If I had a time machine, I'd go back five years to when Bo Burnham was recording All Eyes on Me and I'd materialise in juuuuust after he says "You say the whole world's ending, honey, it already did" with my hands around his throat I'd start thrashing him and saying "YOU FUCKING NAIVE MORONS, DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WORSE IT GETS, YOU IDIOTS STILL HAVE FUCKING TIME"
Does anyone recommend an FPGA whose toolchain isn't a massive horrific kludge?
yes, this is now my sole requirement
The 4006 will ultimately be going home with @philpem but hopefully having the 2 together while we work on them at Nottingham hackspace will help us get both working
It is not good for Tektronix 4010s vector graphics terminals to be left on their own, they are very social terminals, if possible, give them a lil friend
#tektronix #tektronix4010 #tektronix4006 #vintageComputing #retrocomputing
RE: https://woof.tech/@crashtestdev/117534528168207961
So, if you don't know Dave Plummer was sued by Washington state in 2006 for upselling scammy freeware which lied and used scare tactics to sell performance and security enhancing software obviously didn't do anything
He's back at it again https://tmog.org/
None of his dedicated followers have any idea what he is talking about, because if they did, they'd know he's a moron; so he is specifically marketing towards people whom he has falsely gained his trust and are non the wiser
Dude just slopped out a board which *literally already exists*
https://www.5volts.ch/pages/qbusmemory/010-qbusmemory/
Not to mention genuine PDP-11 memory is the easiest part about building a PDP-11 and is $200 per MB on a *bad day*
People who aren't that interested in vintage computing: Wow Dave Plummer is so cool
People who are highly invested in vintage computing: Everything Dave Plummer does kills my fkin braincells
How the fuck does s tram go the wrong fucking way 😭
This is targeting a very small niche which I am in
I actually got into ham radio because I didn't really understand RF and analogue electronics
9 years later, I still don't understand it really, but I know things
RE: https://woof.tech/@crashtestdev/117248531185154395
Btw here is my CV, should have linked that 😅
Aparently there were also bugs in my code
... in a feature branch
... that I was actively working on when they told me to get out
... with 0 open pull requests
It's starting to make sense now why their longest served developer had only been there a year and almost everyone else had been there for less than 3 months
Soo, sigh, I was dismissed yesterday from a relatively new job just before I could deploy a huge application, citing my lack of AI coding use
It was during my probationary period so it seems like they could have dismissed me for just about anything
Anyway now looking to get #fedihired I'm a senior .NET and JavaScript developer who has worked with almost every popular framework/library in both of those ecosystems in a professional environment
I have also used Python to write simulations of nuclear reactors and have worked with bioinformatics software
I have even once single-handedly and successfully defended a project to the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom
I have also done quite a bit of personal and open source work with rust
Free to start immediately, I was thankfully paid 1 month salary in lieu of notice
Edit:
I am based in the UK, but have worked with teams in timezones as far out as Eastern Australia and the Western US
My contact details are
Email: jasonalexander.dev@gmail.com
Matrix: @crashtestdev:matrix.org
Signal: crashtestdev.45
Telegram: @crashtestdev
Discord: @crashtestdev
Really do appreciate all the support I'm getting here, I bottled it up most of the week and I think I just needed to let it out
Here's an update
Update, had some sleep, feeling a lot better, I really did just have to get all that stuff off my chest
In regards to the plastic, I think in my head it's much worse than it actually is, if I take my glasses off or take a cursory look, I can't see it, however just the sheer number of hours I have spent around it means I know what I'm looking for, just like when a scratch appears on the back of your hand
I appreciate the suggestions on fixing the plastic, maybe "gouges" isn't the best word, deepish scratches at best, for which there isn't really a fix that wont just make it worse, main thing is to just scowling pad over it to remove any sharp bits which cast shadows and clean out any debris which makes it more obvious
The small parts that are missing can be remade myself pretty easily, there a guy selling 3d printed mast top grommets for like £6 a pair
Motor thing is probably nothing, it pulls me along just fine and the current draw also looks a-ok, just sometimes there's a very high pitched (almost inaudible), not-loud ringing which seems to be some resonance somewhere
The brakes work OK, the disk brakes are a retrofit for safety reasons so the disk and calliper are modern off the shelf parts, and they're still usable, the disk just rubs a little on each rotation
All that said, after a night full of work, the C5 will be Notts Pride today, at their 98% best
And we will have a new adventure arriving too :blobfoxaww:
That C5 has been 20 fucking years of dreaming, 18 months of hard work and thousands of pounds spent, but to be honest what I find even worse it's a rare, historical artefact that is now permanently and irreversibly damaged
If that kid had just admitted and apologised that they got carried away and crashed, I'd be totally fine, upset, but mistakes happen; the fact there was 0 fucking acknowledgement, and even the cheek to ask for another fucking go?
I am so fucking lost for words
And how braindead do you have to be to not notice the brakes aren't attached anymore, fucking incredible
Ok I've been trying to not let this get to me but this is ridiculous
Did anyone else with a vehicle at #emfcamp get approached by a kid asking for a go claiming that they were trying to have a go on every vehicle at EMF?
They asked for a go on the C5 promising they'd be very short, to the end of the road and back, so I let them, thankfully I had the foresight to turn off the power and just let it be pedal powered
They got to the end of the road and continued, so I followed and lost them, and couldn't find them for 15 minutes when it turned back up at the Nottinghack village, they were very meek about where they had been and I just told them off, they smiled and asked if they could have another go and ofc that was a no
Fortunately for them, I didn't notice that the break assembly was LYING ON THE FUCKING FLOOR, being dragged by the cable, on closer inspection it has obviously been flipped and crashed on to it's left side with gouges out of the plastic body (these CANNOT BE REPAIRED)
I have just spent the night servicing it, and sigh, yeah, damage all down the left hand side, left rear wheel cover is chewed up when it was pretty pristine, break disk is buckled (thankfully this is a retrofit, but still, how tf do you do that) bits are missing (rear mast grommets and battery holder clip) and there's an issue with the motor I am still tracking down
This really made me reach my limit, does anyone know this kid? I want to at least get them reported to EMF
Sooo, my company have opened up for volunteer redundancies, if anyone needs or is hiring for a senior dotnet/python/rust dev who's entire personality is "I like making cool things work", I'm open
Some of my highlight include
- I wrote the entire train driver licencing management system for all of Great Britain, on my own, in a few weeks, with a completely unfamiliar stack
- Successfully defended the aforementioned project directly to the cabinet office when they blocked it and allowed it to continue to be deployed
- Once built a 64 bit computer in vanilla Java Minecraft (no command blocks)
- Worked on nuclear, medical, and autonomous driving systems, cannot talk about this too much, but this does mean I can absolutely talk your ear off about the importance of strict vigilance in software engineering
i do wonder what % of devs are able to pass the sally-anne test
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Someone paid £52 ($70/60 eur) for a broken, 40 year old membrane keyboard
