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I buy some just to support the developer if they are small.

I'd love for an interface like that on VSCode that runs in a terminal even remotely.

And still shoot yourself in the foot.

You were spared the killer robot?

Cross compilation.

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 custo…

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 so…

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.

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 arou…

He traveled on his stomach.

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 …

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 emulator…

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 th…

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.

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

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.

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 som…

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…

They were doing Windows NT for the Itanium. They were holding out hoping that this thing would take off.

it would fit easily on audio tape using an 8-bit retro computer more than likely. Babier steps!

Already bought into the PlayStation Portable and the Vita. I think I'll skip this next one.

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 adopte…

No it was Mouser. One of the few places I order electronics parts from. Digikey and Jameco did not.

I don't anymore. They were asking for donations about 2 years 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 …