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Apparently he was so happy with integers that Apple had to license Basic from Microsoft.


Unfortunately, he never got around to creating the floating point routines for the version of Basic he created for the 8-bit Apple computers which had unfortunate results:

https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html


That is correct, off FL. The recovered engines were from the first stage they would never have made it half way around the world. Point Nemo is used to stash spacecraft that were in orbit.


and they think cause they're scientists they can just do it because they're scientists and stuff. Very pragmatic to be sure...but horrifying.


You can create/export .reg files to your GIT repo/file system...but that may be one extra step and doesn't stay in sync automatically.


Another idea would be to do periodic snapshots of the /etc folder. That, sadly, excludes ext4, but any flavour of Solaris can easily do it.


None of this is a problem in Azure PaaS. There is autoscaling and shared storage volumes for serverless components. Perhaps the problem is Kubernetes?


It doesn't matter where the nuclear power plants are. If nuclear war starts the world ends.


I don't care how many times I see this argument; strong typing is correct. We need to keep beating this drum because every year there are more and more new developers that know nothing. We need to make good one that aren't ignorant of history and what works...because the more things change the more they stay the same.


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