It was a bigger problem for people on older systems. For people using newer systems, it was less of an issue. In 1999, I worked on systems that had 2-digit dates and more modern systems where it wasn't an issue at all. We had addressed the...
It hit the instrument payload, which contains a bag of sand ballast (example image: ballast bag of a similar sounding balloon as the one hit by the plane, and the plane’s windshield). The instruments are very light, but it’s the ballast that...
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I wrote factory floor data collection software for DOS. I do not miss the days of having to write TSRs to perform anything running in the background. There was more to life than 25 rows of 80 columns of ASCII text.
Y2K was more hype than...
But the point was made.
The takeaway for many people was not that Reagan was against tariffs (he imposed tariffs on semiconductors, motorcycles, and pressured Japanese car companies to open plants in the US), but rather that Trump is so...
I was watching the world series, and saw the commercial. As it rolled, I smiled, nodded, and assumed that the Democrats must be paying the bill (ad time during the world series is v-e-r-y expensive). At the end, I nearly gagged on my beer when it...