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That was a 4.5 hour drive for Dr McIlroy... quite a hike, but worth it.

Thank you Steve! Really enjoying this tutorial. No questions so far.

Steve wrote this in a very approachable style. It is the first time I really understood what 'jj' is about. I'm actually kind of excited to start using this tool with my git repos.

I noticed this a while back when I was trying to read cloudflare's own blog. Periodically they would block my newsreader. I ended up just dropping their feed.

I am glad to see other people calling out the problem. Hopefully, a solution will emerge.

Thanks for making this happen. I gave up on trying to find this book years ago. It is so good to see this finally available.

No mention of 37 signals? Maybe the aliens are trying to test our math skills?

0xD5 was the old BCD instruction: AAD

No mention of the Raspberry Pi use of the processor core is a bit strange given the comprehensive analysis.

Agreed. I use this all the time.

Funny - top stories right now are Sveltekit 1.0 and htmx. At their heart, each is fundamentally going in a different direction. I wonder how many people are upvoting both.

Came here to say the same thing. When I first saw the protobuf zigzag encoding, I saw the same pattern. At first, I thought I must be wrong because they aren't describing it this way. Nope, it really is that simple.

In earlier computer systems (pre 1980s), this kind of variety was more common. In my career, I have only been exposed to twos-complement or float formats. I would bet that this is true for many other engineers as well.

I'm glad the protobuf folks used it. I'm also glad Dr. Lemire wrote an article about it. It is another clever trick to have in the toolbox.

Also because it is not a nop on x86-64

Can you tell us more about this system? ECC on an 8086 was rare.

Hey Chuck - been trying to email you. You have a bad link to your VAX stuff on your main web site.

Which chapter in Gems III has this? I couldn’t find it.

Ah - forgot about this. Thx for posting this. These little languages really keep the system footprint tiny compared to OpenSSL.

I wish openfirmware was the norm. PC BIOS and UEFI are horrible in comparison.

I think they are still alive, and I think the project is interesting.

They never did ship their little turtle fpga board.

Also, it seems like it just didn’t catch fire like the RISC-V project has.

When EmberJS was young, one of the early contributors tried to make statecharts first class in the framework.

This was published earlier and in a much more readable format at:

https://blog.tartanllama.xyz/c++/2017/01/20/initialization-i...

The wealth that has been created here since the last market crash has been enormous. Given the limited amount of land, the cost for RE has been driven incredibly high. As a result, the cost of everything is also way up.

I'm sure the congestion on 101, the BART, and the bridges is worse than it has ever been.

In the past cycles, people left the city because of costs and moved to the peninsula. Now even the peninsula is full of people hoping to get their kids into schools that are under-funded and have waiting lists.

I cannot predict when that river of wealth will run dry, but I think the companies that benefit from this can no longer afford to fund housing, health, etc. for every single employee they have.

Where are they going to go? They are going to go somewhere else.

It makes sense given that one of the implications of building and amazing global communication network is... that you don't have to be in a certain place in order to participate on it :-)

Also, don't get me started on the construction here in the Bay Area vs. some of the amazing craftsmanship like the one seen in the article.

I think we are going to see a lot more articles like this.

Oh, one other thing. One of the the reasons all these companies started here was because it was relatively cheap! For example, Apple picked Cupertino because everything further north was 'expensive'. Imagine that!

Chris is awesome. He created the Game Developers Conference and an early journal on game development. He encouraged collaboration and sharing in an industry that was very secretive.

Interesting. I have never heard of Modula-3. I remember Modula-2 and then Oberon. Thanks for sharing.

I know this is not popular. I think ML has a clean syntax and simple but powerful semantics. I enjoyed coding in it. It just looks better than OCaml. Haskell is, I think, even cleaner, but there is a tendency for developers to explore the possibilities available in Haskell and then increase the complexity.

It would be great to see the ML community unify and provide an offering that would give it the kind of support that we are seeing in OCaml and Haskell.

2 options

1. launch now 2. start a blog about the event

nice-side-effect: get the rest of the world tuned into the idea and create a ton of competition in the space.