

Mine’s pretty great at reading a 1400-page manual for an 8-bit system. Whether or not my habit of reading a 1400-page manual for an 8-bit system is actually beneficial is up for debate.
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Mine’s pretty great at reading a 1400-page manual for an 8-bit system. Whether or not my habit of reading a 1400-page manual for an 8-bit system is actually beneficial is up for debate.
I would write functional timing-specific 8-bit assembly.
Vectrex, hands-down.
Eternity. It works, and I like the UI.
Currently hosting XMPP:
As for encryption and feature support, YMMV, https://providers.xmpp.net/ has a list of servers that provide everything.
2.5 MEGA65s (R3A, R5 and R6), several vacuum tube oscilloscopes (including a 535A I restored), and a Vectrex.
sad XMPP noises
Iceraven (firefox fork that lets me do more with it) and Mull.
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark. It’s a surprisingly fun read.
I do a lot of incredibly specific VHDL and 45GS02 asm, so the answer is none.
Even if I didn’t do obscure things with obscure languages, answer’d still be none, because I’d rather spend a few hours learning what the code does and how to use it, instead of “just hope the output runs” while not knowing what and why it’s trying to do what it’s doing.
War on the Sea
Considering I’m a programmer with the physical characteristics of spaghetti, I’d be really screwed if I ended up on a USN vessel in WW2.
Been on a break for a bit, but before that we got a Tektronix 535A oscilloscope from the 1950s-60s up and running (with the exception of a gain issue with the vertical amplifier, haven’t quite figured out the cause yet), and did some work on reverse-engineering and emulating the analog filters of the MOS 8580 SID on an FPGA (still heavily WIP, haven’t gotten around to a rewrite yet so it’s still really jank, college is a bitch).
Just off the top of my head: Alien and Aliens are wonderful, Apocalypse Now needs no introduction, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and finally Oppenheimer, which is one of the best movies ever made in my opinion (what can I say, I’m a sucker for an incredibly well-told story).
I grew up with a Wii and an Atari 2600, and my favorite console is, no surprise, probably the 2600. Both because I put wayyy too much time into it, and because it’s incredibly neat from a hardware perspective (seriously, that anyone actually managed to make functioning games on it is a miracle).
Dunno if Emacs Lisp counts as a life hack, but I’ve been slowly learning it, and it’s very nice to be able to setup custom workflows with such a high degree of customization (and a substantial amount of flycheck yelling at me)