I know that it was a joke but I still poked around to see if I could find any DDP-116 recipe software because the DDP-116 (H316) is available in simh.
Didn’t find any.
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Didn’t find any.
Practically every single time a comment like that is made, with exceptions so rare as to be irrelevant, the commenter is implying "Well if it weren't for the blacks and immigrants we'd be on top" which isn't true.[1]
But I couldn't be sure, so I looked into it.
The OP is a far-right (his self-description NOT mine [2]) Christian unhealthily obsessed with commenting on posts that contain an opening into which their opinions on race and/or gender may be inserted.
So, if the now-flagged comment was somehow asserting that the commenter was being a bigoted dickhead, the exact right amount of reading into was done.
[1] Excluding all non-white Americans the average life expectancy would be the same. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9256789/ (figure 1)
By relatively new I mean within my lifetime.
There were not "innumerable" deaths in the US due to "improper food packaging" leading to sickness and death in my youth.
The only plastic products I recall from my youth were plastic bread bags for sliced bread, and plastic milk bottles. Everything else was glass, metal, or paper. I am pretty sure I did not see or touch a plastic soft drink bottle until my teens. If you wanted a lot of soda you got "The Boss" from Pepsi, which was a half gallon glass bottle.
Yes. That's correct. You are correct. It is no longer fit for purpose and hasn't been for a long time. But inertia.
> the only way to fix it requires breaking all clients
Do it.
Rip the OpenVMS, SVR4, and HP/UX roots out of the ground and throw them in the trash, next to telnet and SysV filesystem support in the kernel.
How many billion miles more are needed for the computer to not drive over a double yellow line?
Is there any evidence that three trillion miles would work?
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"No" -Xorg
Hey Xorg, it's 2025 and people have really powerful GPUs so fancy-smanchy effects can be implemented that use like 1% of a GPU's horsepower but would have been considered impossible fantasy beyond the power of every supercomputer in the world combined when you were written, can you implement something to handle stuff like that?
"No" -Xorg
Hey Xorg, your code is so insecure that any instance of it should be considered a critical vulnerability of the highest severity level will you let more than the dozen or so people you have work on it?
"No" -Xorg
Hey Xorg why do my windows get all jaggedy and messed up when I wiggle that around?
"No, uh, I mean, that's called screen tearing and it's a feature" -Xorg
Hey Xorg I have three monitors and I want to run them at different resolutions, refresh rates, and fractional scaling levels. Can I do tha..
"What the hell kind of frame buffer do you have that lets you do that?" -Xorg
Hey Xorg I was going to ask if I could do that without touching any config files or using the command line because I ain't got time for that. Wait. Frame buffer? Is this 1993? Are you developing on a single headed TurboGX-equipped Sun SparcStation running the SPARC port of Linux and you have absolutely no clue about either the state of the art or the march of progress?
"Yes" -Xorg
"Wait, why are people abandoning me?" -Xorg
Hezbollah.
And boy are they extremely interested in ONLY those six years.
According to letters to the editor in old newspapers, when major US cities switched TO sodium vapor lamps people complained incessantly.
Looking for references to "lights street yellow" in newspaper archives I also found:
* people complaining about the introduction of yellow traffic lights and how confusing and dangerous they were
* companies complaining about new FAA rules standardizing aircraft lighting
* people complaining about the introduction of street lights in general
People really only dislike two things: the way things are, and change.
That being said every airport I've flown through for the last 2-ish years has had digital IDs or ID scanners so at smaller, or laggard, airports they may still be doing that.
The old internet was there when you willingly and voluntarily left it.
It may or may not still be there, but it was.
"I cheated on them with the hot and popular person and then left them and now I'm sad and I want them back."
>And just to check, you really want most of journalism to go out of business?
This is bullshit concern trolling.
But if you demand an answer: yes. "JoUrNaLiSm" probably bears half of the fault for getting us to where we are today.
The vast majority of "JoUrNaLiSm" nowadays is just copying and pasting tweets, putting "slams" in the title, and adding commentary anyways.
Low value. Sad. Many such cases.
If we're lucky congress won't be bribed, I mean lobbied for the sake of safety, into criminalizing its importation.
Boogeyman. It's always a boogeyman.
Recently, we've had transgendered people, antifa, DEI, migrants, and sleepy joe. As the acute impact wears off they switch to something else based on A-B testing of which generates the most fear.
It'll be something, but what?
Honestly my bet is on black people. They're going to go full-on racist. We'll probably see shit about phrenology, genetics, and degeneracy with the historically successful (to their target audience) descriptors of vermin and leeches.
All of this bullshit to lower taxes for billionaires and enable their successionist libertarian microstate fantasies.
Given this administration's to-date track record with AI it seems that they're using it as an oracle.
I have zero faith that the current administration won't just feed papers into it, ask it "so, like, is this cool or what?", and rubber stamp what it shits out.
They can have the mortgage interest deduction, just like me! I'm a people too!
Also:
>Is that really what you want?
Kinda
Over the last six years it has been my responsibility to oversee the end-of-life care for three people: my paternal grandfather and grandmother, and maternal grandmother.
