Q knew what to do! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I still have a 64KB memory card for the original IBM PC (5150), which has chips piggybacked on top of each other. It looks as if all 16 pins on each chip are connected, so I've always wondered whether the chip on the bottom is different from the chip on top, perhaps to have a single inverter on one pin so it responds to the address strobe differently from the chip it's mated with.

My SIG is very relevant to your comment, but I encountered it learning to program IBM Advanced Basic (BASICA.EXE) in 1982.

I understood that reference! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I understand it, but I was actually hoping for a reference to the High SierraCD-ROM format.

Actually yes. I happened to find this video just yesterday and it explains why VHS video signals would be very fragile compared to typical audio recordings:

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

Don't let the editing in the summary trip you up. Personal version is $99 now but the price will go up to $129 in 90 days. From the actual article:

I remember testing recursion on IBM Advanced Basic, and finding it would fail even a simple case (think Tower of Hanoi) at a depth of about 32.

Wanted to mod you informative, hit funny instead. Commenting to kill moderation. Hey Slashdot, is total lack of undo/edit -really- necessary?

Are you running Windows 10 Home? If so, then please tell us how you disabled updates for 6 months. I'm sure a lot of people here would really like to know.

This isn't specific to iOS, but there's this 'modern UX' Philosophy that functions should be completely hidden until needed, which does seem to develop from a 'mobile first' attitude. One example: I've been baffled on how to delete entries from a list, because there's no edit mode for the list, and even if there is, still no 'affordance' to suggest this is what you click to delete. Why? Because 'delete' is obviously a swipe left or right (depending on the app). Then and only then do you get to see a nice big red 'DELETE' box. The user should just 'know'. Similar to how Windows 8 introduced those awful 'hot corners' that made charm controls spring up if you left your mouse (or touch) there. But of course this isn't universal. The iOS Podcasts app uses an edit mode for lists and check boxes that look like radio buttons (another minor gripe) to indicate which items in a list should be deleted.

A couple decades ago there seemed to be a much more rational UX philosophy where controls were obviously controls, text was obviously text, window frames and borders were -good- things because they help the user's mental model of the UI match the software, and on-screen affordances were designed to give the user a clue as to what does what. We've gone backwards.

The Starliner may not have any external systems that an astronaut could repair. And if the destination of the Starliner is always the ISS, the astronauts there can do EVAs while the vehicle is docked / nearby. There's probably no compelling reason for every taxi flight to the ISS to have its own EVA capability.

In short, yes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreeableness

Not saying I agree with it, but apparently a field of study around "Big Five" personality traits has emerged, and within that structure, 'agreeableness' does equate to altruism.

You mean like Norway?

I don't have a strong preference of 7 vs 10's user interface, but I do still miss the old Start Menu, however the search does a decent job letting me find the things I would have been searching for there. On the other hand, I have just recently run into one of those situations where you want to configure something in the OS, and -some- of the relevant settings are in Settings, and -others- are still in the classic Control Panel. That is definitely a mess that still needs to be cleaned up.