Back in the day, I did quite a bit of programming, professionally, on 6800-family CPUs, mainly 6850 and kin. It was an absolute pleasure to work with. The 6502, by comparison, felt like an absolute nightmare.
The book Willem says he is reading, by Joe Keohane, talks about the benefits of talking to strangers, and calls this "connecting". That is not at all what psychologists mean by "connecting". I talk to people all the time, both familiar and strange, and yet am not connected to anyone, in the latter sense.
> Your compiled C or C++ program will be very different from the code you wrote
Sorry, you just lost beaucoup credibility points. C is just "high-level assembly language". The output looks exactly like the input, modulo some optimizations by the compiler. Every computer programmer knows this. Or should.
I just realized - the logos of Windows 3.x through 7 look more like flags than they look like windows. I wonder what the reasoning was behind that? I'm sure it has been documented/analyzed somewhere.
I don't think they're federated. They don't transparently share data using a common protocol under the hood. They simply link to each other. They're a web.
I was also a #gplusrefugee on pluspora :-) Very sad to see it go. Once a nomad, always a nomad, I guess?
I joined Nerdica not long after joining pluspora, but wasn't active there because the (web) UX is pretty poor. But still, it's my main sn now... besides Fosstodon, which is pretty cool.
Show up, pay, and ride? Like getting on the subway? Not workable, for two reasons: 1, from the passengers' perspective, you need to get to Indianapolis, and when you show up, there are no seats, or worse, no flights. 2, from the airlines' perspective, no one buys advance tickets, you have no idea how big of a plane (and thus also how much fuel and how many support staff) you'll need, nor when, nor even whether you'll need a plane at all. Planning. Airplanes aren't subways.
Apparently not 100% of National Forest is freely usable. I learned this lesson painfully not long ago. I planned my overnight campout "carefully"... but there were still things I didn't know, even after reading everything I could find online. Namely: there are "pay to stay" campgrounds. You are not allowed to camp within the perimeter without a temporary permit. And even if you try to simply drive through, you might find gates closed.
Somewhere, people have collected this wisdom, I'm sure. Any pointers?
I do feel bad for those who have lost their social net during the pandemic; loneliness sucks, I know it. At the same time, I find it hard to be sympathetic because - it must be nice to have had a social net to lose! For me personally, the isolation of the last year and a half has been a barely noticeable difference from the decades prior.
The "commands" I create are, most often, small tools for my own use, so I don't worry about making the names short.
I always try to make the name a verb, or include a verb, e.g. "fetchbookmarks", "deleteduplicates"; one exception would be in the case of converters, in which case "convert" is implicit, e.g. "csv2xml" or whatever; and there may be other cases where the verb is implied.
The Huffman Coding is important, though, and I have made some tools I use alot, so I gave them short names. I use gvim a lot, and the wrapper I wrote for it (which does smart finding - it will load foo.cpp wherever it is under your cwd, as long as there's only one) I named g. I don't expect to distribute this tool, so I don't care. :-)
It isn't always fake. I used to work in a retail chain store (I won't say its name, but it ends with "xx" and starts with "TJ") and we were trained to use certain codes on the PA when we needed security to come deal with a situation. The difference, I think, is that these real alerts were coded so as not to be understood by the customers.