Rob Norris
tpolecat@mastodon.social
<p>dijkstra would not have liked this</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>penplotter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>electronics</span></a></p>
Posts
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Post #1909151
Given enough arson, all bugs are shallow.
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Post #1750085
Trying to help my 12yo redeem a Fortnite gift card and it’s like that Onion video of the Franz Kafka International Airport. I want to become CEO of Epic Games so I can fire everyone involved.
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Post #1750084
It’s kind of alarming to me that they’re using Windows and Bluetooth on a spacecraft. There are not a whole lot of rage outlets up there and I’m pretty sure they don’t have a margarita machine.
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Post #1750083
I started working through Shawn Hymel’s YouTube tutorial on Embedded Rust last night and I continue to be amazed at how dialed-in the tooling is. Also the doc. And the language itself. And the libraries. Of course I’m just getting started, but so far this seems to be the best modern language I have used.
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Post #1750082
Yesterday there was a Xerox 6085 Daybreak on eBay for $500 and someone else bought it before I could make up my mind (I would have had to drive to Tulsa to get it). It&#39;s an office computer, which isn&#39;t super interesting to me, but with some reconfiguration it becomes an 1186 Lisp machine, which is *very* interesting to me. Oh well.
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Post #1750081
Working on a new feature and 90% of it is addressing unhandled cases that the compiler finds for me. I can&#39;t imagine doing this kind of thing in a language without pattern checking.