network VKontake before resigning because... We don't know exactly, but allegedly because the Russian government had assumed de facto control of the company, wanted him gone, and wasn't too fussy about how he left. China subsequently banned VKontakte as a tool of the Russian government, but China bans everyone.
Ars' creative director Aurich Lawson - who personally suspended my account once for pointing out the site's rampant hypocrisy - noted:I'm pretty curious to see how this plays out. Is it really as simple as "you ran a platform where you didn't moderate private messages, therefore you're criminally responsible for everything people said"?
Do tell, Mr. Lawson.
Because that seems pretty chilling on the face of things.
It's time to start treating Europe like North Korea. If you go there, assume that you are not coming home intact.
Tech News
- NASA has finally made a decision. (WCCFTech)
Butch and Suni will be coming home on SpaceX's Crew Dragon, after tests of another Starliner module showed similar but not identical failures in the attitude control thrusters.
A second Crew Dragon module will be sent up to dock with the ISS next month - there is one docked permanently as a lifeboat - with two additional crew onboard. The return trip is planned for February next year.
- Do you have a laptop, mini-PC, or all-in-one desktop that handles your computing needs just fine but you need more storage - and want to stick with an all solid-state solution - and you need something fast and don't want to mess about with NAS hardware and USB 10Gb Ethernet adapters?
Yes?
The TB4S-OC from Aoostar may be what you need. (Liliputing)
The price is reasonable at $179, and it supports four M.2 drives. Connection to your computer is by USB4 at 40Gbps or OCuLink at 64Gbps if you have that (basically PCIe over a cable).
You will need a USB4, Thunderbolt, or OCuLink port. Internally it's just a PCIe switch, so it does not work at all with generic USB ports.
- Always wanted your own mainframe? Christie's has an IBM 7090 on offer right now. (Tom's Hardware)
Price is expected to be in the area of $50,000. Plus shipping, which could add up because it weighs 23,000 lbs.
Disclaimer: Your mainframe so fat...
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 25, 2024 04:12 AM (pIfcn)
Brazil’s election court announced it may nullify election winners who spread online ‘misinformation.’
Hundreds of censorship professionals have been hired to read text message chats in Telegram and WhatsApp for ‘misinformation’ to report for apps to ban.
Financing for censorship of Brazilian citizens’ text messages is coming from USAID, the State Department, and the National Endowment for Democracy.
Foundation for Freedom Online.
https://tinyurl.com/2s3k79zm
Posted by: 13times at August 25, 2024 04:14 AM (gb5tG)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 25, 2024 04:24 AM (TGPs7)
Paul Allen was something of a pack rat and one of his obsessions was collecting historical computing hardware which he put on display at a small museum in Seattle. The museum was in a non-descript South Seattle industrial warehouse and was barely attended because it was lightly promoted. I can't remember if there was an entrance fee or not but it seems to me that there wasn't. It always struck me as being one of the finest collections of of historical computing gear, mostly still functional, around and it is a shame to see that it is being broken up.
The other outstanding collection is held at the Microsoft archives which holds a copy of every piece of software Microsoft ever released, functional PCs to run them, and other Microsoft memorabilia. It's impossible for the general public to go there as you have to be a Microsoft employee to get in which I was at the time.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at August 25, 2024 04:25 AM (/VucX)
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song...
The Band Perry - If I Die Young
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 25, 2024 04:26 AM (TGPs7)
https://tinyurl.com/2zcxwtwm
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 04:29 AM (bboj0)
Posted by: Just Wondering at August 25, 2024 04:40 AM (dg+HA)
National Endowment for Democracy
I guess 'Ministry for Democracy' would be a bit too Orwellian.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 25, 2024 04:41 AM (6bHrD)
https://tinyurl.com/2zcxwtwm
Posted by: Biden's Dog
Nice. But these days you can emulate an IBM 7090 on a Raspberry Pi Pico with room to spare, so you have to be pretty determined to keep the original hardware alive.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 25, 2024 04:44 AM (BLOW1)
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Correct. We used a laptop based server for years until IBM offered a remote development program, which we still use:
https://tinyurl.com/ye63c46h
Overall, downtime is limited to several hours of system maintenance which takes place on about every 2nd Sunday. There have been rare occasions of lost access, like when the facility moved from TX to NY and when some local road construction cut through a massive fiber optic cable. Otherwise, very stable, plus respectable support.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 04:50 AM (bboj0)
>>Nice. But these days you can emulate an IBM 7090 on a Raspberry Pi Pico with room to spare
It is rather astonishing that a computer the size of stick of chewing gum has more processing power than room sized super-computer of yesteryear.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 25, 2024 04:55 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 25, 2024 04:57 AM (gHSfI)
Funny: Boeing's Space Edsel was contracted for a 6 operation flights to the ISS before the ISS is retired/decommissioned/deorbited in 2030 (unless extended, the damn thing is about 25 years old, total).
