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Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (/hɔːr/ HOR; 11 January 1934 – 5 March 2026), known as Tony Hoare or C. A. R. Hoare, was a British computer scientist who made foundational contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and concurrent computing.

nivs 3h ago

Me: Working on adding expansion disk support to this game and I'm going insane. Three bit-identical disk images give different but consistent errors.

You: What?

Me: [loading a pistol] emulators haunted

#Amiga #RetroDev

nivs 4h ago

Rockmaster Mike 4h ago

while we're on the space subject this week if anyone wants a status map of the solar system and every current running NASA/ESA etc spacecraft/sat here ya go

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/home

Eyes on the Solar System - NASA/JPL

Explore the 3D world of the Solar System. Learn about past and future missions.

Eyes on the Solar System - NASA/JPL

nivs 6h ago

RetroFun.PL 7h ago

I just backed In the Shadow of the #CPC on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/editions64k/in-the-shadow-of-the-cpc?ref=android_thanks_share
#AmstradCPC #Books

In the Shadow of the CPC

The Legacy of Amstrad Games

Kickstarter

nivs 6h ago

Xeno Genesis: Did i just save an Amiga game from Extinction? (reddit)

https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/1sbdpfb/xeno_genesis_did_i_just_save_an_amiga_game_from/

This is a hell of a shot. Bravo, Chris O’Meara.

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nivs 8h ago

Well that was good. I remembered nothing of the book, I must have skimmed it! 10yo got a bit fidgety but for a 2.5hr plus movie that’s expected really.

nivs 14h ago

It's been a while since I went to the cinema but we're all booked to see Project Hail Mary later. Taking the kids (10, 12) as an experiment to see how they handle a movie not ostensibly aimed at kids.

nivs 14h ago

luna sugar🍬🍭🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈17h ago

I was at a shitty crustpunk repository getting software after-work. One of those shitholes where the maintainers clearly hate you. So the maintainer and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a customer." and the maintainer reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed.

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the maintainer was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all genai shit. Vibe code and stuff. You get to recognize them."

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a vibe coding bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.

(taken from web.archive.org/web/20230501120604/https://twitter.com/IamRageSparkle/status/1280892350202511361?ref_src=twsrc^tfw by IamRageSparkle)

Michael B. Tager on Twitter

“@birdpoems And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.”

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nivs 14h ago