Worked? Mine works perfectly!

Stargate Universe.

They killed it when the show just had caught steam.

It didn’t clear the return code. In mainframe jobs, successful executions are expected to return zero (in the machine R15 register).

So in this case fixing the bug required to add an instruction instead of removing one.

Just to boast my old timer credentials.

There is an utility program in IBM’s mainframe operating system, z/OS, that has been there since the 60s.

It has just one assembly code instruction: a BR 14, which means basically ‘return’.

The first version was bugged and IBM had to issue a PTF (patch) to fix it.

Nah, they just recompiled the old MS-DOS editor. Next they will announce a BASIC interpreter and will call it WBasic.

The EU will not tax products which are critical for the European economy until/unless there is a viable local alternative.

What I expect the EU to do is to subsidise those fledging local alternatives. And yes, this is against WTO rules, but I guess nobody cares about that anymore.

No other world leader should accept an invite to the WH. Right now it’s 100% an ambush.

The budgie is a so sweet bird he has gained my little murderbird heart

Luigi should get a medal and a statue.

I’m a boomer and I approve this.

I block people liberally. I agree 100% with the comic. And blocking idiots is good for my health.

‘Gym’ Jordan, FFS…

The underlining linear algebra routines are written in… FORTRAN.

Pl/1 did it right:

Dcl 1 mybools, 3 bool1 bit(1) unaligned, 3 bool2 bit(1) unaligned, … 3 bool8 bit(1) unaligned;

All eight bools are in the same byte.

Uh, it looks like someone has finally found some real ‘fraud’.

At this very moment, the tower my cellphone hooks to is not providing 5G connectivity. But when I went out to have breakfast and walked just one block I got a good one. So maybe some equipment was damaged by whatever happened (and has still not been repaired, which is understandable).

Good to know, and somehow good news.

Until social networks are mare criminally liable for the crap they spew this won’t be turned around.

There has been no space weather event remotely close to a Carrington one

What really scared me is the internet service and mobile networks went down a few minutes (like, 2-3 minutes) after the main power.

Comms switch centers and cell towers are supposed to have batteries to keep them running for a while. But they went black almost immediately.

During the day we got some short moments of connectivity. Short and sparse.

There are things that I’d like to have some explanation for.