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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?

New comment by ggerules in "Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins"

ggerules — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:49:05 +0000

Thanks for posting this! Seriously great book.

This is one of those books that I read in the 80s that helped me change career directions to be a programmer in Silicon Valley and eventually get a PhD and teach programming at the university level.

New comment by ggerules in "The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish"

ggerules — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:53:03 +0000

According to saltwater fish... What about all of the freshwater fish?

Cool map though!

New comment by ggerules in "Math Not Required (2023)"

ggerules — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:52:28 +0000

The huge problem that I have with this post is that they are trying to use math to disprove math, but badly. Also, they are using a programming language, python or any language for that matter, to prove their point, which is ALSO math. When you program you are working in an axiomatic system to achieve some goal. This goes all the way back to Haskell Curry and Alonzo Church which WAS also math. Working with math is a way of thinking and working on problems, even in probabilistic realms that errant post suggests.

New comment by ggerules in "Learn OCaml"

ggerules — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 03:22:05 +0000

Clicking on the introduction dropped you directly into a programming problem... where you actually needed to know some ocaml.

Context is needed... at least some explanation or bridge examples, like... why and what do I need to navigate this particular web landing page.

Website feels like an author exercise in ocaml for js web plugin.

New comment by ggerules in "Merlin Bird ID"

ggerules — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:25:12 +0000

If you use the companion app called ebird, you can save your checklists. Later you can upload your photos and any audio you have recorded. Those get vetted by regional bird experts and get added to the scientific data. It's fun to go back and relive past hikes and trips viewing your pictures on the ebird.org website!

New comment by ggerules in "Merlin Bird ID"

ggerules — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:18:17 +0000

It does not have ads. They will put up a notification 2 or 3 times a year for global non paid bird events.

The GPS location is used by the model to narrow search results.