With this debacle, they ain't gonna make it. This turkey as already cost Boeing $1.6B over contract.
Any bets on how many successful launches Boeing makes to the ISS before Space Daddy deorbits it to Point Nemo?
DEI, baby!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 05:03 AM (w6EFb)
NASA knows, whether they'll admit it or not, if they want anything done right, they need to call Space Daddy.
Space Daddy was therefore awarded the de-orbiting contract for the ISS. It cost $843M. Nearly a billion dollars to de-orbit the thing and send it in the deep drink at Point Nemo.
Space Daddy will send something up, dock with the ISS, and then thrust the de-orbiting maneuvers to bring it down to Point Nemo.
Seriously, this is not a trivial thing to do. Again, they don't call this Rocket Surgery for nothing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 05:08 AM (w6EFb)
>>Any bets on how many successful launches Boeing makes to the ISS before Space Daddy deorbits it to Point Nemo?
0.0000
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 25, 2024 05:09 AM (XV/Pl)
@TuckerCarlson
Pavel Durov left Russia when the government tried to control his social media company, Telegram. But in the end, it wasn’t Putin who arrested him for allowing the public to exercise free speech. It was a western country, a Biden administration ally and enthusiastic NATO member, that locked him away. Pavel Durov sits in a French jail tonight, a living warning to any platform owner who refuses to censor the truth at the behest of governments and intel agencies. Darkness is descending fast on the formerly free world.
x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/
1827460234887008277
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 25, 2024 05:09 AM (xYkDU)
The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space are displaying the usual quirks of well-loved and indulged house cats. Stirling the great black is lounging atop the counter that separates the living room from the kitchen, blinking at me in cat code which no doubt means "Where is breakfast?" Dagny the little Siberian princess was sitting on the lamp table to my left, but now I don't see her.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2024 05:10 AM (omVj0)
I was quite "bemused" a couple years ago when I realized a current desktop I had was capable of X times more FLOPS than some program we wrote in the late '80s ('89, my senior year at Clempson Cow Collidge) ran on a Cray.
One of our perfessors at the time scored some Cray time for us students that year. We had to practice on the local systems, and once we thought it was good, we got to run it on the Cray.
My desktop ran circles around that Cray, I observed. Moore's "Law" in action.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 05:12 AM (w6EFb)
I'm up, drinking coffee, planning to work out and to hit Walmart for a few items Aldi did not have yesterday; and then there'll be the Book Thread.
And Dagny hath returned to sit on one of the dining chairs and give me the same "When's breakfast?" look.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2024 05:14 AM (omVj0)
Which it is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2024 05:18 AM (omVj0)
>>My desktop ran circles around that Cray, I observed. Moore's "Law" in action.
In times of yore, I maintained SGI Onyx and Onyx2, at post production houses, these are computers the size of refrigerators, with whopping 250mhz of processing power, 4gb of ram.
My watch has more horsepower than this.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 25, 2024 05:19 AM (XV/Pl)
At $4.99, do you know you can feed cats a BJ's Rotisserie Chicken for about the same cost per serving as cat food?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 25, 2024 05:22 AM (a1415)
My first private PC was from CompuAdd in '89, a DOS machine with a whopping 40MB hard drive, yellow lettering, WordPerfect, and a modem that I installed myself and used to communicate with the work mainframe for classwork. COBOL programs, if it matters.
No Internet, of course. Sometimes I wish we still computed like that now. (Only sometimes.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2024 05:26 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: fluffy at August 25, 2024 05:26 AM (86W+h)
One of my Computer Sci perfessers at Clempson Cow Collidge, who was colludin' with a this physics and math perferssors in this senior year numerical analysis course we took had a funny story.
This was serious business, allowing students to use precious Cray time. We was heavily supervised. Cray time was $$$.
This Computer Sci perfessor, as a young buck, worked for Cray. He was doing something, which printed output on some big-ass line printer. He had a bug, that spewed a bunch of form feeds, causing said line printer to vomit reams of paper out. A volcano of paper erupting from the printer.
Seymour Cray, his own self, walked into the room, when that printer so erupted. My perfesso said he thought he was gone. Seymour Cray was gonna fire his ass right then and there and throw him out, "You stupid motherfucker, get the hell out and don't ever come back".
Seymour Cray just laughed his ass off, patted my perferssor on the back, and recalled the time he did the same thing, spewing reams of paper out of a printer. Seymour Cray his own self helped my perfessor debug his program to find the source of the paper-spewing bug.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 05:26 AM (w6EFb)
Someone is having a Grimm morning.
Posted by: fluffy at August 25, 2024 05:29 AM (86W+h)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024
***
Sometimes, the bigger they are, the more human they are. (Excepting people of course with names like Biden, Obama, Clinton, et al.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2024 05:31 AM (omVj0)
Seymour Cray died stupidly, in Oct. of 1996 one week after his 71st birthday. Traffic accident. He was merging into I-25 in Colorado, and was hit by some reckless lunatic.