My grandfather died at home of congestive heart failure. He spent a week on hospice in a medical bed in the living room staring at the ceiling, barely conscious due to the morphine and pain, pissing and shitting himself, as he slowly suffocated to death.
My paternal grandmother lingered for two weeks in the hospital due to an embolism after falling and breaking her hip. Again, two weeks bedridden staring at the ceiling barely conscious due to the morphine and pain, with a machine breathing for her, until diffusion/perfusion stopped enough that no mechanical or pharmaceutical intervention could oxygenate her blood enough and she died.
My maternal grandmother was the worst. Having fought off COPD for the last 20 years it finally became too much. After a year of coughing fits that led to torn muscles and spine/rib fractures leading to her being in a near-constant state of opioid-induced stupor the oxygen and albuterol stopped working and she very slowly and painfully drowned to death. She had been aware of her impending death for about two years and constantly expressed her desire to die on her own terms, but she had made the mistake of moving into an assisted living facility. So she spent the last few years of her life in a recliner hooked up to oxygen as the albuterol treatments got more and more frequent until the point that she would have to wake up every couple of hours 24 hours a day to do them, with coughing fits between them to the point that she would paralyze herself due to neck or back pain and spend six weeks on pain killers, unable to urinate or defecate or dress or eat without assistance, as it became harder and harder to breathe until she mercifully slipped into unconsciousness and died.
We already have medical aid in dying, it's called "giving a little more morphine every time the patient starts gurgling in order to 'soothe their pain'".
In a just world the patient has the choice to accelerate the process.
All men must die.
I will not die suffocating to death as I stare at a blank ceiling, blasted out of my brains on drugs, while a TV blares in the background to cover up the sobs of my family.
In my late sixties I am going to start going to the doctor complaining of back pain, stockpile enough Percocet to kill me, and when the time comes (with good fortune many many decades later) I am going to settle my accounts, write a note with some directions, have a party, and say goodbye.
That's why I'm "for" MAID.
An "expat" is just a white economic migrant.
They'll try to spin it. They'll whip out irrelevant definitions. They'll invent arbitrary distinctions.
They are wrong.
"Economic migrant" has always, does now, and will always include "seek higher standard of living" in its context and definition and "well I just, you know, kinda vibe with the culture" and/or "I like, you know, just consider myself a global citizen and want to see the world" is "seek higher standard of living".
As a habitual liar the pendulum of doubt swung to “presume bullshit” with junior a long time ago.
It is no surprise that people are fans of them, for a variety of reasons.
As far as I can tell the only systems that use floppy disks are IDS-4 terminals, of which there are a couple hundred left in the US, the rest having been upgraded (to IDS-5 or similar systems) over the last 30 years.
I don't know if it is small regional airports with no money, large international airports with few moments of downtime time needed for the upgrade, a mix those two, bad luck with the bureaucratic wheel-of-priorities spin, or what.
But there's no context to any of these articles, only "FLOPPY DRIVES LOL" so I had to take the time to find out what systems were actually impacted.
I mean, it could have been an old HP Oscilloscope in a RF rack that used floppy drives to store images and log data, or it could have been the Master Control Program of the entire air traffic control network.
There's a slight difference in impact between those two.
It appears as though there are multiple competitors/replacements to IDS-4 so the solution is to cut a check and block off some time on the calendar.
edit: every single journalist who just grabs a couple of tweets, adds some commentary, and dusts off their hands muttering "job well done" should encased in a Lucite cube and displayed in the town square as an object of ridicule.
Look up floppy boot sector viruses.
It has been my experience that the more vocal someone is about free speech rights the more likely it is that they are only vocal because they want to use those rights as a shield against criticism of their bigoted, annoying, or anti-social behavior and they want to criticize people for distancing themselves from the bigotry.
To them free speech is mandatory listening-- to them, no matter what.
I would add that people should, IF ABLE, consider spending more in order to invest in their local community.
The vast majority of the items on my person right now were manufactured domestically, both in terms of number and total overall monetary value. Same goes for household goods and tools.
This almost always means having fewer things, spending more, taking time to research, and possibly delaying gratification which I know is a hard sell (the same way making very slightly less profit is usually an impossible sell to corporations).
But I believe it is worth the effort and expense.
It is a dumb idea.
BUT.
The people saying that it is difficult or impossible because of "PhYsIcS" are operating on information that was true when they were young researchers/students studying the state of the art at that time.
Now they are old, and things have changed.
Targets approaching a modern ABM platform at 2-7km/s can be engaged with a very high chance of success. It's not even that expensive. The Patriots in Ukraine can do it.
This isn't my opinion it is fact. There are photographs of the shattered remains of Russian MRBMs with approach velocities of 6km/s littering the Ukranian countryside.
It would take additional research and development to move 10km/s intercepts from "experimental but possible" to "very high probability" bin. R&D that is expensive, but not impossible.
I say 10km/s because russia is targeting 10km/s for all of their new wonder weapons. They are targeting 10km/s because they, like I, know that practically anything <10km/s is "doable".
It is not the 90s anymore.