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by glonq 1y ago
I had always heard that C was ill-suited for 6502 targets because of the way the language uses registers and the stack.
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by glonq 1y ago
are you sure you know what 'lesser' means? /s
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by glonq 1y ago
By sending manufacturing jobs overseas for decades, America sold out blue collar families so that the rich could get richer. After if/when AI will do the same to middle-class white collar workers, maybe people will realize that it&#x2
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by glonq 1y ago
I was a proficient C/C++ programmer for DOS and embedded, but found programming apps for Windows to be very overwhelming and tedious. So for a few years there VB was an excellent way for me to build little Windows tools and apps, unti
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by glonq 1y ago
I took a similar path -- BASIC at home, Turbo Pascal in highschool, Modula-2 in college. Our prof had learned under Wirth and wanted us to use Modula-2 a lot more than we wanted to.
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by glonq 1y ago
I jumped from an 8-bit Atari to a CGA PC/XT clone and it was surprising how much forward I jumped in power and capability and storage, yet how much -backwards- I jumped in graphics and sound. Those were great lil' machines and ev
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by glonq 1y ago
Same! My >decade old account was banned in 2023 despite having great karma and a clean track record. I swore the place off and have been much happier and more productive since. I engage with real people on various discord servers inste
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by glonq 2y ago
I find this to be less unhinged than say TempleOS, but it still seems unnecessary to focus on outdated languages and ancient CPU's. If/when civilization collapses, we will have zero problem scavenging for x86 CPUs.
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by glonq 2y ago
So did they deprecate the ability to use DALL-E 3 to generate images? I asked the legacy ChatGPT 4 model to generate an image and it used the new 4o style image generator.
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by glonq 2y ago
Did you also consider the STHS34PF80 sensor? Range is lower (4 meters I think) but it seems to suit needs and is cheaper too.
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by glonq 2y ago
Cool! I was just looking at how to build something similar using a presence sensor wired up to some flavor of arduino. But I was hoping to keep it 100% local with little-to-no cloud involved.
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by glonq 2y ago
Definitely not a waste of time! Keep up the great work.
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by glonq 2y ago
Agreed! FWIW I was doing more free QA than nit-picking ;)
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by glonq 2y ago
I once naively believed that us "good guys" have little to fear or to lose by yielding a little privacy for the greater good. Then I grew up and realized that governments routinely fail to wield such power responsibly.
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by glonq 2y ago
Can confirm, even though our neighbours don't respect the honour of this behaviour ;)
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by glonq 2y ago
Nine Canadian provinces have larger populations than Wyoming, so add nine extra states and the US has got a deal ... that it will probably regret lol.
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by glonq 2y ago
I find that I have "less horsepower, but smarter gears", so it kind of evens out. I'm less likely to code until midnight, but more likely to have the problem solved before clocking out at 6pm ;)
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by glonq 2y ago
20 years ago I got tired of programming day-to-day and became a manager who still dabbles in development. I don't contribute to production code, but I do architecture, prototyping/research, and will roll up my sleeves to help a s
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by glonq 2y ago
i posted an emoji and it counted it as two characters
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by glonq 2y ago
I had a college prof who in his real job wrote -all the things- in Modula-2.
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by glonq 2y ago
Cool. I've been using Cyberduck as my awesome/free S3 GUI, but it's always great to see something new and different!
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by glonq 2y ago
I hope this newcomer Fiwix doesn't steal too much mindshare away from HURD...
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by glonq 2y ago
can't buy a youtube premium family subscription either, which sucks! also can't leave reviews in the google play store.
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by glonq 2y ago
Can confirm. I run my family on the free Google Workspace Starter edition that they offered years and years ago. And we are definitely second-class citizens when it comes to old, current, and new Google features. TBH I'd love to find
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by glonq 2y ago
from the hackers test https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/net/user/tytso/archive/hackers.tes... ...my fave: 0015 Ever change the value of 4? 0016 ... Unintentionally? 0017 ... In a language other than Fortran
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by glonq 2y ago
I have definitely found software bugs by wiring up solenoids to act as programmable button-pressers. Unlike junior testers, scripts and solenoids will work 24-hour shifts and never ask for pizza and coke.
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by glonq 2y ago
This sounds a bit familiar. I used to work at a medium-sized company whose systems were based on COBOL code and Unisys mini/mainframe hardware from the 80's. We even had a person employed as a "tape ape"; thankfully n
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by glonq 2y ago
Don't forget Elop! He hitched Nokia's wagon to Microsoft's horses and then rode it straight off a cliff.
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by glonq 2y ago
...except that using floating-point values to represent currency was never recommended because of precision issues. Using fixed-point or "integer cents" was preferable.
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by glonq 2y ago
I wonder what it's like to be ridiculously talented at everything ?

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