He lingered for two weeks, and one week after his 71st birthday.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 05:33 AM (w6EFb)
ha ha ha!
Posted by: m at August 25, 2024 05:33 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 25, 2024 05:40 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2024 05:10 AM (omVj0)
Blink back! But from a distance.
Posted by: m at August 25, 2024 05:40 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2024 05:43 AM (omVj0)
Seymour Cray had a notorius relationship with corporate bean counters and investment type. They demanded he provide them with a detailed 5 year plan, and 1 year status report into it.
His report so consisted of something like "5 year plan: build biggest and fastest computer in the world. 1 yr goal: 1/5th of above".
When later asked for a status report on this plane, he provided a two sentence report, saying "Things are proceeding according to plan. No changes are needed".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 05:44 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2024
*
Blink back! But from a distance.
Posted by: m at August 25, 2024
***
Too late. I already fed them. Breakfast for them is usually 4:30 to 5:30 am; dinner about the same in pm, and they have come to expect this.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2024 05:45 AM (omVj0)
His report so consisted of something like "5 year plan: build biggest and fastest computer in the world. 1 yr goal: 1/5th of above".
When later asked for a status report on this plane, he provided a two sentence report, saying "Things are proceeding according to plan. No changes are needed".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024
***
We need more people like this.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2024 05:46 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 25, 2024 05:47 AM (yostU)
Financing for censorship of Brazilian citizens’ text messages is coming from USAID, the State Department, and the National Endowment for Democracy
I guess, like "vaccine", the word "democracy" has been redefined.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 25, 2024 05:50 AM (wo4nb)
The other outstanding collection is held at the Microsoft archives which holds a copy of every piece of software Microsoft ever released, functional PCs to run them, and other Microsoft memorabilia. It's impossible for the general public to go there as you have to be a Microsoft employee to get in which I was at the time.
Great, a room filled with computers, all aglow with the Blue Screen of Death
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 25, 2024 05:52 AM (wo4nb)
It's impossible for the general public to go there as you have to be a Microsoft employee to get in which I was at the time.
It is, however, Mecca for followers of the Cult of Clippy
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 25, 2024 05:53 AM (wo4nb)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 25, 2024 05:57 AM (VdhcA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2024 06:01 AM (omVj0)
🦟 Mosquito gif. Bummer, not gonna show up.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 25, 2024 06:04 AM (RKVpM)
National Endowment for Democracy
I guess 'Ministry for Democracy' would be a bit too Orwellian.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 25, 2024 04:41 AM (6bHrD)
heh
Posted by: m at August 25, 2024 06:05 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2024 06:07 AM (1SFyz)
National Endowment for Democracy
It is girthy, however.
'Scuse me while I whip this thing out.
** unzips pants **
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 25, 2024 06:08 AM (wo4nb)
I'm trying to remember that Cray time program we students ran on the Cray. It was the Helium atom wave functions. You know, hydrogren, 1 proton, 1 electron, all sorts of interesting Quantum wave functions. Add two, two protons, two electrons, things get very complicated.
We were doing something to try to figure that out (this problem was solved, to so many significant figures long before, but we were students learnin', and all that).
We used an approach called "Simulated Annealing" (look that up). Again, old problem, solved before, but a useful learnin' tool for students.
Now, running the program to do that on local Clempson Cow Collidge hardware at the time, 1989, would've taken ages, but Seymour Cray's latest supercomuter at the time could complete that run in a day or so. That was our project.
Somewhere, up at Mama's house, I have the IBM wide line printer listings of the program we did. It's up there. Somewhere.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 06:12 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2024 06:19 AM (dTTBf)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2024 06:20 AM (dTTBf)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 25, 2024 06:22 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 25, 2024 05:50 AM (wo4nb)
"Justice"
"Fairness"
"Popular"
....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 25, 2024 06:22 AM (BAEGB)
https://odb.org/2024/08/25/space-race
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2024 06:28 AM (dTTBf)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 06:29 AM (w6EFb)
National Endowment for Democracy might as well be called CIA Front for Meddling Worldwide
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2024 06:31 AM (mQCSa)
Seymour Cray >> Seymour Butts.
S. Butts, of course, author of the definitive tome, "Under the Bleachers".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 06:35 AM (w6EFb)
I looked out and saw a Cooper's hawk on the ground. He seemed a bit puzzled.
"Where did everybody go?"
Posted by: fluffy at August 25, 2024 06:41 AM (86W+h)
I am saying not a natural blonde
https://tinyurl.com/344npe7c
Should be out by Monday.
https://tinyurl.com/mraf6wxw
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at August 25, 2024 06:41 AM (/VucX)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024
***
I don't think I'll see it get light here for about 45.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2024 06:46 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 25, 2024 06:46 AM (UWgy2)
On the bright side, I have coffee this morning.
