by utf_8x on 8/27/23, 6:05 PM with 127 comments
by sctb on 8/27/23, 7:11 PM
by flumpcakes on 8/27/23, 7:06 PM
I am endlessly annoyed by slow interfaces. At $DAYJOB I have to use a web and desktop GUI for managing CheckPoint firewalls. These often will freeze for dozens of seconds, and generally make my computer crawl. I feel that this should not be acceptable in 2023.
by alberth on 8/27/23, 7:08 PM
Also interesting that they host their code on Fossil, which itself has a builtin forum engine written in C.
by jbm on 8/27/23, 7:11 PM
A very cool application regardless, I haven't seen Assembly since college now.
by fortyseven on 8/28/23, 6:57 AM
by mcint on 8/27/23, 7:14 PM
by GaNuongLaChanh on 8/28/23, 4:14 PM
by Waterluvian on 8/28/23, 1:35 AM
Like can you be really good with Assembly and still not be certain your effort is actually worth not doing it in a higher language?
by skilled on 8/27/23, 7:17 PM
by kmoser on 8/28/23, 5:07 AM
by jacquesm on 8/27/23, 7:13 PM
by Jyaif on 8/27/23, 7:18 PM
x86 only.
by mhd on 8/27/23, 7:08 PM
https://board.asm32.info/hi-johnfound-welcome-back.351/#1624...
by Chiba-City on 8/27/23, 9:53 PM
In 1990, SQL (and dBASE and Excel) was a "computer language" for secretaries. Now in 2023, we suffer uneducated halfwits manically typing in endless repugnant "ad tech" and "SEO" with our "Bioinformatics Researcher" hacks inflicting delusions based on Excel #Err cells (look it up) upon an unwitting populace.
Somewhere, we went wrong. We have GREAT and WISE Software Engineering (Prescriptive and Historical) guidance available in the public domain now. Our mercenary "job hoppers) don't seem to be interested in accessing that.
Going forward, some combination of ASM and Forth in Open Source incarnations and with type-checking hints will wring the most computation out of energy resources (CPU cycles).