Amberskin

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[–] Amberskin 1 points 2 weeks ago

‘Gym’ Jordan, FFS…

[–] Amberskin 15 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The underlining linear algebra routines are written in… FORTRAN.

[–] Amberskin 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] Amberskin 24 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Amberskin 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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).

[–] Amberskin 1 points 1 month ago

Good to know, and somehow good news.

[–] Amberskin 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Amberskin 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Amberskin 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Amberskin 13 points 1 month ago

You are right, of course. But the Spanish PM is called ‘President of the government’, and informally, ‘President’.

[–] Amberskin 5 points 1 month ago

To give some context, originally a ‘nazareno’ is somebody paying penitence for sins committed since last years Easter. Part of their ‘penitence’ is to march in procession covered with those robes. The ‘capirote’ (the hood) is intended to keep those sinners (that could be important or well known people) anonymous.

I’m not sure if this is still valid today or if it’s now just a performance. Someone from the south of Spain will more about that than myself.

[–] Amberskin 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uh, no. The ‘devil horn’ sign, aka heavy metal salute DOES mean that. Thumbs up is just ‘thumbs up’ (it’s an imported/borrowed sign, as far as ai know)

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