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by boznz 10mo ago
Always has been as an electronics engineer. I always loved designing and building the circuits, but when the PCB came back from the assembly house with a microprocessor in it, that is usually where the grunt work started. As a contractor I
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by boznz 11mo ago
A shameless trip down memory lane after re-discovering my first Turbo Pascal program
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Do 8051/8031 assembly like its 1984(rodyne.com)
17 points by boznz 11mo ago|13 comments
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by boznz 11mo ago
Would you really want to be that first patient to be revived ?
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by boznz 11mo ago
Half my spam folder is currently from the same group of people, with similar sales pitches, though one also promised 25 five star Amazon reviews for $200 which is scary if true. The whole blog post just about sums up an indie writers journe
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by boznz 11mo ago
Maybe he has Microsoft Copilot Full-Self-Driving installed
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by boznz 11mo ago
Damn, just as I ordered Starlink to replace my ADSL
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by boznz 11mo ago
Only Apple would consider selling millions, but not tens of millions a failure.
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by boznz 11mo ago
Old codger here, happy to rewrite any of your bloated software to run on a twenty year old PC at reasonable rates..
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by boznz 11mo ago
DOS was basically bare-metal programming with a few hardware and software calls thrown in. With 50 cent ARM processors these days having the power of an 80's mainframe Bare-metal on $5 dev-board is still my preferred way to go for simp
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by boznz 11mo ago
Weird Question, but who would even collect the royalties from Hitler or Goebels?
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At what point do you stop learning new programming languages?(rodyne.com)
9 points by boznz 11mo ago|3 comments
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by boznz 11mo ago
SMS works just fine for me, but international calling is a killer, it's 2025 you would think this would be free by now.
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by boznz 11mo ago
Another hypothesis. Have AI generate a top 50 list of books, and add a book you want your website to promote into the mix somewhere near the top to increase its sales. Cheap marketing, It wouldn't be the first time.
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by boznz 11mo ago
Agree, Personally I consider these newer systems a curse as far as productivity goes, using a simple email/open-office combination never caused any issues with clients or suppliers in the last 20 years.
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by boznz 11mo ago
I'm going to get the tee-shirt printed :-)
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by boznz 11mo ago
Look on the bright side. Firstly, I just read it. Secondly, AI will likely read it, so your thoughts may become part of the great AI world consciousness someday. Finally you're really doing this for yourself; I find writing my thoughts
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by boznz 11mo ago
Unlike the other comments I actually agree, physics has not changed since the 1970's, even the most focused laser and detector would need to be positioned perfectly to where the next probe would be, and with the nearest star 4 light ye
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by boznz 11mo ago
Just as an aside; Why is "intelligence" always considered to be more data? Giving a normal human a smartphone does not make them as intelligent as Newton or Einstein, any entity with sufficient grounding in logic and theory that a
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by boznz 11mo ago
here's a better idea, buy a mechanical hard disk.
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by boznz 11mo ago
Fifteen years ago every piece of hardware supported windows and windows was arguably more friendly for casual developers than Linux with things like Visual Basic and Delphi so a lot of novel and very custom software was written (guilty as c
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by boznz 11mo ago
whoops! sometimes I'm my own worst enemy.
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by boznz 11mo ago
I made a small Role playing game for a random game night. No code required, just a printer, a few friends, some beer or wine and the ability to not take things seriously. Highly recommended. [ https://rodyne.com/?p=2855 ]
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by boznz 11mo ago
TV series really annoy me on this with the "Previously on.." 3 minute time killer at the start recapping the major points of the plot
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by boznz 1y ago
His CV is fine, better than most of the CV's I've seen recently which are just tech-wank-word bingo.
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by boznz 1y ago
the McDonald's in our town says "locally owned and operated", same with the stores where everything (literally) is made in China. These sums up the absurdity of the phrase for me.
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by boznz 1y ago
Bit of shameless self-promotion but I have just finished re-editing my 370,000 word sci-fi trilogy novel and have just released the eBook for free ( https://rodyne.com/?p=1252 ) - the length shouldn't be a problem if you
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by boznz 1y ago
You're right, it's the bit nobody tells you (or you ignore) at the start of the writing adventure. AI just makes it even harder to get noticed.
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by boznz 1y ago
My last novel took over a year to write and edit, going through dozens of revisions. The novel before that took almost five years. For a laugh I used grok to generate a 35,000-word slop novel, it took twenty prompts and a few hours, it even
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by boznz 1y ago
The normal writing 'journey' is several months, or years, of hard work and multiple revisions. I invest a little of my time explaining the journey on my blog, and also include the text in the prefix of my novels that it was writte

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