mkwarman

joined 1 year ago
[–] mkwarman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

New cars:

  • Dodge Charger R/T 426 Hemi ‘68
  • Dodge Charger SRT Demon ‘18
  • Lexus LFA ‘10
  • Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II ‘91
  • NISMO 400R ‘95
  • Porsche 911 GT3 RS (992) ‘22
  • Tesla Model 3 Performance ‘23

Personally I'm looking forward to the LFA

[–] mkwarman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That would ruin my entire day

[–] mkwarman@lemmy.world 181 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I'm definitely in the "for almost everything" camp. It's less ambiguous especially when you consider the DD/MM vs MM/DD nonsense between US dates vs elsewhere. Pretty much the only time I don't use ISO-8601 is when I'm using non-numeric month names like when saying a date out loud.

[–] mkwarman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don't get it, but I'd like to. Would you explain the difference for me?

[–] mkwarman@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

"Kyle" is "X Æ A-Xii" for delusional billionaires

[–] mkwarman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And it wasn't just a 4KB "stick" of RAM or something, it was literally magnetic rings threaded onto wires called Magentic Core Memory. Further, 4 KB implies that it was 4096 bytes, but it was actually 2048 "words" consisting of 15-bits (+1 parity bit) [source]. 2048 words requiring 16 bits each means 32,768 magnetic rings weaved onto tiny wires. Oh, and another fun detail about magnetic core memory is that if you read a value, I.e check to see if one of those magnetic rings is set to 0 or 1, that is a destructive operation. So if you wanted to read without deleting, you have to read and then immediately rewrite.