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fedia.io had disabled sign-ups when I last looked. Ended up on kbin.run instead. Despite the name, it's also an Mbin instance.

Not voting, if you're otherwise able, is a tacit acceptance for how things are.

Presumably you don't want to vote for the incumbents, so vote for someone who'll replace them, whether you like that option or not.

Voting out a bad lot is the only legal way we have to protest.

And then vote third party next time if they don't change things to your liking. Then fourth. Fifth. Etc.

Don't like the political parties? Start one.

Think the whole lot should be lined up and shot? (For legal reasons this is purely metaphorical.) Start organising.

But if that's too much for you, vote.

C'mon now, the full name of a writing quill is "quill pen" because it's the shaft (quill part) of a feather, Latin penna. Dumbledingus really ought to be able to connect the dots here.

Someone told me every processor used 0xEA

Not sure if this is a riff on the joke or not.

Back in the day I dabbled in 6510 code, and up until today hadn't even bothered to look at a chart of opcodes for any of its contemporaries. Today I learned that Z80 uses $00 for NOP.

Loth as I am to admit it, that actually makes sense. Maybe more sense than 65xx which acts more like a divide-by-zero has happened.

The rest of the opcode table was full of alien looking mnemonics though, and no undocumented single byte opcodes? Freaky, man.

But the point is that not even Z80 used $EA. If the someone was real they probably meant every 65xx processor.

This is mean sale price, right? Got to wonder what the current median property value (not sale price) is, and how close that is to this mean.

My point being that a lot of churn at prices near the mean would keep that mean away from a true median property value.

"I'm a million different people from one day to the next; I can't change my mould, no no." — Bittersweet Symphony

We all show rotating aspects of ourselves, but we remain fundamentally the same. Unless something drastic happens that changes how those aspects present or function anyway.

(Maybe that lyric doesn't mean what I'm reading into it, but it's what I've taken from it. That's a funny thing about art.)

So yeah, I've looked back through comments I've made and realised that I knew something at the time that I'd since forgotten, and seen how smart I'd been - or how utterly cringe-inducing, and known that at some point, that if the cringe is bound to return, so might the smart. Hopefully. Maybe. Please.

There's also the fact that we distil ourselves down for a comment. Present the best side, or the best of the aspect we're going for. Even trolls do this. Unfortunately. So when we look back, not at all in the same frame of mind that we were at the time, it's like looking at the highlights of someone else's life on some other social media, not seeing everything else that's going on besides.

I probably won't remember all the edits and corrections I've made to this comment before submitting the first time. Only time knows how future me will perceive it, should I ever look back.

Against Putin the fight will end. Putin is a man, and eventually men die.

The question is whether his replacement will have the same ideals. Or puppet masters.

250 million years? Seems optimistic by a few orders of magnitude, and that assumes that we've stopped evolving. We haven't.

25? Sure. 250? Probably. 2500? Uh. 25000? Yeah, no. 250,000? Definitely not, evolved or not.

Prove me wrong, humanity.

In before this comes with a taser attachment.

@Toes @snownyte @otter

There are two mods currently, Ernest, admin of kbin as well as owner of /m/tech, and @artillect, who hasn't been seen (except for votes maybe?) for 8 months.

The word is that Ernest has real-life problems and can't maintain kbin at the moment.

I've applied here and a bunch of other places but hopefully better-qualified, more active people have also applied; Even if I get it, I can't be here all the time.

... but it needs the owner of the magazine, Ernest, who isn't around, to accept the applications.

One of the main problems is that Ernest is the owner and only mod on those magazines getting all the spam. I guess I missed the memo (figuratively speaking) about deletions not being federated though. That seems like a problem even if there were alternative moderators.

There's at least one person on the mod-request queue for most of the spam-ridden magazines. That "at least one" is me, which is how I know. I'm not here all the time and wouldn't be great at it, but at this stage even a part-time mod would be better than none at all. Hopefully, as and when Ernest comes back he can assign some roles. Twice as hopefully, someone else who would be better at it gets it instead.

Wow. I totally forgot that Commodore BASIC ignores spaces in variable names. I do remember that it ignores anything after the first two letters though. That said, there's a bit more going on here than meets the eye.

PRINT HELLO WORLD is actually parsed as PRINT HELLOW OR LD, that is: grab the values of the variables HELLOW (which is actually just HE) and LD, bitwise OR them together and then print.

Since it's very likely both HE and LD were undefined, they were quietly created then initialised to 0 before their bitwise-OR was calculated for the 0 that appeared.

Back in the day, people generally didn't put many spaces in their Commodore BASIC programs because those spaces each took up a byte of valuable memory. That PET2001, if unexpanded, only has 8KB in it.

</old man rant>