"Your mainframe so fat..."
And now I'm wearing some of that coffee. Thanks, Pixy. :-)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 25, 2024 06:46 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 25, 2024 06:47 AM (UWgy2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2024 06:48 AM (vNdJC)
What's gotten into Western leaders???
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 25, 2024 06:49 AM (HDFv7)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 25, 2024 06:49 AM (tljrc)
Looks like AnimEigo has gone live on Kickstarter for Kamui no Ken, so if you want a wild anime movie with ninjas here we go.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2024 06:51 AM (vNdJC)
We used an approach called "Simulated Annealing" (look that up). Again, old problem, solved before, but a useful learnin' tool for students.
I am going through my hitherto stored things --copies of papers in the literature and my presentations -- from when I worked at DuPont. I came across an exercise I had done to create a chart of relationships among the paying customers for our internal analytical services group using a newly published method termed a Self Organizing Map, which used a honeycomb (hexagonal) grid to present its outcomes. I could scarcely identify a damn thing the whole exercise had revealed and yet I'd estimate that I spent the better part of a month doing it. Into the trash all of it went.
"Data can be made to confess to practically anything under sufficient torture" was as true then as it is today.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 25, 2024 06:52 AM (wo4nb)
including a big pair of motor-generator units to convert 60 cycles to 400, was it built to be mounted in aircraft? seems like the sort of thing the m-i-c might have done.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 25, 2024 06:53 AM (UWgy2)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 25, 2024 06:49 AM (HDFv7)
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From what I understand, it should be coming to Poland, too.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 06:54 AM (bboj0)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 25, 2024 06:49 AM (HDFv7)
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Globalism. They need to control the populations before they eliminate them.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 06:55 AM (bboj0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2024 06:56 AM (vNdJC)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 06:58 AM (bboj0)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 25, 2024 07:01 AM (gbOdA)
Something else I'm remembering from that Helium atom wave function, simulated annealing approach we used. We were working on the program to do it, late one night in the Library at Clemson Cow Collidge.
We were running that "test bed" on VAX system Clemson had. They had several, some running VMS OS, this one running "Ultrix", some UNIC variant at the time. Sometime, after midnight, we launched that job on the VMS Ultrix, under the user account of one of us, not mine.
Now, that job, on that VMS hardware, would take weeks, even months to run to completion. This was just testing, the full Cray run we were hoping to get to to would've taken an hour or two.... This was just a test.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 07:01 AM (w6EFb)
They could use the Space Edsel to store bags of trash that otherwise would be released into space. Kind of a space dumpster, as it were.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 25, 2024 07:01 AM (wo4nb)
Seymour Cray died stupidly, in Oct. of 1996 one week after his 71st birthday. Traffic accident. He was merging into I-25 in Colorado, and was hit by some reckless lunatic.
He lingered for two weeks, and one week after his 71st birthday.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 05:33 AM (w6EFb)
Sorry to hear that. Gen.Patton died in a stupid way too; jeep accident, IIRC.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 25, 2024 07:04 AM (yZpub)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2024 07:04 AM (omVj0)
Here are some tidbits:
https://tinyurl.com/2tm3j2xb
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 07:05 AM (bboj0)
Now, that run, would take weeks at the least. No problem if things worked the way they should. We could come back several hours late, kill it , and verify it was working like it should. Then launch on the real Cray system to run to completion in reasonable time.
Well, there were bugs and all that in the OS software when we submitted that job. It was late at night, and all the higher priority users and such had logged off. Our program jumped up in priority, and was consuming all kinds of CPU time by sunrise the next morning.
The Sysadmin for that VAX Ultrix tried to log on the next morning, and he was delayed....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 07:07 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 25, 2024 07:04 AM (yZpub)
That's what they want you to believe....
Posted by: Maybe at August 25, 2024 07:07 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 07:09 AM (bboj0)
Posted by: Maybe at August 25, 2024 07:07 AM (0eaVi)
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It was moon Nazis with a laser beam.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 07:10 AM (bboj0)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 07:09 AM (bboj0)
As many as we need, of course!
Posted by: WEF and Other Villains at August 25, 2024 07:10 AM (0eaVi)
It was the Helium atom wave functions. You know, hydrogren, 1 proton, 1 electron, all sorts of interesting Quantum wave functions. Add two, two protons, two electrons, things get very complicated.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
That brings to mind something I was told by other graduate students in chemistry at Berkeley. There was a Professor Harris who taught our mandatory quantum chemistry course. I did not gave him as an instructor myself, but I was told that he introduced himself to his class somewhat like this: "Hello, I am Professor Harris. My research interests are systems where the number of particles are less than or equal to one."
To say that there were some strange people in the faculty would be to vastly understate matters.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 25, 2024 07:13 AM (wo4nb)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 07:10 AM (bboj0)
Patton seemed to feel it wasn't an accident before he died. Mark Felton has a vid. Probably because he advocated for a continuation of the war by attacking the Russians. The reds in the gov't couldn't allow that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 07:13 AM (0eaVi)
Because that seems pretty chilling on the face of things.
