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Thought I’d celebrate by baking a little Molly Muffin this morning. Hope everyone has a great day and gets up to plenty mischief 🖤🐾
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@k11m1 Yeah, it was something that was needed when computing power was a precious resource, much less common, and we needed to conserve it.

Good things resulted from that - people created solutions to enable remote access, shared systems, one large machine that processed tasks from many people or departments; scheduling, so you could slot a job for some late hour when there were less people around.

Following the logic is a good thing, as you write line by line, it should make sense, and flow -- or else, why did you use that line, and the next?

There are pesky typos that break things, but other than those small input errors, the code should be understandable and make sense.

Someone else might have to work on it someday, and that will make their job easier and faster too.

Back in time programming languages were developed to cater to some specific need or group of users; making it easier to create the projects they needed.

We used Fortran, which is Formula Translation; it was created for Science and Engineering students and professionals.

I had a room mate who was in the Math department, we were both 1st year students, had the same Profs (from Math department), and the same assignments.

But his class used another language, called Algol - which was a better fit for Math people's needs.

We enjoyed comparing the finished results of our assignments; quite simply, we looked at the thickness of each other's stack of cards. Sometimes, Algol would win (win being a smaller deck, less processing time), other times Fortran got it. 😄

It was my first time ever seeing and working with a computer -- a mammoth Burroughs 5500 mainframe, and I loved every aspect of it.

Over time, I observed that I could tell right away when something was broken in a new project.

* When I had my source code written up, the next step was to hand it in, for a pool of secretaries who would prepare our cards, overnight. Or find a spare IBM punch machine somewhere (my preferred, faster route).

* Got the cards? Processing time! Go to the computing center, and get in line with other students with their own decks; we lined up outside, in front of a room that contained a card reader (input) and a large printer (output). This was a smaller room, wired to the computer next door which was all air conditioned to around 18 degrees C year around.

* The card reader had two doors, it's own Input and Output of student processing; in via one, hand in the deck, watch it be read, get a printout, out via the other door.

* As the deck was handed in and loaded into the card reader, we stood watching, hoping for a good run. Any result would produce a paper printout, those continuous paper forms. Many times, it was a report of an error at some point.

* processing took some seconds; and I noticed that sucess or failure was indicated by the card reader behaviour; a perfect program would pass thru the reader in linear fashio, smooth flow. I got excited, maybe this time it's all Good!!

* I also noticed that hesitations in the stack flow indicated errors; it would stop at some card, pause or a few seconds, Bad sign! 😔 Soon it would resume, a short report printed, and a more or less dejected student headed out door #2.

...to go back to his desk, his notes and code write up. Read the report (quite cryptic usually), and trace thru the programme to find what was wrong.

Getting a smooth card reader flow was an instant sign I might have made it - and at best happened at the 3rd try or so (worse sometimes, in harder jobs or if you weren't focused enough).

Some great work was done in developing whole languages to be used for teaching Programming, like Pascal -- good habits would carry on into a professional's work life, and be appreciated by anyone working with this person, or later maintaining their legacy code.

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Z(1) = Y + W(1)

Statement in this input device.

The famous "punched cards", which each cold hold 80 characters or one line of programming instructions or data for processing.

I learned this language, and created my assignments in decks of those cards.

Back in November, when I was starting here, we had a delightful thread about it, which included this image.

@k11m1 -- see it here : qoto.org/@design_RG/1031544014

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One line of computer programming, whichever language you were using. Up to 80 characters wide, same as the card's width.

I remember. And we loved it. No home computers, no cellphones, no internet. Mid 70's in my case.

@Full_marx

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Three little ones.


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...but I am not the only one...


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They say I’m a dreamer.
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Feeed Us!!


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This may look like a glorious morning view but these piercing eyes followed by a chorus of shrieking meows demand one thing only; Breakfast. Now.
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So pretty, now no longer with us. Farewell, Tundra. RIP, little sister. 😢


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I left to be with my brother this morning 🌈 my family is devastated. Thank you for y’all’s kindness 💙 farewell friends ☀️
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@nolan @design_RG @freemo

Relevant ones highlighted in yellow.

