Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "Dave's Garage" channel.

  1. "And then some..." That is the understatement of the year. The IPv6 address space is so large that 10^20 IP addresses can be assigned to every grain of sand on earth, i.e. a hundred quintillion address for each grain of sand.
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  2. Open Source is far more secure than Closed Source. For one, because this is Open Source, we all know about it, and we can all learn from exactly what happened. A company would just issue a fix and keep tabs on what happened and how it happened. You can be certain that after this, Makefiles and other parts of the build system will get the same scrutiny as source code.
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  3. This guy has been fighting against UNIX his whole life. His company has been fighting it for most of its life. And yet UNIX is winning, and in many fields of computing has already won. You won't see Windows on a mobile device anymore. You won't see it in a Super Computer. You rarely see it in servers. The cloud is mostly UNIX. UNIX powers all Macs and all Chromebooks. Must be sad. His life could have been spent so much more constructively if they had simply built a Windows-like Window Manager on top of a UNIX OS.
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  4. Thing about Quantum Computers is that I doubt we will ever find a way to program then.
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  5. Seeing that Int 21 invocation brought me back a loooooong way! Playing around with MASM on my old 80286. But I left it at playing, I liked TurboPascal, and later TurboC++, much better.
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  6. Things is, they keep changing the bloody language. C++ after 2012 is something entirely different from C++ before 2012. And there have been major changes in 2014, 2017 and 2020, all to fill in bits that were missed / left out in 2012. I have switched to Rust.
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  7. Some excellent advice! Esp. letting a faulty process write to a new file instead of overwriting your new stuff. Alternatively, you could try to copy the existing file -- if your OS allows that. You can also ask me how I know that.
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  8. If you are a real programmeer, that dopamine hit never goes away no matter how many times you have made a new tool chain / platform output those words.
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  9. Awesome job, Dave!
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  10. I made the jump to C from Assembly, somewhere in the eighties. Pointers are trivially easy to understand if you know assembly.
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  11. I pity the people who fall for this Chinese stunt. Yes, it is an psyop, but it is also a new way to harvest info from the marks that run it.
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  12. Winfs ahead of its time? Nah. It was the progression of VMS ideas that have been proven unsound by history. The operating system shouldn't prescribe important architecture elements like the database and impose it on everything running on the OS.
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  13. No doubt the conclusions of this research will be incorporated in a Dilbert comic pretty soon.
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  14. @DavesGarage: many thanks for writing task manager! It has been invaluable to me hundreds if not thousands of times. Though I eventually moved to Process Explorer, and after that, top / ps (having moved to Linux).
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  15. Wise words. But then, the methods which measure someone's performance and determine any pay increase reward people for cranking out loads of barely functioning code. So I think I will keep on doing that. </sarcasm>
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  16. Software development is provably a hard problem, and can thus not be automated. AI can support programmers, or enable them to work at a higher level of abstraction, but they will not be replaced.
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  17. I hated Vista, after helping friend who struggled with it. I delayed ordering a new company laptop in order to avoid it, and was the first to get a Win7 laptop. Which did come with some struggles, like discovering it had woken itself up in the middle of the night, presumably to check for updates, and not switched itself off again. That was bad, but even worse was that it was still in its bag. I was very lucky it hadn't started a fire. But apart from that, it was as good as windows ever got.
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