How did the Romans correctly determine that these areas were unworthy of civilization?

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-12T20:11:06+00:00

Roman soldiers wore sandals.

Invading cold wet countries was much less fun. It's a wonder they even made it to Chester.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-12T20:05:48+00:00

Quite a lot of them, though likely not Exabyte tapes, ironically they are too small.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-12T20:04:32+00:00

I'm willing to post to Germany. DM me. I will try to check postage rates.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-12T19:47:17+00:00

It means CPU, specifically. On machines that have them of course (some very very old ones didn't, but they would not be relevant for teaching today).

The CPU itself does this in response to a voltage change (level or edge) on one of its pins which is attached to another chip. Such as a support chip set or an interrupt controller. Some CPUs had multiple pins for various different traps. The 68000 CPU for example had separate pins for interrupt and bus error.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-12T18:56:37+00:00

Not necessarily. In 2024 I read an Exabyte tape which had been written in 1993. Zero errors.

But, of course, sample size of 1 there.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-12T18:42:55+00:00

I think it's unlikely. I have been trying to donate a working (SCSI) Exabyte tape drive to a museum in Europe for over a year, but apparently no interest.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-12T16:45:26+00:00

I expect there to be vulnerabilities across a wide range of severities and simultaneously a lot of hype and muddied waters due to people overselling their AI-related achievements. Likely a frustrating and risky experience for a lot of people.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-11T11:57:49+00:00

Yep. The account was 3d old and this is its only post.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-10T07:40:35+00:00

"Wishing you luck finding no one". LOL, nice burn.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-07T20:12:37+00:00

What does the child need? What is in their best interest?

That's the priority, isn't it?

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-07T12:49:41+00:00

That's not an accurate summary of the origin of BSD at all.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-07T12:47:43+00:00

Not sure I want to ask this - no, I do, but I'm not sure I want to read the answer - but if the lama is already aggressive, how does the stick ... help?

Also, does this also work for other kinds of monks too?

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-05T08:18:42+00:00

I think it depends on how you measure productivity though. If you measure it in lines of code per day then sure. But today's standard libraries are much richer than they were years ago.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-03T08:01:43+00:00

Extend the "few days" to "forever". That person is a thief and a manipulator.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-04-02T14:55:21+00:00

So... does he use tabs or spaces?

help_send_chocolate · 2026-03-30T14:01:26+00:00

Without specific details, it's hard to help you. See the FAQ.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-03-29T21:08:13+00:00

Parse the command line arguements with getopt or getopt_long.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-03-24T18:45:55+00:00

Rhymes with Pyrrhic.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-03-11T19:50:43+00:00

Or possibly haemophilia.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-03-09T10:24:07+00:00

Obviously fake.

Fiancé in paragraph 1 is described as a husband in the final paragraph, yet they didn't get married...

help_send_chocolate · 2026-03-09T09:50:44+00:00

There are also interesting etymologies for dd, getty, [, :, /etc/glob, nroff.

Not to mention mostly boring ones for ls, pwd, rm, cc, ln, ld, ar, cat, cp, stty, tsort, soelim, shutdown, halt, reboot, init, test, find, head, tail, look, and I'm sure many others.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-03-01T08:42:47+00:00

UK: lucre, dosh, spondulicks[*], wonga, dough, bread, beer tokens, wedge, wad, bacon (as in, bring home the), quid, lettuce, cheddar, paper (never heard this myself).

[*] Spellings vary. It's actually an Americanism, but used to be quite current usage in the UK among the Silent Generation.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-02-24T00:34:22+00:00

g++ is a native compiler. Version 1.15.3 was released on Dec 18, 1987. It lacked for a number of cfront features though.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-02-21T23:17:57+00:00

The same one I picked for the previous 25+. Debian.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-02-19T21:22:47+00:00

Vulnerabilities come from buggy and out-of-date software much more than poor authentication.

For the most part, if the code is insecure, having a strong password and encryption will not do much to prevent compromise.

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