I think the first one I used, on loan over the summer from the college of FE that my Mum worked at, was an Intertec Superbrain. If not that then something from that era with a monitor and twin floppies all in one.

The first one I owned was a Sinclair ZX81, then a C64 shortly after it halved in price, then an Amiga. Coded the heck out of the 81 and 64 but not much on the Amiga. I remember trying out a C compiler on the C64 but there was so much disk swapping involved that it was just ridiculous and I gave up.

I don’t see the point. Even on my monster screen they’re only 6mm² so if it’s anything other than simple line art it’s just a small meaningless square of digital noise.

I AM NOT A ROBOT.

I CAN PROVE IT.

WOULD A ROBOT PRETENDING TO BE A HUMAN INTENTIONALLY DROP THEIR CONN%~~~~~~#!!! No Carrier

They’re comforted by the knowledge that at least they’re not the guy who installs indicators on BMWs.

If “basic human needs” includes a full working set of fingers, all ten, because then I get them back.

My meter is about six inches by three (from memory). It measures voltage (both AC and DC) and current.

I’ve only seen one so far (twice) - My Neighbour Totoro, so it’ll have to be that one for now.

Depends how far you go back. The top half is pretty representative of the professional dev team I was in in 1992.

Same way you did it in 2024 but it’s easier because the springgirdles have been replaced with rotated manglebrackets.

Ecclesiastes is a good read. I found “Everything is meaningless” to be very liberating. The book does go on to say what is good: to love God of course, but also to eat, drink and enjoy your work. But the whole thing is worth a read.

Curry.

The guy who’s already two thirds pope. Popeye of course! Popeye for Popey!

Ivan the Terrible didn’t get to play that killer chess move he’d been working on for years.

I have four and so does my wife! English, French, German, Spanish/Russian (learnt before it was uncool).

Edit: I remembered I can do Dutch as well. So 5 for me, 4 for her. I could only remember 4 and 5 in Latin, had to look the rest up.

I think Trump will dump and pump repeatedly until he’s stopped. Him and his billionaire bum chums will be absolutely raking it in.

In fact why not just call it the America shell? Heck, why not drop all words and say USA instead? The bash shell is now known as “usa usa usa”. Hey, here’s an idea, let’s just replace all words with usa! Usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa. Usa usa? Usa, usa usa.

Limited joint range. I just thought that’s as far as they went. It still freaks me out slightly when I see people using a normal range, as if they’d just turned their heads through 360° or bent their knees the wrong way.

Two. The first is that I can make traffic lights turn green within 5 seconds of putting the car in Park.

Secondly and perhaps more usefully, there’s a computer Problem Exclusion Zone around me. I can just stand next to a misbehaving computer, not looking at the screen and with my hands in my pockets, and it’ll start working properly.

None, because I don’t live in a country with an orange moron at the helm.

I find the easiest way to forget C++ is to try watching CppCon on YouTube.

I’ve been doing C++ professionally since 1991.

But when I watch CppCon, what the hell are they gabbling on about? It’s all complete gobbledegook! They may as well be speaking in an ancient Goa’uld dialect for all the sense it makes. These people are so far down a rabbithole I start to wonder if they’ve ever seen the surface.

I am therefore forced to the conclusion that despite 34 years of experience in C++ I don’t know C++.