Posts by ForthIsNotDead

Re: Vibe Testing

Nope. Because it wasn't necessary. I can see with own eyeballs that it works perfectly. It's a simple program that allows a user to configure devices from a configuration hosted on his PC, and squirt it into the device over a serial RS485 modbus link. It's reading/writing max 20 holding registers. This saves the user having to configure the device (or, devices) using the keypad on the device, which is a faff and error prone. I can clearly see with my own eyeballs that it works. That *is* the test. Not everything is an enterprise application. This is/was a simple quick and dirty program that I couldn't be arsed to write, because I couldn't be arsed to learn GUI frameworks.

To be honest, I really long for the days of VB6 where one could drop a few components onto a form and wire up the events. It was quick and simple. Those days are gone. Everything is 100x more complex, for absolutely no gain whatsoever.

Re: Again?

Assembler isn't redundant. It's just hidden. It's underneath most code that you write, especially if you write in C, C++, or Rust.

Or:

6. Apple says it's none of your business, since your property is their property.

Re: Anyone who has a blanket rule banning GO TOs...

Indeed. The only reason line numbers existed in BASIC was to serve as references for GOTO and GOSUB. If you ban them, then you don't need line numbers. But it's all bullshit anyway. There's nothing wrong with GOTO. It was only the snobby academic types that wanted to look superior to everyone else that had an issue with it. It was just code snobbery.

In 1991 a mate and I wrote a full management system for a nursing agency including payroll. It was written in Microsoft Quick Basic. It was used for over a decade. It was later re-written in VB6 (look ma, no line numbers!) and for all I know it's still in use!

Can do it in Forth, too...

: 4 5 ;

Now, every time you reference the value 4, you actually get 5. Satanic, isn't it? :-)

Re: Junk

> You do realize we're talking about a minimum cost SBC here, right? And that M.2 requires more than just the presence of the connector? And that the obvious excuse reason for not fitting a small, modestly spec'd SBC with top performance M.2 support is that your estimate of single dollarcent costs are (to put it kindly) naively optimistic?

Nope. *All* the support for NVME is *already* built in to the chipset. The only additional hardware required is the connector, *which is already laid out on the circuit board* (take a look at some of the reviews on YT where the reviewers open the machine up), and some passive components for noise reduction on the data lines - i.e. resistors, and capacitors. These are fractions of a cent. There's simply no excuse for not including it. The connector solder pads are already on the board, and the legend is already printed on the board for M.2, M.3 etc. So, they laid out all the tracks, laid out the connector, then didn't fit the connector. Why?

Re: Won't Someone Think of the Children

Have an up-vote, and a beer, sir! -->

It's more complicated than that. If the organisation is using Oracle DB, then the overall JDK costs are not very significant at all as they are heavily discounted. However, if you move away from Oracle JDK, you'll suddenly find your Oracle DB costs explode. Because... Oracle. What they _should_ be doing is getting rid of both Oracle JDK and Oracle DB. But that's a much larger system migration project, and who has the balls to go there?

Agree. They were kind of a victim of the x86 instruction set and architecture. They actually did an amazing job to take it as far as they have. But the idea that a modern 2024 processor absolutely must be able to run software written in 1979 is kind of stupid. But that straitjacket wasn't really of Intel's making - it was market forces that dictated that. But now they seem to be a victim of it. Companies such as ARM and RICK V have had the benefit of a clean sheet. Intel didn't get that luxury. They did create other processors over the years that were not x86 based, but none of them gained traction.