Am definitely human.
Thanks for the excerpt.
a so-called CNC machine
Really? Framing it “so-called” makes it sound esoteric and rare, while in fact it’s an utterly common machine tool used in many industries to create … pretty much anything (eg. casting dies for Lego bricks). I wish they’d tone down the alarmism (unless they know it’s ordered by “Ivan’s Shell Mfg. Co”).
This is such a strange phenomenon to me. In all the countries I’ve lived in, all but a few select stores have a dongle on each cart that takes a coin to unlock it from the chain of other carts. It’s perhaps the cost of a back of toilet paper, but that seems to be sufficient for it to be exceedingly rare to see an abandoned cart. One can only imagine that any such carts are quick prey for enterprising teens looking for a quick boost to their candy fund.
Oups, I misremembered: the game is called Core War. In it, MARS (“Memory Array Redcode Simulator”) is the name of a virtual machine that executes Redcode instructions. As a player, you write small programs (“warriors”) to be loaded on the virtual machine where they try to prevail while klling off (overwriting) opponent programs.
I thought this would be more like MARS, but turns out to be bare-metal MARS Core War where I’m the scheduler. I’m not saying it a terrible experience, but I am grateful that my day job in IT is more higher-level.
They would likely perform worse. If (“if”, ha) those fans are not in perfect sync, they’re going to obstruct airflow. Also, consider that each fan introduces both audible noise and perturbations in the airflow which in turn, also will cause noise.
Incidentally, I have (almost) that very same case, an Antec P182. Mine has a super-quiet PSU fan, and a ginormous heat pipe cpu cooler (HR-1 if you’re curious) with one fan … and that is plenty.
What are you reading? Here are a couple of novels that I’ve grown quite fond of. Common to all of them are that they are freely (and legally) available online; I am not in any way affiliated with them; and they strongly feature female lead characters.
Android is, in my opinion, the “best of what’s currently available.” Mind you, this does not imply that it is “good”.
I dearly miss PalmOS and the Tungsten and Treo product lines, as well as the Psion brand. Those terrific PDA’s had features that modern phones still lack. Conversely, I think modern phones come with a plethora of features that aren’t really positive. But then, I’m not really a fan of the whole style where you can barely touch a device anywhere without operating it in some way. This is just my personal opinion.
The #1 reason why I would never choose Apple’s products is that, while they excel at what you’re supposed to use them for, their platform is way too locked down for my taste. As a device owner, I want the ability to customise stuff and install (and remove!) whatever the hell I want (including ads!), and Android delivers that in far greater measure than Apple.
Am definitely human.
One of the benefits of having an online persona is not being put in a box (of any description).
Might well be this one:
Repurposing an Accom Axial Control Panel
as it combines my previous career in TV, my lifelong interest in programming, my nostalgic tendencies, and my sheer love of buttons galore!
(Work in progress, full write-up is here.)
Granted, you could easily replace the two arrows with a four-part diamond (❖) with those two axes … but I have a strong suspicion that nearly everyone who’s going to vote “I don’t agree” will also vote “This is poor quality” except in extraordinary cases. It’s just human nature: one would be disinclined to explicitly acknowledge the quality of one’s antagonist.
Isn’t that the norm? Like the old joke about hell seeming to be an all-out vacation, and then it turns out that was just the marketing brochure?
I very recently landed a sweet-sounding well-paying job at a large international consulting house. Turns out, on the inside it’s all gaffer tape and leaky abstractions. Not some of it, all of it. After having spent a few months sussing out the scope of the issues I determined that yes, this is unfixable by any one new hire, so I’ve done some interviews and will be starting a new position elsewhere presently.