Jeema101 (u/Jeema101)

Jeema101 commented on The Titanic’s Best Lifeboat 99percentinvisible.org/ep... · Posted by u/zeristor

hoseja · 6 months ago

Genuinely, why are people/culture seemingly more concerned with the 1500 lives lost on Titanic than the 15~20 MILLION lost in The Great War? Similarly airplane vs automobile casualties. Is it just about the power of the story to sell in a newspaper?

Jeema101 · 6 months ago

I don't think people are 'more concerned' - it's just that the sinking of the Titanic was (and still is) a shocking and compelling story. It was the largest ocean liner in the world, on it's maiden voyage, supposedly unsinkable, sinking in frigid waters in a single tragic night.

Jeema101 commented on DOGE's Plan to Rewrite Social Security's Code in Months finance.yahoo.com/news/co... · Posted by u/AnimalMuppet

Jeema101 · 8 months ago

Okay but why stop there: why not also hand-wave a new operating system and hardware architecture into existence for it to run on while they're at it? I mean it's only 60 million lines of code [1] after all. Should be able to knock that out in a weekend.

[1] https://oig.ssa.gov/congressional-testimony/2016-07-14-newsr...

Jeema101 commented on Space Invaders computerarcheology.com/Ar... · Posted by u/Tomte

Jeema101 · 9 months ago

Objects at the top of the screen are drawn after the mid-screen interrupt. Objects at the bottom of the screen are drawn after the end-screen interrupt. Thus the code and hardware work on different halves of the screen.

I'm wondering what the mechanism is here to avoid bus contention between the video circuit and the CPU both accessing the VRAM at the same time.

Might be evident from studying the schematic I would suppose...

Jeema101 commented on The XB-70 (2019) codex99.com/photography/t... · Posted by u/rbanffy

ben7799 · 10 months ago

I have a love/hate relationship with this plane.

In 2014 I got to visit the AF Museum in Dayton, OH. With all the exceptional exhibits there it is completely obvious the XB-70 is THE crown jewel in that museum.

And it snowed while we were visiting and they shut down the hangar with the XB-70 because it required a shuttle ride.

So now I still have on my bucket list to see it.

Jeema101 · 10 months ago

It's back in the main exhibit now AFAIK. They completed a 4th hangar some years back and towed it back there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WptDcLKTYSM

Jeema101 commented on CDC Study Finds Silent Bird Flu Infections in Dairy Veterinarians nytimes.com/2025/02/13/sc... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

timewizard · 10 months ago

Yea. Why would they be sick? We only discovered _antibodies_ in their blood.

This ceaseless hyperventilation over the flu is unwarranted. There are vulnerable populations that would benefit from additional care under _any_ conditions. Let's just always be prepared to have to give them the necessary care and stop with this trumped up nonsense.

Jeema101 · 10 months ago

I assume you're referring to old people when you say 'vulnerable populations', but the problem is that old people are not always the only ones that get affected during flu pandemics. During the Spanish flu pandemic, for example, half the deaths were in people 20 to 40 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Patterns_of_fatali...

Jeema101 commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba

FreeRadical · a year ago

But Trump didn’t do any of things you suggested either. In fact he was barely coherent in his ideas most of the time.

Jeema101 · a year ago

He is barely coherent most of the time, but several of his ideas do resonate with people and are easy to understand:

1 - Other countries in the world have taken advantage of the US

2 - Illegal immigrants have changed the country for the worse and are taking jobs

#2 in particular has been framed as being racist. There IS a good deal of racism mixed in there, but the truth is that low skilled illegal immigrants DO compete for many of the same jobs as lower-skilled Americans.

None other than Bernie Sanders said as much about the subject right around 2007. His stance at that time was that we needed to do something about illegal immigration specifically to protect the jobs of American workers, but then later he changed his tune to fit in with the rest of the party.

If you address the majority of people's concerns and worries, they'll vote for you.

Jeema101 commented on Pascal deserves a second look timcoatesinsights.wordpre... · Posted by u/AlexeyBrin

Jeema101 · a year ago

I recently ported an old Pascal game to Free Pascal. I had never really used Pascal before this particular project.

Learning the language was interesting, but there's a lot about it that seemed pretty irritating, the main one being the separation of variable declarations and code (similar to the original C spec). It also took me way too long to figure out how to properly construct an 'if-then-else' block without the compiler complaining about the syntax.

Can't say I would probably use it in a new project.

Jeema101 commented on Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions github.com/bf-enterprise-... · Posted by u/linkdd

basementcat · a year ago

You mean your company needs to COME FROM Intercal?

Jeema101 · a year ago

The 'computed COME FROM' is even more interesting than the regular one due to it's ability to violate causality by coming from a place in the code before it was ever computed.

That of course makes migrating from Intercal difficult for a lot of organizations.