Notices by Vertigo (vertigo@mastodon.social), page 25

@natecull That's also in C and C++ too (possibly even Rust). It's general Unix numeric lexing behavior. Also, the chmod command. :)

Seeing posts with no history, but which are obviously part of a conversation, makes these individuals look an awful lot like bots.

I categorically block bots on Twitter, but here, it's not so easy because they may actually be people with strange configurations for their accounts.

@Azure I think we all do. Well, at least those of us who do not work for Oracle. ;)

@sydneyfalk @twitter @djsundog Use ZZ instead (case sensitive). If you snore loudly enough, you'll kill Vim out of boredom.

@c1t7 @djsundog @sydneyfalk @twitter Tried it; it's not all that it's cracked up to be. It just wears out a different set of keys. ;)

@vfrmedia @kaniini Not anymore. They've been bought out by SoftBank, a Japanese firm; and, last I heard, they have close to 3000 employees now, as I recall. That's *plenty* of resources to invest in mid- to server-grade processors, all the while maintaining momentum in the embedded space. If they so desired.

A part of me wishes PL/I had won.

So, I managed to convert both console output and keyboard input to COM interfaces on the Kestrel. However, with only 384 bytes of space for stack, plus RISC-V's boneheaded requirement that stacks remain 16-byte aligned for EVERY nesting level, this means I'm running out of stack just doing something simple like scrolling the screen.

Ouch.

Looks like I'm going to have to abandon COM and go back to using just a single entry-point vector for RAM-resident program linkage.

:/

Using COM in the Kestrel-2DX BIOS: https://hackaday.io/project/27139-kestrel-2dx/log/68005-component-object-model-for-a-bios-why-yes

It has been so long since I've done any kind of COM development. Feels ... weird. Especially since it's for my own computer's BIOS. Heh.

@carlchenet These issues, in part, are why I find Fossil to be so useful. I know it can never scale to projects that Git was made for, but the vast majority of projects I interact with daily don't need that kind of scalability anyway.

@evilscientistca Yet, strangely, Betelgeuse's color pops right out for me. Go figure. :P (Also Saturn and Jupiter, naked eye).

@evilscientistca I'm not color blind so far as any eye exams I've taken indicate. However, some people who look at this binary indicate "I see an orange star and a blue star," and when I look at it, I see one star that is very, very vaguely blue, but the other one looks white to me.

I think I'm just not very photo-sensitive in low light.