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BotchQue said:
My hardest class of all, Operations Research, had an instructor like that. Unfortunately, he also wrote the textbook, and everyone in the class was lost. I didn't finish a single problem on the first test, and knew I was eff'd.
I got an "A" on that test, and for the class; so did everyone else. Extremely easy grader, don't know if he was worried about keeping his job or what. And so now I know nothing about Op Research.
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I've gone into programming classes (working on upgrading my degree), as a "veteran" programmer and had the instructor say something stupid, first-year student stupid, and half of the class would react with surprise, and the instructor would ask if I had a problem. Then, I would explain how it was supposed to be in real life or in the text book.

I don't like to be involved that way, but that certainly would have fixed a lot of classes for me if someone had re-oriented the instructor's thinking.
 
Got a text message today from T-Mobile USA that "older monthly service plans" are having their prices updated.

The merger with Sprint guaranteed a little while and it's apparently over, but the change is only an extra US$5.00, although since there have been two data breaches since they integrated Sprint's customer base into their database, we should get a pass.
 
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goldmac2006 said:
Heard about it in the news.

Here in the states the blood red super moon will show up at the following times:https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2025-march-14
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Thanks. It's become clear with sunshine now, so I have hope. I may have to wear gloves to work the camera, but I hope to get something just before midnight to just after midnight. I'm not sure about recording for 10-15 minutes or whether I should take separate photos.
 
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bousozoku said:
Thanks. It's become clear with sunshine now, so I have hope. I may have to wear gloves to work the camera, but I hope to get something just before midnight to just after midnight. I'm not sure about recording for 10-15 minutes or whether I should take separate photos.
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Do pics if you have enough space in your iPhone.

Best yet, use Night mode.

The moon usually shines thru my bedroom window, I checked and it has yet to turn dark as Cali will not get full totality until midnight.
 
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goldmac2006 said:
Do pics if you have enough space in your iPhone.

Best yet, use Night mode.

The moon usually shines thru my bedroom window, I checked and it has yet to turn dark as Cali will not get full totality until midnight.
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I got three shots to see how it would work. I had to turn off auto focus on the lens because it seemed to put it slightly out of focus, but infinity focus on the lens may not be quite right. The best lens for the job is one that I don't have. I could always try the older, smaller camera body with the newer lens.
 
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This one was the earliest and it's not too bad.
 

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bousozoku said:
It was the next step up. It was very close to most machines without requiring memorising a load of mnemonics.

Back in the day, there was Small C from Dr. Dobbs Journal, with source code, that could put C on any small computer. That was my introduction on the Atari 800 to C. Previously, I had used 6502 Assembly Language, BASIC, Forth, Action!, and one or two more on that machine. When you have 16 KB, you have to be efficient.

Our machines for class probably had 64 KB and the machine at my first job had 64 KB. The replacement machine had 64 KB and 8 MB of virtual memory. Everything was written in efficient business languages such as RPG/II and COBOL.

Imagine if today's developers had moderate constraints, games like Starfield would have been much different.
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I wrote a machine code program once. It was 5 (repeat five) operations that rang the bell.
That was enough.
 
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DaveFromCampbelltown said:
I also once wrote a Cobol program.
It multiplied two numbers.
I retreated back to Fortran...
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That's the easy stuff. COBOL was so flexible in working with millions of records of data. I worked a lot with RPG/II/III/IV which was a column-oriented business language. The last revision I used had some aspects of a free-form language but was still on business data. Working on the same machine in C was strange but it worked.
 
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