Notices by Vertigo (vertigo@mastodon.social), page 2

@ixn Except for Commodore BASIC V7.0 and later, nothing that is built-in.

The only time I should EVER see a line numbered 28090 is in a BASIC program for an Apple, Commodore, or Atari computer. That is *IT*.

Don't mind me. Just trying to debug web application software with dependencies measuring /IN EXCESS/ of 28000 lines of uncommented Typescript and Javascript.

PER.

FILE.

Who in their right mind writes this kind of shit?

@Azure Count me in, too.

@enkiv2 🤔 . o O ( Inverted lectures? Isn't that just a different way of saying "office hours"? )

I rather like what MIT is doing here. "Here's a bunch of videos on the topic, and we'll just use this class time for answering specific questions you might have." I hope that experiment bears fruit!

@graydon It's OK; no worries, I knew what you were going for. :)

Thank you for the kind words. Ultimately, I blame life-at-large (especially my advancing age and the requirement to work) for draining me of any initiative these days.

Quickly coming to hate Typescript with an incinerating passion. Nothing like combining Javascript with the worst parts of event-driven programming with the worst-parts of functional syntax with the worst parts of object oriented syntax combined with having to maintain the project *cold* to just effin' RUIN your day. 😡

Gods....

Now I have the Hoedown song stuck in my head, from Who's Line Is It, Anyway.

@enkiv2 This is an amazing article. I've seen plenty of "why I don't like Go" articles elsewhere, but rarely are they so cogent, poignant, and yet, respectful all at the same time.

@amiloradovsky @ND3JR I have similar issues. If I have the time, I lack initiative. If I have the initiative, I lack the time. Only rarely do the two prerequisites of time and initiative overlap. If I could somehow cajole myself to working on the project during those phases where I have the time but no initiative, I could make more progress.

But, that also opens one up to burn-out; having the time but no initiative is the definition of "chore". ;)

@graydon As for the activity being nourishing, I've been working on the #KestrelComputerProject since 2004 in one shape or another; it's not going anywhere soon.

I did walk away from it once before, after much distress with trying to get pseudo-SDRAM working in the design. Left it for a year and a half, in fact.

But, that was a decision I couldn't live with myself with, so I came back and resurrected the project.

That won't happen again.

@SuperFloppies @jeffcliff
Coreboot wouldn't have bricked my box for trying to boot Ubuntu. UEFI actually *did*. Actions speak louder than words on a whitepaper somewhere.

@SuperFloppies
Proprietary? Yes. Brickable? Only when reflashing. I grew up with PCs from the first Compaqs to today. After a successful flash, if it booted once, it'd always boot. No muss, no fuss.

With UEFI, whole new classes of user hostilities aren't just enabled, but actively encouraged. I am well aware of what UEFI bills itself to be. I'm equally aware of what it's become in practice.

@jeffcliff