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I just keep going and tell the GPS to deal with it until it stops chiming at me and finds a new route

I remember .cc being marketed as "the new .com" 20 years ago or so. Never did see many .cc domains.

Considering viruses are basically just spring loaded injectors, I guess about as much of a soul as a rock ready to fall over in a strong wind.

> What suffixes and embodied symbols capture the spirit of our own times?

-r jumps to mind

Oh that sounds cool. I guess that would make it a ZISC? What kind of applications did you have in mind for it?

What's the architecture specialized for? Like a GPU or something?

Me too! Having your own working CPU design running actual programs is a whole different rush. Hopefully this year I can get mine running on an FPGA.

According to the linked heise.de article the defendant assumed the credentials were for a database that only contained his client's data, and immediately disconnected as soon as he realized he was actually seeing data for all of the complainant's clients.

Hell, at my school you couldn't even listen to a CD at lunch. It boggles the mind.

I remember in the late 90s/early 00s PC Magazine or something had an ad in the back for a "monster" 47 GB hard drive. That's so quaint now.

I remember that one! It was d-_-b

Yeah I love this blog, but pretty much every post is like this.

I had to laugh at the mundanity of the author's revelation as a nearly lifelong Pennsylvania resident.

There's an excellent video series by Ben Eater on YouTube where he builds an 8-bit CPU on breadboards. I followed along and built something like it in Logisim, but 16-bit. Logisim wasn't very fast, and I was getting really sick of dragging wires around, so I eventually migrated to Icarus Verilog, then Verilator, and GTKWave to examine traces. I'm one of those developers who uses Windows, so WSL came in really handy for all these.

For the RISC CPU I couldn't tell you exactly what resources I used, it was kind of a blur lol. Basically it was Wikipedia, what I remember from computer architecture class 10 years ago, and a lot of googling, mostly lecture slides from classes I didn't get to take in person. I used ChipVerify for Verilog reference a lot. I can't remember what tutorial I used, but there are plenty out there.

How to design a microcoded CISC CPU, then a RISC CPU. Nothing fancy in terms of getting modern applications to run on it, but it was a lot of fun seeing how much faster it could be than the CISC CPU. I've been looking into FPGAs but maybe I should just pick one and take the plunge.

They probably meant cases. Nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, and vestiges of the instrumental.

That's really interesting. I found a StackExchange answer on this

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/24427

I don't know what they're talking about, my mouse takes a couple AA batteries and I can count on one hand the times I remember changing them out.

Man I always miss these. I have so much half-baked stuff to show off!

Hi tech psytrance is some of the most aggressively weird stuff I've ever heard. I love it.

I have a tool I've been working on on and off, and after several years it's actually working. But I was barely smart enough to do even that. If people actually started using it and asking for features that would be a nightmare for me lol

More like anatomically correct.

When I was a kid I used to have this Charles Petzold book that I learned this stuff from, it was basically my Bible. I don't have it anymore, I wish I could remember what it was. People recommend Code a lot, but I don't think that was it.

Edit: it wasn't Charles Petzold at all, it was DOS Power Tools by Paul Somerson

Tech history is basically crack.

Maybe it's because I learned to type in chat rooms and never bothered with the home row thing, but I guess I just don't type enough numbers to have muscle memory for the number row. But the numpad is stupid easy to develop muscle memory for.

Great recommendation! I already like how it doesn't randomly stop playing my podcasts.

I assume that's what's going on, I guess to discourage hotlinking.

If the link doesn't work, try copy pasting into a new tab instead of clicking.

I once wrote a program to actually do this for me when that was all I had to migrate files off my computer. But that was like 25 years ago so the files weren't so big.

Any tips for getting started for a software engineer? I built a couple CPUs in a circuit simulator, I'd love to get these things running on silicon of some kind and benchmark them against each other, but I wonder if I would be biting off more than I can chew.