kabdib

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by kabdib 3y ago
They'll just buy numbers with more stolen money.
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by kabdib 3y ago
DNS itself is pretty simple. Implementing a basic DNS server or client is not a big deal. The management software around it is what is generally terrible.
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by kabdib 3y ago
"Are those Z-80s cache-coherent?" is not a thought I ever expected to have.
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by kabdib 3y ago
Eric Schlosser's Command and Control is a nice historical view of the nuclear defense establishment, and describes a particularly terrible missile site failure.
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by kabdib 3y ago
char cannot legally represent EOF (as you point out). This doesn't really have anything to do with ARM, though; for instance, the ARM compiler I use has command-line options and pragmas that control whether char is signed or unsigned.
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by kabdib 3y ago
In a game, it's sometimes difficult to tell if code is worknig or not. I've seen bugs in games that turned out to be interesting features (e.g., arithmetic overflow in Robotron caused an enemy to zoom to the opposite side of the s
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by kabdib 3y ago
I spent two weeks once tracking down a kernel scheduler bug. The fix was to swap two instructions. That was a hard one, hard-won.
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by kabdib 3y ago
How many folks here have spent linear weeks patching up someone else's 1 night efforts? [/me raises one hand, buries face in the other] Bonus points if it's your own 1 night effort. :-)
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by kabdib 3y ago
I once waded into a piece of software that had factories five or six levels deep. One memorable code path involved the clipboard. That was the company where I first heard the term "Train Wreck". ("Documentation? You're l
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by kabdib 3y ago
Oh man, it's been years. I'm visiting this weekend and I'll take a whirl through those old books.
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by kabdib 3y ago
My dad attended college in the 1950s. I liked reading his old textbooks. The geology texts that predate plate tectonics are . . . interesting. They really didn't know where volcanoes and mountains came from.
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by kabdib 3y ago
The short stories in Driftglass were pretty good, and relatively tame. Read them at 13 or 14. The sex in Tales of Neveryon is basically off-screen, with heavy allusions.
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by kabdib 3y ago
As a motorcyclist, I am horrified by the inadequate helmets that I see on most e-bike users. I lost an uncle a few years ago; he was wearing a typical bicycle helmet, crashed going about 20mph, and hit his heat on a curb. The end. Wear a go
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by kabdib 3y ago
... underground traffic jam and battery fire Count me out, I'm telecommuting.
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by kabdib 3y ago
Not really a fan of "ignore it and maybe things won't get worse."
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by kabdib 3y ago
Ditto (we had hand-rolled a coroutine system implemented in the most pedestrian manner you could imagine). Compared to the usual sea-of-threads and all the synchronization hell that falls out of that, a coroutine-based system was absolutely
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by kabdib 3y ago
The Icon language (by the Griswalds, the same couple who brought us SNOBOL of decades past) has similar control structures for its generators.
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by kabdib 3y ago
The long tail is alive and well on Steam, for one thing.
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by kabdib 3y ago
I used fountain pens a lot in the 80s and 90s. They are expensive and fragile, but I really like the feel of a good nib against sketchpad paper. [Never let someone borrow your fountain pen. It can be . . . terrible] Lately I've pivoted
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by kabdib 3y ago
That's the popular explanation, and yes, it's incorrect. What's really going on is more deeply rooted in some esoterica of General Relativity, where it does make sense. I don't pretend to understand it.
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by kabdib 3y ago
... and when it finally arrives, the box will be empty. :-) The universe is a funny mix of the ultimate free lunch and just getting reamed by entropy and expansion. I wish it would make up its mind.
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by kabdib 3y ago
Humans are strange :-)
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by kabdib 3y ago
I had nightmares for months. What a great film :-)
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by kabdib 3y ago
My understanding was that those variations in gravity ("mascons") rendered stable lunar orbits next to impossible. On Apollo missions, orbits degraded by many kilometers over the course of just a few days.
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by kabdib 3y ago
It is an interesting question, how much you separate the personality from the accomplishments. I've been using Emacs since the late 1970s (actually, an Emacs clone, since 1990). It's a great editor, and he wrote a lot of it. But I
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by kabdib 3y ago
As someone who was verbally abused and publicly insulted by RMS, I'm okay with this.
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by kabdib 3y ago
Andor is the first SW content I have re-watched since Jedi. [spends a few minutes on a mental inventory] Well, okay: I watched all the SW eps with my son. (His words after seeing Ep1 were "Daddy, that wasn't a very good movie.&quo
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by kabdib 3y ago
GEMDOS was written from scratch (by Digital Research) and doesn't share any code or data structures with CP/M. Many of the BIOS and system calls were the same, but GEMDOS had recursive directories, etc.
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by kabdib 3y ago
Ran a fleet of servers with terrible BMCs. We kept those on a well-sealed-off private network. Woe betide you if you run into one of the BMC implementations that shares a host network interface; no separate cable! These things are terrible
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by kabdib 3y ago
"Connection was reset." Well, that might address the mystery :-)

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