old code
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old code baked in a less elegant time its functions rusty its features, anachronistic every encounter with it reminds me of my past failure of imagination. if I could only think ahead a few more steps i'd never have old code
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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old code baked in a less elegant time its functions rusty its features, anachronistic every encounter with it reminds me of my past failure of imagination. if I could only think ahead a few more steps i'd never have old code
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
It doesn't rhyme.
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old code baked in a less elegant time its functions rusty its features, anachronistic every encounter with it reminds me of my past failure of imagination. if I could only think ahead a few more steps i'd never have old code
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Are you channeling @BillWoodruff?
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. -
Are you channeling @BillWoodruff?
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. -
It doesn't rhyme.
It rhymes in binary. :-\
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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just ruminating. and procrastinating a rewrite. :-\
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
But rewrites are fun! Until you start retesting... :-D
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. -
But rewrites are fun! Until you start retesting... :-D
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.This one is complicated by multiple screen modes, each of which must be represented by a different concrete type with not much in the way of common base class. The screen mode function itself is a bit odd at first, being like
auto scmode = screen.mode<1,4>(); // native bit depth of 1,
// virtualized bit depth of 4 (for 8 virtual grayscale colors)then you can draw to scmode. I don't like it but the way my graphics library is designed, pixels of different formats are different concrete types so like
gfx::gsc_pixel<1>; // mono pixel
gfx::gsc_pixel<8>; // 8 bit grayscale
gfx::rgb_pixel<16>; // 16 bit rgb
gfx::ycbcr_pixel<24>; // 24-bit Y'CbCr (used by jpeg)
gfx::rgba_pixel<32>; // 32-bit rgb pixel with an alpha channeltherefore different modes with different pixel formats must be different types. it has a number of advantages. this is just one area where i don't care for it.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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It rhymes in binary. :-\
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
... aaaand I always forget to expect a hex...
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old code baked in a less elegant time its functions rusty its features, anachronistic every encounter with it reminds me of my past failure of imagination. if I could only think ahead a few more steps i'd never have old code
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Code matures slowly
Function forgotten, it dies
I wrote it to last"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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old code baked in a less elegant time its functions rusty its features, anachronistic every encounter with it reminds me of my past failure of imagination. if I could only think ahead a few more steps i'd never have old code
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
The wheel of time always keep turning, there will always be old code! :-D ;P
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old code baked in a less elegant time its functions rusty its features, anachronistic every encounter with it reminds me of my past failure of imagination. if I could only think ahead a few more steps i'd never have old code
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
code is like cars, as soon as you drive it off the lot, its old.
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Code matures slowly
Function forgotten, it dies
I wrote it to last"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
" Ancient computers ranged in the long caves deep in the bowels of the planet tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty databanks. They take the occasional potshot to relieve the monotony. " -- Slartibartfast
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This one is complicated by multiple screen modes, each of which must be represented by a different concrete type with not much in the way of common base class. The screen mode function itself is a bit odd at first, being like
auto scmode = screen.mode<1,4>(); // native bit depth of 1,
// virtualized bit depth of 4 (for 8 virtual grayscale colors)then you can draw to scmode. I don't like it but the way my graphics library is designed, pixels of different formats are different concrete types so like
gfx::gsc_pixel<1>; // mono pixel
gfx::gsc_pixel<8>; // 8 bit grayscale
gfx::rgb_pixel<16>; // 16 bit rgb
gfx::ycbcr_pixel<24>; // 24-bit Y'CbCr (used by jpeg)
gfx::rgba_pixel<32>; // 32-bit rgb pixel with an alpha channeltherefore different modes with different pixel formats must be different types. it has a number of advantages. this is just one area where i don't care for it.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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old code baked in a less elegant time its functions rusty its features, anachronistic every encounter with it reminds me of my past failure of imagination. if I could only think ahead a few more steps i'd never have old code
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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old code baked in a less elegant time its functions rusty its features, anachronistic every encounter with it reminds me of my past failure of imagination. if I could only think ahead a few more steps i'd never have old code
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
"The ancient machine was but a pale shadow of its original glory. It had performed its duty, destroying the fifth planet in this system. Like all of its kind, it had not expected to survive what should have been its penultimate moment. An collection of debris accidently shielded it from dissolution, eventually casting it into orbit around the next planet inward. At some point in its long, long journey its intelligence was restored by the repair automata sufficiently that the mission became its primary concern yet again. Many systems no longer existed, or could not be repaired. Still, the mission must be performed. It searched, deep in the few uncorrupted records it still contained. There must be a method for completing the mission. In recent orbits small bits of metal debris had been expelled by the third planet. Some of the bits had even landed on the planet below, emitting weak electromagnetic signals. The ancient records were emphatic that this was one of the few warnings it would receive. The machine continued to watch, and wait."
Software Zen:
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"The ancient machine was but a pale shadow of its original glory. It had performed its duty, destroying the fifth planet in this system. Like all of its kind, it had not expected to survive what should have been its penultimate moment. An collection of debris accidently shielded it from dissolution, eventually casting it into orbit around the next planet inward. At some point in its long, long journey its intelligence was restored by the repair automata sufficiently that the mission became its primary concern yet again. Many systems no longer existed, or could not be repaired. Still, the mission must be performed. It searched, deep in the few uncorrupted records it still contained. There must be a method for completing the mission. In recent orbits small bits of metal debris had been expelled by the third planet. Some of the bits had even landed on the planet below, emitting weak electromagnetic signals. The ancient records were emphatic that this was one of the few warnings it would receive. The machine continued to watch, and wait."
Software Zen:
delete this;I remember this I think, but I can't place it - like something I read a long time ago.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I remember this I think, but I can't place it - like something I read a long time ago.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Probably because I've been reading science fiction for 50 years and can riff on most of the tropes pretty easily. If you've ever read the Bolo series of books originated by Keith Laumer, that's the tone I was looking for.
Software Zen:
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Probably because I've been reading science fiction for 50 years and can riff on most of the tropes pretty easily. If you've ever read the Bolo series of books originated by Keith Laumer, that's the tone I was looking for.
Software Zen:
delete this;Oh you wrote that? I did not expect that. You really had me going. It was bugging me all night. :laugh:
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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old code baked in a less elegant time its functions rusty its features, anachronistic every encounter with it reminds me of my past failure of imagination. if I could only think ahead a few more steps i'd never have old code
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
When I look back of my old code, I think to myself, "Holy broccoli, Batman! What great code. Did I actually write that? So eloquent and yet so powerful." To which I hear the reply, "Get away from computer, Granddad. You know it makes you sad."
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth. To err is human, to arr is pirate.
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old code baked in a less elegant time its functions rusty its features, anachronistic every encounter with it reminds me of my past failure of imagination. if I could only think ahead a few more steps i'd never have old code
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Although robust enough for general use, adventures into the esoteric periphery of the C shell may reveal unexpected quirks.