Isn't Ars always whining about Elon not allowing the CIA to control X?
Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2024 07:13 AM (P9pDS)
Yep. As I remember it, when I was in jr high they came out with a calculator, near the size of a vcr tape, that did + - × and ÷.
Never had one.
First computer experience was around 83. Got moved up to the GC room to run an HP 5880 gas chromatograph. Testing for PCB's, herbicides and pesticides. Moved to a mass spec about a year later.
I'll never be into em.
Posted by: TeeJ at August 25, 2024 07:14 AM (aCV/b)
Anyway, our programe, due to bugs in the priority system, had grown to be high priority, and prevented said SysOP from logging in quickly.
He was pissed. WTF is going on? Why does my baby not respond to me. He gets in, sees our program at high priority. He's pissed. He sees the account it was running under and sends a nasty email, after killing our process.
It took that Computer Sci perfesssor to 'splain to the SysOP how it was his own fuck-up, and nothing we students did. You did something stupid with your dynamic time-slice priority algorithm. Ain't nuttin' with my students.
Fix yo' shit and buzz off.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 07:14 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 25, 2024 07:15 AM (ZfuJ6)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at August 25, 2024 07:16 AM (/VucX)
I'm going to guess the reason that scared them is the reason it scared me: "similar but not identical". If you can't predict how it's going to behave, that's *really* bad.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2024 07:16 AM (P9pDS)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 25, 2024 07:17 AM (UWgy2)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 25, 2024 07:20 AM (2NHgQ)
Yup. McCarthy was right, but he also dramatically underestimated the size of the problem.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2024 07:20 AM (P9pDS)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 25, 2024 07:17 AM (UWgy2)
Probably worse now.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 07:21 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 25, 2024 07:23 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 25, 2024 07:26 AM (UWgy2)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 25, 2024 07:23 AM (BLOW1)
You mean this thread? JJs not up yet.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 07:26 AM (0eaVi)
Isn't Boeing part of the Artemis program to return humans to the Moon?
Keep them in the loop and we're going to be doing little more than scarring the Moon's surface with grisly trenches of debris from "unexpected impacts".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 25, 2024 07:27 AM (wo4nb)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 07:26 AM (0eaVi)
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*cough*
Sunday.
*cough*
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 07:28 AM (bboj0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 07:28 AM (0eaVi)
When you don't work anymore and have nowhere to be....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 07:29 AM (0eaVi)
I would be shocked to find that even 0.5% of those staffing the 3 or 4 letter groups that are actually "running" things are God fearing, freedom loving Americans.
Posted by: TeeJ at August 25, 2024 07:31 AM (aCV/b)
https://www.upperroom.org/devotionals/en-2024-08-25
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2024 07:31 AM (dTTBf)
I'm not sure.
Space Daddy is a big part of it. A modified Starship that will serve as the HLS (human landing system) on the Moon.
This involved a HALO orbit Lunar Gateway System space station. You can look all that up.
Me, although I forget the details, a while back, I decided that Space Daddys should handle verything, fuck the SLS and Orion docking at the Lunar Gateway in HALO orbit. Just take a crew up in Starship. land on the Moon again, do your shit.
Fuck all that other shit, let Space Daddy handle it all.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 07:32 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 25, 2024 07:32 AM (UWgy2)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 25, 2024 07:36 AM (UWgy2)
Chuck Schumer removed the mask
https://tinyurl.com/559vjbuu
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 07:36 AM (bboj0)
>>Butch and Suni will be coming home on SpaceX's Crew Dragon, after tests of another Starliner module showed similar but not identical failures in the attitude control thrusters.
Gee, I guess the US Justice Dept. can't put Musk out of business until after he saves our astronauts?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2024 07:36 AM (Pijte)
I watched a gray squirrel play chicken with it.
That is one bold little rodent.
Posted by: fluffy at August 25, 2024 07:37 AM (86W+h)
https://tinyurl.com/3su999kc
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2024 07:38 AM (dTTBf)
He caught the FBI trying to recruit an engineer to insert a backdoor for them to spy on all messages.
They also created multiple fake accounts to go after any anti-Covid Vax folks.
I'm certain the Harris-Biden regime ordered his arrest.
Note well: Telegram is a big way most crypto folks communicate. Trump has been getting a huge amount of crypto donations.
Harris has not.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 25, 2024 07:40 AM (fCvil)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 25, 2024 07:23 AM (BLOW1)
Sounds like me. My first job was working on a 60s era IBM 1800 with all of 64kb of memory, little rings.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 25, 2024 07:41 AM (cuRsD)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 25, 2024 07:42 AM (fCvil)
Agreed. But they can't, because he's an existential threat to the fake gay Wizard of Oz running most of the West. Starlink could in theory bypass the entire existing Internet infrastructure for its customers and *really* fuck up the US and UK's governments' ability to censor everything.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2024 07:42 AM (NqGS/)
Thank you to the lovely gentleman who treated 5 unknown ladies to brunch this morning!
