Oh dang I made it to the end of the grid/world. Got scared in the darkness and retreated back to the light.

Big Amiga fans (and still are) from what I see. =)

When I was in the Air Force in the early 1990s, we still used KC-135 "flying gas stations" that had been built during the cold war in the 1950s. While expensive to maintain they were far less expensive to fix than buying new and starting from scratch. With regular full maintenance checks in the hangars (wash them, inspect them with dental picks and flashlights, replace broken parts, etc.) we kept those planes in service and mission ready for decades.

There was an entire supply chain of every single part ready to go, with technical manuals for every maintenance task you can imagine. If we couldn't fix something, it would go to the jet lab or machinists or whatever.

The system in place is mind bogglingly good.

/edited for a typo.

Hell, the KC-46 only entered service a few years ago and they’re talking about extending the KC-135’s service life into the 2030s.

The B-52H started rolling out of the factory in 1960 and is planned to remain in service until the 2050s.

I was part of a squadron that flew KC-135s in the mid 2000's. Those 135s looked positively modern inside and out, compared to the worn-out H-53s and C-130s that I worked on a few years prior at a training base.

I mean I think people have been complaining about the KC-135 being too old for a very long time, and from what I heard the replacement was urgently needed. At least there I can see how there is really no good alternative - it's a very specialized plane. Here they just need a plane that can fly high and is easy to modify with new equipment. It feels like there should be plenty of other candidates. However, the other reply seems to imply it's not all that expensive to maintain

I wonder this will impact the "just walk out" booze stores at T-Mobile Park (MLB)? Those seem pretty successful.

OK I think all pasture raised cows should be given nice little wooden brooms going forward.

They already have the "Happy Cow Brush" :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Kynijqps4

or a more manual version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2O7Z7cJB-w

I've often found it's bare bone utilitarian and efficient design a breath of fresh air compared to most of what's online today. That, and their philosophy of being donation based to keep the lights on.

That egg scramble plate GIF is pure gold.

It’s a great analogy but I wish, in the video, he had been grabbing the plate and it somehow didn’t move. Then, when he grabbed the air outside of the plate it should have magically moved. That would have highlighted how crazy Tahoe is.

Yeah, but to be fair to Apple, the guy wasn't even trying to grab the shadow of the plate.

If you're not familiar, Hoffman is also a supremely talented musician as well (often inspired by and/or made on an Amiga).

His track "Eon" here is from a very famous and artistically beautiful demo. https://hoffman.bandcamp.com/album/the-cave-sessions

Didn't need the click-bait title. I would have read it regardless (and did). I wish there had been a PRG or D64 included for the non-programmers. Fun read!

Author, fwiw, I don't do/care about click-bait, as I never cared about clicks. Since I moved to my bespoke blog system (previously I was on blogspot) I don't even track page views. But I thought it was somewhat funny.

I think not enough people today have ever seen the message "printer on fire".

Not GP, but I was expecting to read about a C64 on fire and was disappointed when it was just a post about an unoptimized fire demo

I imagined that there would be better ones made by real c64 democoders, but I can include a .prg. Also, if you make a C project in the web-based IDE I linked, and copy-paste the last .c file, it will compile it, run it in an emulator, and give an option to download the compiled .prg from there too

"Page last updated: Nov 26, 2001."

That page even looks a tad dated for 2001!

Well it doesn't disclose when it was first updated.