Notices by Vertigo (vertigo@mastodon.social), page 12

Yes, it's true: you'd've be limited to just 64KiB per individual record or array. BUT, perhaps by the time 1995 rolled around in this alternative universe, CS, DS, ES, SS, FS, and GS would probably have been made 32-bits wide. PERHAPS, even, be made into pointers to page table roots, as segment registers were under MULTICS computers.

Goddamnit, C, why'd you go and fucking ruin it for everyone? >:(

Well, one good thing about this SVFIG session -- I scored three USB-to-RS232 cables/adapters. One is even a USB 2.0 hub with a Centronics parallel port too.

Woo!

#Kestrel3 #FPGA

@Ashrand AHH, I just saw a message indicating what Google did, which this conversation didn't link back to. Yes, I agree with you, it was a dick move, and is why I'm now keeping all of my future video content on Peertube. (Not that I have much, but...)

So don't want to be working right now. It's sunny out, it's freakin' HOT out, and I'd sure like to get a headstart on my SVFIG presentation for tomorrow.

Then, I need to experiment with OBS to do some screen caps for OTS-2 ep2.

@HerraBRE @Ashrand I can assert that when you *upload* content to Youtube, there's verbiage on the upload page indicating that they can monetize your video, even if you don't check the "monetize" checkbox. (That checkbox merely says, "I want a fraction of the cash you make from showing ads." It does *not* prevent Google from showing ads on the video in absolute terms.)

Not that I'm objecting to the choice of music, mind you.

Last night, while slightly intoxicated on 10mg, I had a hankering for some mid-80s era Van Halen.

I somehow woke up this morning with *Camel* playing in my head.

THC is a hell of a drug.

After a hard day at work and a pretty good, yet hard, workout at the gym, and finishing household chores, I'm finally relaxing with 10mg THC.

And now, I'm so *so* jonesing for some 80s Van Halen right now.

@bootjack If it's a helpful data point, I had not considered the relationship between bootjack and jackboot until you asked this question.

I think you're fine.

@JordiGH Happily, that was most candidates, even those who never saw Forth before, and never wanted to again. ;)

@JordiGH How different candidates reacted to the code was insightful. A few couldn't make heads or tails of it, but the *vast* majority, despite having a lot of anxiety about an RPN language they'd never seen before, were able to successfully identify the fault in the program within 15 minutes.

Those that could not identify the fault were nonetheless able to identify roughly *where* the fault had to lie.

Those who asked good questions and collaborated well were weighted more heavily for hire.

@JordiGH BASIC can do this. ;) (It kind of what it was written for.)

I had a surprising discovery with Forth when I was working regularly as a software engineer. During interviews for test engineers, I'd give a deliberately broken piece of Forth code to the candidate, and ask him to debug it. He had to use me as a surrogate Google search engine.

Turns out the kettle bells were 48kg *each*, which after doing the math, means I was carrying around slightly over 210 pounds of weight.

I've never lifted that amount before. Ever. In my life.

I'm no weight lifter. But I'm stiill quite proud of myself.