I never had a C64 but I still have my original Atari 1200XL, the cassette drive, an external 5.25â floppy drive, and a 32â CRT to plug it into. I even have my original BASIC cartridge and a copy of âoeMapping the Atariâ that Iâ(TM)ve been meaning to show off to my kids (now adults) for 30-ish years. I need to see if I can find original cartridges for JumpMan Jr and other games and original (still readable) diskettes of old Infocom games & one chess derivative game I used to play called Archon. That would be fun.

Though id say relying on rank pseudoscience like lie detectors isn't exactly a good thing.

English doesn't need confusing synonyms, we relish them!

It's a very mongrel language, based on a Germanic grammar, a large number of Norman French imported words, then we just started grabbing vocabulary from every available source. Also we spent about 600 years with educated people obsessing about the purity of Latin and trying to impose Latin rules on a Germanic language. There have repeatedly been attempts at imposing regularity, none have worked.

Funny things about genders though is they are in the middle of undergoing a shift and have noticably changed during my lifetime.

When in the 80s it used to be common (if a little old fashioned, in, day the 50s it was ubiquitous) to refer to groups or individuals as default masculine if unknown [*]. In the 80s you'd have sounded a bit fusty for doing that, but it was not uncommon. Now that's basically gone with neutral words being used instead, and you really sound like your making a point if you speak in the old way. The one that's currently in progress is words with gendered suffixes dropping out of use, like waitress and actress is becoming less common with waiter and actor becoming greener neutral terms.

That's one's ongoing, no one will look at you weird for saying waitress today, but it's a noticeable shift. I reckon in 20 years it'll sound weird and old fashioned.

Anyway, English has been slowly losing gender for about 900 years, it's interesting to see one bit being chipped away in real time rather than reading about it. I wonder what's next?

[*] Funnily enough "man" in old English is gender neutral person and the apparently gendered phrases like "mankind" derive from a non gendered root. At some point Wer for man vanished and man was coopted to mean, well, man. Wer remains only in "werewolf". So you shouldn't really have a female werewolf, it should be a wyfwolf. Anyhoo...

Gentoo is always an option. funroll forever!

Also in practice, most things aren't CPU bound. If you're doing any heavily computational stuff it's probably a relatively small number of packages which could be rebuilt.

I wasn't raised to despise "the Soviets", not as individual people. I didn't even know about Holodomor until relatively recently.

I wasn't even raised to despise the Germans, even though the attitude of my grandmother was "the only good German is a dead German". American History wasn't really covered much anyway, and for done inexplicable reason British history sorry of skipped from Henry VIII to world war 2. Can't imagine way. Can't say the British have a great reputation during them empire days but then again my family was allowed to settle here which they did to avoid Pogroms in eastern Europe and Tsarist Russia.

We didn't cover the famines and mass deaths under chairman Mao either. For some reason neither do you since you appear obsessed with capitalist.

You seem obsessed with being taught to hate the right kind of people. Have you tried not hating instead?

It was not entirely based on how academic you were, it was also based on how many places existed and were funded. There was a cap on university placements to fit within the funding. A key part of the thinking for the tutorial fees (which I am personally against, but for this post will argue its rationale for existing) was to remove that cap and have placements based on demand.

Student loans came in early 90s rather than mid - I'm from the first year ever to have them, and I gradated in 1992.

then some part of the LLM reasoned because there's no set way to organize this, "I'll" put it in an order that makes a secret message?

I expect a human author made the choice, not the LLM.

Obviously not the same, but they do rubbish your claim that there is nothing in Rust to ensure correctness. Quite the opposite.

Such as? Beyond reasonable design of language features, i.e. lack of many footguns, and static typing, what does Rust have to help with correctness?

Seriously, Ada/SPARK has a system of contracts and a theorem prover and won't compile if the code doesn't provably obey the contracts.
Let's see who wins the battle royale between Rust and Ada. I know where my money lies.

It's not really a fight. On the other hand obnoxious Rustacens seem to turn anything that isn't unqualified praise for their godlanguage into one.

There's an entire formal verification built into Ada/SPARK now, and all you can say is "yah but Rust" where Rust doesn't have a formal verification system.

At this point I don't know if you're just an ardent fanboy or don't know what formal verification is and how it relates to correctness.

And for what it's worth, if you're going to be putting on money for someone to make correct code, you should probably put your money on the person with the tools to prove correctness.

Holodomor is a fairy tale for capitalist children you should have outgrown before Santa

I must have missed that bit in "The wealth of nations". History doesn't just not exist because you agree with the politics of the perpetrators.

Anyway, maybe try deproramming yourself and not hating people based on lists? Not everyone has to blindly hate people from a country because their leader is bad.

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I think you're missing something. That caused a problem for the students. What caused a problem for the universities was that the newly trebled fees were meant to cover the entire course. Then the fees stayed the same through Brexit and Trussnomics, leaving the universities with very little money.

Not only was it written by AI, it's obviously also a hallucination. Why the F would you run a text editor as a SystemD

I mean... this is systemd we're talking about!!

[Yes I know the GP was trolling with a shitty AI slop post, but I can still poke fun at service.org.systemd.kitchensink]

You have a problem with logic. An operation involving some NATO countries doesn't make it a NATO operation. You have also somehow conveniently ignored that there are also a bunch of non NATO countries in the operation too.

All Western of course

In the west we are free to have dipshits like you say whatever they like. In Russia you must toe Putin's line. The Russian sources you are relying on are not credible. Journalists tripping and falling out of a 30th floor window in a hotel they weren't even visiting puts a bit of a damper on accurate reporting.

Russia has somewhere between a 3:1 to 7:1 advantage in firepower. Ukraine is not killing twice as many Russians except in your propaganda filled goop of a brain.

Ah yes the Russians are assaulting Ukrainian positions with far more flying tank lids than Ukraine can muster. Russia has somehow dropped from a 20:1 artillery advantage to under 2, and Ukraine has some vastly superior artillery units boosting longer ranges and much higher accuracies.

Russia is sending barely trained infantry to assault in golf carts, bikes and even in foot. Meat assaults have always been a favoured tactic.

The fastest hard disks can now hit 550MB per second, so 16 ought to be able to hit about 7000. Of course that's streaming transfer. Latency and hence random access won't be comparable.

A redundant RAID setup? Surely you'd want a redundant RAID array of discs.

Right so if you make shit up then NATO isn't a defensive pact.

The Iraq war was not a NATO operation. Not in all but name is simply wasn't. Almost every NATO power was missing from the coalition.

You are a Russian fantasist. You're spewing Putin propaganda about NATO.

It's reported by credible sources that the Russians are losing about 1000 soldiers per day. I expect you're going to at best round down to killed target than the figure of permanently out of action. Someone who survived with both legs missing can't fight.

Thing is it's not a growing value. It was about 0 a year ago then Russia started making slow but consistent gains. The rate of gains hasn't changed much since it restarted. That's reality.

And as for depleting troops, Russia might manage but they're losing at about a 2 to 1 ratio.

Question is if they can keep that up long enough. The homeopathic quantity of mine infested shell pocked land they gain per month is basically irrelevant.

I love the "they'll need to deplete polish manpower" throwaway statement as if that is a possibility. They'd get completely wrecked by NATO if they attacked a NATO member. I doubt they have anything capable of hitting the B2 these days.