Dan PiponiAug 22, 2023
Revisiting a book I read when I was a kid. Published in 1971, when computers could "make nearly a million additions every second" and presumably intended for young children, it has a surprising amount of detail - eg. on how instructions are encoded in a word.
R4_UnitAug 22, 2023
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Hoping to be promoted to businessman so I can have a machine like this
Aug 22, 2023 at 1:36amWeb
Show threadDan PiponiAug 22, 2023
I've spent much of the last week trying to figure out how a simple recv() operation can corrupt data nowhere near the address provided as an argument. But this page - and I vaguely remember reading this as a kid - may have been the moment in my life when I first learnt that debugging was a thing.
Show threadDan PiponiAug 23, 2023
BTW Having reduced the problem to having a random corruption as a result of a system call I have no idea how to proceed with debugging which is not a feeling I'm used to. Pretty sure it's not a kernel bug. Fairly sure it's not a compiler bug. I'm going to have to start considering supernatural explanations soon...
Show threadSimon FrankauAug 23, 2023
@dpiponi My sympathy! No luck from the usual meta-advice ("rubber duck it" and "do something else for a while")?
Show threadBart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸Aug 22, 2023
@dpiponi I don't know what is more painful here - old-time sexism (and yes, I know it wasn't considered sexism back then!) or the bad sitting posture :)