Posts by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
(DIR) Post #AX1oW6aymfwuOXPGIS by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-06-24T21:02:49Z
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@penguin42 @revk I wonder how many years one of those indoor cells would take to recover its cost, either in money or in CO₂?
(DIR) Post #AY7OKkWtJ4NxRBkqno by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-07-27T11:28:17Z
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@mjg59 I'm so sheltered, I didn't know about a Mr Coffee machine available in The Big Room :-)
(DIR) Post #AY7njMGn8dAUI73Uau by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-07-27T16:14:22Z
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@mansr @revk Madness. Especially considering that the 'm' is short for 'meridian', where we'd expect the sun to be highest at 12:00 hours but with DST it happens at 13:00 instead :-)
(DIR) Post #AY7oj0ETAmHBthMbbM by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-07-27T16:20:13Z
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@revk @mansr Fair comment :-) I've never lived further than 2.535°W, which isn't quite enough to notice these things.
(DIR) Post #AY7uBo5vsYqSQCvOeu by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-07-27T17:26:44Z
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@mansr @revk That one's beyond my mental model.To me, inclination (of the Earth's axis) only affects how high the sun appears.
(DIR) Post #AZ7fAAStAdsL5hcobY by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-08-25T17:22:37Z
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@revk @kentindell Although I appreciate the effort, your ASCII breaks a nicety of code to convert between upper and lower case. Like EBCDIC, traditional ASCII works with AND and OR with a blank character (0x20 in ASCII, 0x40 in EBCDIC).Hoardes of bit-twiddlers might revolt over things like this :-)
(DIR) Post #AZ7fACPlvCZR8cBM1Y by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-08-25T18:42:41Z
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@revk @kentindell It was especially quick and convenient on S/360 hardware (and presumably still is on modern hardware, in EBCDIC) OC MY_FIELD,BLANKS Upper caseconverted to upper case, NC for lower. The length of data processed was implicit in the assembly symbol MY_FIELD, as it should be :-)
(DIR) Post #AZ7fADAD8XiXSduRPM by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-08-25T18:59:41Z
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@revk @kentindell BTW does anyone here have a good name for the S/360 kind of assembly/instruction relationship where every instruction is always encoded in the same number of bytes, in a fixed format implicit in the op code? And every different op code relates to a different #asm mnemonic?No monkeying about with a variable number of modifiers, x86-style, in other words.e.g. OC (or characters) for a length of 0x50might be encodedD6 50 A123 B789Op.Len addr1, addr2
(DIR) Post #AZ7fAGSks3Kjh1bnEG by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-08-25T22:12:11Z
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@revk @kentindell Somebody once tried to describe it as "orthogonal", but it's almost the opposite of that. But not quite.(I'm not the biggest fan of MOV thing,other_thing when there is a list of restrictions on what those things can be, making it not fully orthogonal in my book)
(DIR) Post #AZ7gRYne312pRPBtIm by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-08-26T12:44:49Z
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@mansr @revk @kentindell That would explain a lot! :-)Frankly, I have a love/hate relationship with x86 to x64.I came from IBM mainframes, where there was a fundamental architecture that could be summed-up on one page, and things worked the way the docs said, in detail (if not they'd either fix the thing or the doc. Every time.)The love part is just that, by some miracle, x86 actually works, and I can afford it :-)
(DIR) Post #AZ8p5b0eFEpmfXpmpE by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-08-27T01:56:24Z
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@mansr @kentindell @revk Thinking about it, how about calling it a "parallel" instruction set, as opposed to "orthogonal" :-)
(DIR) Post #Ab0AbU1SnjyuxLtSUK by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-10-21T17:23:03Z
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@kaia I made a Samsung watch face with the second hand going backward, but I never thought of going to the next level :-)
(DIR) Post #AbdBfJIDbx1sEGg2ng by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-11-09T13:14:51Z
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@penguin42 @revk Try a phone call to the Mailing Preference Service ;-)
(DIR) Post #Ad649KyxnA86bTkUgS by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-12-23T09:27:50Z
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@mjg59 Think of the little fishes!
(DIR) Post #AdMeCk3OGsscF1Kx04 by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2023-12-31T09:26:38Z
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@mjg59 Reminds me of the 1980s, working on 1960s code!(ignorance of modern linkers follows) Can you include a dummy module with the symbols/addresses and have the linker find them that way?
(DIR) Post #AhjxRdSjjeoRkxKZcm by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2024-05-10T06:50:57Z
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@clive I'm no fan of Boeing (I'd rather ride a donkey) but do we have any evidence that the plane caused the crash, rather than (say) a crew mistake, or lax maintenance?Sorry to use the 'e' word an' all...
(DIR) Post #Ahpf9tJ9S2pbSdzp1k by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2024-05-06T09:00:55Z
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#linux #choosing #desktopHow do I choose a dist/desktop that won't foul up my day, just because it can?I give up. Framework is well-tested with Ubuntu LTS and Fedora I'm told, so I tried both and chose Fedora 38. 39 was mostly painless. Then came F40 :-(I use Rexx scripting for various tasks (admin, backup, cd ripping) and they broke that with a bug in gcc (with -O3).And the Gnome Applications dropdown is gone, so I have to hit 'super' and the screen jumps (visually disturbing to me).
(DIR) Post #Ahpf9u6QUqFLvT3Apc by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2024-05-06T09:11:48Z
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...it brings up a clunky strip of icons at the bottom (half of which I wouldn't choose) and one of them is "Main Menu". Hurray!It only lets me edit the main menu I'm not allowed to use, but not actually to start anything from it. Hurroo!My hobby is not wrestling with somebody's whims, just to stand still. My hobby is USING tools to MAKE PROGRESS.Tried gnome-tweaks and shell extensions.So Ubuntu LTS looks less likely to ship a buggy gcc, but Gnome seems too heavy-handed.</rant>
(DIR) Post #Ahpf9xUHua7GQLElwO by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2024-05-06T09:13:27Z
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tl;dr It's not my day job. I have maybe an hour or two and I'd rather not waste it fighting :-)(One reason I chose Regina Rexx, apart from the good string handling and arbitrary precision arithmetic, was that it has the stability of an iceberg. Well, it had!)
(DIR) Post #Ahr7nT0rcthlMn3tVg by RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io
2024-05-06T07:10:57Z
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@danderson Is it still Webkit? As I remember it, *every* browser on iOS has to use Webkit, making browser 'choice' sound a bit hollow to me.