macjohnmcc

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by macjohnmcc 1y ago
I buy some just to support the developer if they are small.
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by macjohnmcc 1y ago
I'd love for an interface like that on VSCode that runs in a terminal even remotely.
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by macjohnmcc 2y ago
And still shoot yourself in the foot.
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by macjohnmcc 2y ago
You were spared the killer robot?
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by macjohnmcc 2y ago
Cross compilation.
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
People are 99% of the problem I have at work. Doing things poorly. Not caring about processes just wanting to get things out the door with little regard to quality unless the customer complains. Abuse of agile has made me hate it. 15-30 min
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
Teaching yourself programming is important on many levels as the job is a continual learning type of job. What you learned 5 years ago might apply today or you may have to learn something completely new to stay on top.
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
They don't want to use the term rent because you would then see it for the temporary period it will turn out to be and not be willing to pay what they want you to pay for it.
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
I only use it to track what I am reading and my progress. I don't use it for recommendations from others or to see what the authors I read are doing. Maybe as a social network around books it sucks but as a way for me to track my readi
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
He traveled on his stomach.
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
Yeah even Microsoft's compiler aligns values on appropriate boundaries for performance reasons. DWORDs on DWORD boundaries etc. And if you want to pack the data structure to avoid the gaps in structures there are methods to do so via #
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
You can also use TheC64 (Max) as a USB keyboard to the PC to use in Vice if you decide you want the keyboard and want to take advantage of some of the functionality of the emulators. I found a page that shows how to add a USB connector to t
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
When I was at Microsoft during the time I had X86, Alpha, MIPS, PPC (for a short time) and Itanium. We only did the builds for Itanium once in a while because the developers and the testers shared the expensive hardware. I believe the only
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
I also found during these kinds of sweeps large copy and pastes of code. It really lowered my opinion of those working on the same project.
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
The PicoMite VGA project does something like this as well but has the added benefit of having a very full featured BASIC interpreter built in. https://geoffg.net/picomitevga.html
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
When I find one bug I assume it is likely repeated all over the code and I search it out. I have been burned enough times to not consider it a must.
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
I miss the documentation that was part of Microsoft MSDN subscription. I now work in a sandboxed environment and cannot access help for the APIs from within that environment so something that I can download in it's entirety and get int
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
I have asked it to write code. The code looked reasonable but did not work (using a non-existent API or library). I said the library XXX doesn't exist. And it would respond with an apology and a new solution that maybe worked maybe did
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
They were doing Windows NT for the Itanium. They were holding out hoping that this thing would take off.
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
it would fit easily on audio tape using an 8-bit retro computer more than likely. Babier steps!
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
Already bought into the PlayStation Portable and the Vita. I think I'll skip this next one.
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
The idea was better than the execution sadly. I had one of those mice and it never really felt like you gained much with the vibrations etc. I'm sure had it been more widely adopted it might have become much closer to the promise.
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
No it was Mouser. One of the few places I order electronics parts from. Digikey and Jameco did not.
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
I don't anymore. They were asking for donations about 2 years ago.
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
And back in the peak covid days they asked for donations to keep them alive and operational. They wanted the community to support them based on goodwill and now they seem happy to burn that goodwill to the ground.
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
The recent issues with Samsung's SSD's don't help with those feelings I'm sure. I have a WD-Black 1TB SSD in my system that I built in 2018 and I used it heavily all day long and I have not suffered any issues from the S
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
Hulu Live TV is even better regarding location. I have it and had Google Fiber and AT&T fiber at the same address. If I watched live on one it would report on the other than the home location changed and it only gives you so many of tho
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
The new models are so fast it's like magic compared to those older models. Even if they have SSDs.
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by macjohnmcc 3y ago
Last year I upgraded from a early 2013 15" MBP to the 16" Max and it's like a whole new world. Way more storage and memory. I can imagine going from the same machine to the M2 would be amazing but from M1 to M2 not enough of
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by macjohnmcc 4y ago
Yeah I had to debug some code with 5 threads that were supposed to be synchronized through the use of several semaphores that was a bear to pin down.

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