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Live long enough to see one of your favourite TV franchises become the villain.
"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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It used to be that people feared that capitalism / communism / democracy / liberalism / dictatorship* would take over the whole world.
But the reality is worse: accountants rule the world, and they know the cost of everything and the value of nothing ...
* Delete as applicable in your political area.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I can't help feeling these particular accountants have one too many "o"s in their job title.
"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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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Under the same premise, they hold the title of Count.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The engineers at Boeing agree with you.
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It's time to go back to fishing at the river.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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No huge loss. I keep saying it's too bad Star Trek died before it could reach its 50th anniversary.
Because what's been produced since, even though it says "Star Trek" somewhere in the title, bears no resemblance whatsoever to what Gene Roddenberry had in mind. It started with the Jar-Jar Abrams movies, and only went downhill from there.
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I quite liked Discovery.
But there's lots of box sets I've never watched on Netflix and Amazon Prime so I won't be getting another streaming service!
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Taxi, the (French) automobile. Not a vehicle for the plotters (5, 3)
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Cable car ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And there was me, waiting an hour ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I expected you to get it and appreciate your patience
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I posted because I didn't think it was right - don't get the plotting bit
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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What was the plotters part about ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The 'plotters' was a back reference / homage to your CCC of yesterday ... "Plot a clever and brilliant autumn leaf at first (5)"
The word 'Cable' is almost a homophone (sound-alike) for Cabal; so, not a cabal car.
modified 17-Nov-21 10:34am.
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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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That explains a lot...last week I started for CodeProject and ended up ordering 1-1/2 tons of dog food off Amazon. WTF, I don't even have a dog, but I now have a dog house!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Greetings Kind Regards Nice site Too bad I know little re/ hardware You might wish to consider utilizing a spell checker I tried it and found it even knows how to spell Raspberry Pi Pico Photos Quite Impressive - Cheerios
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Thanks for the kind words.
Yeah I'm a lousy typist and still getting used to my new keyboard that is worse than I am.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Yea, same, what else hey?!
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Thanks for posting. That is a really great video.
Veritasium creates some great instructional content.
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The days of 16-bit minicomputers (PDP-11 class) were in the period when alpha radiation was being discovered as a source of bit rot. People were seriously afraid that 64 kbit memory chips would be the end of the pat for static RAM, fearing that we would have to use dynamic RAM (i.e. flip-flops) in the future, or develop some completely new memory technology, not Si-based. (Such as waves in mercury filled tubes ).
The video mentioned ECC RAM, but not in much detail. The first computer I got to know in any detail was a 16-bit mini where the customer had a choice between 21 and 22 bit memory cards. Each 16 bit data word was protected by either 5 or 6 ECC bits per 16 bit word. I believe that the 21 bit memory could automatically correct any 2-bit error, while the 22 bit version could also detect 3 bit errors.
When I some 15 years later got my first PC, discovering that common PC RAM doesn't even have a simple parity bit, my reaction was What??
I never found a good explanation of what happened with RAM production, how they got around the problem. The alpha radiation certainly didn't disappear. RAM chips of today are six orders of magnitude(!) as dense as those 16 kbit chips mentioned in the movie (and each memory cell is correspondingly smaller). Yet, RAM chips do not suffer from those problems. I'd like to know why not!
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