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I'm ill. major manflu in all its gross glory.
And today at the new house, I have ripped out the old bathroom, taken up the floor and joists in one of the reception rooms, hacked off the render and plaster in another room.
Now I am going to have a nice soak in a hot bath and then food and medicines.
So see you later
I'm ill. major manflu in all its gross glory.
And today at the new house, I have ripped out the old bathroom, taken up the floor and joists in one of the reception rooms, hacked off the render and plaster in another room.
Now I am going to have a nice soak in a hot bath and then food and medicines.
So see you later
He had similar routines for adding 200 or 1000 or whatever to the score
The reason for the sprite flicker was that it could take up to a quarter of a frame (about 5ms in the UK) to update the score as necessary
Reminiscent of a file conversion utility I was given to fix. Written in COBOL, it worked on an ICL ME29 but not on an ICL DRS20 because there was insufficient memory to compile it.
It was to convert a file from one character set (EBCDIC probably, I forget) to ANSI. It read in 100 bytes at a time and 100 times did 128 compares and 128conversions and 100 concatenations and then wrote out a 100 byte record. There was some other sorts of mentalness too. It had some appalling run-time. Management liked it because it took ages to run so "it must have been full of meaty goodness".
I converted the main loop into 3 lines of code (READ, MOVE from one format field to another, WRITE). It ran so fast that management were convinced I had cheated.
I later discovered the original had been written by one of the directors...
Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
I was in Stonehenge at midnight once, just a few candles here and there and some people gently drumming or playing bodhrans - autumn equinox eve 1987, IIRC.
There weren't many of us there, but it was conducive of a contemplative state of mind.
Sometimes slow is good
Not like 1981 then? 40,000 of us!
Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
It was always a much smaller crowd for the Equinoxes, and smaller still for Winter Solstice. I could never understand why the Government was willing to spend over £2 million a year stopping us going there for the Summer Solstice, but couldn't care less about the other three occasions
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