mek6800d2

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by mek6800d2 2y ago
I came across his article about a month ago and likewise enjoyed it. I was a little disappointed (but only a little) when I discovered afterwards that his suggestion of using event time codes to set off explosives on stage was actually sug
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by mek6800d2 2y ago
Obligatory mention of Ed Post's "Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL"! You switched from Pascal to C instead of Fortran, but I suppose that is semi-acceptable! https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack&#
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by mek6800d2 3y ago
Slight correction: TCC is not interpreting the source file - it compiles and links the program and then runs it.
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by mek6800d2 3y ago
I'm 99% certain that the spacecraft computers were not programmed in Fortran. Several years ago, I investigated this meme for my own interest and all arrows seem to point back to this 2013 Wired article as the source (also refer
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
In 2018, I read James M. Tabor's Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Cave on Earth (pub. 2010), which particularly focused on Bill Stone's and ALexander Klimchouk's respective explorations. (Contrary to perhap
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
I read something about this recently, somewhere, maybe HN. Specifically, in calloc(), what is done and what should really be done if the multiplication overflows. As will happen, for example, if you try to calloc() two elements of size SI
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
Yes. The linked post says Japan is the 4th largest importer of wood. My geography professor in 1981 told us about it being cheaper to send raw wood logged in the Pacific Northwest to Japan for finishing than it was to ship it across the c
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
> Remember "Field of Dreams"? "Build it and they will come?" That's typical hollywood bullshit advice. Apparently you don't. Costner's character heard a voice saying, "Build it and he will come&
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
No, I think. Much like your examples, I have in mind "False Data Dependencies" in the CPU. I came across this on StackOverflow several years ago. It is a long question and a long, informative thread about seemingly irrational p
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
Your comment reminds me of a scene in the Rolling Stones' Altamont Concert film: Keith Richards is hanging out of his dressing room door and he answers a queston, "Yeah, we sold out, but it was for the money so that's okay! (
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
Back in the 1990s, I read a book about genomics by an English scientist who, in the introduction, remarked that it was a well-known but little-discussed secret among researchers that it really does help to throw money at a problem. Regard
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
I'm guessing you mean the FastStone image viewer - I love it too. I hadn't heard of EditPlus before, but I should look into it. (I've been using the free EditPad Lite for the past 15-20 years for quick editing and, for more
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
Okay, I'll bite. "Pontual"? Are Google and I missing something? The top result is a Google Translate rendering of the Portuguese word "pontual" as "one-off" in English, which kind of fits your intent, I
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
From a brief review of Peter Kramer's Against Depression (2005): Consumption (tuberculosis) was viewed as a somewhat fashionable disease, a sign of an artistic and intellectual nature. (It was probably viewed that way by artists who
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
YADD = YACC++ ? ("yet another different device") :-)
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
Your comment reminded me of Paul DeMone's signature line on USENET's comp.arch back in the day! The 801 experiment SPARCed an ARMs race of EPIC proportions to put more PRECISION and POWER into architectures with MIPSed results bu
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
I used to work for a company whose product was a fairly large satellite control center software system (and we could supply hardware if needed), written in C++. It's used for a lot of commercial fleets. For example, back in the 2000s
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
I agree with you about the massive damage caused by Microsoft, but ... it was there. In the DOS times, there was no choice between DOS and Unix on PCs -- there was effectively just DOS. Aside from niche things like Coherent (IIRC), Unix w
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
Kind of like stopping a volcano or an earthquake. What happens when the problem gets too far gone and the vaunted human ingenuity is utterly impotent in solving the problem? (I mean the point after which there is literally nothing humans
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
VAX/VMS called them "descriptors", which had IIRC 16 bits of flags, a 16-bit length, and a 32-bit pointer -- descriptors could be used for different object types, not just strings. The 64k length limit and 32-bit address wer
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
I worked for 5 years on VMS for a real-time satellite image processing HW/SW system for NASA. VMS was wonderful. At another company, I then worked on a Unix system for a few years, then 2 years on a port of our software to Unix. (Th
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
Microsoft hired the main architect of VMS, Dave Cutler, away from DEC to design Windows NT. (VMS++ = WNT)
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
But it works well! Those file options are syntactically optional. I worked on VAX/VMS with Fortran for 5 years and then helped develop generic spacecraft control-center software for NASA in C under Unix. In 1992-1993, we ported the
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
I think you misunderstood eadmund's point about Julia and multiple dispatch. :( Still, your succint summary of some of raku's capabilities makes me, at least, want to study it in more detail -- so, thank you!
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
Given Texas's own "very stable energy grid", could that bargain-price fast fiber plan possibly be, in reality over time, just an expensive plan for slower fiber? (I.e., looking at actual amounts of data transferred interleav
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
Try lndir to create a separate build directory that has symbolic links to the files in the source tree.
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
A load off my mind too -- I now know there at least two of us in the world! :)
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
"... around age 10." C++ (not to mention C)? IIRC, I remember seeing B.S.'s "C with Classes" appear in ACM SIGPLAN Notices in the early 1980s -- 40 years ago. I don't think it hit its peak 10 or even 15 ye
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
Youth and timing! I dropped out of college after my 3rd semester. I read widely and kept seeing W&P cited as the greatest piece of literature ever. I read it and liked it -- in two weeks, which was about 100 pages a day. I read it d
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by mek6800d2 4y ago
There was the 6809 in between. I remember BYTE magazine's cover story, "A Microprocessor for the Revolution". Well, not quite, as it turned out! :)

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