Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC, specifically. Self-taught from the book that came with every Spectrum.
Later came Pascal (in college), then after a semester of Pascal they switched to C, skipping the basics of C to go straight into second-semester concepts. That spoiled programming for me for a long time.
These days it's XSLT, Windows cmd, Autohotkey and the occasional bit of Python in a mostly non-programming job.
I once had the misfortune of having to work in a room that contained several large ultrasonic cleaners. Even with their covers closed, the noise drove me crazy in short order.
Back in the old days, RAM was clocked at the same speed as the CPU, so RAM could be accessed with a minimum of wait cycles. Then speeds diverged, making various levels of cache necessary. Does the advertised 4.2 GHz speed mean we're back to RAM that's synchronized with the CPU? Or is the issue more complex than that? The 19-19-19-39 timing mentioned suggests that it is, but TFA is light on detail.
I agree. By now every Uber story and its comments do nothing but rehash the same subject. I also noticed many of these stories never show up in the Firehose so we can't vote them down.
Certain vital components of the ISS are already close to their certified lifetime. Some of these, like the seals between modules that keep the station airtight, are very difficult to replace (imagine having to undock the modules in the middle of the station).
So in any new function, the station would last only a few years before a costly overhaul.
Have you considered replacing the electronics with something that can run the open-source CNC SW found in the hobby market? You'd need bespoke motor driver HW/SW and custom sensors, but it might make future support easier.
the Windows they released to the market is unnecessarily insecure, and MS knows that.
Given the amount of noise made over W10's telemetry, everybody knows that, at least on/. To me the conclusion is obvious: W10 Red has telemetry disabled.
There's more animal life than there was before, but they're thriving only in that sense, not in the sense that the radiation environment is healthy for them.
Because animals start reproducing as soon as they're able to (instead of waiting until they're 30), a high incidence of cancer and other radiation-induced illnesses is not incompatible with large population. The radiation damage isn't so severe they can't reproduce at all, but according to the same article:
His research with biologist Timothy Mousseau has shown that voles have higher rates of cataracts, useful populations of bacteria on the wings of birds in the zone are lower, partial albinism among barn swallows, and that cuckoos have become less common, among other findings. Serious mutations, though, happened only right after the accident.
About 1 million Jews died at Auschwitz. This according to the Nazis, who kept meticulous records of their crimes. The old sign probably read '6 million Jews died in Nazi concentration camps'. There's no conspiracy behind changing the sign.
The Nazis built factories with the express purpose of killing people in large numbers. The Americans built internment camps. The difference is huge. Calling the Nazi concentration camps "not a great thing" is a monumental betrayal of the people who were exterminated there.
So piss off with your denial. You're not convincing anyone here.
You're wrong. 6 million Jews did die, along with millions of other 'undesirables' (as described by the Nazi government). There's plenty of evidence to back this up, enough to satisfy the court e.g. during the Nuremberg Trials.
Some of the luckier ones got out in time, or hid away during the war. But the sad fact is most of the Jewish population in occupied Europe was transported to concentration camps, never to be heard from again.
Number of moving parts in an ICE+transmission: hundreds, including a large number of wear parts subject to regular replacement. Number of moving parts in an electric motor+transmission: 1. That won't change when electric cars become mainstream.
Those customization options left you with a dialog that says 'update now/remind me in 10 minutes/4 hours', with the default set to 'update now'. So if the dialog pops up just when you press Enter, the update proceeds to reboot your system. That was better than Windows 10, but not by much.
Its saving grace was that it could be disabled with a Registry hack, allowing a sane update schedule (i.e. weekly).
That is an exaggeration. In the few hours of closest approach, they made some nice images. But Junocam's images are comparable. Juno will be able to study Jupiter in much more detail than the Voyagers ever could achieve in their brief flyby.
The Voyagers are still listed as working, but they had their issues. Voyager 2's scan platform seized during the Saturn flyby, causing a loss of some of the planned observations.
Cubesats are at a fraction of the velocity necessary to maintain an orbit
um, no. They are exactly at orbital velocity or they wouldn't be in orbit at all. And their orbital decay has nothing to do with the Van Allen belts, but with atmospheric drag.
When NASA did the Hubble servicing missions, they brought some parts back to Earth for examination. They found hundreds of micrometeoroid hits. Most of them tiny (from e.g. flecks of paint), but at a speed difference measured in km/s even small particles are a big problem.
"No officer, I don't know my password. It is filled in automatically by my password manager, which lives on my laptop which I left at home." And off to jail you go.
The USN has never published a top speed (just "at least 30 knots"), I wonder if they'll declassify the data now that the ship's been decommissioned.
This article makes a good case that a top speed higher than 33.6 knots is unlikely. With all 8 reactors at full power, the ship makes more steam than the turbines (rated for 280kshp) can handle.
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Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC, specifically. Self-taught from the book that came with every Spectrum.
Later came Pascal (in college), then after a semester of Pascal they switched to C, skipping the basics of C to go straight into second-semester concepts. That spoiled programming for me for a long time.
These days it's XSLT, Windows cmd, Autohotkey and the occasional bit of Python in a mostly non-programming job.
I once had the misfortune of having to work in a room that contained several large ultrasonic cleaners. Even with their covers closed, the noise drove me crazy in short order.
