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by spc476 4y ago
Modern pens are horrible to write with, you have to press down on the paper to get the ink out, and doing so causes the fingers (or at least, my fingers) to cramp up. I switched to a fountain pen over a year ago, and the difference is nigh
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by spc476 4y ago
How about < https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/index.html >?
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by spc476 4y ago
I wish. In my situation, it's new management that is onboarding [1] and they have changed how we do things in my department, for the worse. [1] The company I work for got bought out. And the new owners are "taking charge."
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by spc476 4y ago
There are age restrictions on casinos. And we have a rating system for movies and games to inform adults about the content.
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by spc476 4y ago
30 years of experience of using UNIX as my IDE, with my editor and debugger of choice. All I see is the industry heading back to the 60s, where the high priests took care of the computer, and users were an after thought that paid for CPU an
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by spc476 4y ago
Wow! The Apple Mac [1] and the PET are gorgeous! Absolutely love them. [1] https://www.lovehulten.com/goldenapple.html [2] https://www.lovehulten.com/petdelux.html
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by spc476 4y ago
Years ago I had the opportunity to "fly" an A320 simulator (the type they use to train pilots) at Miami International Airport. Yes, with instructions, I was able to successfully land the airplane, and found it easier to do so tha
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by spc476 4y ago
A friend of mine has run a continuous D&D game since 1993: < http://www.dragonslayers-society.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php >.
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by spc476 4y ago
I view "yak shaving" more as: I have X to do. I find I can't to X because of issue Y. I start to fix issue Y, but discover issue Z. I then start to fix Z but can't because of A. A "rabbit hole" to me is di
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by spc476 5y ago
There's nothing in the C standard that I could find that dictates that b[] has to follow directly after a[] in memory. That it works is just happenstance (or an implementation detail). The only place were order is maintained are fiel
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by spc476 5y ago
I used to program on a platform where you could have two pointers (say, integer pointers) that were not equal to each other, yet a store to one would change the location pointed to by the other pointer. Hint: it was a very popular archite
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by spc476 5y ago
Always measure. I use Lua at $job, where it's processing millions of SIP messages (text! Lots of parsing) in real time (it's part of the call processing flow), and over the past seven years or so, I've only had to tune the
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by spc476 5y ago
I have four slide rulers, and all of them I picked up at various antique shops. The latest one I bought is the same type that the Apollo astronauts took to the moon (Picket N600-ES, about 6" (15.5cm) long). I paid about US$5 for it.
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by spc476 5y ago
So, using () as a marker for the length of a label, and (^name) for a label pointer, how do you handle ()a()b(^b) The pointer goes backwards, but it doesn't go back to the start of a label sequence. So do you track the start
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by spc476 5y ago
Thank you. Using recursion didn't even occur to me (and in some places, recursion is verboten, along with memory allocation). As for DJB's comment, while I can agree in general, it seems that the DEFLATE algorithm was documented
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by spc476 5y ago
When I wrote my DNS parser [1], I set a follow limit. I'm not sure how viable it would be to limit the pointers to earlier in the packet would be. [1] https://github.com/spc476/SPCDNS
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by spc476 5y ago
2FA has never been an issue with me. If it's a one-time thing (like signing up for a website) the wait doesn't bother me, and no services have ever rejected me because I didn't respond within five minutes. If it's a re
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by spc476 5y ago
But how many meetings are enough? Each week, I have eight meetings only with my team (that is, aside from other company meetings). And us mere developers are not invited to the design meetings. No, work is handed out piecemeal to each
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by spc476 5y ago
You make that sound like a negative. I run my own email server and have implemented greylisting [1]. Greylisting easily drops my incoming email by 50%, but that 50% was being sent by non-compliant SMTP "servers" (probably, a prog
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by spc476 5y ago
Bugs are just a manifestation of inattention to detail (wrong assumption, missed some critical item, an off-by-one error, etc.). If you are adding code and find a bug, it's most likely in the code just written. If you code hasn'
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by spc476 5y ago
I'll be up to help. I've been programming in C for 30 years now (and still do). One of my "when I'm bored" projects is updating an early 90s C code base [1]. And I do have an interest in Forth, so this sounds lik
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by spc476 5y ago
An empty file was also the infinitely profitable program: http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55 On CP/M, it was useful to rerun the previous program that was still in memory.
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by spc476 5y ago
You didn't reply with "Witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational sysadmin!"? (ref: https://xkcd.com/705/ )
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by spc476 5y ago
I love that I get to work from home [1], yet I still get together with some coworkers for lunch once a week. Yes, we don't work for the same department, but we used to regularly go out for lunch before the pandemic. It also doesn&#x2
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by spc476 5y ago
From my quotes file: "Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction---from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work." P
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by spc476 5y ago
CBOR has four defined timestamp formats---see https://www.iana.org/assignments/cbor-tags/cbor-tags.xhtml
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by spc476 5y ago
There are CPUs out there that can be put into a "sleep" type mode. On the x86, there's the HLT instruction, which stops CPU execution until an interrupt happens. The 68k series has the STOP instruction, which does the same
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by spc476 5y ago
My three rules of worrying: 1. Can I do something about it right now? If so, do it, and stop worrying. 2. Can I do something about it later? If so, wait til later, do it, and stop worrying. 3. There is nothing I can do. If so, there&#x2
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by spc476 5y ago
You are not the target audience for Microsoft, the corporation is. Who uses a home computer anymore? (it's all smart phones now) You start work, you get a pre-installed Windows laptop to use by the corporate IT department, configured
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by spc476 5y ago
What's funny about "all the world's a VAX" is that the VAX could trap on integer overflow. I suspect that C compilers on VAX never set that mode though (it's a flag in the status register).

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