I reread 1984 a few years ago and the thing that really struck me is what Orwell got wrong: the notion that you need to erase evidence of factual data (at great effort/expense) in order to propagate lies. It turns out that you just need to shout a little louder and a lot of folks will eat it up.

Which should have been obvious by then, but which was not even obvious to me when I read it the first time (in HS - around '84). But at this point we've all very much lived through it (and continue to).

The number of people who care about what's factual or actual isn't enough.

So my partner (who irrationally worries about such things) will consent to buying one.

That's it.

The reasons don't need to be good. The arguments don't matter at all. 600 mile range is what some people expect/require from their vehicle.

I'm pretty sure that parades help, too. Let's not leave those out.

No.

USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) plays a significant role in global family planning and reproductive health, providing contraceptive supplies and support to developing countries.

I've got news: atoms are not 2 dimensional. I can't help but think any publication that prints this stuff isn't worth the paper it's no longer printed on.

Good question. I have no idea how difficult that would be. It would depend on how well-factored the disk access routines are from the other OS routines. You *can* reserve part of a Profile hard disk as a Pascal volume using a tool that comes with Apple Pasca, but I don't know if that's a file on a ProDOS volum, or how it works.

The MS-DOS p-system did apparently interoperable with the FAT filesystem, so it's possibly do-able?

Yeah, it would have to be an ARM-based Arduino, to use the Rust version. But there are several of those now, and they're not even necessarily more-expensive than the AVR versions.

Why in the world would you want a new interpreter for the Apple II? The one that exists is fine. And yes - people *have* done this before, mostly rather a long time ago. Building another version of the same thing isn't a bad thing, especially if it comes along with better documentation of the internals, in a way that's accessible to a modern audience.

Unsurprisingly, the 25-year-old project you refer to doesn't build on my system. And neither does the version Peter Miller updated way back in 2010. It's probably worth revisiting projects like this every decade or so.

Yes, with a caveat. Apple Pascal has some native 6502 routines as extensions to the standard UCSD Pascal. These will have to be translated, ideally to p-Code, and wired into something in the emulator. But I'd *like to* do that, once I have things up and running.

Now that's good thinking.

Dude. Did you see the poster's name who you were responding to? 'nuff said.

You could have gone with the short answer: "no".

While it is true that there seem to be 11 launch capable countries, now, that has not been the case for decades. And certainly not the "China, India, Japan and a dozen other..." that you claimed.

Rocket science continues to be as hard as rocket science.

AI: "how many rocket launch failures have there been in the past year"
In 2024, there were 8 orbital launch failures out of 259 attempts. This resulted in a failure rate of 3%, which is lower than the previous year's 6%.

Pissing on a company whose first attempt was not a complete success says more about you than it does about that company.

A dozen other countries? For decades? Really? Care to name 'em?

I'm not up on my AI jargon. How should I feel about 20 tokens/second? What does that mean to me as some kind of user?