Vic 20 was my first. I watched my dad struggle with and eventually give up on assembly. Something-something and the microbots. I was fearful of it until I took Assembly at Uni. That 2nd/3rd year class was where the final puzzle piece of how computers work fell in place for me.

My first job was writing assembly tests for a DSP hardware design team. Fell in love. Never looked back.

Could probably replace managers with AI, but being trained on most managers would mean it would be equally bad at its job.

I think the most likely is for the artists jobs to go away as art doesn’t have to be exact, but code does.

The Princess Bride

If you have seen it. You are happy to watch again. If you haven’t, you will love it.

Looks cool. No docker support… yet

Chip R&D. We only use 1’s, 0’s if management is feeling generous. There are no circles, no need for pi.

Perfect!

It was a really good movie, but paints Earnest as much more of a patsy than I came away with after the book. Also, the book reveals that this was one such story and the magnitude of the deaths was even more obscene.

Not with that attitude!

“slides into irrelevance” - zdnet

For deeply nerdy computer/network/IT/programming: On the Metal

Only 2 seasons, but some great interviews.

We are not shipping your machine, @funkajunk!

It’s always better to regret something you have done than something you haven’t.

By the way, if you see your mother this weekend, tell her “Satan! Satan! Satan!”

Yeah, I check in often, and the lines of communication are open. Helps to have no lying (in general), but especailly to my kids (which unfortunately needs to be said because so many people feel like it is ok).

I’m disappointed this conversation went this way. I’m way over on the “lecturing my kids” side of life. A discussion of what this meme means to those “being lectured” could provide insight to others.

I’m already going to check my lecture-meter to make sure I’m not boring my kids to death.

This should be in the lemmy code. Federate out accounts.

I’ve known I was coming to computer something even from a very young age, and when I read ‘The Soul of a New Machine’ by Tracy Kidder in high school I had even done some consulting.

It was like a window directly on my future professional life. I did EE at school and have been in chip design for over 20 years. This Tracy is not a computer scientist. He is a writer, but his effective reporting of the world is so spot on.