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by cblum 6y ago
I fell into that rabbit hole thanks to the quarantine. I've been find it therapeutic: the simplicity of it is unbeatable. It gives me the same sense of speaking directly to the machine that assembly does, but at a higher level. I'
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by cblum 6y ago
I caught a JIT bug in .NET back when I worked at Microsoft. Unfortunately I don't remember the specifics, but it was doing something wrong when trying to optimize a bit of code using AVX instructions. I was immediately sure it was a co
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by cblum 6y ago
> I just wish I could figure out how to use the thing. We've talked over email. Hope my pointers were enough to get you unblocked :)
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by cblum 6y ago
I actually came across your project yesterday :) Great work!
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by cblum 6y ago
Awesome!
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by cblum 6y ago
Oh, interesting. I feel like I've gotten used to reasoning with rot and -rot. Didn't know there was advice out there not to use it.
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by cblum 6y ago
Yep, annotating the examples with stack effects is in my plans :)
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by cblum 6y ago
Author here! This was a super fun project that consumed over a month of evenings and weekends. In the past couple of days I finished the examples, and I'm glad to finally put it out there. I don't quite remember how I fell into th
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Sectorforth: A 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a boot sector(github.com)
114 points by cblum 6y ago|32 comments
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by cblum 6y ago
> I’ve always described it as “the design team justifying their own existence after the job is done.” I actually think that's really what is going on. Wish I had first hand evidence though. I do know of a tangential phenomenon at a
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by cblum 6y ago
I keep telling people that and feel like a lone voice in the wilderness.
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by cblum 6y ago
I looked at the city where I used to live in Brazil and most of it is red. It doesn't make sense. It's a pretty normal city not unlike a first world one. I'm not sure what they're really measuring there.
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by cblum 6y ago
The consensus seems to be that you should wear a mask not to protect yourself from the virus, but to prevent spread in case you're carrying it and have no symptoms. If everyone wears a mask, contagion is dramatically reduced.
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by cblum 6y ago
It's less common but it happens. My dad was diagnosed in his thirties. I remember him going from being slightly overweight to essentially a skeleton in just a few months.
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by cblum 6y ago
> The Dragon spacecraft also runs Linux with flight software written in C++. The ship's touchscreen interface is rendered using Chromium and JavaScript. I'm actually shocked by this statement. I would never trust JavaScript on
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by cblum 6y ago
You're describing a good experience. Try calling a restaurant where they barely speak any English. Or one that's busy and you and the other person can't hear each other over the loud noise.
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by cblum 6y ago
That's great to know. Whenever I tell people my problem with mushrooms is that I can't stand the texture, they look at me like I'm a total weirdo.
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by cblum 6y ago
The author's point seems to be that it's hard to figure out where and what to learn. They're not complaining they have to learn new things.
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by cblum 6y ago
While this approach seems to work for a lot of people, personally I'm in the crowd that has a really hard time with that. I'm just not a creative person. I consider myself a good developer when it comes to diving into an existing
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by cblum 6y ago
> I prefer to just get started by building something. I think you're missing the point (of the original article). That's pretty much the issue here, some languages have such complicated ecosystems that you can't "just
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by cblum 6y ago
Yeah, I think that was pretty much the author's point.
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by cblum 6y ago
That is, until you get to the point where you want to automate your build and oh now you need to learn the clusterf*ck that's msbuild.
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by cblum 6y ago
> (it is in the manual, but stack overflow has some better patterns). I love how that's one of the things the author listed in their post :)
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by cblum 6y ago
I currently live in Seattle, and I'm seriously considering somewhere in Idaho or Montana. But on top of the corona situation I also have some pending life stuff that's still to be resolved. Depending on the outcome of that and my
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by cblum 6y ago
> Iberian accents don't sound cultured and distinguished to most Mexicans That's so interesting. I'm from Brazil, and to us Continental Portuguese sounds pompous, much like what a British accent sounds to an American liste
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by cblum 6y ago
I've been toying with Turbo Pascal 5.5 running on FreeDOS on an old laptop. There's something really relaxing about it, compared to modern programming.
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by cblum 6y ago
I've played with OpenBSD on a VM a couple times and really liked it, but I'd like to use it on real hardware and try and force myself to use it as my main personal system at least for a while as an experiment. I've often hear
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by cblum 6y ago
:)
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by cblum 6y ago
That's really cool of him. I do think there are options to achieve all of that - scale without manual intervention, etc. - without Kubernetes though. At least where I work, if I look at the deployment issues we have, those are all the
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by cblum 6y ago
That's great, thanks for sharing! We have similar backgrounds in a way. I started coding as a kid too, at age 9. First Basic, then Pascal. Picked up C in my teens. Also tinkered with electronics and was part of an online robotics maili

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