HairyOldCoot

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I would say once they hit the ground they are meteorites. But while they are falling they are meteors. Based solely on my own assumptions. Not a hill I care to defend.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Meteors. I stole that from "and the earth will shake" (Robert Anton Wilson). There was a description of The Royal College of Astronomy, or somesuch, harrumphing about such a ridiculous, and ignorant superstition.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The idea that rocks sometimes fall from the sky.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

"Act like a dumb shit and they will treat you as an equal". --J. R. Bob Dobbs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm a retired programmer. A recent attempt at writing a Python script showed me that I have forgotten a LOT of the syntactic details. With that in mind, these are the langs that I have used professionally. "Know" might be an exaggeration at this point. HP basic Fortran C C++ C# Java Perl Python HTML (if that counts) Awk/sed

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Standing in line in the basement of the CS building at UofM to get access to a card punch machine and type up my Fortran 4 program.