When the gp’s book says that C is a third generation language: I would guess the first generation is Fortran and the second generation contains ALGOL and BCPL. C was heavily influenced by BCPL. (get it? C comes after B)

Or Fortran variables that collide with Fortran built-in functions.

Keep in mind that array subscript and function call are both () in Fortran.

And you can write more than six characters, but only the first six are recognized. So APFLWSAC and APFLWSAF are really the same variable.

And without namespaces, company policy reserves the first two characters for module prefix and Hungarian notation.

The legislation that directed these rules to be written was actually passed by Congress a few years ago.

It takes quite some time for new federal regulations to be written and enacted, with lengthy public comment periods.

Operation Praying Mantis, I believe.

To be fair, they probably spent a decade or more planning, designing, building, launching, and completing the actual sample return. Once the actual samples are safely in the lab, I’m sure there are no deadlines whatsoever. Take whatever time it takes to do it right.

I have a long time friend who complains about this kind of behavior. Friend is a Creek Indian living in the Muskogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma. That’s about as native-born and indigenous as you can get.

Unfortunately, her skin is somewhat less than lily-white, and that just seems to bring out the dumbasses.

I don’t think that’s the case for this specific package of 155 mm shell accessories.

I could be wrong.

I think part of the difference is that Israel is a paying customer on that last deal.

They weren’t any dumber or smarter than we are today. They just didn’t have the preexisting base of scientific research. If you study the history of science, which is fascinating, you will find a fundamental truth: essentially every major advance or discovery in any field of science is made after carefully studying the records of everything they has come before.

This base of knowledge builds on itself exponentially over time. Now, you can get it all in Google scholar and scihub.

All I’m saying is, there’s no way this would pass a MIL-STD-882 safety assessment in the twenty first century. So I have no idea how they got their spaceworthiness certificate.

Once again I remind you all that these consoles are not powered by a substance as boring as regular electricity. Oh no. It has to be highly energetic tuned plasma…straight to the user interface consoles…for, uh, reasons.

Real answer: it used to be common for UNIX daemons to send mail to root or to other users. This wasn’t the same thing as email, because it didn’t hit a network unless you set that up. But it ended up in the same mailboxes.

I started Premium as Google Play Music back when. Made sense as an alternative to Spotify. In my book, it still does. Ad-free YouTube is just a bonus for a music streaming service.

The replicator is not a straight energy to arbitrary matter machine. It uses a lot of energy to rearrange matter quickly. But there are still storage tanks of basic nutritional components that go into the process. At least that’s what the Star Trek Technical Manual says.

Also, the dilithium crystals are allegedly not fuel, but catalysts or moderators. The ships (at least in the TNG era) still fuel up on cryogenic deuterium slush, of which half is converted into anti-deuterium before entering the warp core.

Enterprise-d, at least, had some limited capability to gather fuel from space with the ram scoops. These were the red things on the front of the nacelles.

Holy cow yes. When Star Trek (2009) came out I calculated that there was, at that time, 28 plus days of Star Trek video content to watch. This guy covers all of that, plus the newer stuff, very adroitly.

Likely your C++ implementation also doesn’t ship the full standard library. And you may even turn off exceptions and RTTI.

From the main project page on GitHub there’s a button for “Releases”, which can be a source to get exe or zip archives.

I reckon it was Hitler that betrayed the Soviets, rather than the other way around.

This is the thing. You can’t use a circuit breaker if you’re powering your control console directly with “tuned plasma”.