- Location
- Vancouver, Washington
But somehow I expect that if Constellation is ever summoned that she will be a Master con artist.
Actually, punch cards predate Minotaur by at least a century. Look at the Jacquard loom for a famous example.
I have never seen anyone call Constellation 'Connie'. I've only seen that nickname used for Constitution.
(Hello, New Ironsides-the-fic)
They are not wrong. I was about to reply and go "You... do realise Constitution and Old Ironsides are the same boat right?"Well, I know the later Constellation (CV-64) was called "Connie", so I figured it wasn't much of a stretch to have the older one share the nickname.
They are not wrong. I was about to reply and go "You... do realise Constitution and Old Ironsides are the same boat right?"
Not invented until decades after WWII. Before punch-cards you had to re-wire the computer to program it. Before that, you had to design a whole new computer to if you wanted a different algorithm on it - that is what ship girls would have installed on them and their planes.
Punch cards were used far before WWII. Charles Babbage used them on his machines, and punch card tabulators were used in the 1890 US census.Not invented until decades after WWII. Before punch-cards you had to re-wire the computer to program it. Before that, you had to design a whole new computer to if you wanted a different algorithm on it - that is what ship girls would have installed on them and their planes.
Additional fun fact: Hollerith's company kept working with punch cards after the 1890 Census, and eventually changed it's name to...Jacquard, working in France around 1810, originated the idea of using holes punched in cardstock to control the pattern a loom weaves. Many Jacquard looms remain in use to this day, and you can occasionally find strings of Jaquard cards for sale.
The use of punched cards in the Jacquard loom also influenced Charles Babbage, who decided to use punched cards to control the sequence of computations in his proposed analytical engine. Unlike Hollerith's cards of 50 years later, which were handled in decks like playing cards, Babbage's punched cards were to be strung together like Jaquard's. Despite this and the fact that he never actually built an analytical engine, Babbage's proposed use of cards played a crucial role in later years, providing a precedent that prevented Hollerith's company from claiming patent rights on the very idea of storing data on punched cards.
Well, many Shipgirls will end up on social media. That much is a given, alongside whatever shitstorms come their way because they or someone else said/did something and somewhere there's a dogpile. New content may end up slowing down. Many creators (I don't really have a ballpark percentage) live on the coasts and risk being killed or displaced. Videos of Abyssal attacks and Shipgirls fighting against them probably go viral. Pictures of memorials and reconstruction flood the web.Had a poser of a puzzle of wonder… What will Internet life be like after the Abyssal Uprising?
The current political shitstorms probably end up taking a backseat to the fact that there's a war for the survival of the Human race, so there's little audience to listen how a given group is completely terrible for merely existing. The battlefields from those are little more than smoldering wastelands by the time the last Abyssals are put down, but are hot enough to be reignited. Other shitstorms rage on, though the ones surrounding anime end up in victory for Weebs given that Anime is Now Real.
To do politics right requires working knowledge of politics. It's just the same there as with other things. It's much easier to write about being in a storm at sea if you have been in a few.
As I was saying about seaplane tender Kamoi "Dat aft, doe"; check out the ramp back there.