I met up at our local coffeeshop with 4 friends. We had a good catch-up after not seeing each other for a few months and didn't speak to any others apart from the lady who took our orders.
When we went up to pay we were told a man had paid our bill as he had overheard us talking about a birthday.
Thank you kind sir for a lovely surprise and making our day!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2024 07:45 AM (dTTBf)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 25, 2024 07:23 AM (BLOW1)
hahahaha
Come for the tech, hang around for the grammar!
Posted by: m at August 25, 2024 07:45 AM (64Zez)
https://tinyurl.com/349c9ttp
What's sad is that they don't think the US will protect our citizens and free speech. Who's in charge in DC that would stop them, who would say: "Return our citizen now or else!" like Trump did?
Hell, a lot of them would help them: "Please! Remove this pesky social media platform that is getting in the way of our awful candidate being "elected."
Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2024 07:47 AM (Pijte)
Chuck Schumer removed the mask
https://tinyurl.com/559vjbuu
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 07:36 AM (bboj0)
If Schumer eliminates the filibuster, he can pack the SCOTUS, and rewrite the constitution. Bye bye bill of rights.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 25, 2024 07:47 AM (Y1w6t)
Back in the early - mid 90s while working for the Treasury we went about replacing our mainframe. As the old one was being removed the computer room floor under it collapsed, and the system dropped about 18 inches to the concrete slab under the raised floor. Took them about 2 days to figure out how to remove it.
Quite the spectacle. Being a PC/server tech at the time me and my crew snickered for days about that.
Anyway, it's amazing that something the size of a small bus with that computing power is now basically in every smart phone.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 25, 2024 07:47 AM (Q4IgG)
I must say, I'm getting into this space shit again, thanks to Space Daddy. Of Space Daddy, I'm impressed in terms of you, know doing shit, vs the cost of doing said shit.
The Mighty F-1 engines of the first stage of the Saturn V, Werner Von Braun's PaperCiip baby, the greatest rocket ever flown, (pbuh) bar none.
That sucker, in today's dollars cost about 115 million dollars per engine. Two Saturn V first stages. 10 F-1s, about 2 billion today's dollars. Mind-blowing expense.
Now, figure the dollars per thrust. F-1s pretty damned expensive there. Space Shuttle main engine, RS-25, even worse by a long shot, which current law mandates be used for the SLS to the Moon again.
Well, Space Daddy's efforts, blow that all away in terms of dollars per thrust. Ain't no comparison.
Anybody with any sense, let Space Daddy do the whole damned thing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 07:49 AM (w6EFb)
Thank you kind sir for a lovely surprise and making our day!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2024 07:45 AM (dTTBf)
Such a good story. I'm happy for you ladies.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 25, 2024 07:50 AM (Y1w6t)
He caught the FBI trying to recruit an engineer to insert a backdoor for them to spy on all messages.
They also created multiple fake accounts to go after any anti-Covid Vax folks.
I'm certain the Harris-Biden regime ordered his arrest.
- - - -
And there it is.
We're the bad guys, our government is.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2024 07:51 AM (Pijte)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 25, 2024 07:52 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2024 07:52 AM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2024 07:42 AM (NqGS/)
I don't know who is meant here.
Posted by: m at August 25, 2024 07:53 AM (64Zez)
But there was one big box that fascinated us all because of its numerous and unusual switches, knobs, meters and indicators. We finally asked our guide what it was.
"That's the air conditioning system."
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 07:53 AM (bboj0)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 25, 2024 07:53 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 07:54 AM (0eaVi)
Is Tehran burning?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 25, 2024 07:52 AM (RIvkX)
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Just the opposite:
https://tinyurl.com/4taaw6nm
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 07:55 AM (bboj0)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 25, 2024 05:57 AM (VdhcA)
yep
Posted by: m at August 25, 2024 07:56 AM (64Zez)
When reading about the history of coffee, the beverage was banned a lot, mostly the coffee houses where it was served and particularly the merchants who ran the coffee houses.
The chief reason why coffee was banned by so many different governments is because of the coffee house where people would meet and bitch about how bad the government is, and now had the Liquid Motivation in order to do something about it.
The information that government must censor is the information that would lead to their overthrow. It is better for them if you are in chains so that they can continue to lord over others and plunder at will.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 25, 2024 07:56 AM (0Y1Ss)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Remember when the IBM Engineer would bring in an additional 1M (yes, 1 MB) of storage and we'd all ooh and aah as if it was the Holy Grail?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2024 07:56 AM (WXNFJ)
Anybody with any sense, let Space Daddy do the whole damned thing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 07:49 AM
damn straight
in a perfect world, Trump's inaugural address would include a JFK-esque line "...by the end of this decade, we will land a man on Mars and return him safely to Earth..."
then turn to Elon and say "LFG!!!"
in a perfect world
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 25, 2024 07:57 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 25, 2024 07:58 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I caught her show at the Kitty Kat Club years ago. It may have been at the Joy Time Touching Studio.
