ErroneousBosh

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1861.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
"We put all our politicians in jail as soon as they're elected." "Why?" "It saves time."
1862.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
I'm old enough to remember when transputers were the thing that were going to absolutely revolutionise everything to do with computers and computing.
1863.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
I use them too, and there's not a trace of artificial intelligence in my posts - it's good old-fashioned analogue stupidity all through.
1864.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
Yup. I am old enough to have posted cassettes rather than 5.25" floppies, although I was using a Z80-based machine that ran Forth and took 5.25" floppies as late as the early 90s. Wildly specialised bit of kit, and I wish I'd
1865.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
Find an existing implementation that runs on some computer you already have, or have an emulator for. Then find a computer you're really into, and port fig-Forth to it, just for fun. Don't copy the source across, type it in with y
1866.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
Oh this is relevant to my interests. I've been doing quite a bit of work on the Juno 106 ROMs but haven't really got my head around Ghidra yet. I've just been working from the service manuals for various versions (including t
1867.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
> I live in Houston and would rather it be 10 degrees warmer than have to deal with 32258 additional mosquito spawning pools. Stock them with carp, which will eat the mosquito larvae, and you can also eat the carp. Win-win.
1868.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
> Any tree will eventually extend roots beneath your foundation and do damage. They will shift and crack the foundation (unless you use pillar construction), break pipes and structures and will penetrate your sewer lines. If you're
1869.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
What's Minecraft got to do with it?
1870.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
I know a guy who is a very devout Muslim, whose "home cuisine" is basically potatoes, sauerkraut, and pork sausage. He comes from a part of the fiddly little "-istans" that weren't quite Asia and weren't quite
1871.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
It's a different solution for a different time. Forth was an excellent way to write a powerful and expressive programming language that could self-host with a bare minimum of assembly language "bare metal" programming. The fr
1872.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
> However, no language should permit defining the value of 4 by 12, as there is no situation in which this can bring more good than harm in the long term. A Skil saw should not permit you sticking your fingers in the spinning blade, yet
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by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
> I originally wrote GraFORTH Oh really? Given you were around at about the correct time period, could you hazard a guess at what dialect this very old Forth game from Byte magazine was written in? https://github.com/Rick
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by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
"Sacred Cows" crop up in business surprisingly often, if you deal with agricultural services in parts of the world with a significant Hindu population. You have to be absolutely certain you've got the right cows in the right
1875.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
Pretty good value for a dollar, you don't see much of that these days.
1876.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
EGR makes emissions worse. It was the wrong fix for the wrong problem. Diesel vehicles now have SCR and AdBlue, which fixes the problem properly, but they still have the EGR defect.
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by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
My nearly 30-year-old Range Rover is fully ULEZ compliant nearly everywhere in Europe except Paris, because it can run on propane which only really emits water and warm carbon dioxide when it burns - no "smog", no NOx, no HC, no C
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by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
Not steer-by-"wire" exactly but in the 1970s and 1980s Citroën had cars with "DIRAVI" steering. In normal operation there was no direct mechanical link between the steering wheel and road wheels. The whole thing was a bi
1879.
by ErroneousBosh 1y ago
Pretty much anything with a 1600cc-ish diesel engine, from Europe. Ford Transit Connect, for example, which could just about do 60mpg on a steady 70mph motorway run.