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I seem to remember a short story set in the Star Wars universe that explained the Kessel Run faux pas. The "Kessel Run" was a route between two regions of the Empire. The problem with the route was that there was some kind of astronomical phenomena (nebulae, neutron stars, stellar nursery?) that made hyperspace travel dangerous unless you took the long way around. Doing the "Kessel Run" in 12 parsecs was therefore the height of ballsy and reckless piloting.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gravity wells pull ships out of hyperspace, repentinely and with destructive results. Planning a safe route requires a lot of computational power (which the Millenium Falcon has since it holds 3 different navigational computers... scavenged and incompatible between each other and that's why it often malfunctions), thrust power to escape the outermost areas of gravity wells before they pull the ship out of hyperspace and pilot (over)confidence.
I have a cozy home in wookieepedia. And one on tvtropes.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I have always found the elegant lash up last longer and is more fault tolerant than the proper methods...
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glennPattonWork wrote: elegant lash Kinky.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Ahhhh Z80!
XOR A
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Clear: LD HL,Start
LD DE, HL
INC DE
LD BC,Length
XOR A
LDIR
RET
It comes back so easily - and I haven't coded in Z80 for decades now ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So many good (& bad) memories...
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Ok, it may be an AR but I don't see the magazine well and the barrel would be way too short.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Mel Padden wrote: Just until you break the screen (and you will)... Maybe, but I've never broken a screen on any (Android) phone I've ever owned, care, plus a silicon case seems to be all I need to stop damage. Not that I'm getting an iPhone 10 X or whatever its called any time soon.
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You handle your phone better than me
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The only time I broke the screen was when my Lumia 635 started going nuts and didn't stop for a while, and I needed to make an important call. I lost patience and the phone suddenly impacted screen-first on a wall... one of those ridged exterior walls. It didn't end well for the screen.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I've never been the sort to loose patience and go with things like that, but I can understand some people do.
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It runs in the family since at least 3 generations - luckily only on objects. If there is something the male of my family species do not tolerate is uncomplying technology. I lost count of the phones, tools and car radios my dad threw out of the windows, deliberately massacred with power tools or run over with the car.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Girl is a little drink from an irrational state (11)
Having defeated you all twice in a row I suppose I shall have to lower my standards and give an easy one! (heh heh heh....)
modified 21-Nov-17 4:17am.
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Girl MISS
is a IS
little drink SIP
from an irrational PI
state
MISSISSIPPI
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yep
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You're just lucky I worked out how to stop spelling MISSISSISSISSISSISSIPPI
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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CLIPPY: It looks like you're thinking about what to have for dinner - here's a recipe.
USER: Actually I was cursing the fact that in 2017 Office interop still relies on crappy old COM components, now stop trying to mess up my diet and ask your developers to work on something useful!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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musn't think bad things about microsoft
musn't think bad things about microsoft
musn't think bad things about microsoft
mustn...
.. well that didn't last very long, it's got to be up there with not breathing.
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Jacquers wrote: I guess we can be glad the patents aren't the other way around... to control us.
That's what they made you think.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Jacquers wrote: I guess we can be glad the patents aren't the other way around... to control us. There is a complete industry built to do just that; it is called "marketing" and "advertisements".
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I think my computer already has a pretty good idea what I think of it.
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