For Niven-Pournelle, give me a movie version of Lucifer's Hammer. Comet hits Earth, doesn't destroy the world, just civilization - you know, two weeks of no deliveries to your local grocery store or gas station. As they say, hilarity ensues.
Always, not just in tough times. The archetypal IT practitioner is the Bastard Operator From Hell, not the Nice Operator From The Land Of Huggybear and Kissyface.
The above is not flamebait, it's the god's honest truth. The only thing that he forgot to mention is that the people demanding that this patch be put in ASAP are already at home spending "quality time with their families" while the likes of us are patching servers.
This is a great call. A very very good programming book about how to solve problems with computers. And Forth is a damn fine portable assembly language, with an interesting design philosophy.
I remember HP-UX on PA-RISC from at least ten years ago making efforts to reassign a swapped out process to the processor that it had been running on before it was swapped out, on the notion that some code and data might still be in the cache. SMP makes for some interesting OS problems.
If you were paying any attention at all in high school chemistry, you know that hydrogen and oxygen like each other quite a lot. Next we'll be getting all excited because we found table salt at interstellar distances.
Some people were convinced the fire was caused by what may have been a meteorite, which was seen from various parts of the upper North Island streaking across the sky just after 10 o'clock.
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Yup, that's the way we say it in Chicago. Just ask the mare.
Ziggy says there's a 99.9999% chance you got that reference wrong.
We can't even safely do an autonomous robot lawn mower that won't grind up the neighbor's cat.
I'm sure the robots will find them delicious as well.
Too bad they're not radio controlled. Then you'd have something useful.
K-9++
"Every time a dog salivates, a behaviorist must ring a bell"
For Niven-Pournelle, give me a movie version of Lucifer's Hammer. Comet hits Earth, doesn't destroy the world, just civilization - you know, two weeks of no deliveries to your local grocery store or gas station. As they say, hilarity ensues.
What is this "reboot" you speak of?
As long as I can hit F4 and get a Bash terminal window into a Unix-like environment, I'm a happy guy.
Mr. Piquepaille?!? We thought you was dead!
Always, not just in tough times. The archetypal IT practitioner is the Bastard Operator From Hell, not the Nice Operator From The Land Of Huggybear and Kissyface.
God, I'd forgotten about him. He's the source of the Best Line Evar (tm):
Q: "Steve, what's your favorite programming language?"
A: "Solder."
They use way better stuff than this every week on CSI: Miami.
First good idea in this whole discussion. Don't forget the hardware clock as well.
That's the poorest BNF I've ever seen!
The above is not flamebait, it's the god's honest truth. The only thing that he forgot to mention is that the people demanding that this patch be put in ASAP are already at home spending "quality time with their families" while the likes of us are patching servers.
This is a great call. A very very good programming book about how to solve problems with computers. And Forth is a damn fine portable assembly language, with an interesting design philosophy.
Oh. So that's what's been doing it.
I remember HP-UX on PA-RISC from at least ten years ago making efforts to reassign a swapped out process to the processor that it had been running on before it was swapped out, on the notion that some code and data might still be in the cache. SMP makes for some interesting OS problems.
If you were paying any attention at all in high school chemistry, you know that hydrogen and oxygen like each other quite a lot. Next we'll be getting all excited because we found table salt at interstellar distances.
When all you have is VB, everything looks like a nail.
Srsly. I'm in yer bunkr, mispeling yer wurds.
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