1. Compartilhar -- Share (with other apps);

2. Copiar -- Copy (to system clipboard);

I was thinking about the usefullness of this feature, and thought you could consider it?

Thank you!

And maybe @a1batross might consider adding this to Husky as well -- Thank you also.

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@nolan Feature Request for Pinafore :

Could you consider adding a context menu option to a Toot -- offering Save, or Share, or Copy possibly?

Useful to recover good info from DMs, which I could import into our Forum for permanent records for example. I woudl like this feature, and found it is implemente in Fedilab.

Screenshots attached. (all menus in Portuguese)

The screenshot with possible options, lots of them.

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Waiting at the Gate...


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As soon as the staff look away we're planning to escape from the garden 😸
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@Maximordrg
Qoto indeed gets Flak for not disconnecting from some instances. I have personally done Diplomacy to try and mend our own instance being Blocked -- for NOT blocking others.

Strictly professional, as I do block whoever I perceive as not worth it.

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Degrees of Separation.

Many like it so, me included. A personal opinion, not an Instance policy, as Qoto is pretty open and not into Blocking people.

But all of us, as users, have the ease and power of Blocking ANY instance or user in our personal accounts.

A pretty good idea, and I like it so.

@Maximordrg 😺

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@design_RG @rw Thanks folks, that's really kind of you. I left Boing Boing in Jan, and I've started Pluralistic since: it's the same content mirrored to a newsletter a blog, a Twitter feed, a Tumblr feed and here on Mastodon. Read however you like - it's all the same, tho the permalinks are at pluralistic.net

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Alert!!


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@Bigmaxmastiff @design_RG @rosieleeds Mama’s motto has always been: I may be easy but I’m not cheap😂💋Cali
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@Maximordrg @design_RG

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This is a repost of my original Announcement for the Blog page.

That was published on January 4, 2020.

...and I have been thinking, have many ideas for new Blog pages, will likely resume writing regularly. One of the ideas is a follow up to this page (which I think can be very informative and helpful, specially for people curious about The Other Instances out there).

A few months have passed. Things have changed, people joined, good friends disappeared. Normal Fediverse life, including Feuds and battles, we had a few scrapes (another page idea!).

Just yesterday had a chat with an influential friend, an instance admin that has a different look on things - this being so indicative of personality types.

I post lots of Cat photos, 'cause I love them, and am like them; independant minded, curious, aloof on occasion, perfectly capable to turn and walk away from a discussion if I think it's pointless.

Just like a typical Feline. LOL...

My friend is a Dog lover, and a Dog personality, Bites into something, won't let go. Loyal, one home person.

My curiosity takes me to different countries all together, so why not to another instance, that is just one new Tab and a signup away? I like seeing other local cultures. 😺

One of the ideas being jotted down is a recap and update on some of the instances in the above post. Some I have said good bye to (and Good Riddance). Some I have visited occasionally, and there might be new ones to mention, so keep an eye out, will announce when ready.

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* Is it Important, which Instance you are in ? *

Once again I had an enjoyable conversation, earlier today. Achso was there, and we continued a conversation from a day before. We discussed different things, and specially how choosing an instance to fit your needs and preferences is important.

My thoughts on the matter, and a detailed list of some instances I frequent.

On today's web magazine, live at : write.tedomum.net/rgx/is-it-im

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Such Floofy-ness can you believe it? Ari and Cali, waiting at the door.

delivery, a popular event.


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OMC! Why aren’t we answering the door? Didn’t y’all hear the bell? There will be treats and from Amazon🐾😻🐾 🥰Ari and Cali🥰 ✋🤚😷Butler, Use Gloves, Mask and Wipes😷✋🤚Y’all Stay Safe🥰
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Ah, Cali...... Those eyes. 💕

I am sending your portrait to my friends over in . They love cats too.


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@rosieleeds @design_RG @Bigmaxmastiff Hi - did you vote for my friend Maxi? Isn’t he handsome? 💋Cali
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