kabdib

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by kabdib 3mo ago
After a day of single combat with multimillion-SLOC tangleware, it's fun to work with a system that you can fit in your head Personally, I don't do much nostalgia. I've built the PDP-11 clones and run v6 Unix again and (o dea
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by kabdib 3mo ago
I have seen a pure C/C++ implementation of coroutines (it used setjmp/longjmp, and memcpy to copy stacks in and out of the native arena). Not the most portable of constructions, but it worked absurdly well. Being able to write &qu
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by kabdib 3mo ago
I've been doing embedded systems in C++ since rocks were young, and this is a great summary of what to avoid. I would sure love a good coroutine runtime, and first-class support for defer. You can do these manually, but language/t
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by kabdib 4mo ago
"Can I borrow your calculator" "Sure!" (hands over HP-25C) <start counting seconds...> "Hey, where's the equals key?"
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by kabdib 6mo ago
I miss my Q/A partner. He was a engineer who gave me feedback on designs and code, helped debug, and I could run the tests he wrote. It's terrifying without that support. The beancounter level mgt does not Get It that it's
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by kabdib 6mo ago
Lap-insistent cat made it impossible to use a keyboard. I finally bought a desk-height cat "tree" (maybe a shrub...) and put it beside my chair. He'll move to it after some scratching, and he's happier because he can act
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by kabdib 6mo ago
I intend to :-)
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by kabdib 6mo ago
Thanks, I was honestly curious. I knew about Infogrames, did not know about the holding company.
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by kabdib 6mo ago
"The reward for winning is the opportunity to play again"
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by kabdib 6mo ago
I really wonder who "Atari" is these days . . .
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by kabdib 8mo ago
Computing hardware that isn't rad-hard is going to have a bad time without a handy atmosphere for shielding. And hardware that is happy in high-radiation environments is not going to be fast.
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by kabdib 8mo ago
> incompetency "corruption"
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by kabdib 8mo ago
I had a QA engineer who gave me feedback on designs, great code reviews, and who wrote tests that I could also run. It was a partnership. I miss it.
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by kabdib 10mo ago
I was hoping for a secret society of volcano watchers, handing down carefully guarded records from generation to generation . . . ("There's nothing written in here, Dad")
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by kabdib 10mo ago
> 4. Verify Device Genuineness: Confirm if a phone (new or used) is authentic before purchase. DisplayDialog("Yup, perfectly genuine, trust me!"); :-)
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by kabdib 10mo ago
Old enough here to remember Intel entering the DRAM business :-)
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by kabdib 10mo ago
I use an HP-16 (the SwissMicros version, my originals are in boxes) and a 35s pretty much every day (these days, I'm writing firmware).
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by kabdib 11mo ago
Henry S F Cooper wrote a wonderful account of debugging OS race condition on the Magellan (Venus) orbiter in The Evening Star
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by kabdib 1y ago
I've built and maintained similar setups (10PB range). Honestly, you just shove disks into it, and when they fail you replace them. You need folks around to handle things like controller / infrastructure failure, but hopefully you
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by kabdib 1y ago
my dad was an ecologist in the 70s, and did a lot of early climate change stuff (getting ground truth for LandSat, etc.) that's always been a fun conversation
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by kabdib 1y ago
i understood how to use IF/ELSE/THEN in FORTH. my "revelation" was figuring out how to do the code generation for it. i was in high school :-) i definitely prefer assembly to FORTH. i have direct and rather terrible expe
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by kabdib 1y ago
> My problem is that I cannot see how control flow works in Forth, e.g. a simple if-then-else. figuring this out for my own FORTH interpreter was a moment i still remember, nearly 50 years later. quite a revelation
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by kabdib 1y ago
in 1978, emacs was a possibility but i'm gonna guess SOS or TECO, if they were running a bog standard PDP-10 OS from DEC
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by kabdib 1y ago
i have maybe $15K in Synology gear. it's getting old and should be replaced with something with better efficiency the replacement will NOT be from Synology
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by kabdib 1y ago
the code that i am least proud of is the code that has lasted the longest :-)
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by kabdib 1y ago
IBM was not able to. Story from a friend-who-claimed-to-be-there: In days of yore, Visa did processing on IBM iron. The iron in question took a while to boot, and time is very definitely money to Visa and they wanted to speed up reboots (e.
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by kabdib 1y ago
my LLM win this year was to give the corporate AI my last year's worth of notes, emails and documents and ask it to write my self review. it did a great job. i'm never writing another one of those stupid bits of psychological tort
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by kabdib 1y ago
you don't even need turing-completeness to write a bug that takes down prod :-)
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by kabdib 1y ago
one of the best books on Linux architecture i've read was the one on the Itanium port i think, because Itanic broke a ton of assumptions
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by kabdib 1y ago
bring back the Windows phone! (srsly, they were pretty nice to develop for)

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