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New comment by ggerules in "LLM Ass Bench"

ggerules — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:58:39 +0000

Biased data?

New comment by ggerules in "LLM Ass Bench"

ggerules — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:57:19 +0000

Better data set?

New comment by ggerules in "16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985)"

ggerules — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:37:12 +0000

My favorite Bukowski book of poetry "Love is a Dog from Hell". Very Bukowski.

Shout out to City Lights Bookstore in San Fancisco. I bought a lot of poetry books there in the late 80s and early 90s.

New comment by ggerules in "HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)"

ggerules — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:52:23 +0000

Windows and assembly is a fun topic!

Putting the search terms "Windows" and "assembly language" turns up all sort of books. The one that got me to initially explore the topic (from 1993).... [0]

For a more up to date treatment of assembly and windows.... comes with source code for the IDE also. Ray Seyfarth's book [1].

[0] Windows Assembly Language & Systems Programming: Object Oriented & Low-Level Systems Programming in Assembly Language for Windows 3.X

[1] Introduction to 64 Bit Windows Assembly Language Programming: Fourth Edition ISBN-13: 978-1543138849, ISBN-10: 1543138845

New comment by ggerules in "Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner"

ggerules — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:33:11 +0000

Taken to the extreme....

I gotta wonder. Owen from RanOutOnARail could make some incredible wide pictures from his journeys if he had this setup. Been watching his YouTube channel for years [0], [1]. He has a Patreon account with more videos [2].

He use to have a lot more videos on YouTube. It's illegal to ride trains the way he does, but his videos helped get me through the long time of the covid pandemic after I would stop work for the day.

[0] https://youtube.com/@ranoutonarail?si=ElAeMpcrJASsE3Ov

[1] https://youtube.com/@rooar2?si=bx1AG5kp2r4rfzcq

[2] https://www.patreon.com/u40099464

New comment by ggerules in "World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world"

ggerules — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:35:12 +0000

This is missing just about all of the short lines in America. So by default the is NOT a world train map. This link and website is misleading to think it is the world of train maps. Disappointing.

New comment by ggerules in "Full Writeup of the Windows GDID"

ggerules — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:33:50 +0000

Wasn't this the GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) of early 00s Windows? When did it change to GDID? Are they the same?

New comment by ggerules in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"

ggerules — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:04:11 +0000

I'll second that.

New comment by ggerules in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

ggerules — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:42:05 +0000

shift :wq

Or....

Ctrl-Z

New comment by ggerules in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

ggerules — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:38:19 +0000

Programming in an assembly language is a very zenith like experience for me.

New comment by ggerules in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

ggerules — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:34:16 +0000

Upvotes for apricot and zrobotics for thoughtful shared experiences.

One of the continuous battles I kept loosing when introducing an assembly language undergraduate course. Other higher up colleages and deans would say... too hard... nobody uses that anymore... and shut the course down. But I would always sneak it into other courses I taught, systems programming, computer languages, computer architecture. But I've always felt there was a hole in my student's understanding of computers.

I grew up in a time when assembly language was a part of the cariculum. It helped bridge the gap between higher level languages like C/C++ ...etc. Also why certain language features exist. Also how many language constructs work. Also more importantly, as pointed out by the two posters above, it gives you a way to think about the CPU one asm line at a time what is going on the CPU ecosystem. That is fantastic training!

Even though I kept loosing the assembly language course battles, I hope I planted enough seeds in students that they will take it up on their own at some point. Everyone should at least learn to program in one assembly language.

New comment by ggerules in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

ggerules — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:52:59 +0000

Yes! Thanks for posting! This gives the feel of what my career looked like in the 80s and early 90s.

New comment by ggerules in "How to get better at guitar"

ggerules — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:01:08 +0000

This piece of software has been my goto on transcribing music for all of the instruments I play for the past 25 years. I can't recommend it enough. It has been pivotal in me being a better musician. Works on Linux, Mac and Windows.

https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html

New comment by ggerules in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

ggerules — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:23:22 +0000

Where am I?

New comment by ggerules in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

ggerules — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:21:17 +0000

Also Accelerando by Charles Stross Fantastic book!

New comment by ggerules in "VNDB founder Yorhel has died"

ggerules — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:35:39 +0000

I've used ncdu for years. Great utility! I'm sorry he is gone. How did he die? He doesn't look too old from his website, https://dev.yorhel.nl.

New comment by ggerules in "Show HN: Axiom – A math-native OS where x² is valid syntax (built from scratch)"

ggerules — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:15:00 +0000

Quick question. Does it use LaTeX or TeX for math input? Or does it use a DSL at the shell to interact with the LLM? Can you swap out LLMs if needed?

New comment by ggerules in "Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1"

ggerules — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:57:17 +0000

This looks fun. What is the context and use of the above glyph list?

New comment by ggerules in "Manual: Spaces"

ggerules — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:39:51 +0000

This also makes me think of drumming. There are the sticks that hit the surface and form a pattern of sounds. Lots of different kinds of spaces embedded there!

New comment by ggerules in "The Death of Arduino?"

ggerules — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:34:01 +0000

So how the heck does the change in TOS work for the processing.org environment? That was an IDE that wraps around Java and a bunch of libraries. Arduino came along and borrowed the processing IDE put in an older gcc crosscompiler for the fleet of Arduino chips. They are the same IDEs but with different backends. If you can't reverse engineer the Arduino IDE, it was already borrowed from the processing people and open sourced. So are the processing people in danger of TOS violation? Or is it the reverse?