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Did it seriously not let you have a goto label inside a switch?! This seems like an odd restriction, as all 3 are the same kind of thing.
I miss this kind of playfulness in computing. When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kit…
> picture of a cat I couldn't find this elusive picture of a cat on archive.org, but I found this dog instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20030113144310/https://www.amazo... June 2016 appears to be when Amazon adopted the current error pages with the large dog images. https://web.archive.org/web/20160612232820/http://www.amazon...
http://telcontar.net/Screenshots/worldwidewonk/Amazon-404-eh...
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I understand the arguments for unified RAM on a SoC, but it’s still a shame; even the new Mac Pro doesn’t have RAM slots.
The soldered-in SSD is worse, though. The SSD WILL wear out, so then you get to throw away your Mac?
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> The compiler is 324k in size Playfulness isn't the only thing we've lost. Software bloat has reached comedic levels.
There’s nothing stopping anyone from going back and using all of that old software exclusively. For some reason everyone prefers the newer software, though. Perhaps there’s more to it than binary size?
People have aesthetic complaints about "bloat", but again this is orthogonal to the actual speed of anything.
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> The compiler is 324k in size Playfulness isn't the only thing we've lost. Software bloat has reached comedic levels.
There’s nothing stopping anyone from going back and using all of that old software exclusively. For some reason everyone prefers the newer software, though. Perhaps there’s more to it than binary size?
Monthly bills are stopping me. Can I use Apple's MPW C compiler to build for iOS?
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No. The compiler knows that trick for its own code :) not sure about introspecting into the assembly (I think LLVM doesn't do that). But either way, standard C returns int of 0 from main on success. So: ldx #0 txa rts
Nitpick: this isn’t standard C (it uses void main , not int main ) Nitpick 2: why ldx #0 txa rts ? I would think lda #0 rts is shorter and faster Back to my question: if it can’t, the claim “an assembler programmer couldn't do better” isn’t correct. I think an assembler programmer for the 6502 would consider doing a jmp at the end, even if it makes the function return an incorrect, possibly even unpredictable value.…
Regarding this specific unrolled loop, I would expect a 6502 programmer would just write the obvious loop, because they're clearly optimizing for space rather than speed when calling the ROM routine. They'll be content with the string printing taking about as long as it takes, which clearly isn't too long, as they wouldn't have done it that way otherwise. And the loop "overhead" won't be meaningful. (Looks like it'll be something like 7 cycles per character? I'm not familiar with the Apple II. Looks like $fbfd preserves X though.)
I miss this kind of playfulness in computing. When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kit…
I miss this kind of playfulness in computing. When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kit…
Where does this playfulness persist? I miss it too.
I miss this kind of playfulness in computing. When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kit…
Where does this playfulness persist? I miss it too.
Been able to have a worksheet with random shell commands I’d built up, triple-clicking a line and hitting enter to run the selection.
It was quite a thing.
