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931.
by mark-r 6y ago
Yes, the older and more popular a compiler is, the less likely it is to have bugs. The buggiest compiler I ever used was a C compiler that ran on a PC and generated code for the 68000 processor. We seemed to trip over something about once
932.
by mark-r 6y ago
That's a rookie mistake. After being wrong enough times, most people will catch on that the chances of a compiler bug are near enough to zero to not worry about. The last actual compiler bug I can remember was probably 30 years ago.
933.
by mark-r 6y ago
Lots of people memorize more digits of pi than they need, just because it's fun. I've noticed that most who do this stop at 50 digits after the decimal point. When I was younger I knew 250 digits, now I'm lucky to remember
934.
by mark-r 6y ago
My son says he doesn't tan - he pinks.
935.
by mark-r 6y ago
Nobody's done the kind of study that would establish that yet.
936.
by mark-r 6y ago
Even if that's what you really thought, keeping it to yourself would have been better.
937.
by mark-r 6y ago
Calling the station "rock format" is perhaps doing a disservice. They play the most eclectic mix of music I've ever heard.
938.
by mark-r 6y ago
The same phenomenon happens in England with power consumption, because everyone turns on their electric teapots at the same time. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-world-england-elec...
939.
by mark-r 6y ago
I think the average American doesn't understand averages.
940.
by mark-r 6y ago
The Z80 stack was only limited by your memory size.
941.
by mark-r 6y ago
One trick I used a lot with the Z80 is the conditional return instructions. Instead of doing a jump, structure your functions so you could return early on one of the condition flags. The jump instructions were 3 bytes, the return instruct
942.
by mark-r 6y ago
Eventually I probably will, but I'm not looking forward to the effort. I'm paid up for now so there's no rush. Luckily my domain service is with a different company.
943.
by mark-r 6y ago
I have no choice, they bought out my hosting provider a year ago.
944.
by mark-r 6y ago
I have a friend who had a dorm in college with 3 other guys, and all of them had problems waking up to alarm clocks. They each had an alarm clock that they placed in a different part of the room, so each of them would have to get up to shu
945.
by mark-r 6y ago
That's how it worked for me. I was employee #1 at a startup and I got a salary before the founder. I never considered myself a founder and was never treated as one.
946.
by mark-r 6y ago
I wonder if the PIC could drive an actual S100 bus so you could plug boards into it?
947.
by mark-r 6y ago
Indeed it was. The thing that made it special was that it used the same backplane and board dimensions, making it completely compatible.
948.
by mark-r 6y ago
That's the thing, they're not a type - they're just an array of char with an unspecified length, indistinguishable from any other array of char or pointer to char. Only the convention of ending them with a null character mak
949.
by mark-r 6y ago
It's a shame that Niklaus Wirth doesn't get more respect and attention. But some of his ideas were just a little ahead of their time - I think the typical size for a Pascal string was just a single byte, which was a bit too limit
950.
by mark-r 6y ago
Yes, you can always pass a pointer and a length explicitly. And that's what the "safe" versions of e.g. string functions do. But it's still incumbent on you as the programmer to use them properly. It would still be be
951.
by mark-r 6y ago
Or at least not in Torvalds' lifetime. His views on replacements for C are legendary. It would be interesting to see his comments on this proposal.
952.
by mark-r 6y ago
The ironic part is that recycling bins are almost always made of plastic.
953.
by mark-r 6y ago
Many of those older systems relied on peripherals that only did upper case, such as Teletypes.
954.
by mark-r 6y ago
Well that's a bummer. Any way to defeat it?
955.
by mark-r 6y ago
And when you die, who will be maintaining your personal site? What happens when the domain gets bought by a link scammer? Maybe your pages should each contain a link to the original, so it's just a single click if someone wants to get
956.
by mark-r 6y ago
I see a lot of emails from "donotreply", but never pay any attention whether it's a user name or domain name. I have no doubt that many of them are domain names. To make it double redundant, the reply-to address should be do
957.
by mark-r 6y ago
Every huckster in the world will claim "special sauce".
958.
by mark-r 6y ago
That may be true, but your brain reacts at a more primitive level in the moment.
959.
by mark-r 6y ago
I wasn't claiming that ATC isn't one of the most stressful jobs on the planet. Merely agreeing with GP that the pilot has more skin in the game.
960.
by mark-r 6y ago
ATCs rarely have to worry about dying in the accident.

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