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Then you did not get to use card punches, or card sorters. Sort of sad  .
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Clifford Nelson wrote: Sort of sad
Yep - not quite 'winning the lottery' kind of sad, but sad nonetheless!
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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raddevus wrote: That hit me, because doing that in 300 bytes is amazing. Well, it was amazing. It was ingenious and a necessity at the time. But now, it is meaningless.
Exactly. Memory was at a premium, so whatever you could do with only 300 bytes meant that you had more free memory left for whatever purposes. Nowadays, as you put it, if you've got 8 GB of RAM, you want applications to actually put it to use. No matter what decade you're from, unused memory is wasted memory.
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We booted pdp-11s by setting the front panel lever switches to the octal boot address (of something) and then hit load, run if I recall. Then a teletype went bzz bzz and you could run your diags or whatever you were after on a removable platter disc or tape drive.
Not as primitive as punch cards but still.
Those were the good old days when power supplies were linear the size of Volkswagens and the sky was the limit.
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raddevus wrote: Just reading an interesting article about SWEET16
You might want to read about "forth".
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raddevus wrote: If you do something like that now, no one would really care. People would be like "big deal, I've got 8 gigs of ram in my machine."
You might wish to consider checking-out pouet.net for the demo-scene's best productions. Likewise, a stroll around the fairway at StackExchange's Code-Golf is not the worst way to spend time.
Naturally, some would prefer to explore the world of small code in a far more literal way. Here, catch: .kkrieger (96kb openGl game with midi) - Wikipedia
Farbrausch are a bunch of nutcases, look for the demo "Debris". 
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I would make a meat pun, but ... I'd probably butcher it.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That would be the unkindest cut of all.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'd steak my life on it!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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#meatoo
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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There slaughter ways to get away with that around here, if you grill just give it a little extra thought and not hide from it. My bone of contention is that the meat isn't left where it belongs - on the creature that grew it.
Besides - don't followers of seitan have all the fun?
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He didn't seem to re-veal much.
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At least he spare ribbed us from something worse.
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Heard that beefore. I heard some farmers out west are using marijuana joints to brand their cows. Calling it high steaks poker.
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I have a real beef with this topic 
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Binge watched Cobra Kai[^] last night. Hadn't intended to - thought I'd watch the first episode to see how bad it could be but I was nicely surprised that it was bloody good. It was also nice that all of the locations are close by and familiar. Well worth a watch - 10 20 minute episodes with most of the original characters all growed up.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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I find that IMDB ratings very often are quite accurate. And 9.1 certainly is fine.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I've watched them twice now; each of the past 2 weekends. My favorite scene is the first episode at the end when Sirius plays. I like Johnny's character and his lines. Plus, I'm a sucker for a comeback story. Unfortunately, the second season won't be around until 2019.
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Yesterday, while playing support rep roulette, I learned:
"I thank you very much for trying to help me, maybe we should contact the next level of support."
instead of
"Listen you stupid elephant, let me talk to someone with an IQ higher than their age!"
We are up and running. 
Actually, the rep spoke very good English, was knowledgeable and was trying very hard to help, just ran out of scripts. I did thank her and her boss.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Yeah, its especially nice when you know more about the app you're getting support on than the vendor who wrote the damn thing.
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It may be more productive but much less satisfying. I did phone support for a while in the early 90's, one of the most under appreciated jobs it is possible to have.
I think I read it in Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land "I always answer the phone as it may be an opportunity to be rude to someone" I like that sentiment.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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and it can't end soon enough.
Start the day, a nice work-remote day.
My main box makes rhythmic whining sound and won't boot.
Since I have to restart a remote server before 5:00 AM (local time), I rush off to living room and connect through PC/TV Combo to RDT into the server.
Going through the usual, instead of taking a few seconds after I shut down the running applications, Windows Server decides to spend five minutes "loading configuration" - ? ? ? ? .
Nervousness intensifies. At last, it does finally stop, bu not until stress levels of are quite high: that server controls much of the companies infrastructure.
It was, however, all done before 6:00.
Now, the desktop that whines. I pulled the plug and made coffee. Ate a fortune cookie. Ate a Trader Joe's Dunker, and went back to the box. On my mind, the recent spate of thunder storms and several brief blackouts. Two surge protectors in series and a UPS aren't enough?
Side cover removed. Wires jiggled. Reconnect power.
It Boots! I'm a bit afraid to turn it off, but I think it's a very good time to either image the drive, or clone it. But first, grab off all the latest data since there's always the chance it may not boot, again, and stay that way.
Stressful mornings are not only unpleasant, they're exhausting.
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