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From: Peter <occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability
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 Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

>On 3/12/2024 6:05 AM, Peter wrote:
>>> I trust all is well, remodel long completed, kids now grown
>>> (which of them was first to make you "Gramps"?  and wasn't your
>>> youngest looking for his pilot's license?), thus PBfH having
>>> less of an impact on your life, etc.
>> 
>> Divorced the witch in 1999,
>
>Yes.  But, IIRC, there was still a lot of "interaction" as a
>result of the boys.  Now that they are grown, presumably that
>is less of an issue, limiting the intensity of any such interactions?

Not dealt with her for ~10 years, and never will :)

>> then the next one (2003-2023) sadly ended in 2023.
>
>(sigh)  Sorry to hear that.  I recall you had high hopes and,
>hopefully, some of those were realized.
>
>"One can't get divorced TWICE; the first takes HALF of everything,
>the second would take the OTHER half!"

Hahaha. It's actually a power series: 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16.
According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1/2_%E2%88%92_1/4_%2B_1/8_%E2%88%92_1/16_%2B_%E2%8B%AF
it converges to 1/3 so you will always eat afterwards ;)

>> Youngest has a PPL (UK and FAA) and flies, both mine and his RV6.
>
>But, is his interest purely recreational?  Or, might he pursue
>that "commercially"?

I think Tinder has curtailed commercial ambitions ;)


>I've been tempted to try reimplementing some early designs just to
>see how quickly the development would proceed AND how much faster
>the code would execute... big change from a ~700KHz i4004 to an
>800MHz quad-core (costing a tenth as much!).  It would be
>depressing to discover that a man-year effort can be reduced to
>a long weekend!  :<

My last design is 100x faster than anything done before, and the CPU
costs about $7.

But the software takes as long - because 90% of the functionality is
now connectivity! MbedTLS etc. There is even an HTTP server (simple: I
wrote it myself) for config.