Stargate Universe.

They killed it when the show just had caught steam.

It didn’t clear the return code. In mainframe jobs, successful executions are expected to return zero (in the machine R15 register).

So in this case fixing the bug required to add an instruction instead of removing one.

Just to boast my old timer credentials.

There is an utility program in IBM’s mainframe operating system, z/OS, that has been there since the 60s.

It has just one assembly code instruction: a BR 14, which means basically ‘return’.

The first version was bugged and IBM had to issue a PTF (patch) to fix it.

The budgie is a so sweet bird he has gained my little murderbird heart

I block people liberally. I agree 100% with the comic. And blocking idiots is good for my health.

‘Gym’ Jordan, FFS…

The underlining linear algebra routines are written in… FORTRAN.

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.

I am.

First, I got a three days ban for ‘prompting violence’. The flagged post said just literally ‘The Heritage foundation should be labeled as a terrorist group in Europe’. I appealed, just to get the temporary ban confirmed with no further reasoning.

But that was moot, because two days after that I got a permaban for ‘using multiple accounts to evade a temporary ban’. I just had an account, with a good number of years behind. I appealed this too, and got a ‘we are not changing this’ reply.

So I nuked my account, looked a little bit around and found this.

I miss some of the technical communities I was part in Reddit. But fuck them.