Hmmmmm. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2024 07:59 AM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 25, 2024 07:58 AM (RIvkX)
Gotta get through Pumpkin Spice season first.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 08:00 AM (0eaVi)
Well you were told, you were warned. But, you were certain that, that could never happen in the west. Well ? How about now ?
Idiots, clueless, ignorant idiots. Bet you can presume a lot about clowns like this, and be correct. Good grief.
Posted by: Edward at August 25, 2024 08:03 AM (93DJn)
Posted by: Maybe at August 25, 2024 07:07 AM (0eaVi)
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It was moon Nazis with a laser beam.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2024 07:10 AM (bboj0)
Moon Nazis with sharks with laser beams.
Posted by: m at August 25, 2024 08:04 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 25, 2024 08:05 AM (2AW7/)
Butler PA was a choice!
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 25, 2024 08:06 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 25, 2024 08:06 AM (MoKe9)
All I'll say is that I think Space Daddy, if let go to the fullest of his ability, will, be known as:
Elon I, by the Grace of God, of the Planet Mars and His other Solar System Realms and Dominions, god-emperor. Defender of the Speech.
His palace will be at Cydonia (you know, the woo-woo Face on Mars, per Dick Hoagland, Art Bell All-Star (pbuh)).
The Face on Mars will be Elon I, when it's all said and one. With an all-girl Praetorian Guard, looking all hot and shit with light-sabers.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2024 08:07 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Remember when the IBM Engineer would bring in an additional 1M (yes, 1 MB) of storage and we'd all ooh and aah as if it was the Holy Grail?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2024 07:56 AM (WXNFJ)
After college I started working on IBM System 38 and System 36. The S/36 had a 64k max program size. I was working on IBM Mapics ERP software. The purchase order entry program took 25 hours to compile.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 25, 2024 08:08 AM (2AW7/)
Posted by: cicero skip at August 25, 2024 08:10 AM (62wAR)
Posted by: JM in Ill
Amen to that. We just got back - the entire time there we were bombarded by signs and placards urging us to rat each other out for real AND imagined slights. cctv equipment is everywhere. And, oddly enough, all depictions of criminals on said posters are white, English folks - in some cases, old white ladies. None of the scum they invited in.
I was much relieved to return home.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2024 08:11 AM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Skip at August 25, 2024 08:11 AM (fwDg9)
"That's the air conditioning system."
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Perhaps THE single most important piece of kit in the whole room.
The Treasury facility I was at had 3 separate units. Those got a lot of attention. Once the computers, servers, whatever were up and running most of the "work" on them was done remotely.
Although, I do recall that every rack for the systems had a monitor and keyboard hooked up to a KVM switch. In my day, that was a CRT monitor... probably green.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 25, 2024 08:13 AM (Q4IgG)
Patton seemed to feel it wasn't an accident before he died. Mark Felton has a vid. Probably because he advocated for a continuation of the war by attacking the Russians. The reds in the gov't couldn't allow that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 07:13 AM (0eaVi)
And what a different (better IMHO) world it would be if Patton was turned loose.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 25, 2024 08:14 AM (2AW7/)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2024 08:11 AM (WXNFJ)
Fail Britannia, it's underneath the waves
Britons now will ever be slaves.
Edit to song.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 08:14 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2024 08:15 AM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 25, 2024 08:16 AM (2AW7/)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 25, 2024 08:16 AM (2AW7/)
With 'em, or agin 'em?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 08:17 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 25, 2024 08:16 AM (2AW7/)
We're a bit undermanned in our armed forces, aren't we?
Posted by: m at August 25, 2024 08:18 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 08:17 AM (0eaVi)
Considering their immigration policies - "agin 'em".
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 25, 2024 08:20 AM (2AW7/)
Disclaimer: Your mainframe so fat...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM
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Really good one Pixy.
(I'm late to this thread - slept when I was abandoned to the wiles of an empty ONT - I don't recognize you people anymore).
Posted by: Ciampino - I don't recognize you people anymore #01 at August 25, 2024 08:20 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: m at August 25, 2024 08:18 AM (64Zez)
Illegal immigrants + military service = citizenship
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 25, 2024 08:21 AM (2AW7/)
As goes Europe, so goes the USA. I'm (barely) under 60, but am thoroughly convinced in my lifetime we'll be fighting another war in Europe before I breathe my last.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 25, 2024 08:16 AM
the way things are going, it's not inconceivable that we'll be fighting a war against europe in our lifetimes
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 25, 2024 08:21 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Ciampino - I don't recognize you people anymore #01 at August 25, 2024 08:20 AM (qfLjt)
Don't blame me, I left a couple of hours in.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 08:21 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: dantesed at August 25, 2024 08:23 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: fd at August 25, 2024 08:24 AM (vFG9F)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 25, 2024 07:53 AM (u82oZ)
Tougher to do each day, but you offer wise words. Thanks.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 25, 2024 08:25 AM (01k9a)
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Lowes/Home Depot already have decorations out.
