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@tubetime @FunkyBob

That was a great video. Thanks @Tube🍂Time! I found myself continually unforgivably, dismissively muttering, "So what? So what? So what?" (Recalling that I still have 3 tube testing machines) until you got to the ESD and especially EMP - one might wonder why much of our defense industries settled entirely on LSI, then VLSI, etc., etc., instead of backup primary systems incorporating this "In between" manufacturing technology that you pointed out, which would certainly have benefited from advances in microminiaturization just the same - mostly, anyway.

But then there's that dialog that for some reason just came to me from "White Squall" where the Captain of the Cuban warship smashes the binnacle compass with his rifle butt and Jeff Bridges exclaims in Spanish, "Real sailors need only the stars overhead to navigate".

That was a really kewl project you built. How do you source the parts nowadays for things like nuvistors? There's very few Electronics surplus/liquidator type stores out there anymore.

I'm still trying to suss out whether Chister the Molister in the pic below is a villainous deer in the headlights of having his superspy cover blown, or if he's the inspiration for that other cartoon character of scandalous nature.

#tallship #nuvistor

16.0 Alpha 1 has arrived...

People ask me how come I often don't know these things... It's simple really. I'm on kernel-generic-7.2.4-x86_64-1 running #Slackware -current and don't actually bother to look up from the work I'm doing cause 16 is just a distro's version number, but 7.2.4 is a kernel. Officially, Slackware 16.0 Alpha is available w/the Linux huge 6.18.x kernel while 7.2.4 is in /testing.

Me, I'm just rolling along in production as I have been for close to 30 years now w/ Slackware - current looking back on the next upcoming release like it's something from yesterday lolz.

I do the same thing on #Debian (14/Testing/Forky) I just upgraded my kernel to 7.1.12+deb14-amd64 - so I'm not running that far behind the ultra-bleeding edge of Slackware, or what Arch and Gentoo users are either.

Anyway, you're going to hear more about the upcoming Slackware 16 release as the weeks go on and if there's one thing I can advise you of it's don't get caught up in the guessing game bullshit - Patrick will release it matter-of-factly w/o any fanfare and pretty much all bets will be wrong. The most you can do is to ask, "Is it soup yet?".

So here's the thread, and Patrick's response to the OP (who's running 7.3-RC1)

#tallship #FOSS #Linux #distros
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@arnelson

Sounds like a bunch of Heavy Metal Death Rock musicians being Poképhobic.

Poképhobes need to be challenged...

"Charizard... I choose YOU!

#tallship #Pokemon #Pokemon_masters #Charizard #Bulbasaur #Jigglypuff #Mewtoo

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Dunno… But It definitely DOES NOT SUCK!

I like the fact that I can pick my fav emojis but it doesn’t yet seem complete…

Although I’m very happy to see that you derived this inspiration from how #Calckey implemented this a while back (Calckey, BTW, now has federated chat and is working on federated groups, FYI).

On that Platform, you select a fav emoji or two and add them to the default list of those available to you so you don’t have to surf around each time, deftly searching for your fav.

Thanks @alex, #Soapbox only gets better and better!

Now let’s go out on a tangent - shall we?

Let’s hear it for one of my great inspirations - Margaret Hamilton - because she put two bitches on the moon with only 8K of RAM.

Actually, that’s not quite accurate…

It was 2 * 4K of RAM = 4K in the command module and 4K in the (Eagle) Lunar (lander) Module.

I think it’s safe to say that’s a “Holy Fuck, Batman!”, moment of achievement. What are your thoughts?

I challenge any dev to do now, what she did almost 60 years ago -read a fricken’ card.. Write a fricken’ card bitches!

How many today can actually hold a punch card up to the light and actually read it? Lolz!

Let’s see if you can do it within those constraints kiddies, when most mainframes (like IBM 360’s) we’re about as powerful as a #Commodore_64. - Muahahaha!

#tallship #emoticons #emojis #Apollo #Margaret_Hamilton - another one of #my_heroes #super_human_heroes #ibm_360

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