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Thwack! [1] https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/bad-joke-appreciation-corner.72732/post-1694139 [1]Repeating a joke means you get hit with a rolled-up newspaper.

To really understand someone's situation, you need to walk a mile in their shoes. 1665432956 Chickens don't like Möbius strips.

Both Kaiser Wilhelm II and Adolf Hitler never surrendered. They still lost. The WWII era Russians were defending home territory, as are the Ukrainians now.

That's August 20th in non-leap years. Much like December 37th is a coded reference to the Capitol riot/insurrection/perfectly normal political protest that took place on January 6th 2021

You forgot the "RGH!" at the end. obbadjoke: What do you call a group of deaf trombonists?

Well, your honour, it's all a big misunderstanding. The security guard said it was fine with him when I asked if I could take a picture.

Communicating badly then acting smug when you're misunderstood is not cleverness. You might need to factor that into your calculations.

A Chinese friend of mine is writing a humorous article about wordplay for the newspaper. It's weird, but he still isn't used to the Roman alphabet and he mixes up some letters, like 'f' and 'p'. Nevertheless, I couldn't stop laughing when I read it. Why? Because it's very, very, punny.

I'm writing a play with the compilers of the Oxford English Dictionary - they're quite and interesting group of people, and they are each choosing a favourite entry to talk about in their character, but I haven't come up with a title yet. How about 'A pun'? Why? Well, it's obvious really...

Q: What do you like about puns? A: +++automerged+++ I did a cryptic crossword today, and the answer to every clue was a pun. What!? Only four letters for every answer? That must have been boring. Was it a punishment?

Excellent work! Thank you. I hope the TWL6037 approach decreases the power consumption, but even if it doesn't, it's still a great job.

Since you don't know if the 'other' cpu is reading from, or writing to the critical memory location, the obvious thing to do is co-operative locking using other shared memory locations, or a shared register. If there is no shared memory address space or registers, you can do locking by sending...

Glad you understand my point of view! It's like psed, but longer. (3D Xpoint memory is non-volatile, so no power draw when in 'sleep' (power -off). Of course, it is a power-hog in operation (if you look at Intel Optane SSDs), and orders of magnitude slower than DRAM, even though it is...

If historic talks to do with computing are your thing, try this: Museum Restores 21 Rare Videos from Legendary 1976 Computing Conference

I have a friend who is a keen climber. She says that the best feeling in the world is the feeling you get at the peak of a long climb. One day she was telling me about her latest ascent with a fellow climber. She uses expensive equipment from an outfit that brands all their equipment with...

You are quite right to point out that total system power consumption is what should be measured, not just the processor power draw in sleep mode; and for pointing out that DRAM is a 'power-hog'. Let me visit fantasy-land for a moment and proposed that a pocket computer should use 3D Xpoint memory...

Well, your use-case and mine are likely different, which is fine. I'm very happy with the Psion Series 5 keyboard for my use. I take your point about the use of the stylus - I simply used my thumb or fingernail, which was good enough for my purposes. I've never got on with trackpoint/nipple...

I got a Forth interpreter for my CP/M machine, (was tempted by the Ace at the time) and while I could see the benefits, the pain of having to load it from tape instead of the ROM's built-in BASIC meant I didn't use it as much as I should have. I also had got so used to thinking procedurally...

No. First you find some lactating peanuts... Because the buyer and seller agree that money is a medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value, thus enabling the transaction: otherwise you'd be looking at barter, theft, looking for someone to make a gift, or making it yourself.

One of the many nice things about the Psion 5 series was the 'instant on' capability. Open up, press the 'Esc / On/ Off' key, and bam!, ready to use. I often wondered why turning on wasn't possible by just opening the device up. That was achieved by a deep sleep mode ( 3 microAmp power draw in...