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While technically a PIC12 is a computer since it has I/O, tiny storage, a PC and an ALU - it’s hard to even think of it in the same category as what most think of as a computer. IMHO the takeaway is more what the bare minimum it takes to be a computer, which isn’t much. (In other terms, a PIC does not meet the DOOM threshold).
PICs are so old and rudimentary that they started out as peripheral controllers for “real” computers in the 70s. It turns out you can do some useful embedded stuff with a basic chip, but even the newest of these are on 30 year old semiconductor tech at this point.
That may sound jaded, on the other hand I do find mass production of modern level integration and speeds to still be marvelous.
And as an EE, the “white” LED in the candle is more interesting than the uC!
It's well-defined is all that really matters AFAIC.
Operations on those sentinel values are also defined. This can affect when checking needs to be done in optimized code.
Not sure what relevance the source has here, but it’s not correct. Primary (AL) is the most common in the developed world and secondary (AA) elsewhere. There are some foci of ATTR but it is by far not the most common.
Do realize that luajit for years was bankrolled by corporations.
That’s literally a contest. If the scoring was private maybe I’d agree.
Field Day may serve other purposes too, but it’s a contest, if not purely so.
The only thing that seems kind of similar (sdr-radio.com) is also Windows only.
Listing every config language and a few lines of CI or whatever scripts shit is misleading.
I see nothing other than typical boring enterprise/big gov crap here (which is fine, and expected).
The alternative option in C or C++ is to do some undefined behavior. Before a pile on, yes of course you can avoid it but the rush option is usually going to be the equivalent of unwrap anyway, and Rust does make it quite a bit harder to invoke undefined behavior.
Meh, I used to keep printed copies of autotools manuals. I sympathize with all of these people and acknowledge they are likely the sane ones.