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@PLuWex A few days later.

Наши💪

@exQUIZitely I started in 1982 with a Sinclair ZX81. It had 8 kilobytes of ROM and just 1 kilobyte of RAM, but I solved differential equations with BASIC on that thing. Later I built a homebrewn Apple ][ clone with a Z80 card and switched to TurboPascal. And I am still using it with LAZARUS.

I got my C64 in 1984. One of my earliest memories is the strong desire to understand how it worked. Games obviously had the highest appeal, but I was also curious about what lay “behind” the screen - how things functioned, how they were connected. Not so much from a hardware perspective, but more from how programs actually worked. Naturally, in those days, you would read about programming in magazines, and they often included several pages of code that you could type in to create "your own" program. None of those programs were overly complex or particularly great, but that wasn’t the point. It was simply fascinating to see that if you wrote this, then that happened. If you tweaked a value here, a color would change there. Add an extra parameter and the result looked even better - or it all fell apart, depending on what you changed. I remember one of the earliest programs I wrote in BASIC was a number guessing game. You had 5 guesses and started by entering a number between 1 and 100. The program would then tell you "too high" or "too low" relative to the random number it had generated for that session. What a truly epic experience for a 9-year-old at the time! I changed parameters that were easy to identify in the code, such as the number of tries you had, the range of the random number, and - what made me especially proud - I even modified the computer's replies. Instead of just "too high" or "too low," it would now give more precise feedback (e.g. way too high, too high, a little bit too high, etc.). All of this sounds extremely trivial from today's perspective, but it was a playful way to explore what was possible. I continued writing programs in BASIC and later dabbled in Turbo Pascal. It never went much further than that, but it remains one of my best memories from a time when computers felt more fascinating and accessible - they made you curious and invited you to be creative. Did you ever do this back in the day? If so, what were your first steps? BASIC, Pascal...?

@barnes_farnes @VoicesofWW2 The tragedy is that he fought and died for an evil empire. His exceptional bravery and his undisputed skills as a tank commander would have been worth a better cause.

@VoicesofWW2 Where is the tragedy? I see none.

🧵Michael Wittmann is one of the most famous tank commanders in military history. A German Panzer ace of WWII, he's credited with destroying over 138 tanks and 132 anti-tank guns during the war. His story is dramatic, controversial, and ultimately tragic 👇

@Platypuss_10 Lockheed Super Constellation.

Can you recognise this Iconic Aircraft

@Spreebabylon Das ist die Erdbeschleunigung und nicht die Fallgeschwindigkeit, Du Saftkopf.

+++ Nordafrikaner erbringt wissenschaftlichen Beweis +++ Die Fallgeschwindigkeit eines Menschen beträgt 9,81 m/s 🙋🏿👇🏿

@albafella1 It has been a hard day.

31 ліквідований противник за добу — наслідки вчорашнього штурму росіян на Олександрівському напрямку. Кадри воїнів 37-ї окремої бригади морської піхоти. t.me/OBRMP37

Funny Russian orc is very angry that no one in Russia gives a shite that graves of dead orcs were flooded. Lol.

@umftteam This is the realm of the reaper. Those who enter are lost.

Night is the time for SIGNUM🗡 As soon as the Russians get into the zone of destruction of the battalion's fighters, neither a machine gun, nor armor, nor a cloak, nor even quick feet will save them. Those who came to kill will definitely be eliminated. #signum #fpvdrone #зсу

@maximus2026x0 @albafella1

@albafella1 Sick human being you are Satan awaits you

Another russian athlete. High jump. Gold medal 🥇

@Bad_Species1 @maximus2026x0 @albafella1 Things are not going well for you, Igor.

@maximus2026x0 @albafella1 Yk who's definitely going to hell, according to your own Christian rules? This guy. 👇

@414magyarbirds A few days later somewhere in Russia…

had to work pretty hard to find him #YoblykOTD

@GgzuZorro @414magyarbirds Go to church if you want to preach.

@414magyarbirds Nothing to be proud of no matter on which side.

@askaya This is not „Alyona“. This is some fat ugly Igor sitting in his bot farm in Moscow.

Hi, I’m a Russian-American Nazi I want White people to be proud of who they are, have at least 2 babies and have happy, nuclear families Nice to meet you!

@destinyinfobase Dummes Zeug. Kein Wort davon ist wahr.

Kann mir mal jemand erklären, warum Europa für die Kriegsschäden in der Ukraine aufkommen soll? Es ist nicht unser Krieg.

@TheDuck0h @irvingbooks I grew up there. In February 1945 there was no real danger from U-boats or Luftwaffe anymore. Pforzheim, like many small cities, was bombed just because it hadn’t been bombed yet. Most victims were women, children and elderly, while the few factory workers survived in bunkers.

Pforzheim turned those watchmaking skills into the production of fuses, precision optics (mainly for U-Boat periscopes), and timer mechanisms-- presumably for delayed-action bombs. They also specialized in U-Boat watches, which means they didn't exactly spend the war making cockoo clocks!

In 20 minutes, Allied bombers burned 17,600+ alive in Pforzheim, one in three dead. A harmless German town famous for watches & jewellery. You’ve never heard of it. But you’re not allowed to question Auschwitz. Real crime? Killing innocents.

@bayraktar_1love Such an army cannot win.

A Russian infantryman abandons his wounded comrade, unwilling to help him, leaving him to his fate.

@escapefrommelos You’re spreading disinformation. It‘s the Russian tactic to infiltrate Ukrainian lines with single soldiers who are expected to hold out in their outpost for several days. This is the reason why they are alone, heavily packed and have their gun not in combat position.

two things that “radicalized” me about this useless stupid war: 1) these videos are often posted with masturbatory glee 2) the victims are always uniformed but very often unarmed and without helmets… almost like they’re PoWs who have been released and hunted on video for sport

@WallStreetMav It was your orange president who started breaking the ties, not us. What goes around comes around.

Americans dropped nukes on Japan twice and now they‘re best friends. Americans defended Europeans for free the past 80 years and they are the most ungrateful pricks imaginable. There is a lesson to be learned there.

@historyrock_ Dire Straits is not Rock. It’s Baroque.

What's the point of singing if you can play the guitar like Mark Knopfler can

@DaySocialist @ErisCole @hussedogru @yanisvaroufakis Obviously there are more Nazis in the UK than in Germany. The National Socialists were Socialists in the first place and antisemites in the second. Just like you.

@ErisCole @alpha53964 @hussedogru @yanisvaroufakis In charge, same as they ever were.

!!! HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY CALL !!! As of yesterday, German authorities seized the bank accounts of my wife. She is not sanctioned and has committed no crime. As of now we have only ca. 104 euros left — with two newborn babies and one 7-year-old child!!! @yanisvaroufakis @ClareDalyIRL @wallacemick @kennardmatt @Stella_Assange @PLottaz @Miquel_R @irezugasti @RSF_inter @amnesty_de @amnesty @_ZachFoster @CasparShaller @AliAbunimah @MaryKostakidis @der_neukoellner @SevimDagdelen @mkhalili @LaBase_TV @PabloIglesias @falasteen47 @EyeonPalestine @newscord_org @FWarweg @jungewelt @FuocoSavinelli @AlanRMacLeod @MintPressNews @wallacemick @_jneumann @amnesty_de @ChrisLynnHedges @IJFMedia @Fidias0 @johnnyjmils @goldi @CPJ_Eurasia @fehimtastekin @georgegalloway @euobs @AssalRad @OrenZiv_