options are nice, but for the $8 (?) credit for not having a simple AM radio, and with each such being a special order, I suspect it would have cost less to just build them all with radios, and let the aftermarket folks toss them . . .

Applesoft, TRS-80 Level 2, and most of the other built in were version 2 of Microsoft BASIC (or the 6502 port of that).

Until version 5, iirc, memory was searched serially, rather than using a table.

So jump to a high line number for setup, then back to midrange for general execution, with frequently used subroutines at low line numbers.

Version 4.52, then later 5, were common on CP/M.

BASICA/GWBASIC was pretty much an 8086 port of 5 with extensions.

>and also headache-causing, horribly obfuscated code in any language.

"A good programmer can write bad FORTRAN in *any* language!"

imagine a world in which 70% to 80% of the political *middle* in the house was choosing a speaker, the rules committee, and chairmen, shutting out the Dingbat Caucus on the democrats' left, and the Arson Coalition on the republican left.

Oh, wait, we don't have to imagine it--it worked this way for most of US history, for which party line votes were the exception, not the rule.

This wouldn't be nearly so funny if GM hadn't been sued *for* making radios standard equipment, and forced to provide the "delete for credit" option to "protect" third party radio manufacturers . . .

> I mean, who buys new thermostats every 15 years?

I'll take "Honeywell Customers" for $200.

Oh, and try *reading* the license on their smart ones . . . it basically says "we can do anything we want with your data, and disclose it to whomever we choose, especially if they're going to pay us."

viing for puns, are we?

What you're talking about is YOST.

https://yost.com/computers/RJ4...

The problem with it isn't the signaling at the port, it's getting the serial part to work on the host PC or other device being used. Almost nothing has RS-232 DE-9 port anymore, and even USB-A is becoming less common. Plus the FTDI scandal with cloned chips and nonfunctional drivers is another major problem.

I've had MRSA in my forties. I was lucky, my primary care provider caught it before it had gotten bad enough to require hospitalization, strong, STRONG antibiotics took care of it. When I had it, it manifested in a fashion that I thought was allergies, mostly localized swelling. I ended up trying to treat with antihistamines but that didn't accomplish anything. As it got worse I went in and was immediately sampled for testing and started on both oral and topical antibiotics.

So yeah, it can happen naturally to someone that's otherwise healthy and doesn't have a history of this sort of infection. The trouble is, it's not especially common either, so when the second whistleblower dies during a short span of months once investigators are actually paying attention, it's not something that should be ignored. Unfortunately given the budget that Boeing and its rich execs and board members have, it would probably be trivial to find a way to pay an assailant to do something to whistleblowers that doesn't easily tie back to them so long as they're not stupid about how they transfer funds.

haven't you studied relativity?

that extra juice lets the ship move so fast that the 270 miles appears to be just 195 to outside observers!

And rain. Avoid rain.

Someone might have an umbrella . . .

>How do you arrest someone in absentia ?

"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."

>Come on now, EMacs doesn't deserve to be slandered by being associated with Systemd

I dunno.

Have *you* ever seen emacs and systemd in the same room?

clearly they're the same, just with two names depending upon the audience . . .

and just as I'd grudgingly even accepted sudo itself!

>when I watch train webcams

uhm . . . is there a lack of paint drying in your neighborhood?