Fun fact: Processors I've either read or hand-crafted assembly language for include (but isn't limited to) the following:
R/W:
- Z80A
- 6510 / 8502
- 68000
- 80x86 16-bit
- 80x86 32-bit
- PowerPC
- MIPS R3000
- RISC-V (obviously)
- S16X4 (my own CPU design)
- SEAforth 24
- GreenArrays GA144
- Offete, Inc's P32
R/O:
(All of the above plus...)
- RCA 1802
- TMS9900
- DEC VAX
- PDP-11
- MuP21
- Novix RC4000
- Harris RTX2000
Yeah, I think I know a thing or two about assembly language. ;)
If you're the type of person who posts memes or wishes of ill-intent upon people's homes and livelihoods, just block me now; for, if I find out you post that kind of shit, I will without warning or concern block you immediately upon seeing it. If I deem it severe enough, I'll also report you for hate speech.
supremacism adjacent
"If you are not a ________, fuck off." (Insert your favorite adjective in the blank provided.)
When I read this, especially on the Fediverse, I get pissed. What did I do to warrant fucking off for, when I never met or interacted with you in the first place?
Shit like this results in an instantaneous block from me. I don't need supremacism, however unintentional or jocular, in my life.
"It's just a joke!" Yeah, that's what the nazis said too, remember? Go pound sand!
Since this was such a huge problem on Twitter recently, I thought I'd make a similar announcement here on the Fediverse.
I'm just going to put this out there loud and clear right now.
If you are the kind of person who thinks that Dennis Ritchie is a somehow GOD, who can do no wrong, who has made no mistakes ever, including wrt your beloved C programming language, BLOCK ME NOW.
Hey fediverse bot authors, this is for you.
Instead of having a bot that blindly follows someone, then having a pinned toot or description that reads, "DM me "unfollow" if you don't want me to follow you any more", how about you do something sensible like looking at a user's profile and discovering whether or not they have #nobot in it first?
Because if you write bots that don't respect #nobot, you're no better than a spammer.
Don't @-me.
The hat on this dragon is whatever you want it to be. Follow your dreams
pontifical, Avignon ca. 1330-1340
Tours, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. Diocèse 8, fol. 59r
Source: discardingimages.tumblr.com
A bridge built in the 90s over the Choluteca River, Honduras was hit by Hurricane Mitch and whilst the bridge survived, the river below it was rerouted and no longer flowed under the bridge.
https://duexpress.in/the-choluteca-bridge-build-to-adapt-metaphor/
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/tilbots/status/1366770506297446404
I know I would be excited about a computer like @vertigo 's future Kestrel 3 or even the new ZX Spectrum, or a Hacktari.
But this industrial thing by a massive evil corporation turns me off a lot.
@dadegroot @piggo oh, and #TodayILearned: #potassium, the common #English word for #Kalium, is derived from #pearlAsh's unpurified form: #potAsh:
<<potassium (n.)
metallic element, 1807, coined by English chemist Sir Humphry Davy from Modern Latin potassa, Latinized form of potash (q.v.). Davy first isolated it from potash. The chemical symbol K is from Latin kalium "potash," from Arabic al-qaliy "the ashes, burnt ashes" (see alkali).>>
https://www.etymonline.com/word/potassium
RE: Is a billion-dollar worth of server lying on the ground?
https://cerebralab.com/Is_a_billion-dollar_worth_of_server_lying_on_the_ground
Re-posting an old fedi post of mine:
So, SourceHut is not hosted in anyone’s cloud. I own all of the hardware outright and colocate most of it in a local datacenter.
I just built a new server for git.sr.ht, and boy is she a beaut. It cost me about $5.5K as a one-time upfront cost, and now I just pay for power, bandwidth, and space, which runs about $650/mo for all of my servers (10+).
Ran back of the napkin numbers with AWS’s price estimator for a server of equivalent specs, and without even considering bandwidth usage it’d cost me almost TEN GRAND PER MONTH to host JUST that server alone on AWS.
AWS is how techbro startups pile up and BURN their investor money.
How to identify the features that a system needs:
1. Use the system as-is
2. Notice over time that the lack of a feature is a conspicuous limitation
3. Implement the feature
How NOT to identify the features that a system needs:
1. Skim a blog post about the system
2. "It doesn't support $FEATURE? Ridiculous!"
3. Dismiss it outhand
The word "bear" is thought to be the oldest known euphemism. It originated as as alternative to saying the true, taboo name of the animal, when it was thought that saying this name could summon the creature's wrath. The leading theory about the word's origin is that it derived from the proto-indo-european ǵʰwḗr, meaning wild animal.
The real word for bear derives from the proto-indo-european h₂ŕ̥tḱos. From this, we get the ancient greek ἄρκτος (árktos). Because Ursa Major (the bear-like constellation) is towards the north, it's from this root that we get "arctic", which basically means "land of the bears".
Speaking of Ursa, that's also derived from the proto-indo-european word for bear, h₂ŕ̥tḱos. It became orssos in proto-italic and ursus in Latin.
Favorite languages in no particular order: #Forth, Common #Lisp, #Python, #Asm, #APL, #J. Creator of Ascetic Programming style, and the VIBE screen editor.
#RISCV hardware developer (KCP53000, #Kestrel3). #nmigen.
I block bots unconditionally; nothing personal. DEPRECATED: My new account is at @vertigo #nobot