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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 P…

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, bu…

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 fo…

"Can I borrow your calculator" "Sure!" (hands over HP-25C) "Hey, where's the equals key?"

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 beanc…

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 scratch…

I intend to :-)

Thanks, I was honestly curious. I knew about Infogrames, did not know about the holding company.

"The reward for winning is the opportunity to play again"

I really wonder who "Atari" is these days . . .

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 …

> incompetency "corruption"

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.

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")

> 4. Verify Device Genuineness: Confirm if a phone (new or used) is authentic before purchase. DisplayDialog("Yup, perfectly genuine, trust me!"); :-)

Old enough here to remember Intel entering the DRAM business :-)

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).

Henry S F Cooper wrote a wonderful account of debugging OS race condition on the Magellan (Venus) orbiter in The Evening Star

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 cont…

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

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…

> 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 …

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

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

the code that i am least proud of is the code that has lasted the longest :-)