(And I note the Christmas stuff is on the floor, but not yet on display)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 25, 2024 08:26 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: dantesed at August 25, 2024 08:23 AM (Oy/m2)
It shows up at the tail end of Back to School.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 08:26 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: SFGoth at August 25, 2024 08:27 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at August 25, 2024 08:27 AM (Y8lzz)
We need happy warriors. Which town or city will be the first to light up a Hamas rally?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 25, 2024 08:27 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at August 25, 2024 08:27 AM (Y8lzz)
Do they even have any that are operational?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 08:28 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Wartburg or Sparta Tennessee are pretty likely candidates.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2024 08:28 AM (WXNFJ)
I still shake my head at the many that don't realize the US of A is the worst baddie on the planet.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 25, 2024 08:28 AM (u82oZ)
Halloween candy is already in the grocery stores.
Posted by: dantesed at August 25, 2024 08:23 AM
It shows up at the tail end of Back to School.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 08:26 AM
back to school shows up around 3:30 PM on Independence Day...
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 25, 2024 08:29 AM (tljrc)
No, we're shipping you to Europe. Flat rate.
Posted by: look whats not at August 25, 2024 08:29 AM (nakGR)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 25, 2024 08:28 AM (u82oZ)
Suggested edit: the US government is....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 08:29 AM (0eaVi)
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The odds are probably better that England or France would nuke us over some censorship issue before Russia would over a real, geopolitical one.
And probably in a lot less than 30 years.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 25, 2024 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)
Ya move to Canada and you are killed by the Canadian government. Who knew a hangnail leads to suicide?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 25, 2024 08:31 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ciampino - Non riconosco pił voialtri #02 at August 25, 2024 08:31 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 25, 2024 08:29 AM (tljrc)
I never once set foot on school grounds until after Labor Day. Now, some places start in late July and early August.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 08:31 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 25, 2024 08:31 AM (u82oZ)
It hurts greatly to see an organization I served so proudly in debased so badly by what I regard as scum.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 25, 2024 08:33 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 25, 2024 08:33 AM (O7YUW)
Amusing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 25, 2024 08:38 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 25, 2024 08:38 AM (o2Xk8)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 25, 2024 08:33 AM (O7YUW)
Speaking of which, my two got awful quiet all of the sudden. They (tabby and maine coon) are overdue for their morning zoomies.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 25, 2024 08:39 AM (2AW7/)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 25, 2024 08:40 AM (2AW7/)
Fortunately, I have other books...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 25, 2024 08:41 AM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 25, 2024 08:16 AM (2AW7/)
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Another war?
Posted by: Ukraine at August 25, 2024 08:41 AM (Nzrqz)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 25, 2024 08:44 AM (Nzrqz)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 25, 2024 08:41 AM (BpYfr)
Speaking of that, I have something stewing in the back of my mind for the BT. Maybe take a few days to figure out. I'll email you if it works.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 08:44 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 25, 2024 08:45 AM (u82oZ)
In 30 years the French and British will barely have the ability to build oxcarts, much less subs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 25, 2024 08:46 AM (S6gqv)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2024 08:44 AM (0eaVi)
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Sure. I look forward to it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 25, 2024 08:48 AM (BpYfr)
But sharp knives for knife attacks; they will have plenty.
Crew serviced, belt-fed, firearms are the real answer for Zerg rushes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 25, 2024 08:48 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Skip at August 25, 2024 08:48 AM (fwDg9)
Ahh, sugar. the most addictive drug and silent killer.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 25, 2024 08:55 AM (0Y1Ss)
BOOK NOOD
Posted by: Skip at August 25, 2024 09:00 AM (fwDg9)
In times of yore, I maintained SGI Onyx and Onyx2, at post production houses, these are computers the size of refrigerators, with whopping 250mhz of processing power, 4gb of ram.
My watch has more horsepower than this.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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The graphics were pretty awesome on those as I recall. I worked a contract putting those together for a convoy driving simulator. We would climb in the drivers' seats and play death match doom on them during lunch. Got busted by the vice president and then had to make room for him to play too.
Posted by: BifBewalski at August 25, 2024 09:05 AM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 25, 2024 11:51 AM (i24o9)
A few years later, in the real world, I wrote a Fortran that ran on a Univac 1190 to analyze equalization circuits... using Hollerith cards. When the company transfered all their archived programs onto mag tapes, I retrieved the deck with that program.
I used them as bookmarks. It took years to run out.
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