acockworkorange @ acockworkorange @mander.xyz

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Pretty sure China did. In the form of hand cannons.

You have to have an idea of what you'll run on it first.

Old corporate desktops will do for a NAS and basic light services. Look for one that has three drive bays plus an NVMe slot.

What?

Ever heard of Tricky Dick? It's what the newspapers were calling Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal.

I hear they're selling 9mm volcanoes like hot cakes. Got yourself some if you're sanguine about it.

The necromancer sisters.

Today on "Things I wish I didn't need to know"...

Just don't try it with a 60MB+, 200 page+ file.

Thanks for the book recommendation!

I wasn't countering you, just adding my voice to your plea.

That's good that those were covered for you. I can tell you the coverage on that in my corner of the South is absolutely lacking.

No, I want them to know. Tell Cersei I did it.

MLK has a good rep today because of the non violence. Malcolm X and the Black Panthers were just as if not more influential for change, but they're completely ignored in schools and media today.

Bit fields are a necessity in low level networking too.

They're incredibly useful, I wish more people made use of them.

I remember I interned at a startup programming microcontrollers once and created a few bitfields to deal with something. Then the lead engineer went ahead and changed them to masked ints. Because. The most aggravating thing is that an int size isn't consistent across platforms, so if they were ever to change platforms to a different word length, they'd be fucked as their code was full of platform specific shenanigans like that.

/rant

Talking heads - once in a lifetime

And you may ask yourself: where is my beautiful house? Where is my beautiful wife?

In the industrial automation world and most of the IT industry, data is aligned to the nearest word. Depending on architecture, that's usually either 16, 32, or 64 bits. And that's the space a single Boolean takes.

For ages the four nations lived in harmony...

Don't worry, it gets worse after level 40.

QNX 6 had a public beta some years ago. It breathed new life on a very old 486 I had laying around.

QNX 4 was also used on some fancy life signs monitors and other safety / mission critical equipment.

That didn't address any link with age.