Posts by jake

Re: Someone with too much time & money ...

Locklear and Shatner in one show. Most of my techno-dweeb friends cried when it went off the air.

Re: We're missing someone

The nameless, faceless blobs of grey goo collectively known as AC have been far more annoying and twatish than amfM would ever dream of becoming, even at his most trollish.

Re: 5th element

I have a smooth Collie named Lilo, does that count?

Re: Let me get this straight...

"Also, who counts bighorn sheep?"

The Department of the Interior. Gives them the data needed to decide how many hunting permits are allowed in any given season. Remember, while this thing may be in the State of Utah, it's on BLM land, which is federally managed ... for rather small values of "managed", of course.

It's probably epoxied in. Gut feeling is that the authorities will just leave it be, as removing it will cause "damage to the environment".

Re: "...the Department won't reveal its location "

How rude.

There is an unwritten law of desert exploration that you don't ever give precise coordinates to interesting places. When you do that, the GreatUnwashed arrive en mass and destroy whatever made the place interesting.

Re: "first build of the OS"

It would seem that 2 commentards actually think that Windows 1.0 was an OS and/or a program loader. The mind absolutely boggles.

Simple answer.

Because computers are literate. An a is not an A.

Re: Obviously ...

That was a well polished reply.

Re: Anyone who ever dabbles in vi

We already have, kind of. EMACS started life as a set of Editor MACroS for TECO.

Drive letter?

What is this heresy you call a "drive letter"?

Re: Typos in text files...

That's when you get the intern to collect the files from the printer three floors down and two buildings over.

Re: Wireless networking, 1980s style.

We tried it late-night at KZSU in the late '70s (and later KFJC, 80ish). It didn't work very well, and there was little demand, so it kind of evaporated.

Re: When I were a lad

I think that one of the biggest Clues that an experienced coder can give to a neophyte is "Ask for help proofreading your own code!" ... Most people see what they intended to write, not what they actually wrote.

As a side-note, back in the day my Wife, who is not a coder, not by any stretch, could often spot syntax errors in my code because it looked "out of balance" (her words).

Re: Old enough...

... to have proof-read assembler listings intended for Dr. Dobbs Journal before STOB got there. Fortunately there were several of us :-)

Re: So how's this person's

Redmond's Office crew are catching up the the Europeans in the vacation days department.

Re: Guide to religion

Vim was[0] a clone of the vi clone stevie as ported to the Amiga.

vi -> stevie -> Amiga stevie -> Vim

[0] Yes, was. It's been redone from scratch since then. Still the same project, though.

Re: Anyone who ever dabbles in vi

The Rand editor? You mean e? You can still get a copy of e.

https://github.com/blakemcbride/Rand-E-Editor

The reference manual:

https://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N2239-1.html

Interesting piece of history, if nothing else. Was WAY ahead of it's time.

Re: Anyone who ever dabbles in vi

And if you can't remember, hit it twice. Three times for luck.

Re: Anyone who ever dabbles in vi

Vim wasn't lying to you. It was doing exactly what the person who set it up told it to do. Your distrust is misplaced.

Re: Anyone who ever dabbles in vi

$ which Vi

which: no Vi in (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin)

$

Re: Anyone who ever dabbles in vi

"["how do you know you're in a lab full of unix newbies? *beep* *beep* *beep*]"

If it's driving you too batty, :set noerrorbells.

Obviously ...

... the article was about typoes.

Re: Absolutely EVIL

Here in the United States it will very probably be called Theft by Conversion, once the inevitable class action hits the courts. Or so the lawyer brother of mine suggests.

That would be "taking with the intent of exercising over the chattel an ownership inconsistent with the real owner's right of possession" (per the always suspect Wiki).

Re: Call me silly

If it comes from that camp, it'll be left-right swapped, the authors will insist that is the way it has to be, the original was obviously wrong, WONTFIX.

Re: The Joys of Democracy

When you have to explain the joke ...

Re: Where's mum?

If the 'gator's mum was in the same pond, at that size the 'gator would have become a snack years previously. The mum only remains domestic up to a certain point.

Re: The Joys of Democracy

Florida is home to all the New York and New Jersey rejects. Kind of ups the anti somewhat.

It's also home to people who think perpetually muggy is "good weather" ... people actually move there on purpose for this! Waterlogged brains are not prone to good decision making.

And of course all the alcohol soaked students, there for the perpetual spring break. Tends to drop the IQ well below the national average.

Soup and a belt.

Re: Thanks

And it brings a whole new meaning to InternetofShit ...

Re: Burning books...

"Ballistic weapons are a bad idea, as the recoil and vibration from firing would probably damage the robot"

At the distances involved, I rather suspect .22 lr rounds would be more than enough for soft targets. Use a modified Ruger 10/22 action that is capable of select fire, nostril mounted 6/7 inch barrel, a 50ish round drum magazine, crosshairs in the VR headset, and Bob's yer auntie.

Larry's too busy staring in the mirror admiring himself to notice.