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WtfEvenIsExistence , to til in TIL Soviet cosmonauts carried a shotgun on space missions

Proof of US Aggression: youtu.be/kFWIuJDLddc

Checkmate, Westerners!

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kittenbridgeasteroid , to technology in Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 on a single 5.25-inch 360 KB floppy disk

A few months ago I was tasked with translating a script from one IBM emulator program to another because the owners of the first program wouldn’t respond to requests to purchase a new license.

The scripting language used on both was unique to the software, and the documentation was basically non-existent. Plus, the script was written over a decade ago, and the guy who wrote it was long gone.

For weeks I banged my head against the wall trying to figure out the logic flow before I realized that it was essentially BASIC, which I haven’t touched in over 20 years.

ChickenLadyLovesLife ,

I started my programming career with Turbo Basic and Visual Basic 3. The one thing missing from these languages that makes me wonder how the hell I did anything at all is classes. I vaguely remember using arrays for all sorts of weird shit but that’s it.

Silverseren , to technology in A generational gap on Wikipedia - 91% of WP admins started editing before 2010

Though since this is specifically about being an admin and not just an editor on Wikipedia, is this necessarily an issue? A lot of admin activity has become automated since those early days, so you don't need as many people to deal with vandalism or other forms of backlogs.

Danobc , to moviesandtv in **THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER Discussion Megapost** 2023-08-11 🚢🦇

I watched it today in a sneak review in Germany.

The Film was good. Well told old type of Story, through there was no “catharsis”, the ending was kinda meh.

I can guess why it ended the way it did but still felt a bit like a downer.

The cinematohraphy, the music and the sounds were really good to amazing. The editing during the boarding part was wonky, but once the Crew was on the ship it was good.

The production was really good. I wish the lotr, wot, one piece and other big streaming Shows could Look this good.

The acting was fine. The captain and the first mate were the best, I know them from other movies and they seem to be the most experienced.

Something I was wondering, what was the young guy afraid of at the very beginning. There shouldnt be anything really disturbing left on the ship.

Electricorchestra , to moviesandtv in **TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM** Discussion Megapost 2023-08-02 🐢🥷

I saw it. Overall I liked it. I’ve been a turtles fan my entire life. It felt like a bunch of turtles fans said let’s make the turtles and lets make them 2023. Of course they changed some stuff but I can’t really clutch my pearls because it’s very clear they love the franchise.

Overall loved the animation, soundtrack, and Ice Cube. I laughed quite a bit in the theater watching this. Solid 7/10 movie and I can see a lot of kids thinking these turtles are as cool as I thought the 80’s turtles were.

warmaster ,

Best review ever. Thanks!

Electricorchestra ,

Yeah I hope you liked the film. Honestly my biggest critique is I wish the last animated film I watched wasn’t spiderverse.

lynny , to linux in NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁
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Ext4 came out 20 years ago.

pastermil ,

Shit, that’s probably older than the interns in my office…

Kata1yst ,
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No. No no no, I clearly remember I was sitting in my discrete math class at college reading my rss feeds when... Oh no.

chaorace ,
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Need some extra AAs for your PDA so you can finish that thought?

Matt_Shatt , to science in TIL before CT and MRI’s were available, doctors used to replace the fluid in and around the brain with air to do imaging with X-rays.

Well that just sounds awful. What’s not clear is how CSF gets back in there. Do they replace it or let the body figure it out on its own?

thalamus OP ,

Not sure to be honest but i’m guessing that enough would be left and that the air would resorb and new CSF would be made in the ventricles.

baronvonj , to linux in Following Red Hat's lead, Linus Torvalds will only publish Linux Kernel code to paid contributors
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These users also have decided not to use one of the many other Linux distributions.

This is what I’ve been saying in the other thread. The cottage industry of source-rebuild distributions keep RedHat as a de facto standard for enterprise, and RedHat is stating the users of those rebuilds as lost revenue driving their decisions here. So we should move on to other distributions that aren’t underpinned on being compatible with RedHat.

anji , to til in TIL the number of continents varies and do not follow a strict criteria
altima_neo , to til in TIl Rick James’ cameo in chappelle’s show was so successful it caused him to return to touring and performing. He died a few months into the tour.
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He was in pretty rough shape, unfortunately, by that time.

001100010010 , to til in TIL that the BBC had no archival policy until 1978, and many of its old broadcasts were only aired live. A number of BBC broadcasts are lost, including a show featuring a then-unknown Bob Dylan; 97...
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Technically not lost. Some alien civilization could’ve recorded it and we might some day be able to retreive it.

hitmyspot ,

If it’s not yet found, would it not be lost, until it is found.

chris2112 ,

In the lost media community there is a distinction between things that are known to be lost forever (baring some miracle) and things that may still exist but either no known copies have been found or the owner refuses to release a digital copy (usually due to copyright reasons). For example most of the early seasons of Doctor Who were lost due to the BBCs policy but over the years copies of the film and even some rudimentary at home recordings have been found, allowing for them to be archived and preserved

LasVenturas , to til in TIL the design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights.

What else did you think the guillotine was? Like it’s not talked about alot but if you get beheaded it didn’t always go well or in one swing.

TheBananaKing , to til in TIL that, unless it contains alcohol, kosher food is generally halal. However, halal food is not generally kosher; halal allows shellfish, camels, rabbits, and the mixing of meat and dairy, all of ...

ehh, it depends a lot on the individual; there’s a lot more scope for interpretation in Islam depending on both religious and cultural variations.

Islamic slaughter follows the same basic method - must die from blood loss, etc - but the prayers said over the animal while this happens are different, and some people consider this significant. Also some people consider certain kinds of shellfish haram, while others consider anything that lives in the water to be completely exempt, etc.

Halal has vastly simpler and more livable-with rules than kosher, and while (apart from alcohol) kosher food is a subset of things that can be halal, it’s not always the case that they’re a subset of things that are halal.

Source: lived with a muslim for many years.

Aux , to til in TIL that approximately 70% of the world’s vegetarians live in India.

Almost a half of world’s population lives in India. Most of everyone will end up there.

lightsecond ,

For comparison, India has ~18% of the world population.

Fulthi ,

Half? It's around 18% of the world's population.

Windex007 , to til in TIL about Lloydminster, a Canadian town that lies within two provinces but is a single municipality

I remember this blowing my mind as a kid, but then I saw Baarle-Hertog in… Uh… “European countries”

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