the goal is to locate and snatch mossad / CIA operatives that are attempting to raise mayhem in the country.

time to start a hard fork

I started PC programming in 1982, had to teach myself asm almost immediately in order to write a hardware interrupt handler for the serial port.
Back in those days code size was important, and for any driver/TSR type program it was simply crucial. Here in Norway we needed to load the KEYBNO.COM program which took over the keyboard interrupt and provided the official Norwegian layout, including the 'æÃÃ¥ÃÃÃ...' keys for our 3 extra letters in the alphabet.
Over the years, Microsoft/IBM had many version of this driver, the final one which also did text more font layout changes (at least for the default 25x80 mode) was up to 60 kB. This was large enough that lots of US-developed engineering/DB applications simply didn't fit, so I wrote a replacement:

All keys (including Ctrl- and Alt- modified combos) were handled, along with font remapping for 25x80, 43x80 (EGA only) and 50x80 (VGA only) screen layouts, using a total of 704 bytes. It became so popular that Compaq/HP stole it to give to their customers, then when we caught them red-handed (they had not figured out how to get rid of my startup Copyright message) they refused to pay but promised to not do it again.

Half a year later we caught them again, they had started telling customers that they had to keep it a secret.

Terje Mathisen

NIST have always been the world leader in creating ever more accurate clocks, the current masers work in picoseconds and below, so allowing the reference to drift by 4.8 microseconds means that precision dropped by at least 6 orders of magnitude.

If allowed to propagate to the GPS control clocks, this would have been enough to totally destroy the navigation system since a clock that is off by 4.8 us corresponds to a position error of 1500 kilometers. (OTOH, USNO has its own large ensemble of atomic clocks, so they don't depend short term on NIST updates.)

Full disclosure: I worked with the NTP Hackers (network time protocol) team for 20+ years, so I'm probably a bit more interested in precise timekeeping than most. I have personally soldered together 4 or 5 GPS-based reference clocks that would deliver 25-35 ns RMS precision.

you mean, it's due to pollution by neurotoxic pesticides ?
who'd have thought !
*fucking geniuses*

they never heard of open source fonts ?

Sounds like Netherlands have to fold and China wins...

by the time you've started watching that first video telling you that you should have been using a VPN, you're already flagged by your country's counterintelligence service

CLOWNZ

"we can't build electric cars; the chinese are going to fuck us up; please, politicians, protect our profits"

And without boatloads of nazi scientists and engineers the US would never have gone to the moon.

You sound like the worst of the liar ukrainian propagandists

You just said capitalism happened with a whole lot of words

What they're trying to say is capitalism is incompatible with the current climate emergency situation.

either capitalism goes extinct, or we won't be able to do anything

this will be the most epic fail ever... mark my words

Full disclosure: I was somewhat involved with the Quake development, helped Mike Abrash a little bit to optimize the asm code that actually made a pure SW 3D rasterizer fast enough to be playable.

The Castle Wolfenstein - Doom - Quake progression might seem from the outside to be a fairly linear upgrade path, but in reality Quake was at least an order of magnitude harder to achieve.

Just the number of amazing ideas John Carmack managed to come up with in order to make a real 3D game possible will forever give Quake a special place in my programming heart.

Terje

probably keep it quiet and don't say a thing... also, are able to use something else in case this sort of thing happens; and were probably already doing so