Such a dryer would need a lot of soundproofing.
Back in the old days, RAM was clocked at the same speed as the CPU, so RAM could be accessed with a minimum of wait cycles. Then speeds diverged, making various levels of cache necessary.
Does the advertised 4.2 GHz speed mean we're back to RAM that's synchronized with the CPU? Or is the issue more complex than that? The 19-19-19-39 timing mentioned suggests that it is, but TFA is light on detail.
No, they're require a kernel.
I agree. By now every Uber story and its comments do nothing but rehash the same subject. I also noticed many of these stories never show up in the Firehose so we can't vote them down.
Certain vital components of the ISS are already close to their certified lifetime. Some of these, like the seals between modules that keep the station airtight, are very difficult to replace (imagine having to undock the modules in the middle of the station).
So in any new function, the station would last only a few years before a costly overhaul.
Have you considered replacing the electronics with something that can run the open-source CNC SW found in the hobby market? You'd need bespoke motor driver HW/SW and custom sensors, but it might make future support easier.
It goes beyond art. They've implemented Bitcoin banknotes.
the Windows they released to the market is unnecessarily insecure, and MS knows that.
Given the amount of noise made over W10's telemetry, everybody knows that, at least on /. To me the conclusion is obvious: W10 Red has telemetry disabled.
There's more animal life than there was before, but they're thriving only in that sense, not in the sense that the radiation environment is healthy for them.
Because animals start reproducing as soon as they're able to (instead of waiting until they're 30), a high incidence of cancer and other radiation-induced illnesses is not incompatible with large population. The radiation damage isn't so severe they can't reproduce at all, but according to the same article:
His research with biologist Timothy Mousseau has shown that voles have higher rates of cataracts, useful populations of bacteria on the wings of birds in the zone are lower, partial albinism among barn swallows, and that cuckoos have become less common, among other findings. Serious mutations, though, happened only right after the accident.
I was expecting many of these records to be accessible only in paper form, but five minutes of searching found these examples already:
- Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database
- 650,000 pages of the Nuremberg Trials records are available online
- More digitized records, again including death lists from camps.
About 1 million Jews died at Auschwitz. This according to the Nazis, who kept meticulous records of their crimes.
The old sign probably read '6 million Jews died in Nazi concentration camps'. There's no conspiracy behind changing the sign.
The Nazis built factories with the express purpose of killing people in large numbers. The Americans built internment camps. The difference is huge. Calling the Nazi concentration camps "not a great thing" is a monumental betrayal of the people who were exterminated there.
So piss off with your denial. You're not convincing anyone here.
You're wrong. 6 million Jews did die, along with millions of other 'undesirables' (as described by the Nazi government). There's plenty of evidence to back this up, enough to satisfy the court e.g. during the Nuremberg Trials.
Some of the luckier ones got out in time, or hid away during the war. But the sad fact is most of the Jewish population in occupied Europe was transported to concentration camps, never to be heard from again.
Saying otherwise is an insidious lie.
New version of phone OS -> whoops, now my phone is painfully slow. Guess what users won't do next time an OS upgrade rolls by?
Number of moving parts in an ICE+transmission: hundreds, including a large number of wear parts subject to regular replacement.
Number of moving parts in an electric motor+transmission: 1.
That won't change when electric cars become mainstream.
https://slashdot.org/recent doesn't list this story. If it had, I'd have voted it down. The constant flood of Uber stories is getting annoying.
Those customization options left you with a dialog that says 'update now/remind me in 10 minutes/4 hours', with the default set to 'update now'. So if the dialog pops up just when you press Enter, the update proceeds to reboot your system. That was better than Windows 10, but not by much.
Its saving grace was that it could be disabled with a Registry hack, allowing a sane update schedule (i.e. weekly).
This is one of the scenarios where Hibernate helps. Much faster (and more predictable) than shutdown/startup.
Does anyone offer headphones with a Lightning connector?
Having to throw out the Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter is annoying, having to replace the headphones would be worse.
That is an exaggeration. In the few hours of closest approach, they made some nice images. But Junocam's images are comparable.
Juno will be able to study Jupiter in much more detail than the Voyagers ever could achieve in their brief flyby.
The Voyagers are still listed as working, but they had their issues. Voyager 2's scan platform seized during the Saturn flyby, causing a loss of some of the planned observations.
Cubesats are at a fraction of the velocity necessary to maintain an orbit
um, no. They are exactly at orbital velocity or they wouldn't be in orbit at all.
And their orbital decay has nothing to do with the Van Allen belts, but with atmospheric drag.
When NASA did the Hubble servicing missions, they brought some parts back to Earth for examination. They found hundreds of micrometeoroid hits. Most of them tiny (from e.g. flecks of paint), but at a speed difference measured in km/s even small particles are a big problem.
These satellites are at an altitude of 500 km, so it will take a few decades for their orbits to decay.
"No officer, I don't know my password. It is filled in automatically by my password manager, which lives on my laptop which I left at home." And off to jail you go.
The USN has never published a top speed (just "at least 30 knots"), I wonder if they'll declassify the data now that the ship's been decommissioned.
This article makes a good case that a top speed higher than 33.6 knots is unlikely.
With all 8 reactors at full power, the ship makes more steam than the turbines (rated for 280kshp) can handle.