Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023
Well, it might or not be a line of code - depends a lot on the language. It’s 80 bytes, and a byte is one character. You could have continuation cards if your line was more than 80. That wasn’t ever needed for assembly language, rarely for Fortran, but very common for COBOL.
Once upon a time this news would have made me happy. McConnell is responsible for so many terrible things, but honestly he pales in comparison with Trump and the MAGA folks. He’s like Dr. Evil, who was the big baddie in his day, but is nothing compared to today’s evils.
Thanks, though I’m just not going to give Reddit any more of my clicks. I left there at the first big exiguous and I’m not going back.
There aren’t a lot of posts on the SF community here, but when I’ve posted something interesting it’s gotten a lot of activity, so I know there are people reading it. Here’s one from the end of the year.
Seems about right. One card had 80 columns, a byte for each one, so 5,000,000 bytes divided by 80 would be 62,500 cards.
I’m a big science fiction reader. Mostly I:
According to translate, the side of the van says “Home delivery service, we always come.”
Does that pun actually work in both English and German?
It’s not the same at all, but it sounds clever, so the base will suck it up and repeat it.
Need to keep this up. Not that, in itself, it accomplished anything, but staying silent legitimizes this bullshit.
The protective barrier is true, but you’re either making assumptions about the rest or you’ve been misinformed. There really aren’t major issues in any of the developed countries today, but the washing and refrigeration is still the safest with the longest shelf life. It isn’t the condition the chickens are kept in - there are countries where it’s much, much worse than in the US - it’s just that chickens very easily carry salmonella.
Many years ago, more countries washed, but there were some escapes, especially one from Australia with the eggs exported to the UK, and it got a bad name, so some countries dropped it, but the US figured out how to make it work consistently. Most countries require chickens to be vaccinated, but the US hasn’t needed to because of the washing and refrigeration.
Lots of good info online. Here’s a USDA article on it, and here’s a higher level NPR piece.
It’s just two different strategies for avoiding salmonella. The US method has worked very well for a very long time. So much so that other countries did adopt it, at least for a time, but it requires an infrastructure that can keep the eggs refrigerated through from processing to consumer, which isn’t trivial.
Ah, okay. Just for electronic filing though, right? You can still use it, print the results, and mail it in, can’t you?
Glad to hear it, though I’m not holding my breath for justice from Trump’s DOJ.
Isn’t freetaxusa still good?
Pretty good number of them if you count things like intermission. Slit, slot, crack, aperture, interlude, gap, breach, etc. Others, too.
The turntable is there because the microwaves bouncing around inside the unit don’t do so completely evenly; there will be spots that don’t get heated as much. Moving the food around inside the unit makes it so one of those cold spots isn’t consistently in one place in the food.
So with that as a context, if a cold spot is at or near the center of the turntable, it’s not going to get moved around in the food when it rotates. So better to put the food away from the center.
Looks like it might be the latter. I see this profile, but the cake day and the last post were both over a year ago.
Wasn’t shittymorph one of the ones who came here with the exodus?
I’m just barely a boomer, but I’m also a software engineer/manager. Sometimes younger folks assume I need help with computers/tech, or are surprised when I’m knowledgeable about them. It’s starting to change for me, too, though. I haven’t kept up with newer languages, and as a manager I really don’t write any code outside of the occasional Excel VBA, so I’m getting pretty stale.
Or he consider himself a crusader for a cause more than a vigilante and was carrying it to get more attention to his beliefs.
I remember our first personal computer had 40 columns on the screen, but we ended up getting an 80 column graphics card for it.
I taught myself basic, but the first language I took in college was fortran, and it was on cards. A bit of an aberration: they had moved on to somewhat more modern equipment, but the lab was being upgraded, so they reverted you the card system for a semester temporarily. It was out of date, but not wildly so at the time.