Comment Re:Ode to Mr. Scott (Score 1) 185
Yes, like that dumb fuck engineer at NASA who used imperial instead of metric.
Yes, like that dumb fuck engineer at NASA who used imperial instead of metric.
speak for yourself gayboy!
amen to that.
he's wielded far too much personal power (bestowed upon him by a dictator) and blocked/interfered with important research over the years.
fuck him.
Luckily I was upwind and a few floors above it when I saw it and there was nobody on site underneath and nothing downwind apart from a very large disused coalmine.
Scary shit. If they were slack then, they were probably slack at other times too, and that shit has been inhaled by unsuspecting downwind folk at home or work...
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It costs them reputation.
americanism, like color instead of colour.
sskay, ther'l ollways be vodka
Exactly. This nonsense will continue for some time and eventually it will implode. Just a matter of time. Unfortunately (US) companies don't seem to have much of a choice...
'coz your snot is icky, ok? sars, plague, God knows what's in your snot. then it dries, and has to be peeled off, etc. no, no. you can keep your snot-encrusted ipad.
Our overlords don't rape, they probe.
You made me go all misty eyed there, old man. I remember disassembling mine so I could spray paint the case... soldered in a pulse switch on GND+RESET line so I could do a hard-reset by hitting that special button (lockups were common if you enjoyed machine language programming...).
I remember sitting in school class pretending to read from a schoolbook all the while studying my copy of Commodore 64 Programmer's Guide (I still have it).
I remember walking about 30km (return) as a 16yo to fetch my copies of aforementioned volume and Inside The Commodore 64 (Milton Bathurst) from the post office.
I remember tinkering with undocumented assembly opcodes to see what they would do (gleaned from Compute! magazine, remember that one?)... and of course the countless months of my life I must have spent typing in machine code numbers for various apps/games/utils.
I remember being able to scroll the screen left by 1 pixel for the first time (think gaming). Moving sprites around (the usual bird-flapping animation).
I remember the wonderful toe-curling rush of dopamine when it finally dawned on me how indirect addressing worked in machine language.
I think PEEK and POKE are still the fastest words I can type on a keyboard, and I still can't forget that the safest area of memory starts at $C000 (4k worth) - otherwise known as 49152 for mere mortals.
w00t!
Exactly. Similarly, I also have to laugh at folks who blame sendmail for x, y or z problem they are experiencing with their mail.
Systems like Apache, Sendmail, GNU C, glibc, et al, are rock solid and reliable for a reason. Maturity.
/bounces with excitement
ah, fuckit, never mind.
You're a fucking idiot.
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. -- Arthur R. Miller