I’ve got the Feb 1980 (5th printing) edition of Basic Computer Games - Microcomputer Edition sat on the shelf next to me… looking forward to comparing the dialect differences :)

Because you’d end up with a load of butter from the churning.

Don’t do this - plugging in an infected drive can infect the secondary computer; you may wish to plug it into a linux or other hardened system to get the data however. The post by @silverdiamond is a better response.

LOL! Blast from the past… Dead n00bs scattered everywhere.

And this is how you handle responsible disclosure… 34 minutes for simply an e-mail list, no login details or private information.

There are places where it’s used well. The Matrix, for example. Someone elseThread said Max Max: Fury Road, and I agree on that. Those are… at the moment… the only two that aren’t abominations of decolouring, though.

Caring for others is good for you. Even if you look at it shellfishly, it is still true.

Had to.

I’ve never free-swam, but when I was a kid (up to early teens, maybe 14?) I had swimming lessons. I was always told the lessons of the waterways, which I vaguely remember now, but one of them was kick off your shoes because they will kill you. We had to recite those back at the start and end of the lessons, what to do if you fell in. Kick off your shoes because they will kill you.

Only lesson I remember, funnily enough.

As Terry Pratchett, via the voice of Sam Vimes, once put it, “This is love-in-a-canoe coffee if ever I saw it.”

They’ve explicitly acknowledge the overpromise in the part of NMS (And, thanks to the continuous, rolling, free and global updates to NMS, have more than delivered on everything they promised and then a load more that they didn’t promise, including next-generation graphical updates, and entire new procedural generation systems that have added even more to the environment).

They’ve gone above and beyond to deliver, I’d even hazard a guess that they’ve over-delivered as far as any bureaucratic or financial director is concerned. They’re working full-time on NMS nearly 10 years on from release! They’ve done enough to warrant a modicum of trust.

I’m not pre-ordering, but I’ll be watching with interest, and will likely buy on day-one.

That’s what the guy said. Money isn’t “intrinsically” real - it doesn’t have something in-and-of itself. It’s extrinsically real - it represents something in the society we live in, a system of arbitrage and barterage that we use to represent an amount of work (Poorly, and with little benefit to a large number of people).

So no - if the extrinsic reality changes, then the barter or arbitrage currency will change - bottle caps, for instance, take over. But for a large society to function, a commonly accepted means of representing “value” has to be agreed upon. I can’t just say, “Well, I’ve got the worth of x hours worth of time spent on projects to provide”, instead I’ll say “I’ve got x pounds to provide”.

Originally, this was made more explicit, and it still exists on UK currency: “I promise to pay the bearer…” At that point, the notes had a (Bank-enfornced) intrinsic value. The words meant a promise to provide the currencies face-value in Gold. Now, we’ve done away with gold-backed currency, and the raw value is arbitrary, it has no intrinsic value but that set by extrinsic realities.

It’s pseudo-realtime; things happen on a tick, but that tick is pretty generous in timings and you can pause the game at any point.

I started developing websites in the mid-90’s, and shipped my first commercial one in '99. I didn’t really have JavaScript (As we know it today) - it was a fancy client-side ‘make-funky-things-happen’ enabler, not a ‘make-the-whole-page-work’ enabler. I’ve always looked at frameworks as something that’s useful to solve specific problems - Google Mail couldn’t be made without a framework. A web forum? It might help. A regular website? Doesn’t need it.

You don’t need an SPA to render any of the marketing, sales or other websites. Most webshops don’t need an SPA, just some light basket handling and data rendering and caching. But say that to any modern web dev, and you’re looked at as though you’ve got three heads, while they ship a page that’s multiple megabytes of JS to layout some text and prettify some pictures.

Genie vs Jafar… you can tell by the colour ;)

Google Translate says, “Husband’s side hooks up with Fang Juxing, the best girl on Wannu.com!”

It’s exactly the same gravitational pull as the star that previously collapsed… (And I’ve not read the article (yet), this is just a personal nitpick that I’ve had for a LONG time).

–edit after reading the article–

In terms of inevitably falling into a black hole, it’s only the material that formed interior to three times the event horizon radius — interior to what’s known as the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) in general relativity — that would inexorably get sucked into it. Compared to what actually falls into the event horizon in our physical reality, the purported “sucking” effects are nowhere to be found. In the end, we have only the force of gravity, and the curved spacetime that would result from the presence of these masses, affecting the evolution of objects located in space at all. The idea that black holes suck anything in is arguably the biggest myth about black holes of all. They grow due to gravitation, and nothing more. In this Universe, that’s more than enough to account for all the phenomena we observe.

That summary explains it better than I can.

I got screwed over with the motherboard, as it had to go back because of bimetallic contracts in the SATA ports that could wear out and stop it working so there was a big recall of all the boards… Was an amazing system though and if I hadn’t seen the computer I’m currently running for an absolute steal, I’d probably still be running it with a 3060 as a pretty potent machine still.

Of course, then I’d never have the experience of just HOW FAST NVME IS! :⁠-⁠D

I had an i5-2500k from when they came out (I think 2011? Around that era) until 2020 - overclocked to 4.5Ghz, ran solid the whole time. Upgraded graphics card, drives, memory, etc. but that was incremental as needed. Now on an i7-10700k. The other PC has been sat on the side and may become my daughters or wife’s at some point.

Get what you need, and incremental upgrades work.

I’ve got to make it alliterative - The bare bottomed bridge beefer.

I have no idea why I just posted that, but it made me giggle.

Hell yes! I grew up with that (In the UK), it was one of the first books I read (And series I watched) in the 80’s/90’s… introducing my daughter now to them.

12 Trials is still something I quote to my wife at times… “You are a wild boar, a wild boar” :D