Asking Gemini with the titles swapped will give you an equally confident story and reasoning about why "Bordered in Black" is actually preferred. This, and more, is why we're interested in what you have to say about the stories instead of what the LLM has to say.

What makes you a big fan of the story/reminded you of it here? I just gave it a re-read and thought it was alright. Not my favorite work of his... but certainly not bad either. Perhaps I've just read too many Sci-Fi stories to be properly shocked by the theme given the relatively short time to be immersed in the setting :).

Do you have an example of it being flagged? I only see one old post from 7 years ago (not flagged), and that links to a scribd pdf rather than the author's website

I suggested that after the Final Countdown first computers are made with Rope Memory and Mechanical Relays. But Ken Schirriff said NO -- you need semifast semiconductors to read the memory.

If you have relays, the easiest RAM is just a bank of latching relays and the easiest ROM is a resistor board. Core rope is only for density.

Achually. If you have L.M.Ericsson 8x8 latching crossbar switch, 64-bit memory needs only 6 relays. Yes SIX.

The Fuji relay-computer has lots of those crossbar switches.

However. The rope-memory in this scene is read-only-storage containing vast amount of data. Rope memory is economical to use but labor-intensive to produce.

You'd be able to do it with tubes at least.

I would love to see a relay switch at 1Mhz.

You will amazed. One reason is that relays are suitable for multilevel signalling. That is why the relays-only Fuji computer was on par with contemporary Amerikahito crap.

They forgot the ballpoint pen. In 1950 Sweden flowing ink and cursive was the mark of a civilized man. I remember teacher using magnifier to detect cheaters as evil ballpoint technology advanced.

Evil ballpoint is evil. I remember everyone chewing up plastic ballpoint pens into unusablily and also using them as blowguns with chewed paper, whereas nothing of the sort was possible before their introduction. (however, flowing ink also had its uses :) )

Last time I bought a panel from Lidl, it worked only on very sunny day. Very Strange.

Inspection revealed it had two 6 Volt 10 Watt panels in parallel and then 12V to 5V USB-converter.

When panels were reconnected in series it was quite OK.

What do you mean? Do you mean small solar panel for smartphones? Because the panels in the article are over a square meter big. Mine make 200-400 watts on sunny days

Yes. But 20W panel is panel too.

Little worried about Lidl-quality also on larger scale.

Thats competly two different things.

Different companies, different manufactoring methods and different components. The inverter is the biggest cost at normal PVs for example, the panel itself is glas and alumnimum and not epoxy or plastic.

Gemini parsed 5000 lines assembly program. And it understood everything.

I wanted to change it from 32-bit MSDOS to 64-bit Linux. But it realized that the segmented memory model cannot be implemented in large memory without massive changes which breaks everything else.

It was willing to construct new program with seemingly same functionality, but the assembly code was so incomprehensible that whole project was useless as a learning tool. And C-version would have been faster already.

Sorry to say, but less talented humans like me-myself are already totally useless in this.

> but the assembly code was so incomprehensible

Wait, I thought you said it understood everything..

What? I mean it made its own version, but it was so full of incomprehensible squiggles that it was useless as a learning tool.

I just wanted to see what it would look like. Lesson learned.

I tried (setq backup-directory-alist '(("." . ".local/share/Trash/files/"))). It would have been fun if backup files were also Thunar Trash.

But too many problems. Even Grok, Gemini and Chatgpt were stunned.

You only need one bit tag and it is for number.

Symbols are just list of numbers. Variable is just a nameless place in memory, but often associated with a symbol.

Numbers in symbols are printed out as ASCII-characters when it seems appropriate, like after SETQ.

Or we could decide that number-list that ends with 0 and contains only range(0x21,0x7F) is printed out as symbol. Does not matter, it is just syntactic sugar.

And We do not need strings for much anything. We could of course decide that number-list with ord('"') is printed out as string. The reader could also follow this protocol.

I had all this figured out at one time. And I dont remember any major issues. B-)

I suggest installing Sun Dial on youres smartwatch. Especially when daytime is 4 hours, it somewhat aleviates the "eternal darkness" brain fuzz. I try to be awake on those few hours, and do not care about those other dials.

There is Sun Dial right there on Zepp Watchmaker on "editable components". From 9 to 15 seems to best amplitude as it reflects the sun's movement on the skies.

This was in Gopher first, where you had to click a link to view a picture. Then I heard about Mosaic, where you can have pictures and text on the same page. Some problems emerged, until I learned you use <p> to separate chapters: https://timonoko.github.io/alaska/index.htm

where does this character set come from? It looks different on xterm.

for x in range(0x0,0x20): print(chr(x),end=" ")

                   

What are you trying to achieve, none of those characters are printable, and definetly not going to show up on the web.

    for x in range(0x0,0x20): print(f'({chr(x)})', end =' ')
    (0|) (1|) (2|) (3|) (4|) (5|) (6|) (7|) (8) (9| ) (10|
    ) (11|
          ) (12|
    ) (14|) (15|) (16|) (17|) (18|) (19|) (20|) (21|) (22|) (23|) (24|) (25|)    (26|␦) (27|8|) (29|) (30|) (31|)

Just asking why they have different icons in different environments? Maybe it is UTF-8 vs ISO-8859?

UTF-8 is not technically a character set (because it has way more than 256 characters). Characters 32-127 in UTF8 are the same as ASCII, which is the same as the OEM/CP437 and the ANSI/ISO-8859/CP1252.

The characters in CP437 (and other OEM codepages) actually come from the ROM of the VGA (and EGA/CGA/MCGA/Hercules before them).

What you are referring to is those (visually), right? I'm missing some characters in the first line, because HN drops them.

    0123456789abcdef
   0...♥♦♣♠•◘○◙..♪♫.
   1►◄↕‼¶§▬↨↑↓→←∟↔▲▼

As far as I know, the equivalent control characters (characters 0-31) don't have any representation in CP1252, but that's also dependent on the font (since rendering of CP1252 is always done by Windows)

As to their origin, originally the full CP437 character set was taken from Wang word processors. I don't know where Wang took it from, but they probably invented it themselves.

EDIT: There's a more complete history here: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/weird-tales/

EDIT 2: The CP437 character set didn't seem to come directly from Wang; it's just that they took some (a lot) of characters from Wang word processors character sets. The positions of those "graphic" characters was decided by Microsoft when they made MS-DOS (at least according to Bill Gates).

In my screen there is indeed about thirty icons. When I executed the program on xterm, they were different and when I pasted them on LibreOffice they were again different. And now it seems this shit is also different in every country.

The world is broken.

They shouldn't show as visual representations, but some "ASCII" charts show the IBM PC character set instead of the ASCII set. IIRC, up to 0xFF UTF-8 and 8859 are very close with the exceptions being the UTF-8 escapes for the longer characters.

There's no 0x80-0xFF in the UTF-8 encoding. Only up to 0x7F (127) it's the same.

Opera AI solved the problem:

If you want to use symbols for Mars and Venus for example,they are not in range(0,0x20). They are in Miscellanous Symbols block.

Ok this set does not even show on Android, just some boxes. Very strange.