6 bits per digit, 12 bit words. Octal (8) number system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8

Oh wow, thanks for the tips! I’ll check them out.

It was “The Avatar” in a German translation. I read it twice or so at that time - and it’s many years since, so I have only a dim recollection of all the details, but a lot of politics, and (if I don’t mix it up now) questionable physics regarding light speed and mass, a lot of sex and some weird gaelic inspired poetry.

Maybe I’ll find a copy one day again, to have a new look with my now old eyes and different woldview.

From what I’ve seen on goodreads or so I had a bit of misfortune as The Avatar isn’t known as his best work. But beggars can’t be choosers, at that time I got my sci fi fix by browsing the one bookstand with scifi in the central station’s bookstore next to my bus stop home after school… they threw me out once or twice “This is for buying books, not for reading”

I have just read one Poul Anderson (when I was a teenager) and the most important thing I remember was people fucking each other all the time.

I always thought it was the christian brand version of Roman Saturnalia.

Heh PLA. While it is made from starch it’s also not (really) biodegradable, it just is in a very controlled environment.

And PLA still is plastic.

I personally absolutely agree of getting rid of that shit. I just said there are big hurdles, and you need to do so in a very organized and based on proof way.

You can’t just outlaw them because you don’t like them, that doesn’t work. Germany having laws against hate speech doesn’t mean there’s not also a law about freedom of expression in the Grundgesetz.

You need to prove them to be against democracy in a watertight way. That’s what I mean with not willy-nilly.

Or as I read it once: Democracy implicitly protects its enemies.

Look, there’s president Musk and the first bro.

Quite contrary, we have a big problem censoring Nazi speech.

We have some very specific rules when something can be censored and when it can’t - and the far right has quite some training in “just not saying that, maybe only implicating it a little”.

So any legal action outlawing then needs to rest on really solid legal basis or it will fail. Such a failure would be the propaganda the right wishes for.

Consequently they are always just shy of openly saying things but implying them. Like having election posters where their politicians can say “No we’re not showing a Hitler salute in that image, we were just miming a roof of a house over a bunch of kids”

Sometimes a single politician gets caught with doing something too far, but then (of course) the whole party acts like they are shocked.

Getting rid of this shit is not easy, unfortunately. We can’t censor what we don’t like willy nilly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

*Muskistan

ftfy

That’s fair when you just use another name.

I’m not Italian but I find it highly annoying when restaurants offer carbonara but it turns out to be a cream based sauce - it just tastes different. Unfortunately here (mere 3h by car to Italy) most restaurants serve cream-carbonara.

So I never order it, it just make it at home. (And there’s a trick to get a nice carbonara, I put the eggs and parmesan into a steel bowl and heat and whisk them “bain-maire” on top of the pot where the pasta is cooking (and add a bit of pasta water).

This makes a really creamy carbonara sauce. And I don’t need to buy cream, normally I’m having eggs and parmesan available at home.

Oh and let the pasta steam out and cool down a bit before adding the sauce or it will curdle.

I did cream-based “carbonara” in the past, but for my taste this is so much better. And I don’t feel the cream-less one is more work, ok I have one more bowl for the dishwasher.

The 2 liter bottle of coke I once froze exploded with so much force that I found the freezer door open when I investigated the loud bang at 3am. No way a ziploc would contain that force.

I shared the link to this to friends a week ago or so.

Wait what, ah yes, Florida is the dick of the US.

Acipenser sturio hier mal nicht Aale mit diesen Aablenkugen.

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Klobrüder und - schwestern, vereinigt Euch!

Thanks. I did remember that US subs used a off the shelf controller but couldn’t think of the specific example.

Additionally with an off the shelf controller it’s really easy to pack a replacement one. (And building a controller yourself - that one will always be worse and heavier than an off the shelf one plus replacement)

The crazy thing really is how they ignored everyone on warnings how not to construct a hull.

Zitat aus dem Artikel:

Deshalb, und das wäre die zweite Schlussfolgerung, sollten die demokratischen Kräfte ihren Widerstand gegen Rechtsextreme so genau wie möglich gestalten. Ob man nun deren Geldflüsse mit allen verfügbaren Mitteln unter die Lupe nimmt oder ihre Verkehrungen ins Gegenteil stoisch als das benennt, was sie sind: bloße Ablenkungsmanöver. Abstrakte Warnungen und hitzige Empörung konnten den Siegeszug der extremen Rechten in den letzten Jahren nicht aufhalten. Nun hilft womöglich Widerstand, der vor allem eins ist: konkret in der Sache – und kalt im Ton.