His slide showed Opus 4.6 saying "walk". I couldn't get 4.6 to do that.

In Karl Guttag's recent talk on the 34010 (VCFSW YouTube channel) he mentions being contacted by Bloomberg for their multi-up terminal. When it shipped in the early 90s, it was the first dual display system I'd seen. Wall Street later began buying 4-display Matrox cards.

In my grade school years, I made many maps of my imaginary world. By high school, I was putting them into my computer, one 16x16 grid at a time. Had to make sure the edges matched up. Then I wrote code to print them on the Epson MX-80 dot matrix. The poster-board I tiled them on was still in the basement, though many of the squares were falling off.

It was easier after I coded a moving 64x64 buffer.

bool getSchemaSizes(size_t * expectedBatchSize, size_t * expectedEntriesPerBlock) { ... }

size_t expectedEntriesPerBlock, expectedBatchSize;

getSchemaSizes(&expectedEntriesPerBlock, &expectedBatchSize)

initBloomFilter(expectedEntriesPerBlock)

I'm sure you've never made a silly mistake where you passed the wrong integer parameter to a function, stared at your screen, and failed to notice it. Or, forgot the order of arguments to calloc().

If you're saying that profiling is for those too lazy to reason about their code, you're distorting the whole lesson: profiling is more powerful than guessing.

The author wrote this as a learning exercise. And is sharing the process.

It’s sad that it will hurt the other franchisees the most.

Drought and fire are two natural factors that destroy their migration routes’ food supply. Another is agriculture.

Folks like Monarch Watch and Xerces encourage planting of the few milkwood species (ie weeds) that the butterflies depend on for energy or egg-laying.

Restoring prairie is also effective. But there’s still drought and wildfire.

I don’t enjoy horror movies. But the locust was a horror!

Then they’ll raise the price.

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

This commit was created in emacs, the best text editor ever!

I might do what you said, column sensitive. A first-pass assembler which does spell checking and makes the corrections. M0V is a single replacement on MOV, MOV8 is closest to MOVB. For registered, R Oh must be R zero. But R Oh will be valid as a symbol name (curse your poor choice of symbol name). Alas, R1 is defined in the symbol table as a mnemonic for 1.

This idiom occurs in TMS9900 assembly (of which I have 2100+ pages to scan)

Indexed addressing into caller's register file: MOV @R1*2(R13),R0

Where R1 is 1, a small offset in #words so the operand is pointer to the word after where R13 points. Yet @RI(R13) is valid if RI is in the symbol table.

So there has to be some heuristic that starts at "is RI a defined symbol?" "Can a symbol be used in this context?" Yes/Nope: it is probably R1.

And R11 is used a lot.

Same curse on people who used I as a counter variable in type-in programs. Countless folks typed it as a 1 in expressions before magazines got better fonts.