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It's seriously nostalgic to think of the days you could type [A] [:] and then [Enter]
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I still can - one of my NAS volumes is mapped to the A: drive.
Bit bigger than a floppy though...
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Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?
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Nah, the best was "Keyboard not present, press F1 to continue"...
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I actually did that one day last week. Of course, it was in a virtual machine hosted by my Win7 box running MS-DOS 6.22. I needed it in order to be able to build(*) an old application I've suddenly become responsible for .
(*) Using Microsoft C 6.0
Software Zen: delete this;
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Wow, that is amazing - well, depending on how you look at it.
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A couple of weeks ago we laid off 6 of the 11 members of my group. I 'acquired' support of a number of older products that are still in the field. One started out life 25 years ago, running under MS-DOS on an industrial PC in a rack-mounted cabinet. Now that software runs on a small board the size of a credit card mounted inside the equipment cabinet, affectionately known as the "PC-in-a-box". I've got the ability to build the app should an issue arise.
Of course, it may take me a month or two figuring out where to cut and splice...
Software Zen: delete this;
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I guess it looks nicer from an outside perspective, but all of this stuff you are working on sounds so much more fascinating than working on cloud apps
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It is interesting, once you get past the dank morass of despair working here has been the last four years or so. Layoffs every 8-12 months, re-organizations that seem to only serve to "stir the pot", and engineering management by former hardware engineers who don't understand software, don't want to understand it, and wish it would just go away.
Software Zen: delete this;
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DNA wrote: "The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.
To explain — since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation — every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.
The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.
Trin Tragula — for that was his name — was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.
"Have some sense of proportion!” she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.
And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex — just to show her.
And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion." Scale of the Universe: A sense of proportion[^] (uses flash)
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That seems to have been "borrowed" from: The Scale of the Universe 2[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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OriginalGriff wrote: in order to annoy his wife
He had to actually do something to achieve that?
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Yes. I would have at least a few weeks of work ahead of me if I wanted to annoy my wife. Getting married would be one of them.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: I would have at least a few weeks of work ahead of me if I wanted to annoy my wife. Getting married would be one of them.
Getting married to someone would definitely annoy your wife
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Presuming I ever would have been dumb enough to get married before.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Well you mentioned your wife and then about getting married, so I assumed you'd been captured already
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: you'd been captured
Avoiding this is remarkably easy. I will never understand why only so few actually make it, nor why the ones who accidentally are successful often are so unhappy.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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It's all down to desirability.. I fought hard, but I'm only human
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Just make your own universe. Write some code to generate solar systems with planets, one or more stars, asteroids and all other details you want. Then use a 3D coordinate system with 32 bit integers to map the systems into your galayy. You can use a grayscale pixel template of a spiral galaxy to model the shape and star density. If your values are right, you should end up with a few hundred billion star systems. My 'universe' has a 64 bit index for its galaxies and each galaxy can be accessed, so that there probably are a few more galaxies in my map than in the real universe. last, just for fun, there also is a 64 bit index for universes. I doubt a player will ever be able to map a single galaxy, much less one or more universes.
That's how big universes are, unless you look onto my harddisk. There the whole thing is smaller than a megabyte-
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: I doubt a player will ever be able to map a single galaxy, much less one or more universes.
Chuck Norris has already done it. Twice.
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Has he? Then it was good that I used a 64 bit index for universes as well. That should give even Chuck enough to do for a while.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Odd thing - I zoomed inwards and came across an item marked "Classical Electron" - which was very large compared to neutron, proton, etc. I had always been taught that electrons are really really little buggers - even compared to other really really tiny little buggers[^].
However, in exploring this, I came across the concept of Cherenkov radiation - so I'll pursue that.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I zoomed inwards and came across an item marked "Classical Electron" - which was very large compared to neutron, proton, etc. I had always been taught that electrons are really really little buggers
You were taught wrong, I suspect: Classical electron radius - Wikipedia[^]
Modern thinking is that an electron is a "point particle"[^] and as such has no size at all!
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Zoh, meine kind. Ist dere solche ding as der Klassikal Elktron?
NO! But - uh-hu, yeah, and yup.*
* But not in any of the classes I took.
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